NEWS

We Are Family?: Court ruling redefines what it means to be a family if you're living in Baltimore | Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.

Poison Control: EPA and MDE hold a meeting to discuss toxic vapors with Westport residents | Mobtown Beat by Chris Landers

Black-Booked: The Black Guerrilla Family prison gang sought legitimacy, but got indictments | Feature by Van Smith

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

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COLUMNS

Power Play: Now that time has put some distance between the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

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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

Terminal Velocity: The life, death--and rebirth--of the Current Gallery | Art by Bret McCabe

Feeling Gravity's Pull: Invigorating group show explores buoyancy's physics and metaphysics | Art by Martin L. Johnson

I, the Jury: Former prosecutor and law professor Paul Butler advocates jury nullification in Let's Get Free | Books by Michael Corbin

Unfinished Business: There's a good play waiting to be fine tuned in G-Man | Stage by Geoffrey Himes

Curtain Time | Quick Sketches

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MUSIC

Overnight Prodigy: Philly's Constant Hitmaker Kurt Vile quits his day job | Music by Judy Berman

YOB: The Great Cessation | Review by Lee Gardner

Polygons: Intimate Knowledge; Summer Inside the Atom | Review by Michael Byrne

The Short List

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FILM

Julie and Julia | Review by Wendy Ward

Daytime Drinking | Review by Lee Gardner

Funny People | Review by Joe MacLeod

The Howl | Review by Bret McCabe

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EAT

Harborque | Review by Mary K. Zajac

Maria Kaimakis' Food Cart | Review by Edward Ericson Jr.

The Den | Review by Michael Byrne

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