The 2002 Film Fest Frenzy issue, hyping the Maryland Film Festival, has an
, a guide to
, and reviews of
and
. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen reports on
. The Nose gets the skinny on a
and
. Michael Anft's
examines media censorship and "reporter-steering." In Charmed Life, Tom Chalkley profiles
, WBAL's in-house historian.
has letters from John Williams, Autumn Hickman, Ella McCrystle, Lloyd J. Spivak, Stephen Schwartz, and Jim Cumbie. The columns are: Suz Redfearn's Germ Bag, on
; Joe MacLeod's Mr. Wrong, on
; and Wiley Hall III's Urban Rhythms, on
. Scocca & MacLeod's proto-blog,
, reads the comics so you don't have to. In Art, Mike Giuliano checks out
, on display at UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Stage is: M. Jane Taylor, catching Gregory Hall's
at Spotlighters Theatre; Jack Purdy, finding that Center Stage's production of Noel Coward's
is off-pace; John Barry, enjoying the mind game that is AXIS Theatre's production of David Lindsay-Abaire's
; Mike Giuliano, disappointed by Vagabond Theatre's production of Neil Simon's
; and Brennen Jensen, saying Theatre Hopkins does a fine job with its production of George Bernard Shaw's
.
get Tony Green's salute for pushing boundaries in Music, while Bret McCabe wordsmiths an appreciation of
. Benn Ray's Television gets hooked on
. In Film: Joe MacLeod raises eyebrows over
and wants to be at the drive-in to see
; Adele Marley likes the hair in
; Lee Gardner roots for
; Eric Allen Hatch would skip
and
, but has plenty of time for
; Heather Joslyn admires
; and Andy Markowitz has a soft spot for
. Michelle Gienow's Dish has meat dreams over
. In Cheap Eats, Michelle Gienow eats a whole lot of breakfast for $4.98 at
.