NEWS
Hot Contract: City Bribery Scandal Tied to Influential Father and Son | Mobtown Beat by Van Smith
Performance Anxiety: Backstage in the No-Pay, Low-Glory World of Community Theater | Feature by John Barry
Pedaling Influence: Jodie Zisow knows the value of a wide road. | Quick and Dirty by David Morley
Homing In: A Jan. | The Nose
Comrade President: The Nose knew security at the Jan. | The Nose
All the News That’s Fit to Copy?: WYPR (88.1 FM) journalist Melody Simmons’ Jan 21 report of a low-income Baltimore family living in subsidized splendor in fancy-schmancy Mount Washington was diverting. | The Nose
Murder Ink | The Mail
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COLUMNS
Disloyal Allies: “One, two, three, four, we make money, then there’s war!” and “Five, six, seven, eight, Halliburton’s really great!” | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Ehrlich Rising: Despite my view that Ehrlich can be political klutz, at the end of January I don’t see how Mayor Martin O’Malley or Montgomery County Executive Douglas Duncan will win an election against the incumbent. | Right Field by Russ Smith
Loan Shark: The only thing you can count on when you dine out with friends, FF, is that someone’s going to be kvetching in the car on the way home about having to pay for someone else’s Ketel One martinis while all she had was a Diet Coke with lemon. | Think Mink by Mink Stole
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COMICS
Sheet Comics: by The Hussey Bros.
Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake
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ARTS
Border Strife: FPCT Struggles With a Low-Grade Play in Eyes for Consuela | Stage by Gadi Dechter
Apocalypse Soon: New Books Parse Out Details of the End of the World as We Know It | Books by Scott Carlson
You Must Go Home Again: For Johns Hopkins Alum James Whorton Jr., Ending Up Where You Started Isn’t So Bad | Books by Joab Jackson
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MUSIC
Uncommon Sense: New Albums From Ashanti and Cam’Ron Sustain in the Mundane | Music by Mikael Wood
Bossman
| Review by
Jason Torres
The Short List
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EAT
Kyodai Rotating Sushi Bar
| Review by
Richard Gorelick
Bill's Place Carryout
| Review by
Tim Hill
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