NEWS
Not so Green Acres: City Man Uses YouTube To Advocate For Better Maintenance Of Baltimore Parks | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.
Voting Block: After losing the September primary election, Reba Hawkins plans to run as a write-in candidate | Quick and Dirty by Anna Ditkoff
Train Wreck: One Man's Dreams of a Local Freight Line Run Smack Into Reality | Feature by Van Smith
Murder Ink | The Mail | Councilmania
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COLUMNS
This Song Ain't the Same:
One of the disgusting side effects of the corporatization of American culture, especially as it affects the music industry, is how authentic voices of protest in the artistic community have been marginalized and silenced.
Everyone remembers how the Dixie Chicks were ostracized by the country music industry at the peak of their fame after lead singer Natalie Maines' comment from the stage in a concert in London: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." In a flash, the right-wing media Wurlitzer sprung into action, instantly conflating criticism of the president with criticizing the troops, and after that, the nation and the flag itself. | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Fuel for Thought:
If you are on the drugs, like Zoloft, Paxil, etc., Darvocet, Oxycontin, hydrocodone, etc., Zanax, Tylenol, TUMS, Prilosec, Stolichnaya, Metamucil, Ex-Lax, Wellbutrin, etc.; you know, if you gots your two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers, whatever floats your chemically altered boat, et cetera and ad nauseum, with some Pepto-Bismol thrown in for the nauseum, then I am sorry, not as in "for you" sorry, but as in "excuse me" sorry, even if you are riding the White Pony or China White or Black Tar or Caballo or whatever the current "street name" is for the refined Juice of the Poppy, OK?
I believe in the Miracles of both Nature and Modern Medical Science, and even though I am frequently accused of being "on dope" or "a dope" (I never quite hear it correctly on account of my slurred hearing), sometimes I am on Beer, or Popov, or Pikesville, and I understand people need to "handle" me even more differently than usual when I am, so if you are on Drugs, it'd be nice to know in advance so's it won't be awkward. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod
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COMICS
Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III
Super Amazing Adventures: by Chris Minetree
Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake
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ARTS
Bound for Story: Maryland Voices Lets High School Students Tell Their Lived Experiences | Books by Laura Laing
Greasecore: Two-Day Festival Asks, "Would You Like Some Fries With Your Black Metal?" | Arts and Entertainment by Molly O'Donnell
Cultural Studies: Group Show Offers An Overview Of Indian Painting And Its Possibilities | Art by Jason Hughes
In Her Views: Char Brooks And Annie Waldrop Deconstruct Femininity In Their Own Ways | Art by Jason Torres
Life is Hell...: And People Aren't Much Better In Verdi's Romance And Revenge Opera | Stage by John Barry
Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid by Lisa Jean Moore
| Review by
Violet LeVoit
The Religion by Tim Willocks
| Review by
Robbie Whelan
Dear G-Spot: Straight Talk about Sex and Love by Zane
| Review by
Makkada B. Selah
Competition: The Birth of a New Science by James Case
| Review by
Darcelle Bleau
Make Us Wave Back: Essays on Poetry and Influence by Michael Collier
| Review by
Zak M. Salih
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MUSIC
The Dude Abides: Getting Deep By Getting High With Devin The Dude | Music by Brandon Soderberg
Reinventing the Grrrl: Connecting the Dots Between Noise, Rawk, and Queer with Olympia's Twin | Music by Rahne Alexander
Girl Talk: Honor Among Thieves
| Review by
Michael Byrne
Celebration: The Modern Tribe
| Review by
Michael Byrne
Dave Nada: Kick Out the Jams
| Review by
Michael Byrne
Rilo Kiley: Under the Blacklight
| Review by
Mikael Wood
Thurston Moore: Trees Outside the Academy
| Review by
Ed Schrader
PJ Harvey: White Chalk
| Review by
Raymond Cummings
The Red Chord: Prey for Eyes
| Review by
Raymond Cummings
The Short List
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FILM
She's the Man: Elvira Dones' Documentary Sworn Virgins Examines A Centuries-Old Custom Of Social Gender Change In Albania | Film by Rahne Alexander
Baltimore Women's Film Festival: Film Reviews | Film
The Life Quixotic: Director Wes Anderson Makes Another Intensely Personal Idiosyncratic Movie | Film by Cole Haddon
The Darjeeling Limited
| Review by
Cole Haddon
The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
| Review by
Cole Haddon
Michael Clayton
| Review by
Steve Erickson
We Own the Night
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Lust, Caution
| Review by
Bret McCabe
The Amphibian Man
| Review by
Chris Landers
The Heartbreak Kid
| Review by
Wendy Ward
The Seeker: The Dark is Rising
| Review by
Bret McCabe
9/Tenths
| Review by
Joe MacLeod
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