2002

SPECIAL EDITIONS & GUIDES

Hot Summer Guide
Student Survival Guide
Nightlife
Sound Check 2002
cool winter guide
Holiday CD Buying Guide
Present Time: The Mirror Gift Guide
2002: The Year in Review
New Year's Eve Party Guide

December 24, 2002 - January 8, 2003 Vol. 18 No. 29 : MÁS HYSTERIA
Colectivo trumpet the arrival of 2003 >> PLUS >>  2002 The Year in Review >> New Year's Eve Party Guide

December 19 - 24, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 28 : COOKING THE BOOK
Spike Jonze's Adaptation is one of the best and most bizarre movies of the year >> FASHION >> Surly girly - Inside the Emily Strange phenomenon >> PLUS >>  Nudists >> Jazzy Jeff >> Jaggi Singh

December 12 - 18, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 27 : Claymation altercation
Gorilla Cartoons drop their bizarre stop-motion opus 500 Pound Planet on Montreal >> Present Time: The Mirror Gift Guide >> NEWS >> Pig poo pollution - Industrial hog farms threaten the Chateauguay Valley >> PLUS >>  Little Louie Vega >> Cinema du Parc >> CKUT spaces out

December 5 - 11, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 26 : WORD TO THE WISE
Shades of Culture celebrate 10 years in Montreal hip hop and kick off our Holiday CD Buying Guide >> MUSIC >> U Can Touch His - The (almost) naked truth about prank-pop playa Har Mar Superstar >> PLUS >>  K-OS >> CLAC >> Vice

NOVEMBER

November 28 - December 4, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 25 : cool winter guide
Urban snowskating and boarding » Retro hockey jerseys » New-school skiing » Icebiking » Coed suanas » The Habs DJ & more PLUS >>  Hookers on the Point >> Blind Boys of Alabama >> Automatic Vaudeville >> Bank card scams

November 21 - 27, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 24 : KEEPING THE FAITH
DJ, producer and priest of Ifa Osunlade connects with Montreal's Gotsoul Records >> NEWS >> Black vs. blue - 15 years after Anthony Griffin’s death, relations between blacks and the police remain strained >> PLUS >>  Camp X-Ray >> The Baroness and the Pig >> Rant Line™ returns!

November 14 - 20, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 23 : The last stand of sleaze
The Lower Main battles over the future of the boulevard >> FILM >> Divine intervention - Todd Haynes makes the old new again in his miraculous Far From Heaven >> PLUS >>  I, Single Mum >> FUBAR Roadtour >> Mike Leigh

November 7 - 13, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 22 : Simply Smashing
Techno wreckers Super_Collider kick the doors open at the Elektra fest >> MUSIC >> Sound Check 2002 - The A to Z guide to the local music scene >> PLUS >>  Robert Fisk >> Cinemania >> Radio 4

OCTOBER

October 31 - November 6, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 21 : Fear of God
Christian fundamentalists attempt to scare kids straight in the hilarious documentary Hell House >> NEWS >> Creepy crawly collector - One man’s mission to demystify the world’s least understood creatures. >> PLUS >>  Supergirly >> Trembling Before G-d >> Boneyard burglars

October 24 - 30, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 20 : Mash it Up
2 Many DJs lead the criminally cool pop hybrid "bootleg" movement >> SPECIAL >> Nightlife - Neurotic culture, new venues, rave politics, Invisible Airlines, Halloween party roundup, gay line dancing and more FILM >> Halloween queen - The spooky sultress returns in Elvira’s Haunted Hills >> PLUS >>  Captured! by Robots >> Sublet scams >> NDP hopeful Jack Layton

October 17 - 23, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 19 : The Fool Picture
Johnny Knoxville and his posse of pranksters hit the big screen with Jackass: The Movie >> NEWS >> Prevention in Peru - AIDS activists seek Montreal expertise on stemming the spread. >> PLUS >>  Paul Driessen >> Swayzak at MEG >> Billy Bragg

October 10 - 16, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 18 : The harder he comes
Dance-metal maniac Andrew WK lives life at top volume >> FILM >> Gun Crazy - Michael Moore dissects America's firearm fixation in Bowling for Columbine. >> PLUS >>  Youth gambling >> Reforming labour laws >> Electroclash

October 03 - 09, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 17 : Generation Gap
Teens and parents clash in Larry Clark and Ed Lachman's explicit Ken Park at the New Film Fest >> NEWS >> Eyes in the skies - Iris-tracking devices are coming to an airport near you. >> PLUS >>  The New Deal >> Trip the Off >> Moonlight Mile

SEPTEMBER

September 26 - Oct 2, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 16 : Main Attraction
The boys behind Plateau clothing hype the 'hood >> MUSIC >> Arias of the Orient - Cantonese opera comes to Place des Arts >> PLUS >>  Bike courier hazards >> Igby goes down >> Interpol >> The other Ben

September 19 - 25, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 15 : Flammable Femmes fatales
Monica Stambrini ignites image&nation with her lesbian action movie Benzina by Matthew Hayes. Killer dykes invade this year’s Image&Nation Film Fest in Benzina. >> MUSIC >> Psshhh: Cracking open the new Pop Montreal Festival by Rupert Bottenberg. >> PLUS >>  Def Jux >> Towering Condos >> Tear gas report

September 12 - 18, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 14 : Rock the Flock
Painters David Elliot & Sylvain Bouthillette play pop off punk in their new joint show by Rupert Bottenberg. Two Montreal artists take flight together this fall. >> PLUS >>  Fall Arts Preview : >> Music >> Film  >> Theatre >> Dance  >> Books >> Visual Arts  >> Spoken Word

September 05 - 11, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 13 : High on Salvia
Investigating Mexico's mysterious but legal hallucinogen plant. Salvia divinorum: the history, the procuring, the trip, by Scott Saxon. >> PLUS >> Netanyahu protest >> DJ Mini  >> Suicide  >> 9/11  >> Boygina

AUGUST

August 29 - September 04, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 12 : All About Atom With a major retrospective, an experimental art exhibit and his contraversial new film Ararat, Atom Egoyan hits Montreal. Atom Egoyan arrives in Montreal for the launch of a new art show and a major retrospective of his work, by Matthew Hays. NEWS >> Let's talk aliens. Making UFOs a topic for serious discussion, by Patrick Lejtenyi PLUS >> 808 State >> Slum Village >> Rainbow gatherings

August 22 - 28, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 11 : Creature Comfort Traumatized chimps and cast-off critters find a home at the Fauna Foundation. A look behind the scenes at the Fauna Foundation, animal refuge and Canada’s only chimp sanctuary, by Mark SlutskyFILM >> Global Glimpses. Highlights of the 26th anuual World Film Festival PLUS >> Les Sexareenos >> Viger Park >> I, Single Mum

August 15 - 21, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 10 : Queen of funk Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings tear down the house, by Scott C. NEWS >> Licking smog. Searching for solutions to the problem of bad air, by Noemi Lopinto. PLUS >> Drugging and driving >> Circle Jerks >> My Big Fat Greek Wedding

August 8 - 14, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 9 : Stardusted Memories Legendary Hollywood mogul Robert Evans spins tall tales in the new documentary The Kid Stays In The Picture by Matthew Hays. MUSIC >> Sleaze, cheese, and unease : The totalitarian manifesto of Montreal's Jett Monette, by Rupert Bottenberg PLUS >> The CoUntry Teasers >> Meditating for peace >> Resto politics

August 1 - 7, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 8 : Celebrating Divers/Cité's first decade 10 years of history | Same-sex ballroom dancing | Queer Jehovah's Witnesses PLUS >> Civil unions VS gay marriage >> Margaret Cho >> Make-up for men

July 25 - 31, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 7 : Floor it! Get your ass in gear for the accelerated funk of Detroit's DJ Assault PLUS >> Algerian deportations >> Footbag championships >> The Breeders

July 18 >> 24, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 6 : Old School Rules!! The documentary Dogtown and Z-boys shows how a gang of 70s skateboarders rocked American culture PLUS >> Homer's odyssey Don Castellaneta expounds on all things Simpson >> Native smokes >> VHS or BETA >> David Rakoff

July 11 >> 17, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 5 : Auteur hustler Filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman and his Troma crew wheel and deal in the new documentary All the Love You Cannes PLUS >> Raëlian cloning >> Summer squats >> I Am the World Trade Center >> Comedia highlights >> Janeane Garofalo, Big Pussy, the Pub Landlord, Dragapella, Tiger Lillies

July 4 >> 10, 2002 Vol. 18 No. 4 : Write profiles Grafitti artist Omen sprays jazz greats for his new exhibition by Rupert Bottenberg PLUS >> Hot nights ahead : Femi Kuti, Thomas Mapfumo, Rokia Traoré & more set Nuits d'Afrique on fire >> Joan Rivers >> Denis Leary >> Soccer & reefer

June 6 June 13 June 20 June 27

May

May 2 May 9 May 16 May 23 May 30

April

April 4 April 11 April 18 April 25

March

March 7 March 14 March 21 March 28

February

February 7 February 14 February 21 February 28

January

January 3 January 10 January 17 January 24 January 31