In the feature hole are Earl Byrd's story of
and
CP
's
. Ericka Blount Danois' Mobtown Beat profiles a
. The Nose wrinkles over
and
. Brennen Jensen's Charmed Life shares
's theory on how zeppelins could have averted the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Christopher Myers'
gets answers from Willie Hewalient, John White, and Dan Hill.
has letters from Laura Carlson, Rachel Emmel, Allison Stelly, Beth Hawks, Mark Hossfeld, Jon Swift, Kendall Alexander, Greg Dembeck, Linda Toast, and Thomas Hook. The columns are: Brian Morton's Political Animal, on
; Suz Redfearn's Germ Bag, on
; Sandy Asirvatham's Underwhelmed, on
; and Mink Stole's Think Mink, on
. Scocca & MacLeod's proto-blog,
, reads the comics so you don't have to. C. Kang and S. Kang's
tries dog food. In Books, Mahinder Kingra thinks Stephen E. Ambrose's
belies the historian's rose-colored views and Tom Siebert sees genius in Donna Tartt's
. Art is: Tim Hill, playing with the art toys of
; Blake de Pastino, questioning whether a Baltimore Museum of Art photography exhibit,
, matters; and Mike Giuliano, digesting
at the art institute's Meyerhoff Gallery. In Stage, John Barry purrs for Everyman Theatre's production of Edward Albee's
; and Josephine Yun enjoys the story-telling of Arena Players' production of Emily Man's
. Michaelangelo Matos' Music samples
. No Cover is Tom Breihan, ruing the breakup of the
, and Bret McCabe, chronicling the drama of
's tour. In Film: Geoffrey Himes gets with the
of the music documentary,
; Lee Gardner tries to sort out
Ian Grey finds that images make
even more compelling than the book it's based on; Joe MacLeod is okay with the prospect that James Bond will have to
and gets exactly what he's supposed to out of
; Eric Allen Hatch finds
to be trite, cloistered tripe; and Tom Siebert kicks
in the balls, but finds
to be "pleasantly escapist." Richard Gorelick's Omnivore calls
a "pleasure-giving honey." In Cheap Eats, Brennen Jensen likes the "honest" sandwiches of
.
