Baltimore City Paper

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Uli Loskot

SPECIAL

Why Do We Go to the Movies?: An Introduction...Plus a Chance to Win Tickets | Introduction

What To See, Where and When: Individual tickets for regular festival screenings and events cost $10 ($8 for seniors and students with valid ID), except for certain select screenings, which are $15, and all 11 p.m. | Frenzy Schedule

Coming Attractions: Our Comprehensive Guide to the Maryland Film Festival 2005 | Frenzy Reviews

Quite Contrary: Todd Solondz Isn’t Sick, He’s Sad | Frenzy Feature by Eric Allen Hatch

Back From Baraka: A Kenyan School For At-Risk Baltimore Boys Holds Promise For Some, A Mere Respite From the Streets For Others | Frenzy Feature by Nicole Leistikow

Mind Candy: Lee Boot Discovers the Source of Happiness and the Meaning of Life | Frenzy Feature by Blake de Pastino

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NEWS

In Focus: Students Involved in Critical Exposure Program Show Their Photos of Broken-Down Schools to City Schools CEO Bonnie Copeland | Mobtown Beat by Stephen Janis

Don’t Tell a Soul: Last week, an East Baltimore child-welfare advocate claimed in this paper that children who are wards of the state are more severely treated by Maryland’s juvenile justice system than are children in the custody of their families (Quick and Dirty, April 27). | The Nose

What About Bob?: Behold the wrath of the minor candidate. | The Nose

The Naked Truth: Stripping For Fun and Profit | Feature by Summer Patton

The Mail | Murder Ink

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COLUMNS

Ehrlich Agonistes: In the immortal words of Keanu Reeves, “Whoa.” | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Feeling Kweisi: But while there’s no argument Mfume is intelligent and charismatic, if the allegations of “women” problems persist, it’ll be far different sort of press than his well-documented transformation from street kid to respected public servant. | Right Field by Russ Smith

The Devil Made Me Watch It: Now, if one of the vanilla Friends was played by a little robot or a talking dog, or instead of New York, it was set underwater, then, well, nobody’s mad. | Social Studies by Vincent Williams

Baby Blues: The problem is that last year my friend’s 35-year-old son divorced his wife of 10 years to marry a 22-year-old airhead with big blond hair and store-bought boobs. | Think Mink by Mink Stole

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COMICS

Sheet Comics: by The Hussey Bros.

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

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ARTS

Grabby Hoffmann: Baltimore Opera’s Tales Of Hoffmann Keeps Audiences Under Its Spell | Stage by Geoffrey Himes

Couture Club: How The Women Of The Urban Designers Showcase Are Bringing Indie Fashion To Baltimore | Art by Anna Ditkoff

Hue and Cry: Two of Current’s Young Resident Artists Work Opposite Ends of The Spectrum | Art by J. Bowers

Lori Larusso: The Whole and the Small: Snark and self-regard are in long supply at School 33, where the work of four emerging artists—mostly from MICA—is on view in a suite of separate shows. | Art by Blake de Pastino

Whores: An Oral Biography of Perry Farrell and Jane's Addiction by Brendan Mullen | Review by Emily Flake

The Good Wife by Stewart O'Nan | Review by Joab Jackson

The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson | Review by Violet LeVoit

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MUSIC

Royal Highness: International Guitar Explorer Sir Richard Bishop Pauses His Journeys With Sun City Girls to Spin An Otherworldly Web of Acoustic Improvisations | Music by Marc Masters

Highway to Well: Shivaree’s Roiling Rise And Fall And Rise Again Teaches Ambrosia Parsley How To Handle The Truth | Music by Michael Alan Goldberg

Prem Raja Mahat: Musical fringe dwellers these days spend a lot of time indulging in armchair ethnomusicology thanks to recent waves of recordings that have rippled through music reissue bins: Afrobeat, 1970s African funk, the Ethiopiques and Rough Guides series, Brazilian baile funk, the various Sublime Frequencies label compilations. | Q+A by Bret McCabe

Will Smith: Lost and Found | Review by Al Shipley

Nedelle: From The Lion's Mouth | Review by Raymond Cummings

Psychic Paramount: Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural | Review by Bret McCabe

William Parker: Sound Unity | Review by Bret McCabe

Adam Green: Gemstones | Review by Raymond Cummings

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