SPECIAL
Out of Sequence: The Third Annual City Paper Comics Contest--Plus . . . | Comics Feature
The Trouble With Girls: Playboy Cartoons Sell, Don’t Shock | Comics Feature by Tim Kreider
Comics Feature | Comics Feature
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NEWS
Upton Downs: Community Group Launches Master Plan for Struggling Neighborhood | Mobtown Beat by Jill Yesko
Home Team Advantage: The Nose has decided to rename the home of the Baltimore Orioles. | The Nose
White Noise: Back in the 1990s, the Nose sometimes visited Captain Larry’s Bar at 601 E. | The Nose
A Long Walk Off a Short Pier: The Nose is troubled by the events of a Sept. | The Nose
No Debate: A Sole Republican Challenges a 10-Year Incumbent in the City Council’s 10th District Race | Campaign Beat by Gadi Dechter
Signs of the Times: Frank Conaway has no qualms about comparing Mayor Martin O’Malley to an ancient Roman tyrant famous for cruelty. | Ballot Stuffing
Disaster in the Making: As FEMA Weathers a Storm of Bush Administration Policy and Budget Changes, Protection From Natural Hazards May be Trumped by “Homeland Security” | Web Exclusive by Jon Elliston
Murder Ink | The Mail
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COLUMNS
Stuff It: What’s the etiquette for getting an ex’s stuff out of your house? | Think Mink by Mink Stole
Debatable: George W. Bush has already won the debate. | Political Animal by Brian Morton
Irrational Exuberance: ...what separates Rove from other equally adept tacticians is that his ego is the size of one of Teresa Heinz Kerry’s estates... | Right Field by Russ Smith
Maize Oui: And really, c’mon, you think anybody really wants to vote for this John Kerry guy? No way. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod
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COMICS
Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake
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ARTS
Queer and Present Danger: Company Thirteen Tries to Keep With the Times in a Surprisingly Dated Jeffrey | Stage by Anna Ditkoff
The Play About the Baby: The normally staid Fells Point Corner Theatre opens its 18th season with a saucy little play by Edward Albee, complete with sexual innuendo, full-frontal nudity, and suggestive finger sniffing. | Stage by Gadi Dechter
Pink Freud: Bubblegum Colors Belie the Taut Psychology in the New Works of Jo Smail | Art by J. Bowers
Trust by Alphonso Lingis
| Review by
Lily Thayer
Fortress America: On The Front Lines of Homeland Securityan Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State by Matthew Brzezinski
| Review by
Angela Roberts
Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past by Ray Raphael
| Review by
Nicole Leistikow
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MUSIC
The Sunshine Crate: Diplo Digs Through Everything From Gator Gully to Orange Bowl Bounce for His Florida Debut | Music by Tony Ware
Ad Liberators: The Volunteers Collectives’ Crap Shoot Recruits New Talent For Baltimore’s Experimental Music Revolution | Music by Bret McCabe
Mono: Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined
| Review by
Tony Ware
Richard Cheese: I’d Like A Virgin
| Review by
Craig Smith
Chris Joss: You’ve Been Spiked
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Gibby Haynes and His Problem: Gibby Haynes and His Problem
| Review by
Catherine Lewis
The Short List
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FILM
Ladder 49
| Review by
Violet LeVoit
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
| Review by
Lee Gardner
First Daughter
| Review by
Wendy Ward
The Forgotten
| Review by
Joe MacLeod
The Godfather Part II
| Review by
Lee Gardner
Intimate Strangers
| Review by
Bret McCabe
Johnny Come Lately
| Review by
Bret McCabe
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
| Review by
Joe MacLeod
She Hate Me
| Review by
Gabriel Wardell
Woman Thou Art Loosed
| Review by
Violet LeVoit
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EAT
Mari Luna Mexican Grill
| Review by
Richard Gorelick
Bobbi Jo's Rooftop Café
| Review by
Michelle Gienow
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