NEWS
Where Credit is Due: Canton's Can-Do Mortgage Broker Goes For Broke--But is the Housing Boom Lowering On Him? | Feature by Edward Ericson Jr.
Lots of Luck: Gambler Charged with Assaulting Police | Mobtown Beat by Van Smith
Not Up to Code: Former I.G.'s Draft Report Reveals Errors And Incompetence | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.
Murder Ink | Councilmania | The Mail | The News Hole | The News Hole
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COLUMNS
Conventional Thinking:
It was nearing midnight on Friday, Feb. | Right Field by Russ Smith
Coloring:
Years ago, Washington Post columnist William Raspberry wrote a series of op-eds on the unfortunate tendency of young black people to taunt their peers who tried to speak with proper diction and get good grades by saying they're "acting white." It's almost a natural, if saddening, reaction in the dog-eat-dog, status-driven world that is high school, and sadder still that young minority kids have to fall into the same prejudices that tormented their ancestors, who had to deal with the stigma attached to those with darker skins, since the days of "house" and "field" slaves.
A half-century after the big gains of the civil-rights movement, you would think that we might have moved past much of that in the so-called enlightened Eastern seaboard. | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Owner of a Restless Leg: Do you have Restless Leg Syndrome? Did you know about that, the Syndrome of the Restless Leg? If it wasn't for my Teevee, I wouldn't know I even had the Syndrome of Leg Restlessness. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod
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COMICS
Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III
Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake
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ARTS
Mixed Relations: Local Dance Company Full Circle Tries To Tackle Race In America | Dance by Christina Royster-Hemby
Illuminating Manuscripts: Jan van Toorn Sprinkles Politics Onto The Page Through His Design Decisions | Art by Deborah McLeod
Glittering Ruin:
Peripheral Wham City denizens Ben Furgal and Jimmy Joe Roche offer a revved-up, no-tech show in Glittering Ruin. | Art
Overcome and Get It: A Play’s Cast Bridles Against African-American Acting Stereotypes In The 1950s | Stage by John Barry
The Last Magazine by David Renard, et al.
| Review by
Michaelangelo Matos
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MUSIC
The Jennifers
| Review by
Violet LeVoit
Caetano Veloso: Cê
| Review by
Lee Gardner
Bloc Party: A Weekend In The City
| Review by
Anthony Miccio
Rotting Christ: Theogonia
| Review by
John Darnielle
Jeff Samuel: Step
| Review by
Kevin O’Donnell
The New Flesh: Vessel
| Review by
Jess Harvell
Needlegun: Needlegun
| Review by
Jess Harvell
Arbouretum: Rites of Uncovering
| Review by
Raymond Cummings
The Short List
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FILM
Rocket Men: Filmmaking Twins and Their Creation Dream Of Chasing Space | Film by Wendy Ward
Say Hello to My Little Friend: Our Fifth Annual Alties™ Celebrate Great And Not-So-Great Achievements In 2006 Cinema | Film
Amazing Grace
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Zebra Kids
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Idiocracy
| Review by
Lee Gardner
Astronaut Farmer
| Review by
Wendy Ward
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