NEWS
Mystery Train: To their credit, the folks who ran the legendary Underground Railroad through Baltimore knew how to... | Charmed Life by Tom Chalkley
Ars Rhetorica: "The press is pretty sneaky," warned U.S. Rep. Robert Ehrlich, launching into a guest-speaking... | The Nose
Know Your Moguls: When it comes to preaching about ownership of media outlets, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) talks a good game. In announcing the c... | Media Circus by Michael Anft
The Mail | Mobtown Beat | Feature
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COLUMNS
Fantasy Island: I've never been one to take the safe route, live the sheltered life. | Germ Bag by Suz Redfearn
Ticket to Ride, White-Line Highway: Look, a couple of weeks ago--or maybe it was a couple of months ago; I'm not so good with... | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod
With Friends Like These: I know I'm not the only one with this problem, but no one I talk to knows what to do. | Think Mink by Mink Stole
The Trouble With Harry: Harry Potter, eh? You wanna talk about Harry Potter? Here's my verdict: I read the book. | Urban Rhythms by Wiley Hall III
Rock Bottom: Lennox Lewis, we now know, taunts like he hits: cruelly and decisively, once he gets around to it. After weeks of sullen silence, the past and present... | 8 Upper by Tom Scocca
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COMICS
Follow the Sheep: Nov. 12-18 | Funny Paper by Scocca & MacLeod
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MUSIC
Conn Job: It was fun at the time, but in retrospect it was a grim spectacle at the Ottobar as Chicago's Bobby Conn, bedecked in purple pleather and a big gold medallion, peered into the audience and wailed, "There will be no revolution, no revolution here!" The club's PA obliterated most of the acerbic lyrics to his unsettling songs; the band's matching pleather suits, metal guitar solos, shimmy-shake grooves, makeup, and vacant looks onstage did most of the talking, speaking of the ridiculous, vacuous huff of helium that is white pop music. | Feedback by Ian Nagoski
Flux = Rad: Anybody who caught Pavement's Terror Twilight tour would be forgiven for wondering who that energetic young man fronting Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks at the 9:30 Club was. | Feedback by Bret McCabe
Loveless: Still Shoegazing After All These Years | Music by Bret McCabe
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FILM
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Ian Grey
Grey Gardens
| Review by
Adele Marley
Pin
| Review by
Ian Grey
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EAT
Pacific Rim
| Review by
Susan Fradkin
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