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It's Sunday December the 4 around 10:28AM and

Weekly Fun with the Georgia Straight Vol. 2

It is so nice to see that the Straight has gone to a really simple templated front cover that looks like it is being produced by a CanWest intern. (See last week and the week before) Actually it's not that bad, just not the kind of ground breaking design you might expect from an alternative weekly. Compare what they do at The Stranger down in Seatlle, say this week, and you'll see what I'm talking about. But enough of that mudslinging, how about five things we love and loathe about this week's issue:

5. Jurgen Gothe's Uncorked column this week focuses on stuff for "dipsobibliomaniacs". "Much more useful is Kenji Hodgson and James Nevison’s new one, Had a Glass (Whitecap Books, $19.99), which brings us their choice of 100 top wines for 2006, every one of them priced below $20," writes Gothe. "What sets this apart from most of the other wine books out there (I saw one in Safeway the other day, where hardly any of the wines listed were available here and all the prices were in U.S. dollars, which is enough to depress anybody) is that every wine they rate and rave can be bought around the corner at the LDB. So this is one you can actually use."

4. City single of the week. This dude actually calls himself "C". Come on. Key question: "IF YOU COULD HAVE A DINNER PARTY AND INVITE ANY FOUR PEOPLE, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO'D BE COMING?
Quentin Tarantino, Vince Vaughn, Johnny Depp, and Snoop." All the people in the world to invite and C, Vince Vaughn and Snoop Dogg? Move along, nothing to see here.

3. Geek of the week? If I moved away from Canada I would not give a flying hoot about Aero bars or President's Choice dressings. And yet Canadian Favorites website actually exists.

2. Alt Weekly? Really? The Straight features a cover and three articles on the chief of police. You've changed man.

1. At least a tiny mention of the goodness and wonder that is meat eaten off of bones. And points us to Bones; Recipes, History, and Lore. Joy.

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Posted by: Jeffery Simpson

December 4, 2005 02:03 PM

The ... Straight stopped being alternative long ago back when we all stopped being shocked by articles about blow jobs, now CBC's Newsworld is more alt. than Vancouver's alt. weekly.