NEWS
Church With a View: Historic Preservation Of One Downtown Building Threatens the Existence Of Another | Mobtown Beat by Charles Cohen
Face the Flag: Baltimore may still be losing 80 people a month and be chock-full of murders, but in the all-important realm of vexillological respectability Mobtown clearly outranks such high-tone municipalities as Seattle, New York, Atlanta, and San Francisco. | Quick and Dirty by Edward Ericson Jr.
Ballers: Who’s Got Game in the World of Madden NFL? | Feature by Christina Royster-Hemby
Switching Media: Two weeks ago Baltimore’s only daily newspaper quietly let its longtime media critic head out the door for a vacation he won’t return from—at least not to the paper. | Quick and Dirty by Brendan Coyne
Charting a Course: The Baltimore City Public School System’s charter-school policy hasn’t been winning any friends among charter-school advocates. | Quick and Dirty by Anna Ditkoff
Trolley Stop: Stone Consulting and Design, of Warren, Pa., specializes in historic electric-streetcar projects, and its president, Harvey Stone, informed the Nose via e-mail in late October that he had been approached by a Baltimore developer to “cost out a streetcar loop for North Avenue and also provide [estimates of] operating costs.” The developer who called him was Charles Jeffries, who is involved with a proposed Media Arts Network School (“The Idea Man,” Mobtown Beat, Jan. | The Nose
Murder Ink | The Mail
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COLUMNS
How Ya Like Me Now?: Ask them for one thing, after two years in office, that they can name. | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Away From the Numbers: But last week, The Sun released a raft of polls that were, at least from my perspective, rather curious. | Right Field by Russ Smith
Baby Daddy Blues: She also told me she’s willing to consult with a lawyer and put together a contract that would free me from any responsibility for the child. | Think Mink by Mink Stole
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COMICS
Sheet Comics: by The Hussey Bros.
Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake
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ARTS
Foiled Plot: Like Macbeth Himself, Top Floor Theatre Falls Victim To Its Own Ambitions | Stage by Anna Ditkoff
Enrico IV: Patrons of this production are urged by box-office staff to read the two pages of program notes before the house lights dim. | Stage by Brennen Jensen
Hart’s War: In His Latest Book, Gary Hart Talks the Talk About “the Power of America’s Principles.” But Does He Walk the Walk? | Books by Edward Ericson Jr.
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MUSIC
Old School: A New Generation of Musicians Reinvigorates the Sound of Prerecording America | Music by Geoffrey Himes
Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sublime Frequencies Dispatches Recordings From the Far Reaches of the Globe | Music by Bret McCabe and Marc Masters
The 5th eLement
| Review by
Jaye Hunnie
The Short List
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FILM
Revenge of the Dorks: The heady days of early-’80s Baltimore return with the film/cartoon/performance buffoonery of the Dork Brothers | Film by Eric Allen Hatch
Medium Cool
| Review by
Bret McCabe
The Incredibles
| Review by
Joe MacLeod
Sideways
| Review by
Eric Allen Hatch
Judgment at Nuremberg
| Review by
Bret McCabe
The Polar Express
| Review by
Violet LeVoit
Ray
| Review by
Bret McCabe
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