NEWS

Roll The Tape: The Maryland legislature passed a bill (HB 6) during this year's session requiring law enforcers to videotape interrogations of some violent-crime suspects, a reform that is expected to produce stronger evidence at trials, including more airtight confessions ("Fess Up," Jan. | Quick and Dirty by Van Smith

Alvin K. Brunson: In Appreciation | Mobtown Beat by Christina Royster-Hemby

Murder Ink | Councilmania | The Mail | Mobtown Beat | Feature

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COLUMNS

Misfiring: Perhaps it's just as well that right when the coroner finished prying the gun from Charlton Heston's cold, dead hands the issue of guns comes up in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Doing Hair On Daddy's Girl: In a sign of things to come, we actually didn't find out my daughter's gender until, literally, hours before she was born because, well, she just wasn't cooperating. | Social Studies by Vincent Williams

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COMICS

Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

Super Amazing Adventures: by Chris Minetree

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ARTS

Road to Nowhere: Ceci N'est Pas Une Carte | Art by Deborah McLeod

Hot On The Heels of Love: Drew Daniel Explores a Disappointing Album From a Band He Adored | Books by Jess Harvell

Getting Uneven: Brilliant Moments Make Up For Dunderheaded Ones in Local Shakespeare Production | Stage by Geoffrey Himes

Matt Klos and Vincent Hron: Interiors: At The Howard County Center For The Arts Through April 25 | Art by Kate Noonan

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MUSIC

Manuel's Labors: Peabody Guitarist Celebrates The Earthy, Sensuous Music of Astor Piazzolla | Arts and Entertainment by Geoffrey Himes

This Party Never Stops: The B-52s Return to Trash Your House | Music by Raymond Cummings

The Agrarians: Meet We the Medicine | Review by Michael Byrne

Lisa Cerbone: We Were All Together | Review by Michael Byrne

Soul Cannon: Kaboom | Review by Michael Byrne

The Short List

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FILM

Abel Raises Cain | Review by Steve Schneider

Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Review by Jason Ferguson

Tears of the Black Tiger | Review by Martin L. Johnson

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? | Review by Steve Erickson

The Secret Life of Words | Review by Christopher Skokna

Teeth | Review by Ashley Lindstrom

The Trouble with Harry | Review by Lee Gardner

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EAT

Baltimore Pho | Review by Richard Gorelick

M and J's Soul Food | Review by Bret McCabe

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