NEWS

Shell Game: Seven Neighbors, 11 Foreclosures, and More Than a Million Dollars' Profit in One Baltimore Neighborhood | Feature by Edward Ericson Jr.

And Then There Were Eight: Hollywood-Tied Drug Conspiracy Case Grows | Mobtown Beat by Jeffrey Anderson and Van Smith

As The Day Is Long: Prices are up. | Concrete Jungle by Jay Sandler

Councilmania | The Mail | Murder Ink | What's the 311?

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COLUMNS

Ownership 2008: Even though polling at this point shows that Sen. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Black Is The New Normal: I haven't really been writing about them, but the political e-mail forwards and rumors are still blowing up my in box. | Social Studies by Vincent Williams

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COMICS

Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

Important Comics: by Dina Kelberman

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ARTS

The Pretenders: Artists Play Hide and Seek With Identity, Storytelling, and Natural World in Group Video Show | Art by Martin L. Johnson

Human/Nature: Group Show Tries to Mine The Symbiotic Relationships Between Man and Beast | Art by Kate Noonan

Special Eds: Al Silverman Talks to The Post-War Editors Who Helped Forge Contemporary American Letters | Books by Michaelangelo Matos

Living History: One-Woman Show Intensely Revisits a Dancer's WWII Survival | Stage by Geoffrey Himes

How Fiction Works by James Wood | Review by Eli Perlow

The Rhino With the Glue-on Shoes by Lucy Spelman and Ted Mashima, editors | Review by Anny Hoge

Once Upon a Time in England by Helen Walsh | Review by Anny Hoge

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MUSIC

Still Perfect: Built to Spill, Rams Head Live, Sept. 24 | Feedback by Robbie Whelan

The Wanderers: Exploring The Wonderfully Unsullied World of Finger-Picked Acoustic Guitar Blues/Folk/Raga/Whatever | Music by Michael Byrne

Madlib Men: Beat Konducta, Yesterdays New Quintet, Quasimoto--Which Otis Jackson Jr. Do You Like? | Music by Michaelangelo Matos

DJ Kahled: We Global | Review by Al Shipley

Ne-Yo: Year of the Gentleman | Review by Michaelangelo Matos

The Matthew Herbert Big Band: There's Me and There's You | Review by Michaelangelo Matos

Simon Bookish: Everything/Everything | Review by Michaelangelo Matos

The Short List

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FILM

An Interview with Chuck Palahniuk: Victor Mancini, the pathetic narrator of the satirical novel Choke, is desperate to be loved. | Film by Violet LeVoit

The Small Picture: Director Marc Abraham Approaches Something Almost Universal Through His Very Slice of Life Drama | Film by Bret McCabe

Blindness | Review by Jess Harvell

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist | Review by Cole Haddon

Appaloosa | Review by Cole Haddon

Battle in Seattle | Review by Jeff Meyers

Flash of Genius | Review by Bret McCabe

Hail the Conquering Hero | Review by Martin L. Johnson

Miracle at St. Anna | Review by Al Shipley

Nights In Rodanthe | Review by Violet LeVoit

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EAT

Elvis Restaurant | Review by Christopher Skokna

Favorites Pub | Review by Alex Walsh

Eat Me

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