NEWS
Who Is Paula Campbell?: A ‘Round-The-Way Baltimore Girl. A Single Mom. An R&B Star In The Making | Feature by Jess Harvell
Objection Overruled: City Awards Project To Connected Developer, Despite Objections From Its Own Advisory Board | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.
If You Can’t Bring Art to the Kids...: Arts education improves student performance and is extremely beneficial for low-achieving schoolchildren, according to the U.S. | Quick and Dirty by Christina Royster-Hemby
The Internet: Get In On It: Baltimore’s tourism agency has allocated about $1.2 million in public money for focus groups, a logo, a slogan, and a one-month multimedia advertising campaign, but none of the marketing experts hired to conceive and execute the city’s new tourism brand bothered to shell out the $6 required to secure a seemingly obvious web-site address. | Media Circus by Gadi Dechter
Councilmania | Murder Ink | The Mail | The News Hole
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COLUMNS
El Numero de la Bestia: "Bwhaaahaha, I don’t Believe in Your God, so I will be pleased to make Sacrilege by comedically employing your Anti-God..." | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod
No News Is Bad News: Here I am, reaching for the 7-year-old beer in the back of the fridge called the Clinton sex life. | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Party Foul: This is Bob Ehrlich's ideal scenario. | Right Field by Russ Smith
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COMICS
Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake
Shabby Tabby: by Valerie Crosswhite
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ARTS
Ms. Fix-It: Local Author Allegra Bennett Praises Her Years In Rehab—Home Improvement, That Is | Books by Violet LeVoit
Trash and Carry: Group Show As, Uh, Whatever | Art by Bret McCabe
What Lies Beneath: Picking Through The Demure Social Patinas In Early 20th Century London Suburbia | Stage by John Barry
Lo-Fi High Hopes: Modest Production Spotlights Stephen Sondheim’s Smart Songwriting | Stage by Geoffrey Himes
Sex, Blood, and Rock 'n' Roll by Kimberly Warner-Cohen
| Review by
Emily Flake
The Art of Emcee-ing by Stic.man
| Review by
Makkada B. Selah
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
| Review by
Willy Thorn
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips
| Review by
John Barry
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MUSIC
Gleaming the Cube: Shot X Shot and Nozal Cube, Red Room, May 20 | Feedback by Jess Harvell
Staying Alive: Two New Compilations Celebrate Disco Before And After The Fall | Music by Michaelangelo Matos
Pearl Jam: Pearl Jam
| Review by
Raymond Cummings
Joseph Holbrooke Trio: The Moat Recordings
| Review by
Michael Crumsho
Serena-Maneesh: Serena-Maneesh
| Review by
Raymond Cummings
Arthur Russell: First Thought Best Thought
| Review by
Mark Richardson
The Short List | Feedback
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FILM
D. Day: The Bengies Drive-In Theatre Turns 50 | Film by Van Smith
L'Enfant
| Review by
Ian Grey
Banlieue 13
| Review by
Cole Haddon
The Omen
| Review by
Ian Grey
Pickpocket
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Winter Soldier
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Keeping Up With the Steins
| Review by
Jess Harvell
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