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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

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NEWS

Letter Men: The Globe Poster Company Would Like Your Attention For a Moment | Feature by Chris Landers

The Nose: Chasing Amy

Murder Ink | The Mail | What's the 311? | Councilmania | The News Hole

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COLUMNS

Now Is the Winter of My Discontent: OK, so I was all optimistic about the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Niner, but that was like three weeks ago, back when I had a newspaper column that ran every other week, but now I have a newspaper column that runs every three weeks, and sure, I want to complain about it--I kinda am right now--but it's not as easy as bitching about the difference between having a weekly column--like some columns in this paper used to be, in this weekly Alternative Weekly--and an every-third-week column, which mathematically I think would be like 33.3 % less column, I guess? Or maybe 66.6 % less than if it was a weekly column? Yeah, there's some sorta Mathematical equation in here someplace, like, if x = a Year's Worth of Every-Other-Week Columns, then a year's worth of Now My Column Only Runs Every Third Week = Bullshit. | 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

East and West: Cultures and Ideas Collide in Heady Installation Show | Art by Alex Ebstein

Quick Sketches: BALTIMORE INFILL SURVEY Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts visual art coordinator Gary Kachadourian's latest project seeks to tackle one of the city's eyesores: vacant lots and buildings.

Funny Games: Snark--Is It The Lazy Evil David Denby Says It Is? | Books by John Barry

Gray Garden: An Absent Older Brother's Gift to His Younger Sibling Adds Color to An Otherwise Perfunctory Life | Stage by Bret McCabe

Curtain Time: THE LOF/T Local wordsmith and performance lecture artist Ric Royer sent out an e-mail announcement last week trumpeting the semi-official opening of the Load of Fun black-box theater--the LOF/T, for short--which he will program.

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell | Review by Eli Perlow

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MUSIC

Crazy Dreams Band | Review by Bret McCabe

Cotton Jones: Paranoid Cocoon | Review by Michael Byrne

OGUN: Checkmate | Review by Al Shipley

Stars of the Lid: Music for Nitrous Oxide | Review by Lee Gardner

The Short List

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FILM

Overlooked Legend: Sun Movie Critic Michael Sragow's New Book Recasts Hollywood Craftsman Victor Fleming as An Early Cinematic Innovator | Film by Martin L. Johnson

Poetry in Motion: Cathy Cook Frames Her Obsession With Poet Lorine Niedecker Onscreen | Film by Bret McCabe

Wendy and Lucy | Review by Ian Grey

He's Just Not That Into You | Review by Wendy Ward

Coraline | Review by Wendy Ward

Immortal Cupboard | Review by Bret McCabe

A Woman Is A Woman | Review by Bret McCabe

Hotel For Dogs | Review by Jeff Niesel

My Bloody Valentine | Review by Robert Ignizio

The Unborn | Review by Robert Ignizio

Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans | Review by Robert Ignizio

Push | Review by Bret McCabe

The Pink Panther 2 | Review by Wendy Ward

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EAT

Pop Tacos | Review by Erin Sullivan

The Hon Bar | Review by Anna Ditkoff

Eat Me

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