NEWS

The 2009 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize: In only four years the Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize has not only become a vital monetary investment in a local artist, but a bit of a national bragging right for the city as well. | Feature by Bret McCabe, Martin L. Johnson, Kate Noonan, and Alex Ebstein

Easy Street: Defendant in historic 41-kilo coke bust led cops to the drugs | Mobtown Beat by Van Smith

Murder Ink | What's the 311? | The Mail

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COLUMNS

On Square Off: It is now the most American time of year, the Summertime. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod

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COMICS

Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III

Important Comics: by Dina Kelberman

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

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ARTS

(Radio) Days of Summer: Stoop Storytelling debuts its first ever old-time variety show | The Arts by Martin L. Johnson

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MUSIC

I Hear A Darkness: Sweden's Jasper TX inks his own twilight netherworld | Music by Raymond Cummings

Totalocity recall: Handsome Furs takes the rock/electronics hybrid back to its unhinged, repetitive roots | Music by Michael Byrne

Cass McCombs: Catacombs | Review by Michael Byrne

The Short List

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FILM

Moon | Review by Bret McCabe

The Stoning of Soraya M. | Review by Bret McCabe

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb | Review by Bret McCabe

Sweet Smell of Success | Review by Bret McCabe

Brüno | Review by Joe MacLeod

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EAT

Village Square Café | Review by Mary K. Zajac

Bourbon House Lounge | Review by Erin Sullivan

DuClaw Brewing Co. Arundel Mills | Review by Wendy Ward

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