SPECIAL

Present Tense: City Paper's 2008 Holiday Guide | Holiday Guide Intro

Craft Work: Local Crafters Prepare For The Holiday Buying Season | Holiday Guide Feature by Martin L. Johnson

Love Letters: A Hampden Letterpress Makes An Impression | Holiday Guide Feature by Wendy Ward

Sweet Success: A Local Baker Proves That Vegan Doesn't Necessarily Mean Bland | Holiday Guide Feature by Anna Ditkoff

Oy to The World: Decorating a Chanukah Bush Is Prickly Business | Holiday Guide Feature by Charles Cohen

Mix Master: Making a Music Mix in The Digital Age | Holiday Guide Feature by Michael Byrne

Ms. Flake's Guide to Last Minute Holiday Preparations: | Holiday Guide Feature by Emily Flake

Nice Package: City Paper's Annual Gift Guide | Holiday Guide Feature

Are You Listening?: City Paper Holiday Guide 2008 | Holiday Guide Feature by Katherine Hill

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NEWS

Land of Confusion: Iraqi Refugee Family Was Assisted by Lutheran Social Services, Not International Rescue Committee | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.

Murder Ink | The Mail

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COLUMNS

The Turnover: It was a few weeks after the presidential election of 1992 when I emerged from the drafty escalators rising up from the Capitol South Metro station at First and C. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Short Holiday: Xmas is coming, but don't fall for it, man, it's a Trap. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod

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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

Psycho/Magic: Cult Director Recounts The Metaphysical Exercises That Shaped The Metaphysical Stories He Told in Then Soon-to-Be Cult Movies | Books by Michael Pursley

Size Matters: Gary Kachadourian's Absurd Realism | Art by Bret McCabe

Place Invaders: Writer Sarah Achenbach and Photographer Bill McAllen Collect Baltimore Stories About Buildings and Moods | Books by Chris Landers

Regarding Horny: Is That An Underground Theater in Your City or...Well, You Know | Stage by Bret McCabe

Jetpack Dreams: One Man's Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search For The Greatest Invention That Never Was by Mac Montandon | Review by Chris Landers

More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman | Review by Joab Jackson

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MUSIC

Lo Moda | Review by Jess Harvell

Wildnerness | Review by Michael Byrne

Harry Pussy: You'll Never Play This Town Again | Review by Raymond Cummings

caUSE co-MOTION!: It's Time! Singles and EPs 2005-08 | Review by Judy Berman

Circle Research: Who? | Review by Michaelangelo Matos

The Knux: Remind Me in 3 Days . . . | Review by Bret McCabe

The Short List

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FILM

The Boy In The Striped Pajamas | Review by Violet LeVoit

Still Life | Review by Steve Erickson

Slumdog Millionare | Review by Cole Haddon

Opium: Diary of a Madwoman | Review by Bret McCabe

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EAT

Crush | Review by Mary K. Zajac

Howard Gourmet Deli | Review by Michael Byrne

Owl Bar | Review by Michael Byrne

Eat Me

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