Inside the Spring 2006 Issue:

DEPARTMENTS:

Bits

• World Snapshot: face transplant, supermom phenomenon, abuse of the disabled, missing aboriginal women, and women in wrestling
• Escapes we delve into work by Jann Arden, Louise Halfe, Deepa Mehta, and more…

• Spoonfed Art: Karin Collins uses art to heal her body

Connections

• Stir it Up: Go Forth and Adopt: an alternate way to conceive of parenthood
• Interview: Jody Paterson tells us more about her work to empower Victoria sex workers

Inspired:

• Poetry by Anne Baldo, Louisa Howerow, lisa b., and Laura Edna Lacey.
• Creative Prose by Sharon Wright, Sheree A. Bradford-Lea, Charmian Christie, Giulia Mauro, and Anya Wassenberg.
• Essays by Cathrin Hagey and Anna Quon
• Featured Art by Jackie Miller

COLUMNS:

• Earth Wisdom: food for thought: what are we putting into our bodies?
• Femme Vitale: healthy thoughts, healthy body: can a connected mind and body make you feel better?
• Imperfect Measurements: Significant digits: how does our view of the female body measure up?
• Inspired at Work: Helping women and the planet: the drive, inspiration, and brains behind Lunapads
• Lesley’s Letters: weight…don’t get me started: Lesley takes on the mirror
• Off-the-Cuff: having a physical fit: treadmills whirring, bicycles spinning, what the hell are we doing all this for?
• Rent-a-Friend: the kind of advice not even a mother could love
• The Fairer Blog: medblogs on the web

ARTICLES & FEATURES

• Go-Diva: 11 days of art, performance, and fabulous company
• The Male Gaze: finally, someone’s talking honestly about this
• The Oldest Dance: the sensual art of the bellydance
• Crouching Woman, Hidden Dragon: what the feminine hygiene companies say to us about “down there”
• Body in the Media: maybe we should turn it off
• The Long Good-bye: why this exotic dancer was reluctant to leave the biz to live a “normal” life

INSIDE EVERY ISSUE:

• Editors’ Note
• Write On: a powerful image: our cover art debate
• Contributors
• Marketplace
• Last Page: what do you want to do before it’s all over?

Inside the Summer 2006 Issue:

On the Cover: Jan Mancey

Bits

6 World Snapshot Jane Isn’t Running Now, Out of the Mouth of Gulsoma, Fresh Chile, and Commercialy Yours.
4 What’s up in Canada? Doctor Lottery, Highway of Tears, Uplifting News, Where the Plains Bison Roam, and On Top of the World.
8 Ecapes Nancy Mairs, Michael Franti, Christian Northrup, 6 Feet Under, and more…
37 Caregiver Comic Action-packed comic book about superhero, carrie giver, makes political waves.

Connections

14 Stir It Up Respeck Yourself: Can we lose ourselves in the process of serving others?
15 Article Message in a Bottle: Women and alcoholism – drowning in the bottle and coming back up for air.

Columns
36 Earth Wisdom A Breath of Fresh Air: taking better care of our air.
11 Femme Vitale Present Perceptions, Malleable Memories: are our memories always accurate?
44 Imperfect Measurements The Beauty Department: full of amazing facts and figures.
12 Inspired at Work Service with a Smile: is it bad for your health to believe that the customer is always right?
5 It’s Not Rocket Science Speak Now? Or Forever Hold Your Peace?: sometimes it’s best to say nothing at all.
26 Lesley’s Letters Reward Yourself: Lesley finds a little time in the day just for her.
29 Off-the-Cuff Learning to Help Myself: is self-help all it’s cracked up to be?
28 Rent-a-Friend What is rent-a-friend going to say next?
38 The Fairer Blog Perspectives: the truth about life in Baghdad.

Articles & Features

20 Jazz Women They’ve got the music in them!
25 Thoughts of a Woman Beauty is in the eyes, the skin, in a woman’ experience.
27 Jumping the Tracks Coming out the other side of grief, loss, and depression.
43 An Artist’s Way Eve Kotyk explores the inspiration of the artist.
40 40 Days ‘Til 40 Heather Plett on the countdown to the big 4-0.

Inspired

42 SuzAnne A. Cole – Thoughts after Being Married a Decade (poetry)
42 Suzanne Harris – Editor Girl (poetry)
42 Irene Sterard – Superstition & Ritual (poetry)
42 Laila Haidarali – The Man in the Moon (poetry)
48 Cathrin Hagey – It’s All in the List (essay)
17 Kris Brandhagen – A Snail’s Progress (essay)
23 Sheree A. Bradford-Lea – Movie Night (humour)
45 Alexandria Haber - Housekeeping (fiction)
31 Gwen Davies – Facing the Other Way (fiction)
18 Charmian Christie – Paris in the Spring (travel)

Inside Every Issue

2 Editor’s Note
3 Write On
47 Contributors
46 Featured Artist Eve Kotyk paints peace and soft contemplation in her beautiful trees.
Last Page Never mind the weeds, enjoy the sunshine!

Inside Winter 2005 Issue:

DEPARTMENTS:

Bits

• Have a look at What’s Up in Canada? for interesting, quirky, newsworthy happenings across the country.
• World Snapshot is a collection of news clippings about women all over the world.
• Escapes: arts and entertainment bits – This issue read about musicians Suzanne Paschall, Jen Lane, and Eekwol, what’s on the boob tube this fall (and is there anything worth watching?), great music that rocks or heals you, books that will change you (or at least make you laugh), and some fantastic visual artists (Jan Corcoran and Karen Bereza) and their work.
• Calendar – Email us information about any event, festival, concert, reading, business launch, or general happening to appear in our events calendar. Watch for an abbreviated version of the calendar in our print issue and log on to our website for the whole shebang.

Inspired

• Fiction: “New Year’s Day” by Alexandria Haber.
• Personal Essay: “To Lose a Friend” by Anna Quon.
• Humour: “Movie Night” by Sheree A. Bradford-Lea.
• Poetry: “Grace” by Tierney Wisniewski.
• Poetry:“Womanning” by Tierney Wisniewski.
• Poetry:“Private Viewings” by Joanna Weston.
• Fiction: “Salad Days” by Lorri Neilsen.
• Featured Visual Artist: Anne Camozzi, whose beautiful silk painting graces our cover.

Connections

• Adventure (travel piece): “Grace Note” by Charmian Christie.
• Two women from different parts of the country answer this question: Do you have time for close friends?
• Stir it up: Jeanne-Marie de Moissac tackles being a woman in 2005.

COLUMNS:

• This issue in Charmian Christie’s health column, Femme Vitale: Can close friendships really improve your health?.
• Char Thompson explores “Making Friends With Mass Media.”
• In Rent-a-friend: advice you need from a friend you’ll hate, Michele Rowe will dispense, well, advice you need from a friend you’ll hate about duty, raising teens, and lop-sided friendships…
• The Fairer Blog: this issue Gord Sellar will describe what blogs are and will look at the blogs of two fascinating women.
• Let us introduce you to your new friend and life guru, Lesley Crewe, in the first installment of Lesley’s Letters.
• Women and Work by Christine Hart: Does not compute! Individuality and self-expression in the workplace: Christine explores how to be yourself and still be part of a team.
• Life Outside the Box: hilarious, thought-provoking cartoons by Sheree A. Bradford-Lea.
• Water and our “One blue world”: an exploration by our mother-daughter environmental column team, Anne Camozzi and Leanna Braid.

FEATURES:

• Relationships Between Women – a beautiful photographic piece about the bonds between women – by Carla Atherton.
• The Burned-out Mother’s Commune – Char Thompson feels like she’s been left on high heat on the back burner. Before her life turns to ashes, she realizes her female community can help her fan the flames.
• Superficial Supermodels? Melanie Furlong sits down with the world’s most downloaded woman, Estelle Reyna.
• The Bumbling, Desperate Heroine: Elizabeth Hopkins explores the outcropping of calorie-counting female characters desperate to look good and find a man.
• Something Historic Happened: a passionate piece about gay marriage by Lana Philips.

INSIDE EVERY ISSUE:

• Editor’s Page.
• Contributors.
• Write On – Letters – send us letters via snail mail or email – send us your thoughts along with art, artifacts, photos, anything that helps you to express what you’d like to say to us. Please keep your comments down to 75 words.
• The Marketplace – looking for a great product or service? Browse The Marketplace in the back of the book.
• It’s Not Rocket Science: find a little half-page jewel that will have you nodding your head – this issue, Michele takes on slackers in the retail business.
• Over Coffee: this issue our readers respond to the state of women’s magazines and celebrate the launch of cahoots.
• Last Page: buy a box of chocolates, a brick of cheese, and a bottle of wine (optional), settle in with your friends, and play our “Game of Real Life”.

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Inside the Summer 2007 Issue:

Many Cultures Contents

Bits
4 What’s up in Canada? By Cathrin Hagey: Cross-Cultural Purposes, Forty and Counting, A Class of One’s Own
6 World Snapshot By Cathrin Hagey: More Than Skin Deep, Data Mining for Gender Gold, Feminism and Faith
8 Escapes By Carla Atherton: Evelyn C. White’s new book about Alice Walker, the art of Chin Yuen, The Little Black Book for Girlz, and more…
10 Escapes Profile By Carla Atherton: Deborah Ellis – A voice for the developing world’s children
41 Bit A magazine designed for the modern Muslim Girl

Connections

21 Think About It A frank discussion about life with Herpes by Darcy Nybo
44 Interview with the young and determined Adila Azizi by Andrea Ledding

Columns
12 Earth Wisdom By Anne Camozzi and Leanna Braid: spectacular women of the 20th and 21st centuries
50 Femme Vitale By Charmian Christie: explore the rituals of food and good company
36 Imperfect Measurements By Ann Douglas: more amazing facts and figures
15 Inspired at Work By Christine Hart: let the people work! the simple solution to our impending labour shortage
51 It’s Not Rocket Science By Michele Rowe: “I’m not a racist, but…”
11 Lesley’s Letters By Lesley Crewe: Lesley on why Cape Breton rocks
17 Off-the-Cuff By Char Thompson: what a group of naked women in her local gym changeroom taught her daughter and herself
24 Rent-a-Friend is still dishin’ it up!
42 The Fairer Blog By Gord Sellar: on the outside looking in – ex-pat blogs
43 Life Outside the Box Sheree Bradford-Lea on What the Magazines Have Taught Me about the melting pot

Articles & Features
22 The Professional is Political and Personal By Cathrin Hagey: When red tape and bureaucracy keep skilled, educated immigrants like Olive Kang from their dreams
18 Live to Tell By Brett Bradshaw: The funky and adventurous Canwegian Sklad, Sarah Granskou
38 Media Science By Vanessa Ross: Have we let junk science lead us astray?
3 Embarking on a Journey By Carla Atherton: for women who grow no moss

Inspired

33 Jane Marshall Trigger Happy in Cambodia (Travel)
40 Isabel Bermudez A Touch of the Sun (Fiction)
46 Rachel Elizabeth Cole The Perfect Ring (Fiction)
54 Suma Kinkar Sunset Pyre (Poetry)
54 Marianne Paul body markings (Poetry)

Inside Every Issue

2 Editor’s Note
54 Contributors
53 Featured Artist A colourful mosaic from the hand of Andrea Pratt
56 Last Page Wedding traditions from around the world

Coming Back Soon

Due to a temporary hosting hiccup, the Cahoots Store is offline for the moment. We are working to bring these items back online, but in the meantime, please visit our vendor profiles. Journeys for Women are still available for booking by downloading the registration form.

In partnership with Lodestone Tours, Cahoots is excited to invite readers to discover unique travel tours to destinations including India, Nepal and Thailand. For complete tour details and registration form, click here.

Coming soon… items including art, literature, games, travel and more in support of an independent Canadian women’s magazine.

Inside the Winter 2006 Issue:

On The Cover: Brenda McClellan

Bits
4 What’s up in Canada? By Cathrin Hagey: The New ‘Old Ball and Chain,’ Two Faced Nation?, and Storybook Heroine
6 World Snapshot By Cathrin Hagey: Liberia’s Year of Hope, Try Not to Blame Your Mother, Behind the Scenes of Bulgaria’s Bid, Dimension Retention
8 Escapes By Carla Atherton: Little Miss Sunshine, Tibetan Buddhist Goddess Altars, The Old Elephant’s Christmas, and more…
43 Eve’s Quest: “‘Cuz Girls Got Game”

Connections
23 Think About It Joanne Bealy’s poetic work about a shameful time in Canadian history
3 Life Outside the Box By Sheree Bradford-Lea: What The Magazines Have Taught Me is back, again!

Columns
34 Earth Wisdom By Anne Camozzi and Leanna Braid: how to live more sustainable lives in our own homes
30 Femme Vitale By Charmian Christie: our surroundings and how they impact us
42 Imperfect Measurements By Ann Douglas: the hard facts and figures about home life
16 Inspired at Work By Christine Hart: self-employment, maternity leave, and the battle for balance
31 It’s Not Rocket Science By Michele Rowe: Michele takes on the spammers that clog our inboxes
10 Lesley’s Letters By Lesley Crewe: Lesley on being a home body
39 Off-the-Cuff By Char Thompson: going back to the place we grew up can be a test of nerve and patience, indeed
38 Rent-a-Friend our resident know-it-all gives ‘advice’ about the horrors of the holidays: house cleaning, spending the holidays with family, and sobriety
36 The Fairer Blog By Gord Sellar: listening to the voices of the homeless

Features and Articles
18 Questions of Domesticity an exploration of three writers’ thoughts about the domestic
24 Finding Dawn filmmaker Christine Welsh goes on a painful, life-changing journey toward Finding Dawn
27 A Nomad’s Wisdom living simpler, less-cluttered lives
28 Green From the Ground Up more people are building sustainable housing, and more and more women are leading the pack

Inspired
40 Laura Best Erin’s Shrine (fiction)
11 Charmian Christie Feng Shame (humour)
47 GP Greenwood Women’s Work, Sophie, and How to Be a Goddess (poetry)
37 Cathrin Hagey Domestic Recess (poetry)
12 Penny Clark Lapenna Spanish Odyssey (non-fiction)
32 Michelle Mulder My Life in Spandex (fiction)

Inside Every Issue
2 Editor’s Note
46 Contributors
45 Featured Artist come meet east coast painter Brenda McClellan
48 Last Page

Inside the Fall 2006 Issue:

On the cover: Lori Nixon

Bits

6 World Snapshot The Big Crochet, When No News Is Not Good News, Paper Women?
4 What’s up in Canada? Minding the Parents, Milking the Waves, Spin Cycle.
8 Escapes Inuit Women Artists, Women’s eNews, The Belly Book, Gray’s Anatomy, and more…
43 Bits The KES Trio delights Fringe-goers.

Connections

14 Stir It Up Life Without School: do we learn more when not in school?
32 Interview with young artist Micaela Hardy-Moffat.

Columns

34 Earth Wisdom Are We Too Wired? Anne and Leanna tell us how to unplug.
10 Femme Vitale Live and Learn: apparently, old dogs have an edge when learning new tricks.
44 Imperfect Measurements Ann digs up more amazing facts and figures.
12 Inspired at Work Playing for a Living: women in the gaming industry.
38 It’s Not Rocket Science Watch out makers of The Devil Wears Prada; Michele’s got something to say to you.
39 Lesley’s Letters Life’s Checklist: words of wisdom and hilarity.
18 Off-the-Cuff Stop the World – I Want Off! why are we running so fast, and to where?
13 Rent-a-Friend More advice, as amusing as ever; don’t you wish she lived next door?
37 The Fairer Blog Down the River: blogs about the mysterious human brain.
19 Life Outside the Box What the Magazines Have Taught Me.

Articles & Features

20 Interview with Jane Rule A conversation with the novelist, essayist, political pioneer, and all-around wise woman.
24 The Beautiful Women Project When Cheryl-Ann Webster began her project, she had no idea what kind of impact it would have.
36 I Always Wanted to Be a Stripper What do multi-tasking, stripping, and adult ADD have in common?
28 Derren Brown Through using his spectacular knowledge of the human mind, Derren Brown mesmerizes and delights his audiences.

Inspired

15 Laurel Glitherow – Girl with a Nervous Stomach (non-fiction)
11 Michelle Barker – Centre Ice (non-fiction)
31 Colleen Osborn – Adherence (fiction)
40 Sarah Molner – Death on a Sidewalk (fiction)
42 Kim Goldberg – Dear Ovaries (poetry)
42 Kim Goldberg – Desoto Love (poetry)
42 Kim Goldberg – Heat Wave (poetry)
42 Kim Goldberg – Possessed (poetry)
42 Lisa Shatzky – Extinction Poem (poetry)
42 Lisa Shatzky – mistaken identity (poetry)

Inside Every Issue

2 Editor’s Note
46 Contributors
45 Featured Artist Jess Loseby on identity, motherhood, and dislocation.
48 Last Page What advice would you give your younger self?