NEWS

Evening The Score: Soulful Symphony’s Darin Atwater Is Writing A New Future For American Music | Feature by Christina Royster-Hemby

T.E.A.M. Players: A Grass-Roots Group Wants in on a City Redevelopment Deal in Upton, But Only on Its Own Terms | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.

Absent With Cause: Retired Police Officer Sues Commissioner, Faces Termination for Corruption | Mobtown Beat by Van Smith

Goin’ Mobile: The plan had the crisp appeal of a perfect crime: How does an enterprising neophyte break into the overcrowded get-out-of-jail business? He hangs his bail-bond shingle literally steps from Central Booking. | Quick and Dirty by Gadi Dechter

Off the Record: The Midtown Community Benefits District lost its executive director last week, and its board met in secret to discuss what to do next. | Quick and Dirty by Edward Ericson Jr.

Murder Ink | The Mail

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COLUMNS

How’s Your News: Do you see this crap, this news? You cannot make this shit up, and if you do make it up, eventually it happens for real. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod

Daily Drubbing: Ehrlich, as it turns out, was ahead of the curve, or at least more prescient than yours truly. | Right Field by Russ Smith

Not Forgotten, Not Gone: His kind are always needed, so they never truly disappear; the third act is usually right around the corner. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Mother Knows Best: I’ve always been extremely independent, and watching my boyfriend’s parents treat him like he’s still a kid is making me nuts... | Think Mink by Mink Stole

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COMICS

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

Sheet Comics: by The Hussey Bros.

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ARTS

The Smartest Guys in the Room: Center Stage Ably Tackles The Biggest Financial Scandal Of ’05—1905, That Is | Stage by John Barry

Veronica’s Room: Attention spooksters and psych junkies: If you love being freaked out, this show’s for you. | Stage by Josephine Yun

A Head for Art: A CP Staffer Makes Himself The Soapy Subject Of A Performance Piece | Stage by Gadi Dechter

Face in the Crowd: Dozens Of Artists Vie For Your Eye In The Solid But Sprawling Show At Gallery Four | Art by Blake de Pastino

Music, Art, and Beautiful Things: How could Evergreen House, the opulent 19th-century Italianate manor once owned by white-as-milk railroad magnates, possibly be relevant to 21st-century African-American schoolkids? Artist and Park School curator Peter Bruun recently joined forces with students from the Baltimore Freedom Academy, Johns Hopkins Advanced Writing Seminar, Kids on the Hill, Roland Park Country School, Stadium School, the Park School, and Youthlight, an after-school photography program, to produce Music, Art, and Beautiful Things, a mansion-wide project designed to make the intimidating environment of Evergreen House relevant and accessible to today’s youth. Not your typical art exhibit, Beautiful Things is an attempt to help Evergreen visitors view the mansion in a different way. | Art by J. Bowers

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MUSIC

It’s the End of the World as We Know It: When It Comes To The Death Of Modern Rock, Go Ahead, Feel Fine | Music by Lee Gardner

Plan B: After Running Into A Legal Road Block, Mash-Up Pioneer Dj Z-Trip Shifts Gears For His Major-Label Debut | Music by Craig Smith

Mike Jones/DJ Michael "5000" Watts: Who is Mike Jones? Screwed & Chopped | Review by Bret McCabe

The Boredoms: Seadrum/House of Sun | Review by Sebastian Roberts

Spoon: Gimme Fiction | Review by Marc Hirsh

Martha Wainwright: Martha Wainwright | Review by Marc Hirsh

Demon's Claws: Demon's Claws | Review by Andrew Earles

The Short List | Music

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FILM

Sarah Dankelman: The producers, designers, and judges on UPN’s reality TV hit America’s Next Top Model take beautiful, bubbly girls and make them cry, dress them up in silly outfits, tell them they’re fat at 120 pounds, and turn them into empty shells on which to hang clothes. | Television by Anna Ditkoff

Look at Me | Review by Bret McCabe

Palindromes | Review by Eric Allen Hatch

Monster-in-Law | Review by Ian Grey

Mindhunters | Review by Ian Grey

Kingdom of Heaven | Review by Bret McCabe

King's Ransom | Review by Violet LeVoit

Schultze Gets the Blues | Review by Joe MacLeod

Crash | Review by Bret McCabe

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EAT

Mango Grove | Review by Richard Gorelick

Silk Road Café | Review by Anna Ditkoff

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