NEWS

Miller's Crossing: Anthony Jerome Miller Convicted in Redwood Trust Double Murders | Mobtown Beat by Van Smith

Lone Loaner Challenged: Bill In House Would End Local Company's Monopoly On Minority Business Aid | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.

Point Break: Riding Fells Point's Wave Of Prosperity | Feature by Van Smith

Councilmania | The Mail | Murder Ink

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COLUMNS

Desperate Times: I don't know when I've ever seen so much flat-out "bamboozlement" (to use the term favored by blogger Joshua Micah Marshall) being propagated in the mainstream media. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

The Living Daylights: There are many things I do not understand, and seriously, this whole "Daylight Savings Time" or "Daylight Saving Time" or whatever is way up there. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod

The Namesake: Oh, Barack Obama, you scamp, how I love you! Not for anything as silly as, I don't know, your politics. | Social Studies by Vincent Williams

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COMICS

Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

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ARTS

Never Forget: At Freedom's Door Reminds Viewers That Slavery's Cultural Chains Haven't Been Completely Unshackled | Art by Deborah McLeod

Razing the Baroque: Itamar Moses Gets Meta With The Early Enlightenment In His Smart, Comedic Bach at Leipzig | Stage by John Barry

Getting it Write: Nobody Needs To Tell David Eberhardt That It's Hard Out Here For A Poet | Books by Petula Caesar

Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy by Marcy Wheeler | Review by John Barry

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MUSIC

Back From the Grave: A Revitalized Stooges Manage To Show Up Two Young Pretenders To the Throne | Music by Mikael Wood

Through Being Cool: The Decemberists' Colin Meloy Hasn't Lost His Childish Sense Of Fantasy | Music by Geoffrey Himes

The Short List

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FILM

Some Kind of Monster: Korean Director Bong Joon-Ho Made A Fabulous Creature Feature--And Oh So Much More | Film by Ian Grey

The Host | Review by Ian Grey

Shooter | Review by Bret McCabe

Reign Over Me | Review by John Barry

Pride | Review by Jess Harvell

Premonition | Review by R. Darryl Foxworth

Avenue Montaigne | Review by Lee Gardner

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EAT

Pizzeria Speranza | Review by Tim Hill

Golden Dragon Inn | Review by Richard Gorelick

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