NEWS

Room Service: Morgan student charged after heroin "pellets" found in Marriott Waterfront Hotel | Mobtown Beat by Van Smith

Plugging In: A Fells Point businessman wants to start the electric revolution | Mobtown Beat by Chris Landers

Turtle Take-Down: Operation Shellshock takes aim at Turtle Deluxe | Mobtown Beat by Van Smith

Bankrupting the Arts: State budget cuts could change Baltimore's cultural landscape forever | Feature by John Barry

Councilmania | Murder Ink | The Mail

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COLUMNS

Hope and Trust: Seeing as most of us are not economists, it's worrisome to see so many experts (even on the liberal side) who have problems with the faith President Obama has in Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his plan to sell off all the troubled assets Wall Street has bequeathed the nation--assets aptly nicknamed "Big Shitpile" by blogger Duncan "Atrios" Black. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

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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

City Rights: Local conference brings together a nationwide web of people working toward redefining the urban space | The Arts by Martin L. Johnson

True Blood: Vengeance better than romance in this Jacobean thriller | Stage by John Barry

Curtain Time: BOND STREET THEATRE This long-running New York theater company has combined multidisciplinary performance ideas and humanitarian outreach to create unconventional theater for more than 30 years, and in recent years has even developed a healthy relationship with our very own Theatre Project, bringing its innovative Romeo and Juliet and Beyond the Mirror, a collaboration with the Exile Theatre of Kabul, to town.

Whimsy Pickings: Imagination-themed exhibition not that imaginative | Art by Alex Ebstein

Quick sketches: BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS' Couplets, the current show at this non-profit Mount Washington ceramics haven, runs through April 16, and in an effort to go green the organization is cutting back on its printing costs. | Quick Sketches

Loud Fast Rules: A new study storms the barriers between punk and metal | Books by Bret McCabe

The Impostor by Damon Galgut | Review by Joab Jackson

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MUSIC

Reassessing Success: Kenny Tompkins' side hustle hasn't spoiled him yet | Music by Raymond Cummings

The Elemental Kingdom: Leave the ego behind and the music will follow with the Yahowa 13 | Music by Bret McCabe

I.U.D.: The Proper Sex | Review by Raymond Cummings

The Short List

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FILM

Gomorra | Review by Lee Gardner

Sunshine Cleaning | Review by Wendy Ward

Monsters vs. Aliens | Review by Cole Haddon

Baltimore Real Talk Vol. 4 | Review by Bret McCabe

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EAT

Famous Yakitori One | Review by Mary K. Zajac

Sin Fronteras Restaurant | Review by Tim Hill

Pub Dog Pizza and Drafthouse | Review by Mindy Mora

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