NEWS
Law and Order: State Delegate Drawing Attention to Increasing Number of Quality-Of-Life Arrests in Baltimore | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.
Selling Up: Nation’s Largest African-American Bookstore Chain To Open in Security Square Mall | Mobtown Beat by Christina Royster-Hemby
Pillar Fight: Shortly after becoming the first Maryland Republican elected to statewide office in 36 years, Gov. | Quick and Dirty by Gadi Dechter
Homecoming: This past February, a blast from the past returned to city government, with little fanfare and no media attention: Dave Montgomery, who left as deputy director of the Department of Public Works in the fall of 1999, when then-City Councilman Martin O’Malley won a tough mayoral race in part by promising to clean house. | Quick and Dirty by Van Smith
Blue Light Special: Life in a City Under Surveillance | Feature by Stephen Janis
The Mail | Murder Ink
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COLUMNS
The Surreal Life: That means that when Brown and Houston talk about taking a dump, over and over again, as if they were 12-year-old boys, the Browns said, “Yeah, that’s a good look.” | Social Studies by Vincent Williams
Newsman: Jennings learned the hard way; after being thrust into a job far above his pay grade and hitting the wall, he took off and did the real work. | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Fraught With Terrell: As the Ravens suffered a late-season flame-out, unprecedented in the Brian Billick era, the Owens debacle remained a festering sore spot. | Benchwarmer by Gabriel Wardell
Foul Tip: President George W. Bush, once a part owner of the Texas Rangers, a team Palmeiro spent many years with, is, by my reckoning, the worst offender in this ultimately fleeting flurry of sermons. | Right Field by Russ Smith
Rude Awakening: Professionals of all kinds can tell of clients who think their fees entitle them not only to the services they’re paying for, but also the right to exact these services with an overlordly sneer. | 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
Blood Work: Cormac Mccarthy’s Pared-Down Prose Leaves a Body Count In No Country For Old Men’s Wake | Books by Geoffrey Himes
Getting Friendly: A New Local Art Book Makes Networking Personal, Political, And Aesthetic | Art by Bret McCabe
Camera Buffs: Few Standouts In Local Photography Club’s Exhibition | Art by J. Bowers
The Fast and the Spurious: Madcap, Offbeat Comedy Entertainingly Splinters Into The Implausible And Impossible | Stage by J. Bowers
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MUSIC
California Dreamin’: Jon Theodore Wanted To Learn To Surf And Ended Up In The Mars Volta | Music by Mikael Wood
Clamorous Ones: Thunderbirds Are Now! Focuses Its Ruckus Into A Groove | Music by Tony Ware
Park Police
| Review by
Ryan Boddy
Young Jeezy: Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
| Review by
Makkada B. Selah
Foo Fighters: In Your Honor
| Review by
Al Shipley
Psi: Artificially Retarded Soul Care Operators
| Review by
Marc Masters
Buck 65: Secret House Against the World
| Review by
Seb Roberts
The Short List
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FILM
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
| Review by
Joe MacLeod
The Skeleton Key
| Review by
Gadi Dechter
Grizzly Man
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
| Review by
Joe MacLeod
From Here to Eternity
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Downfall
| Review by
Bret McCabe
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