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477: Bukowski Dec. 08, 2004

477: Bukowski

Cover

The big Bukowski 
John Dullaghan's Born Into This dissects the legend of America's poet laureate of the gutter

Josef Braun / josef@vueweekly.com

Front

News Roundup 
Chris Boutet

News Roundup 
Chris Boutet

The cookie crumbles 
Health Canada's ban on trans fats suspiciously long in coming

Wayne Roberts

Life After Gretzky 
Snow falling on readers

Chris Boutet

Three Dollar Bill 
Choosing the light

Richard Burnett / threedollarbill@vueweekly.com

Across team 
Theatre pros and “youth at risk” join forces for iHuman Society's The Bridge

Nicole Pankratz

Infinite Lives 
Return N-Gage-ment

Darren Zenko / infinitelives@vueweekly.com

Unquiet Ghosts 
War historian Carol Off resurrects The Ghosts of Medak Pocket

Colleen Addison / colleen@vueweekly.com

Vuepoint
Please, spammers, don’t hurt ‘em 
Marnold Sinclair

Arts

Nell by mouth 
Moving Pictures tells you more about Nell Shipman than it shows you

Paul Matwychuk / paul@vueweekly.com

Box social 
The boxes in Transformations exhibition contain wonders as big as all outdoors

Stuart Adams

Scrooge’s little helper 
Geoffrey Brumlik is the man who makes sure A Christmas Carol stays on-key

Paul Matwychuk / paul@vueweekly.com

Dish

Sushi and the banshees 
I thought my Japanese friend would scream when I asked for dining advice; instead she took me to Kobe

Christopher Thrall / christopher@vueweekly.com

Max vobiscum 
Southside vegetarian haunt Max's Light Cuisine is small in size but big in taste

Iain Ilich / iain@vueweekly.com

Film

Stalker vexes stranger 
Rhys Ifans plays a weirdly sympathetic stalker in Enduring Love

Paul Matwychuk / paul@vueweekly.com

Heresy! 
This week: Darren Zenko champions Toys.

Vue Staff / arts@vueweekly.com

The unkindest klutz of all 
A new set of DVD reissues reopens the question of Jerry Lewis's appeal

Bill Beard

Love in the time of superviruses 
Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton are gene-crossed lovers in dystopian Code 46

Darren Zenko / infinitelives@vueweekly.com

All systems Gozu 
Cow-headed demons and missing yakuza corpses populate Takashi Miike's latest oddity

Paul Matwychuk / paul@vueweekly.com

Music

Slouching toward Gehenna 
The Hollow eliminates the middleman by distributing their discs via the web

Phil Duperron / phil@vueweekly.com

Documentary turns on the radio 
CKUA: Radio Worth Fighting For celebrates spunky Edmonton broadcaster

Heather Adler

Melissa virus 
Melissa Majeau hopes her music infects others with the desire to change the world

Leah Collins

In the name of all that is Holly 
Holly Cole looks back on 15 years of inventively sultry jazz with new disc

Justin Bell

Distant Replay 
THIS WEEK: Bil Hetherington of the Neckers discusses the Beatles' Rubber Soul

Idol to millions 
Well, maybe not millions yet, but Sittin' Idol has craftily landed some prime stadium gigs

Heather Adler

BPM 
Cold snap
David Stone

New Sounds 
Vue Staff / arts@vueweekly.com

Music Notes

Music Notes 
Phil Duperron / phil@vueweekly.com

Snow Zone

Marmot Basin 
Take a trip to a magical land where the snow is plentiful and the beer flows like, um, wine

Tiffani Honeychurch

How our marriage went downhill 
When I decided to take my husband on his first ski trip, I should've picked a day when it wasn't raining

Marilyn Letts

Board Tips 
Handrail mission

James Radke

Ski Tips 
Buy the ski, buy the ski, buy the beautiful ski

Colin Cathrea / colin@vueweekly.com