Brand New Dog!

Yesterday being Thursday, there was a 50/50 chance there'd be a new prairie dog (our bi-weekly mag that comes out every second Thursday).

And as it turns out, there was a new 'dog yesterday. Hooray!

So what's in the new issue? Well...

STUBBLEJUMPER Carle Steel interviews director David Geiss about his new documdrama on about '70s Saskatchewan gay activist Doug Wilson. It's only playing at the RPL for two days (though it'll be on SCN March 28 at 9:00), and one of them was yesterday, so if you want to see it you'll have to head over there tonight. Show starts at 9:00. It's on a double bill with Courtney T. Gillen's short film Cured, a comedy about a pharmaceutical product called "gay away" that can cure homosexuality.

BOOZE PRIVATIZATION! In a fine piece of, uh, let's call it speculative journalism ("speculative" because it's a lot of yammering about something that hasn't actually happened), Stephen LaRose looks at this whole Liberal-raised notion of privatizing booze sales. A decent first-look at the topic, I think.

CYLONS! I'm not a big fan of the stylish but self-important TV show Battlestar Galactica but I'm in the minority so screw me and my snotty opinions. Paul Dechene writes an ode to the gritty space-epic in advance of its final episode, which is on, uh, tonight. Hm. You should see Stubblejumper instead.

ALSO: An great interview with comedian Derek Edwards, a report on Canwest's ongoing debt problems, a news brief on SaskTel trying to farm out it's e-mail (cough privatization cough), reviews of Watchmen and the new Neko Case album, Cyclone, Street wear, My Music, News Quirks, David Suzuki, Gwynne Dyer, Typo Wiener, an insane Queen City Confidential that seems to be about Regina's lack of a zoo, and more. All cramed into 24 pages. Wow. And the best part? We're going to do this all again in two weeks. Neat!

(Coverphoto is Stubblejumper director David Geiss. Photo by Carey Shaw, www.careyshaw.com)