Alejandro Danois' feature profiles
, men's basketball head coach at Morgan State University. The photo-feature by Kent Bye and Uli Loskot focuses on
: the "Bomb Saddam Party" at the Thunder Dome in Brooklyn and anti-war rallies in Washington, D.C., and Mondawmin Mall. In Mobtown Beat, Waris Banks examines Maryland's
and Van Smith covers
. The Nose plumbs Mobtown's
, courtesy of then-City Council President Sheila Dixon. Brennen Jensen's Charmed Life goes aboard the
.
has letters from Morgan Allyn and Cathy Brennan. The columns are: Brian Morton's Political Animal, on the scarily over-reaching
; Eddie Matz' Shirts and Skins, on
; and Afefe Tyehimba's Third Eye, on
. Scocca & MacLeod's proto-blog,
, reads the comics so you don't have to. Emily Flake's
fails at magic. Art is Bret McCabe, relating to
, on display at University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Center for Art and Visual Culture. Anna Ditkoff's Stage gets inside Center Stage's
, which presents new work by unfamiliar artists. Feedback is Josephine Yun, obsessing over obsessions at the Peabody Conservatory's
. Jon Fine's Music piece effuses over
. In Film: Tom Siebert is less than impressed by
; Eric Allen Hatch calls
an "American police drama," and finds
a Cold War satire ahead of its time; Joe MacLeod calls
better than your average super-hero flick; and Luisa F. Ribeiro doesn't buy
. Richard Gorelick's Omnivore says
offers really good inauthentic Tex-Mex. In Cheap Eats, Michelle Gienow likes the belly-dancers at
enough to forgive the so-so food.
