NEWS
Walk Softly: Middle East scholar Juan Cole argues against sending lots of troops to Afghanistan | Feature by Curt Guyette and W. Kim Heron
Beans and Dread: A long-planned homeless center's expansion got underway last week. Then, a shelter employee stabbed a client. | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.
Down for the Count: Defendants sentenced in Black Guerrilla Family case | Mobtown Beat by Van Smith
Councilmania | Murder Ink | The Mail
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COLUMNS
Fear Merchants: Seriously, I'm starting to think some people have watched too many Die Hard movies.
OK, so for years we hear about how if everyone were armed, there'd be a lot less crime in this country, because either the criminals would be afraid of the armed people, or they could be shot by those armed people in the commission of those crimes they'd be committing.
Yet for the most part, the politicians who make or defend these kinds of arguments also seem to be the ones who are ramping up the fear when it comes to trying the terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay in domestic federal courts. | Political Animal by Brian Morton
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COMICS
Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III
Important Comics: by Dina Kelberman
Just Ask Larnell: by Larnell Custis Butler
Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake
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ARTS
Word Play: A show about language doesn't speak to its audience | Stage by Anna Ditkoff
Brand of Outsiders: AVAM tackles freedom with its usual big heart and wide berth | Art by Geoffrey Himes
Peter Van Heerden: A Q&A with the South African performance artist | Art by Bret McCabe
Quick Sketches | Curtain Time
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MUSIC
Pop Goes The Genre: Evol Intent ruptures the walls of drum 'n' bass | Music by Tony Ware
Sensational & Spectre: Acid & Bass
| Review by
Michael Byrne
DJ/Rupture and Matt Shadetek: Solar Life Raft
| Review by
Michael Byrne
Beastmaster: Brute of Eminece
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Ecstatic Sunshine: Yesterday's Work
| Review by
Michael Byrne
The Short List
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FILM
The Road
| Review by
Lee Gardner
Fantastic Mr. Fox
| Review by
Anna Ditkoff
Ninja Assasin
| Review by
Joe MacLeod
New This Week
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EAT
Aloha Hibachi Grill
| Review by
Anna Ditkoff
Eat Me
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