NEWS
Taking Rent Court to Court: ACORN Organizes a Rent Strike To Draw Attention to The City’s Slumlord Problem | Mobtown Beat by Stephen Janis
All Quiet on the Southwestern Front: Though This Year’s Sowebo Festival Was Undisturbed By Police, Resentment Still Simmers | Mobtown Beat by Charles Cohen
Dragnet: The Office of the Maryland State Prosecutor has been on a roll lately. | Quick and Dirty by Van Smith
Ms. Fix-It: When Elizabeth E.W. | Quick and Dirty by Edward Ericson Jr.
Mary Sue Welcome: Twenty-six years ago, Mary Sue Welcome was an Atlanta attorney tackling the case of her career—defending accused child killer Wayne Williams. | Q+A by Christina Royster-Hemby
Eddie: Baltimore’s Former Police Commissioner Speaks—the Second of a Two-Part Series | Feature by Terrie Snyder
The Mail | Murder Ink
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COLUMNS
Soiled Hero: “IOKIYAR,” as the taunt goes on liberal blogs: It’s OK if You Are a Republican. | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Chappelle’s Showdown: Like a bunch of folks, I found the first two seasons of Chappelle’s Show to be not only extraordinarily funny television, but also some of the most pointed commentary on race in America since Richard Pryor in his heyday. | Social Studies by Vincent Williams
Shallow End: Deep Throat is peanuts compared to the Cold War dynamics that dominated foreign policy for so long, not to mention the mob and union connections to the case | Right Field by Russ Smith
Tongue Twister: Whether you were testing to see if they were paying attention, or just doing your late-teen-years job of stretching your boundaries by pushing their buttons, you got exactly the reaction you expected. | 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
Leftover Serial: Maybe You Read It In City Paper 12 Years Ago, But Michael Kun’s Retooled Novel You Poor Monster Is Leaner, Meaner, And Better Than Before. And He’ll Be The First To Say So. | Books by Violet LeVoit
Trial and Errors: A Journalist Goes On The Trail Of Justice In An Inner-City Courtroom | Books by Scott Carlson
Gone South: Vagabond’s Take On Tennessee Willliams Brings The Southern But Not The Dandy | Stage by Gadi Dechter
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: I’ve seen A Midsummer Night’s Dream a lot, probably because performances of the play are nearly as inevitable as midsummer itself. | Stage by Anna Ditkoff
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MUSIC
Finnish Line: Laura Naukkarinen, a Fixture in Finland’s Burgeoning Avant-Rock Underground, Shortens Her Name and Expands Her Palette on Her Hypnotic Solo Debut | Music by Marc Masters
Common Wealth: Chicago’s Underground Storyteller Returns With a Potential Classic in Be | Music by Jason Torres
Jayakar
| Review by
Robbie Whelan
Coughs: Fright Makes Right
| Review by
Raymond Cummings
Perceptionists: Black Dialogue
| Review by
Craig Smith
Brooke Valentine: Chain Letter
| Review by
Al Shipley
MED: Push Comes to Shove
| Review by
Makkada B. Selah
The Short List
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EAT
The Artful Gourmet
| Review by
Richard Gorelick
Carolina's Tex Mex
| Review by
Tim Hill
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