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Toronto

Highland fling

Kilt is funny & astute

By Rachel Giese

Toronto

Golden buns

New opera The Golden Ass scintillates

By Michael Gfroerer

Toronto

Reading by moonlight

The traumatic lusciousness of history, as seen by Dionne Brand

By Rinaldo Walcott

Culture

Writing home

By Rinaldo Walcott

Toronto

Who’s doping who?

Shrill flyers treat party drugs the same

By David Collins

Toronto

Drag-queen dreams for the everyman

Elizabeth Ashley rarely scratches below the grease-paint

By Christopher Richards

Toronto

Rags-to-bitches

Flawed show still resonates

By David Roche

Toronto

Perfecting ambiguity

Mishima meets Paris in The School Of Flesh

By David Collins

Toronto

Breeding rebellion through conformity

I’ll follow the rules so my daughter won’t want to

By Christina Starr

Toronto

Brogue ‘n’ heart

The truth underneath Jonathan Wilson’s Kilt

By Kamal Al-Solaylee

Toronto

DIALING FOR DOLLARS

By Xtra Staff

Toronto

One of TV’s oddest coming-outs ever

On Dawson’s Creek, teens don’t make out — they process

By Bent Ledger

Toronto

With friends like these

You’d never get past all the talking

By David Collins

Toronto

Dusty Springfield

Apr 16, 1939 — Mar 2, 1999

By Danny Glenwright

Toronto

Xena strikes out

The Lord is no lady-lovin’ lady-lover

By Rachel Giese

Toronto

There she is

The latest Myth Toronto

By Greg Kearney

Toronto

‘Embroiled in it’

Still stoking passionate, political fires

By Kamal Al-Solaylee

Toronto

Strange brew

Stirring up art, biology & culture

By Kim Fullerton