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Wednesday, December 29, 2004

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Ben Cricchi

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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