SPECIAL
The Year in News: 1. We Have a Winner?Our annual listing of all that's most fit to print is usually an exercise in... | Top Ten by Michael Anft
All the News Not Fit to Print: The Year in Non-News | Top Ten
The Year in Film: Science-fiction author Theodore Sturgeon once fashioned a maxim about the genre that came to be... | Top Ten by Ian Grey
10 Best Films: Ian Grey: 1Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, United States) Four very different souls go to Consumer... | Top Ten by Ian Grey
10 Best Films: Heather Joslyn: 1Chicken Run (Peter Lord and Nick Park, United Kingdom/United States)* A thrilling, inspirational... | Top Ten by Heather Joslyn
10 Best Films: Luisa F. Ribiero: 1Urbania (Jon Shear, United States) This kinetic, provocative tale of a catastrophic day in the... | Top Ten by Luisa F. Ribeiro
The 10 Most Annoying Things About Music in 2000 . . .: 1Lists As a dyed-in-the-wool, former-record-store-clerk music geek, I love a good list as much as... | Top Ten by Lee Gardner
. . . and the 10 Best: 1D'Angelo, Voodoo (Virgin) Sure, better songs would have been nice. | Top Ten by Lee Gardner
10 Best Albums: Rjyan Kidwell: 1Outkast, Stankonia (Arista/LaFace) Outkast knows precisely when to throw you a curve ball and when... | Top Ten by Rjyan Kidwell
10 Best Albums: Daniel Piotrowski: 1Modest Mouse, The Moon and Antarctica (Epic) Although it is by no means a departure for the... | Top Ten by Daniel Piotrowski
10 Best Albums: Vincent Williams: 1Jill Scott, Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. | Top Ten by Vincent Williams
10 Best Albums: John Lewis: 1Otha Turner and the Afrossippi Allstars, From Senegal To Senatobia (Birdman) A trio of African... | Top Ten by John Lewis
The Year in Television: IN TV LAND, 2000 TURNED OUT TO BE THE YEAR WHEN GOING TO THE TROUBLE OF MANUFACTURING FICTIONAL... | Top Ten by Adele Marley
The Year in Books: Like many wannabe serious writers, I've long felt the need to visit Paris. | Top Ten by Eileen Murphy
10 Best Books: Michael Anft: Plowing the Dark, by Richard Powers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Split between the heady digital… | Top Ten by Michael Anft
10 Best Books: Mahinder Kingra: 1Tulipomania, by Mike Dash (Crown) An elegant and entertaining work of popular history that... | Top Ten by Mahinder Kingra
10 Best Books: Eileen Murphy: 1The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) Atwood hasn't abandoned her... | Top Ten by Eileen Murphy
The Year in Theater: FIVE SCRIBES, 10 SHOWS-- CITY PAPER THEATER CRITICS MICHAEL ANFT, ANNA DITKOFF, MIKE GIULIANO,... | Top Ten by Michael Anft, Anna Ditkoff, Mike Giuliano, Brennen Jensen and Jack Purdy
The Year in Art: 1Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930, Walters Art Museum There were... | Top Ten by Mike Giuliano
10 Best Albums: John Lewis: 1Otha Turner and the Afrossippi Allstars, From Senegal To Senatobia (Birdman) A trio of African drummers, a kora player, and a North Mississippi blues legend (playing the funkiest fife you'll ever hear) team up for a multigenerational jam that's both entrancing and moving.2Uri Caine Ensemble, The Goldberg Variations: Aria and 70 Variations Adapted, Arranged and Composed by Uri Caine (Winter & Winter) With the likes of Don Byron, DJs Logic and Olive, and poet Tracie Morris in tow, Caine fuses Baroque and jazz and rockets the results into another universe altogether. | Feature by John Lewis
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NEWS
House of Healing: You'd be hard-pressed to find a more nondescript building than 704 Ensor St. | Charmed Life by Brennen Jensen
Games People Play: Fascism would never have caught on, the Nose realizes, if it hadn't been any fun. | The Nose
If You Raze It, They Will Come: Man bites dog on 33rd Street? Kinda. The Nose sidled up to Memorial Stadium Dec. | The Nose
The Mail | Mobtown Beat
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COLUMNS
Hang 10: In case you didn't notice on the cover, this is the annual "Top 10" issue, where all the writers... | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod
Save Me From Your Followers: My best friend entered recovery a few months ago, and he's pushed me about 12 steps away from... | Think Mink by Mink Stole
Select Company: Dismiss them as token appointments if you will, but President-elect George W. | Urban Rhythms by Wiley Hall III
The Age of Empires: Nothing like the yuletide season to get one pondering consumer culture. There I was in Best Buy, looking over the "God games," such as Sid Meier's Civ... | Cyberpunk by Joab Jackson
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: For Baltimore sports fans, 2000 offered two defining events: the departure of Mike Mussina to the Yankees and the arrival of the Ravens as a playoff t... | 8 Upper by Tom Scocca
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MUSIC
Souvenir #4: We all know how this live music thing is generally supposed to work, right? The musicians take the stage, play their tunes pretty much as they are on the album (or as they would be on the album, if they had an album). | Feedback by Lee Gardner
Concert Souvenirs: When Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff came to Mobtown last February, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra audiences got more than their share of belated holiday cheer. | Feedback by Lee Gardner
Souvenir #1: Baltimore's first truly bitter winter in five years was made a harder pill to swallow by the demise of stellar pop-rock band Roads to Space Travel. | Feedback by Hank Baker
Souvenir #2: Imagine one glorious night when all elements converge and something momentous happens. | Feedback by Natalie Davis
Souvenir #3: It's hard to say exactly what made the Aug. | Feedback by Anna Ditkoff
Souvenir #5: Standing on the waning edge of the alt-country revival--the end of yet another musical cycle that seems stalled in a glut of retro-parody--it's hard believe a band could still make Depression-era music seem as fresh and vital as the day it was spawned. | Feedback by Tim Hill
Souvenir #8: Many musicians don't consider Tchaikovsky a truly great composer. | Feedback by Daniel Schlosberg
Souvenir #6: Pop-music history is distorted, for it relies so heavily on recordings that it often overlooks epochal music made in other ways. | Feedback by Geoffrey Himes
Souvenir #7: Dundalk's Sher-Wes gardens is usually reserved for bar mitzbahs and bachelor parties, but on Sept. | Feedback by Daniel Piotrowski
Lungfish: Necrophones
| Review by
Lee Gardner
The Oxes: The Oxes
| Review by
Lee Gardner
Ruff Endz: Love Crimes
| Review by
Lee Gardner
Sisqó: The Thong Song
| Review by
Lee Gardner
Rod Lee: Feel Me
| Review by
Lee Gardner
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