SPECIAL

The Year in DVD: Our consumable culture doesn’t arrive only in albums, books, movies, art, theater, and TV these days. | Top Ten

The Year in Movies: Edith Piaf racing from room to room looking for the lover she's just been told is dead. | Top Ten

The Year in Music: By the time this paper hits the stands there will be God knows how may of these lists on magazine racks, in papers, and floating in the internet ether. | Top Ten

The Year in News: If we were cynical about the state of our city in 2006, we have become even more so after watching 2007 unfold. | Top Ten

The Year in Stage: When theaters are as small and underfunded as Baltimore's have usually been, the easy thing is to do small-cast dramas and comedies set in contemporary or recent America or England. | Top Ten

The Year in Television: Fuck Tony Soprano: there, we said it. | Top Ten

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NEWS

The Colonel: New Details On Report Allege Child Abuse By Head Of Victor Cullen Academy | Mobtown Beat by Jeffrey Anderson

Ticker Tape: The sky is battleship gray and it is almost time for "Mayor Dixon's Parade of Stars," though at 9:20 a.m. | The Nose

The Mail | Councilmania | Murder Ink

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COLUMNS

Excuses: In another month, we'll be fully into the actual 2008 election season, and the ensuing horse-race frenzy will drown out much of the mechanism of government, despite so many questions remaining unanswered. Sadly, many of the things we need to know and would like to know about how our government has operated over the last seven years will remain unanswered--some of it due to the reticence or general unwillingness on the part of congressional Democrats to use all means possible to get answers from an obstinate Bush administration. Although much credit should be given to California Rep. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Social Studies

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COMICS

Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III

Super Amazing Adventures: by Chris Minetree

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

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ARTS

Heil Britannia: Jo Walton Images a World Where The UK Negotiated An Armistice With Germany in 1941 | Books by Adrienne Martini

Rhythm and Hues: Parsing Through The BMA's Mammoth Henri Matisse Exhibition | Art by Deborah McLeod

Culture

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MUSIC

Jukeboxing: Rounding Up The Best Singles Your Quarters Can Buy. If Only. | Music

A Gift of Roses: Matmos, Red Room, Dec. 8 | Feedback by Michael Byrne

Beyond The Fringe: The Boundless Musical Geographies of Hisham Mayet and Sublime Frequencies | Music by Mike McGonigal

The Short List

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FILM

Confessions of a Neocon TV Fan: Or, How I Learned How To Stop Worrying If Watching Torture Condones Torture And Enjoy Prime Time American Television | Television by Bret McCabe

Atonement | Review by Geoffrey Himes

Margot at the Wedding | Review by Martin L. Johnson

Starting Out in the Evening | Review by Bret McCabe

Blame it on Fidel! | Review by Bret McCabe

The Walker | Review by Geoffrey Himes

Alvin And The Chipmunks | Review by Jason Ferguson

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EAT

Chicken Bones | Review by Joe MacLeod

Omnivore

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