SPECIAL
Oops, We Did It Again: City Paper’s Second Annual Queer Issue | Introduction
Gender Blender: The People Behind the Charm City Kitty Club Talk About Politics, Art, and Freaking People Out | Feature by Bret McCabe
Separation of Church and Hate: Local Clergy Discuss Religion and Homosexuality | Feature by Christina Royster-Hemby
Yanks for the Memories: A Look Back at Baltimore’s Now-Defunct Gay Strip Club Atlantis | Feature by Gadi Dechter
Gay Old Time: Your Guide to Pride 2005 | Feature
Feature | Feature
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NEWS
Cedric Walker: For the last 12 years, the UniverSoul Circus has been touring the United States and South Africa, giving audiences a new slant on the same old big-top action. | Q+A by Christina Royster-Hemby
United State: Former Nader Press Secretary Kevin Zeese Announces Senate Candidacy On New Third-Party Ticket | Mobtown Beat by Rodney Foxworth
High Risk Policy: Abandoned Buildings In Baltimore Put Homeowners’ Insurance Policies At Risk | Mobtown Beat by Stephen Janis
Street Talk: Dan Rodricks rests his head in his hands. | Media Circus by Gadi Dechter
Doing the Math: “Implementation is not as simple as waking up one September morning and opening the doors to shiny new schools.” So said then-Baltimore City School Board member David Stone at a City Council hearing held almost a year ago to discuss the city school system’s now-overturned policy to limit the number of charter schools allowed to open in fall 2005. | Quick and Dirty by Anna Ditkoff
Murder Ink | The Mail
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COLUMNS
Handicapping: O’Malley is already behind the curve in making a pitch to Maryland’s independent and moderate Republican voters who’ve been offended by Dean. | Right Field by Russ Smith
Looking Uncertain: By running the paragraph every time Mfume’s name is mentioned, the news media will be keeping alive allegations that by next year, will be the oldest of old news. | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Orange Alert: As soon as I see that gigantical blinking arrow, I know some bozo is gonna start crowding me because they gotta get One Car Length More, you know? | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod
The Bitch Is Back: And here’s your third and final clue, college boy: although she may not have felt a kiss was appropriate after what amounted to a well-chaperoned evening, she gave you a reason to call her. | 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
Great Depression: Artist Larry Scott unlimbers raw emotional power in The Evolution of Depression | Art by J. Bowers
Deconstruction Junction: A Pair Of One-Acts Navigate Stories Within Stories | Stage by John Barry
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MUSIC
Terrorizers: Mapping The Roiling Shifts In Extreme Grind From Unsane To Pig Destroyer | Music by By Andrew Earles
Memphis Freak: Three-6 Mafia Carves Out its Own Anarchic, Sinister | Music by Tom Breihan
Little Brother: The Chitlin Circuit 1.5
| Review by
Makkada B. Selah
Banda Salvatierra: Asi Es La Vida
| Review by
Dennis Rozanski
Dirtbombs: If You Don't Already Have A Look
| Review by
John Duffy
Frontline: Now U Know
| Review by
Craig Smith
The Short List | Music
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FILM
Batman Begins
| Review by
Joe MacLeod
Howl's Moving Castle
| Review by
J. Bowers
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
| Review by
Ian Grey
To Have and Have Not
| Review by
Bret McCabe
The Honeymooners
| Review by
Violet LeVoit
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EAT
Mamma Italia
| Review by
Michelle Gienow
Donna's
| Review by
Richard Gorelick
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