NEWS

Death to Dirt Bikes: City Destroys Illegal Vehicles, Scraps Plans to Donate Them to Charity | Mobtown Beat by Chris Landers

Vote Hellbender 2008: City Bond Issues Include Money For Schools, Bathhouses, and a 2-Foot-Long Salamander in Every Pot | Campaign Beat by Chris Landers

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

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COLUMNS

Running Scared: America is now a nation living on a foundation built of fear. It's as if we're living in an alternate universe where time started traveling backward from the Gilded Age and Pearl Harbor, and now we're skidding toward the stock-market crash of 1929. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Juiced, Past Tense: So, yeah, O.J. | Social Studies by Vincent Williams

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COMICS

Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III

Important Comics: by Dina Kelberman

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

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ARTS

Human Destiny Starkly Illuminated: Michael Kimball, His Books, and How He Wrote Them | Books by Rupert Wondolowski

Ashes of Time: Two-Woman Show Taps Into The Fleeting, Anxious Nature of The Now | Art by Kate Noonan

Stolen Kisses: And Love-Starved Characters in This Lively Consideration of Desires | Stage by John Barry

The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing by Marc Smirnoff, editor | Review by Michaelangelo Matos

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MUSIC

Skeletal Vamping: From Throwback to Visionary in Under 10 Albums, Starring of Montreal's Kevin Barnes | Music by Judy Berman

I Against I: It's Not Easy Being a Punk Legend, But H.R. Still Has That P.M.A. | Feature by John Barry

Labtekwon: Di Na Ko Degg | Review by Michael Byrne

410 Pharaohs: 410 Funk | Review by Michael Byrne

hexspeak: CDDA | Review by Bret McCabe

Mt. Eerie: Lost Wisdom | Review by Brandon Soderburg

Mt. Eerie: Dawn | Review by Brandon Soderburg

T.I.: Paper Trail | Review by Bret McCabe

Portastatic: Some Small History | Review by Al Shipley

The Short List

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FILM

Gina Prince-Bythewood: An Interview With The Secret Life of Bees Director | Film by Wendy Ward

Showing His Range: The Wire Alumnus Tristan Wilds Shifts Gears in The Secret Life of Bees | Film by Wendy Ward

Into The Wind: Steve Manson's Unconventional Path to Sailing | Film by Michael Byrne

The Secret Life of Bees | Review by Wendy Ward

Morning Light | Review by Michael Byrne

What Just Happened | Review by Geoffrey Himes

Body of Lies | Review by Joe MacLeod

The Candidate | Review by Rahne Alexander

City of Ember | Review by Bret McCabe

Easy Living | Review by Joe MacLeod

Passions Just Like Mine | Review by Bret McCabe

Helvetica | Review by Joe MacLeod

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EAT

El Torito Mexican Restaurant | Review by Joe MacLeod

Nacho Mama's | Review by Erin Sullivan

Eat Me

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