New Dog!

Cover by Dakota McFadzean

I'm a little surprised it took me a decade on this job to commission a cover drawing of a radioactive, mutant gopher. It seems like such a perfect match for our radioactive, mutant magazine.

And now here's some details on the new prairie dog, which, as always, you should read.

BEHIND THE URANIUM CURTAIN What will it be like if (when?) Saskatchewan builds a nuclear power plant? Paul Dechene takes a speculative look at our province in the year 2044, at the precise moment our leaders' atomic aspirations crumbled to nuclear dust.

IN THE DOGHOUSE Carle Steel's article was just supposed to be a fun little story on First Nation gas bars. Naturally, her story got some poor guy fired. This is his story, as related to Michael Bell.

THE NOBLE GENIUS OF AC/DC Prairie dog's Toronto Bureau chief, Emily Zimmerman, pens a thoughtful look at a band she admires for its integrity, work ethic and fashion choices. Okay, maybe not their fashion choices.

X MARKS THE LAWN Seema Goel and special guest writer Ken Wilson team up for an everything-you-need-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask look at xeriscaping, which is that lawn-thing you do where you rip out your water-guzzling, wrong-for-our-climate grass and replace it with plants that will actually do well in Saskatchewan without constant irrigation.

AND ALL THE USUAL STUFF TOO: Film, CD and restaurant reviews, Gwynne Dyer, News Quirks, Top 6 columns (including Zimmerman's savage take-down of the late John Hughes), Street Wear, a lame editorial, Typo Wiener, Queen City Confidential, Ask Greg ("why isn't the plural of moose "meese"?) and other tidbits of joy and delight.
Yep, it's a pretty good issue. Check it out!