NEWS
The Shield: David Simon Blasts The New Baltimore Police Department Policy of Withholding The Names of Officers Who Use Deadly Force | Feature by David Simon
Buzz Berg's Business Raided: Defense Department Takes Computers and Paperwork Out of Ex-Racketeer's Recycling Company | Mobtown Beat by Van Smith
The Mail | What's the 311? | Murder Ink
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COLUMNS
B.Y.O.Z.Z.:
So they (and you know who They are) have decided to ban the rabble (customers) from bringing their own beer into the Infield at Pimlico during the Preakness, aka Middle Jewel of the "Triple Crown" of horseracing, held right here in beautiful Baltimore, America. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod
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COMICS
Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III
Important Comics: by Dina Kelberman
Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake
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ARTS
Moving Pictures: Exhibition Exploring Transforming Images Also Recasts Their Emotive Potential | Art by Bret McCabe
Quick Sketches:
Going Green
Since the 1970s American artist Buster Simpson has individually and collaboratively worked with and in environmental concerns with his creative output, whether it be creating his "Litmus Test" umbrellas whose skins react to acids in rainfall or, more recently, his "Whole Flow" for a Whole Foods store in California, which aerates the store's gray water and redistributes it to the landscape.
Scenes From a Marriage?: Facts Feed Into Fictions in New Theater Company's Debut Production | Stage by John Barry
Head On: An Act of Violence Sets Two Families On a Collision Course | Stage by John Barry
Curtain Time:
LAST CHANCE Theatre Hopkins' winning production of Lisa Kron's Well concludes this weekend, and all fans of kinda/sorta experimental narrative should check out this playfully bonkers story.
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MUSIC
Laying Low: The Elusive J. J. Cale Releases Possibly His Final Opus | Music by Geoffrey Himes
Rhymin' and Stealin': A Sampling of How The Beastie Boys and Delicious Vinyl (Re)Made History | Music by Tony Ware
Arbouretum
| Review by
Michael Byrne
Patricia Barber: The Cole Porter Mix
| Review by
Geoffrey Himes
The Short List
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