Anna Ditkoff's feature goes backstage at the
. In Mobtown Beat, Jill Yesko profiles the use of acupuncture to treat addiction at a
program in Baltimore. The Nose goes anagrammatic with
and broadcasts neighborhood bile over the slow pace of the
. Tom Chalkley's Charmed Life revisits the question of whether Baltimore's
was ever really intended to be a beer shrine.
has letters from Steve Weaver, Michael Melick, Clarence Woodworth, and Amanda Peres. The columns are: Brian Morton's Political Animal, on
; Eddie Matz' Shirts and Skins, on
at Camden Yards; Afefe Tyehimba's Third Eye, on Baltimore's various grocery stores named
; and Mink Stole's Think Mink, on
. Scocca & MacLeod's proto-blog,
, reads the comics so you don't have to. Emily Flake's
tilts at a fake windmill. In Imprints, Patrick Sullivan gets shaken and stirred by Ishmael Reed's
and gives plenty of anti-hero slack to Hallgrímur Helgason's
, while Mahinder Kingra is disappointed that Suki Kim's
isn't all it was cracked up to be. Art is Blake de Pastino, giving the whole story of
. John Barry's Stage wishes Everyman Theatre's production of Athol Fugard's
went on a bit longer. In Feedback, Geoffrey Himes jumps for the stripped-down rock-n-roll sounds of
at Café Tattoo, Bret McCabe gets the gist of
at the Red Room, and Josephine Yun mellows out with
at Central Presbyterian Church. Music is Mikael Wood, getting with rabble-rousing
of the Scene Creamers. In Film: Eric Allen Hatch disses
, kind of likes
, and praises
; Tom Siebert finds
fundamentally good; Ian Grey is surprised by the unsparingly dark message of
, but whatever's interesting in
fizzles out quickly; and Bret McCabe finds that
fails to live up to its potential. Richard Gorelick's Omnivore wants
to figure out what it wants to be. In Cheap Eats, Christopher Skokna gives
a high five for convenient deliciousness.
