NEWS
People Who Died 2004: Our Annual Salute to Now-Still Cultural Movers and Little-known Lives | Feature
In the Cut: Charlotte Zwerin | Feature by Michael Yockel
The Beautiful Game: Leonidas da Silva | Feature by Lee Gardner
Just Dandy: John Stephen | Feature by Michael Yockel
Unbeautiful: Mercedes McCambridge | Feature by Lee Gardner
Man With a Plan: David Wallace | Feature by Blake de Pastino
Rhythm King: Coxsone Dodd | Feature by Lee Gardner
Border Woman: Gloria Anzaldúa | Feature by Anna Ditkoff
Brinksman: Paul Nitze | Feature by Edward Ericson Jr.
Not Like Everybody Else: Greg Shaw | Feature by Bret McCabe
Cold Case: The police found his body, and the medical examiner autopsied it, but no one ever told Monica Taylor-Clowney her husband was dead | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.
A Home for the Holidays: Randallstown House Raffler Draws Heat | Mobtown Beat by Van Smith
The Numbers Don’t Add Up: Civilian casualties in Iraq since the end of major combat operations are caused “primarily” by insurgents, not coalition forces and Iraqi police, says U.S. | Quick and Dirty by Gadi Dechter
Murder Ink | The Mail
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COLUMNS
Get This Party Started: “I can’t believe I’m losing to that idiot.” | Right Field by Russ Smith
Malpractice Makes Perfect: ...the idea in Annapolis is to bring something to the table as late as possible, play the doctors and the HMOs against one another in the court of public opinion | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Night Fever: If it makes you feel more grown-up, you can even call it by any of its three legitimate medical names: achluophobia, nyctophobia, or, my favorite, scotophobia. | Think Mink by Mink Stole
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COMICS
Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake
Sheet Comics: by The Hussey Bros.
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ARTS
Making God Laugh: Ten Resolutions that Got Boogered up again this Year | The Arts by Emily Flake
Necrology: Restaurants That Died | Arts and Entertainment by Richard Gorelick
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MUSIC
Sad and Gone: The Story of Val Stoecklein’s Grey Life, the Best Album You Never Heard | Music by Keven McAlester
Xzibit: Weapons of Mass Destruction
| Review by
Craig Smith
Nas: Street's Disciple
| Review by
Craig Smith
Alison Krauss and Union Station: Lonely Runs Both Ways
| Review by
Catherine Lewis
T.I.: Urban Legend
| Review by
Tom Breihan
The Short List
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FILM
Beyond the Sea
| Review by
Violet LeVoit
Guerrilla: The Taking Of Patty Hearst
| Review by
Blake de Pastino
Meet The Fockers
| Review by
Wendy Ward
Darkness
| Review by
Ian Grey
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