Ten Years Ago in City Paper: Dec. 19, 2001

2001 Top Ten issue features

, by Lee Gardner, Ian Grey, Eric Allen Hatch, Adele Marley, and Luisa F. Ribeiro;

, by Lee Gardner, Rjyan Kidwell, Michaelangelo Matos, Bret McCabe, Daniel Piotrowski, and Shelly Ridenour;

, by Anna Ditkoff and Bret McCabe;

, by Adele Marley;

, by Frank Diller, Mahinder Kingra, Eileen Murphy, Lily Thayer, and Rupert Wondolowski;

, by Anna Ditkoff, Mike Giuliano, and Jack Purdy;

, by Mike Giuliano; and

. In Mobtown Beat, Molly Rath reviews Martin O'Malley's

. The Nose discovers signs of life in Baltimore's moribund

. Michael Anft's

examines why the

Sun

brought home six foreign correspondents covering the war in Afghanistan and reports that soon-to-be WYPR plans to cut the Media Matters radio show, hosted by Sheri Parks and David Zurawik. Charles Cohen's Charmed Life drinks

, the local bottled-water brand created by Dwight Williams and Travis Winkey. The columns are: Suz Redfearn's Germ Bag, on

; Joe MacLeod's Mr. Wrong, on

; Mink Stole's Think Mink, on

; Wiley Hall III's Urban Rhythms, on

; and Tom Scocca's 8 Upper, on

. Scocca and MacLeod's proto-blog,

, reads the comics so you don't have to. Feedback is Bret McCabe, getting the rock-star schtick at a

show and donning earplugs for

at Ottobar. In Know Your Product, Anna Ditkoff gets punished by the Thumbs'

Last Match

and wraps herself in the warm blanket of the Uniform's

Black and Vain

, while Bret McCabe likes Rumba Club's hot and spicy

Radio Mundo

and Labtekwon's silky-smooth

Song of the Sovereign

. Bret McCabe's No Cover respects the missing tip of

guitarist/vocalist Chris Rhoten's left ring finger. In Film: Lee Gardner doubts the greatness of

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

but finds

South

undramatically great; Ian Grey gets slimed by

Vanilla Sky

; Adele Marley takes a ride with

Drugstore Cowboy

and takes a shine to

The Business of Strangers

; Joe MacLeod finds

Godzilla vs. Monster Zero

educational; and Loren Glass says

Not Another Teen Movie

achieves its objective: to be "the teen mother of all movies." Susan Fradkin's Belly Up is a fan of

.

(Editor's Note: This review is exactly a decade old, so take it with a shaker of salt.)