SPECIAL
Let’s Make a Deal: City Paper's 4th Annual Comics Contest | Comics Feature
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NEWS
Fraught Freight: Like a train derailed, a City Council bill that wants to force hazardous rail cargo to re-route around Baltimore City has come to a standstill. | Quick and Dirty by Stephen Janis
The War at Home: “We are the choir, and we’re singing with you. | Quick and Dirty by Walaika Haskins
Marc Down: Radio talk show host Marc Steiner stepped down this month from his position as executive vice president for broadcast and production at WYPR (88.1 FM), the Baltimore public radio station he helped acquire from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. | Media Circus by Gadi Dechter
Room at the Inn: Temporary Shelter For Evacuees From Hurricane Katrina Sits Empty | Mobtown Beat by Christina Royster-Hemby
Shoe Shot: Police Dis Sneaker Ad in West Baltimore | Mobtown Beat by Van Smith
The Mail | Councilmania | Murder Ink
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COLUMNS
Just a Little While to Stay Here: Sept. 19 | Submerged by Michael Tisserand
The New New Orleans: Sept. 26 | Submerged by Michael Tisserand
Best Column: Who else covers all that important crap? Nobody, that’s who. Me, that’s who. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod
Stuck: See, we’re thinking so 1990s here! | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Still Here: The current political atmosphere is so hysterical that all perspective has been lost. | Right Field by Russ Smith
Running Hot and Cold: Every time I asked about the divorce she had another reason why it had to wait. His mother was ill, or he was under a lot of pressure at work, or—this was the worst of all—she was having her kitchen remodeled. | Think Mink by Mink Stole
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COMICS
Shabby Tabby: First Place | Comics Feature by Valerie Crosswhite
Dirt Farm by Ben Claassen III: Second Place | Comics Feature
Tamara O'Day by Alicia Czechowski: | Comics Feature
Important Comics by Dina Kelberman: Honorable Mention | Comics Feature
Go to Your Room by Michael J. DiMotta: Honorable Mention | Comics Feature
The Best of the Rest: More Comics Contest Entries | Comics Feature
Dark Arts: Comics Master Charles Burns Digs Deeper in Black Hole | Comics Feature by Tom Chalkley
You Could Give a Shit About Comics: Me Neither, But These are Good | Comics Feature by Tim Kreider
Super Eros: Slash Fiction Writer Gives Up Her Secret Identity | Comics Feature by Violet LeVoit
Comics Feature | Lulu Eightball | Sheet Comics
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ARTS
In the Eye: A New Exhibit On Jewish-American Beauty And Fashion Is More Than Skin Deep | Art by Bret McCabe
Thin Line: The Drawings of Lyle Kissack: Intended to “employ the idea of conflict as an aesthetic device”—according to the artist’s statement, anyway—Baltimore-based Lyle Kissack’s ink drawings layer watery vertical stripes of color underneath accomplished line drawings of sundry subjects such as chefs, surgeons, cars, and various animals. | Art by J. Bowers
Diamond Days: America’s Pastime Primes | Books by Emily Flake
Ghost World: Adventurous Production Condenses Henry James’ Novella Into A Taut Two-Actor Study | Stage by John Barry
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MUSIC
Street Strife: Conscious Reggae Catches Fire Again, In Part Thanks To Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley’s “Welcome To Jamrock” | Music by Jess Harvell
Spiritual Unity: Wayne Shorter Rediscovers The Power Of Give And Take | Music by Geoffrey Himes
The Short List | Music
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FILM
2046
| Review by
Ian Grey
Serenity
| Review by
Ian Grey
A History Of Violence
| Review by
Ian Grey
Oliver Twist
| Review by
Wendy Ward
Pretty Persuasion
| Review by
Ian Grey
Proof
| Review by
Bret McCabe
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