SPECIAL

Calling All Angels: How You Can Help Local Organizations With The Gift Of Your Holiday Dollars | Holiday Guide Feature by Edward Ericson Jr.

How Much Is That Pony in the Window?: A Look At The Financial And Emotional Costs Of Getting Your Kid A Pony For Christmas | Holiday Guide Feature by Gadi Dechter

Wish List: Local Moms Make Holiday Wishes For Their Children | Holiday Guide Feature by Christina Royster-Hemby

Ho-Ho-Home For the Holidays: | Holiday Guide Feature by Emily Flake

Some Like It Hot: Here’s How Explains How to Fire up Hot Holiday Drinks | Holiday Guide Feature by Van Smith

City Paper’s 2004 Holiday Guide: We are so psyched for a break from the usual routine, from the 9 to 5, from,well, work. | Holiday Guide Feature

Gimme Gimme This Gimme Gimme That: City Paper’s Annual Holiday Guide | Holiday Guide Intro

Giving the Gift of Gifts: The City Paper Staff's Suggestions for How to Buy Your Family's Love this Year | Holiday Guide Feature

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NEWS

Some Like It Hot: Here’s How Explains How to Fire up Hot Holiday Drinks | Holiday Guide Feature by Van Smith

Race Results: How the City Council Victors Won | Mobtown Beat by Van Smith

Cabs and Robbers: Local Photographer/Cab Driver Says His Consumer Activism May Have Cost Him His Cab Permit | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.

Home at Last: In March the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Redevelopment put out a request for proposals for the redevelopment of two parcels of houses in Reservoir Hill. | Quick and Dirty by Anna Ditkoff

Money Hungry: Everybody wants a raise, right? Even the Baltimore City Council. | The Nose

The Mail | Mobtown Beat

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COLUMNS

War Of Words: Deep inside the engine of American politics, past the exhaust of the advertising and the cogs and flywheels of government, seeps the fuel of it all: words. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Wishbone of Contention: I used to love Thanksgiving, but this year I’m dreading it. | Think Mink by Mink Stole

Booby Prize: When the details of Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps’ arrest for drunk driving were reported last week, you’d have thought Maryland had its very own Scott Peterson/Elizabeth Smart/Chandra Levy drama to gnaw over at the water cooler. | Right Field by Russ Smith

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COMICS

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

Sheet Comics: by The Hussey Bros.

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ARTS

Rhymes With Reason: When Lawyer and TV Personality Craig Thompson Couldn’t Find the Right Role Models for his Baby Daughter in a Book, He decided to Arrange His Own Introduction | Books by Christina Royster-Hemby

Tangled Up in Bob: Three New Releases Offer Fresh Insights And Inspirations For The Dylan Fan | Books by Geoffrey Himes

Ninja, Please: In Trying To Wrap Hip-Hop Culture Up With East Asian Art, Sanford Biggers Shows He's a Couple Beats Behind | Art by Bret McCabe

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MUSIC

Return to Splendor: In With the Old Makes Bluegrass New in Recent Releases From Peter Rowan | Music by Geoffrey Himes

Hot for Teachers: New York’s Hem Crafts Countrypolitan Cool That Warms the NPR Heart | Music by Mikael Wood

Wicker Men: Some Things in Their Natural State Have the Most Vivid Colors for the Four Guys in Animal Collective | Music by Tony Ware

The Faces: Five Guys Walk Into a Bar . . . | Review by Lee Gardner

Travis Morrison: Travistan | Review by Sebastian Roberts

Worm is Green: Automagic | Review by Tony Ware

The Short List

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FILM

Finding Neverland | Review by Ian Grey

Being Julia | Review by Geoffrey Himes

Red Lights | Review by Bret McCabe

After the Thin Man | Review by Blake de Pastino

Bulworth | Review by Andy Markowitz

Happy Together | Review by Lee Gardner

National Treasure | Review by Bill Fanning

The Paper | Review by Jack Purdy

Seed of Chucky | Review by Bret McCabe

Tarnation | Review by Blake de Pastino

Popular | Review by Bret McCabe

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EAT

DuClaw Brewing Company, Fells Point | Review by Richard Gorelick

Piedigrotta Bakery | Review by Christopher Skokna

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