NEWS
Doing Hard Time: Families Of Prisoners Convicted Under Repealed Mandatory-Minimum Guidelines Hopeful That A Pending State Bill Will Offer Relief | Mobtown Beat by Charles Cohen
Private Eyes: New Surveillance Cameras To Be Installed in High-Crime Baltimore Neighborhoods | Mobtown Beat by Ruth Reader
Settling for Less: When something smells a little funny in this squeaky-clean town, you sniff around. | The Nose
Cop Out: In Rousting Officer Jacqueline Folio, The Baltimore Police Department Has Raised Questions About its Own Internal Affairs | Feature by Van Smith
Murder Ink | The Mail | Quick and Dirty
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COLUMNS
Just One Thing: If there is anything that can be said of this current pack of men running our nation, it is that they are short on the gene that recognizes irony. | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Lame: Democrats are crowing about the lack of enthusiasm and, in some quarters, downright hostility for Bush’s Social Security reform agenda, and they can claim an early advantage. | Right Field by Russ Smith
Social Studies
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COMICS
Sheet Comics: by The Hussey Bros.
Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake
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ARTS
Nice Little Machine: How a Wearable Art Show Became Poised to Take Over Baltimore’s Experimental Art Scene | Art by Violet LeVoit
At Sea: The Mobtown Players Cling to a Meandering Script in A Bicycle Country | Stage by John Barry
Betty’s Summer Vacation: Since its 1999 premiere at New York’s Playwrights Horizons, Christopher Durang’s naughty sitcom satire has become a popular choice of undergraduate theater productions, its mix of outrageous low comedy and smirking social commentary a heady thrill for pre-adults everywhere. | Stage by Gadi Dechter
After You With the Pistol by Kyril Bonfiglioli
| Review by
Bret McCabe
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MUSIC
Clan Destiny: For the Members of Eisley, the Family That Plays Together . . . Well, You Know | Music by Michael Alan Goldberg
The Reign of Beef: They Say They’ve Made Up, But in the Hip-Hop of the Game and 50 Cent, the Fury Has Taken Over the Sound | Music by Bret McCabe
The Evens: The Evens
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Books on Tape: The Business End
| Review by
Andrew Earles
Beck: Guero
| Review by
Bret McCabe
The Bravery: The Bravery
| Review by
J. Bowers
OGUN: Real on Purpose
| Review by
Jason Torres
Never Enough: Dead Set on Destruction . . .
| Review by
Bret McCabe
OGUN: R.O.P presents B’More Live 2005
| Review by
Jason Torres
The Short List
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FILM
Melinda and Melinda
| Review by
Eric Allen Hatch
Imaginary Heroes
| Review by
Blake de Pastino
Brother's Keeper
| Review by
Blake de Pastino
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Polyester
| Review by
Eric Allen Hatch
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
| Review by
Bret McCabe
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EAT
Gambrino's of Spain
| Review by
Erin Sullivan
Timothy Dean Bistro
| Review by
Richard Gorelick
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