NEWS

Rats: They're Everywhere, They Spread Disease—And They're Gaining On Us | Feature by Chris Landers

We Need to Talk: City Attempts To Revive Operation Safe Neighborhoods, Which Has Flickered In And Out Of Existence Since | Mobtown Beat by Anna Ditkoff

Murder Ink | The Mail | The News Hole | The News Hole

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COLUMNS

Enemies of Debate: What is it about the frenzy before a national election that detonates a wave of condescension throughout the ranks of even the best journalists in the business? Consider The Sun's Dan Rodricks, a fine columnist whose value to the paper is measured not only by the quality of his prose but also for his status as one of the few Sun employees whose tenure there dates back to the days before the one-time family franchise was bought and gutted by larger media corporations. | Right Field by Russ Smith

Living for the City: I moved from Greenbelt to a second-floor rear apartment in Sowebo on a blustery spring Sunday, April 15, 1990. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Lying Fruit in Local Places: Man, I love teevee. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod

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COMICS

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III

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ARTS

Bringing Out the Head: Christopher Eaves and Jack Hanley Have A Theatrical Brain Ticket To Ride | Stage by John Barry

Now and Then: Getting A Handle On Modernism By Parsing Through One Of Its Proto-Practitioners | Art by Deborah McLeod

Far From Heaven: Tony Kushner's Spiritually Concerned Drama Wisely Never Leaves The Ground In This Agreeable Production | Stage by Bret McCabe

The Road by Cormac McCarthy | Review by Raymond Cummings

Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-up by Christopher Noxon | Review by Raymond Cummings

Matters of Life and Death by Bernard MacLaverty | Review by Richard Vernon

The Galosh and Other Stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko | Review by Stephen Peterson

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MUSIC

A House Is Not a Home: Grizzly Bear Tries To Fill Up The Lonely, Empty Spaces of Yellow House | Music by Tony Ware

Kaos and Sal P.: Collectors Series Pt. 2--Danse Gravité Zéro | Review by Sam Hopkins

ESG: Keep on Moving | Review by Sam Hopkins

Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben: Gil e Jorge | Review by Michaelangelo Matos

Dead Prez and Outlawz: Can't Sell Dope Forever | Review by Ethan Padgett

Harvey Milk: Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men | Review by Michael Crumsho

Harvey Milk: Special Wishes | Review by Michael Crumsho

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FILM

Layered Cake: Sifting Through The Many Nuanced Atmospheric Touches Of Sofia Coppola's Latest Ode To Girldom | Film by Cole Haddon

The Prestige | Review by Violet LeVoit

Shortbus | Review by Bret McCabe

Marie Antoinette | Review by Cole Haddon

The Queen | Review by Bret McCabe

Flicka | Review by Violet LeVoit

Russian Ark | Review by Bret McCabe

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EAT

Rub Authentic Texas Barbeque | Review by Richard Gorelick

Chewy's On Charles | Review by Joe MacLeod

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