X-Content: Ten Years Ago in City Paper: July 17, 2002

; Sandy Asirvatham on

Afefe Tyehimba's Mobtown Beat reports on bills to

. The Nose second-guesses

and covers the charge-less arrests of

in Baltimore. Van Smith's Campaign Beat covers a

. Ballot Stuffing observes the odd practice of candidates who

. Tom Chalkley's Charmed Life extols the defunct

. Christopher Myers'

gets answers from Elmer Johnson, Henry Kevetsky, and Paul Johnson.

has letters from Michael Bardoff, Jerry Levin, Rick Gilmour, Conal Rose, A. Robert Kaufman, Dick Fairbanks, and Timothy Lloyd Tilghman. The columns are: Sandy Asirvatham's Underwhelmed, on

; Mink Stole's Think Mink, on

; and Wiley Hall III's Urban Rhythms, on

. Scocca & MacLeod's proto-blog,

, reads the comics so you don't have to. In Books, Michael Anft gets his head around the latest works by Baltimore's "literary odd couple": Madison Smartt Bell's

Anything Goes

and Stephen Dixon's

. Anft also

. Art is Mike Giuliano on the paintings and sculptures of

at Gomez Gallery. In Stage, entries in the Baltimore Playwrights Festival get panned: Jack Purdy on Mark Scharf's

The Whispher of Saints

; Anna Ditkoff on Kathleen Barber's

Amanda's Line

; and Brennen Jensen on Devorah Namm's

Connections

. Geoffrey Himes' Music explores the spiritual sexuality of

on stage. In Film: Ian Grey gushes over

The Cockettes

; Eric Allen Hatch strips bare

The Emperor's New Clothes

, does somersaults over

, and blesses

Late Marriage

; Joe MacLeod appreciates that

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

is just like "teevee"; Adele Marley basks in the stupidity of

Eight Legged Freaks

and the truthiness of

Lovely and Amazing

; and Luisa F. Ribeiro, of course, falls again for

Vertigo

. Michelle Gienow's Dish raves about

. Christopher Skokna's Cheap Eats calls

"one of the city's best lunch spots." Anna Ditkoff's Club Review recommends

for winding down after-hours.