NEWS
Dancing in Kurdistan: The National Guard’s Strange Occupation of Northern Iraq | Feature by David Axe
Renovating Without a License: Shoddy Work by Unlicensed Contractors Rankles Reservoir Hill Homeowners and Investors | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.
Triple Scoop: Who’s Accusing WBAL-TV of Copying Other Media Outlets’ Reporting? | Mobtown Beat by Gadi Dechter
The Mail | Murder Ink
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COLUMNS
Swear to Doug: Nowadays, they follow the Reagan Rule: If you don’t like something, mouth platitudes about how you’re for it and what a great institution it is, but that it needs reforming—and then gut it from the inside. | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Off Year: Social Security reform, according to Bush’s opponents, is an albatross that will doom Republicans in 2006. | Right Field by Russ Smith
Bring on the Pensive White Boys: As a card-carrying child of the boom-bap, I think I should be able to reminisce to some hip-hop relationship songs when it’s raining outside. | Social Studies by Vincent Williams
Woman’s Lib: She’ll go on about the evils of the gas-guzzling SUVs that are taking over the country, then she’ll tell me about this fabulous Jeep she thinks I would look really hot driving. | 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
Jurassic Punk: The Plain-Faced Portraits of Jim Jocoy Recall the Iron Age of the West Coast Punk Scene | Art by Gadi Dechter
Lullaby of Broadway: The Young Singers of Company 13 Bring a Fun ’Tude But Not Much New to Standards of the Great White Way | Stage by John Barry
The Spitfire Grill: By Fred Alley | Stage by J. Bowers
Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food by Susan Marks
| Review by
Joab Jackson
Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season by Matt Taibbi
| Review by
Nicole Leistikow
I'm Not The New Me: A Memoir by Wendy McClure
| Review by
Emily Flake
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MUSIC
Tracey Gaughran-Perez: Hey, breeding hipster. | Q+A by Bret McCabe
Harangue the DJ: Rock ’N’ Roll And R&B, Postpunk And Rap, It’s All Hip-Hop To Sharkey’s Ears | Music by Makkada B. Selah
Angels of Light: Sing “Other People”
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Vast Aire: The Best Damn Rap Show
| Review by
Makkada B. Selah
Beanie Sigel: The B.Coming
| Review by
Al Shipley
Ponys: Celebration Castle
| Review by
Andrew Earles
The Short List
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FILM
The New Hustle: Stop Snitchin’ Made Them Infamous, But Underground Dvds Are Forming the Freshest Front Lines of Hip-Hop Life | Film by Bret McCabe
Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith
| Review by
Joe MacLeod
Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room
| Review by
Ian Grey
Winter Solstice
| Review by
Bret McCabe
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
| Review by
Violet LeVoit
House of Wax
| Review by
Joe MacLeod
Kicking and Screaming
| Review by
Joe MacLeod
Unleashed
| Review by
Bret McCabe
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