wr B8-Sunday News, February 3, 1980 ag ane ea ane poe hy pases ame creme oo . 42 Pacific Pressed By Sean Rossiter Clark Davey came to town, and both his paper and The Province plunged into an eight-month strike the following day Now. both have been taken over by the Thomson chain Here is what happened in between 47 Country City, U.S.A. By Les Wiseman The Grand Ole Opry is no longer housed in a ramshackle church built by a repentant boozer who lost a bet to a preacher, but Nashville, Tennessee is stil the heart of a country music empire that delights millhhons Up Front/Vancouver Today, by Kerry McPhedran s What s new tn town. phos what. going on and when Victoria, by Walter Young laa) How our elections might give us Cruly representative governments Top Dollar, ry Valene Cabson This ts the month for Valentines in One Ear, by Les Wiseman Music of the yeur of the ded ade Over There, by Matt Laanseoo 92 so det. look at love 4 of all uine A a) The British don thei mghtshirts for the neghtshift FEATURES. 57 Designers’ Interiors By Mike Cluss We know what designers can do in our houses Here we meet sx of thein inside their own four walls Some live alone. famrhes. others have and each has taken a diferent approach to the task of making raw space habitable From The Hill, by Boh Hunter 76 Their Place By Dona Sturmants Last fall) some 30 gay organiza. tons met to discuss the estab hshment of then own community While the project is still far from resolved here ts what they have to sav about it, and themselves center in Vancouver wl COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS _" ———+ tao One dav in the deliven room that really delvered Faraway Places, by Carry Marchant 102 From streamlined Singapore to anew and old Malavera Dilations, by Ben Metcalfe ibe Why has our theater become largely a matter of resis al? Looking Good, by Gabnel Lavy 114 The new leathers and how to look after them Twelfth & Cambie, by Sean Hosstter Lis The pre evisceration of a maybe mayoral candidate re te I RD UL RECOV IR AENEAN, SIREN ep