The feature is the second installment of Molly Rath's exploration of what's wrong with
. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen reports that a live-theater company has leased the shuttered
. The Nose sniffs out
and former gubernatorial candidate
helping the city collect more money from its water-metering system. Brennen Jensen's Charmed Life gets a tour of the
. The columns are: Sandy Asirvatham's Underwhelmed, on
; Mink Stole's Think Mink, on
; Wiley Hall III's Urban Rhythms, on
; and Tom Scocca's 8 Upper, on
. Scocca & MacLeod's proto-blog,
, reads the comics so you don't have to. In Imprints: Michael Anft drifts with Cees Nooteboom's novel,
; Heather Joslyn stoically bears Madelon Sprengnether's memoir,
; and Ned Oldham gets Alan Licht's memoir,
Lee Gardner's Art checks out
, a digital art show at Maryland Institute College of Art's Decker and Meyerhoff galleries. Bones is Megan Snyder-Camp's poem, "
". In Stage, Jack Purdy praises Rep Stage's production of Elizabeth Egloff's
. In Music, Rjyan Kidwell goes to auditions for a new
guitarist. Geoffrey Himes' Know Your Product talks with
about their new album, Telegraph. In Film: Eric Allen Hatch enjoys the discomfort of
; Luisa F. Ribeiro says Burt Lancaster is at his best in
; Jack Purdy puts
among the best of second-tier films of the ‘70s; and Lee Gardner casts
as a heart-wrenching, well-shot vacation video, while being charmed by
. Michelle Gienow's Dish goes back to
to find its reinvention isn't as good as the original.
