
The feature is Michael Anft, on then-Mayor
. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen reports on
. Charles Cohen, in Charmed Life, tells of suffragist
, publisher and editor of
Maryland Suffrage News
. The columns are: Sandy Asirvatham's Underwhelmed, on
; Wiley Hall III's Urban Rhythms, on
; Joab Jackson's Cyberpunk, on
; and Tom Scocca's 8 Upper, on
. In Imprints: Jack Purdy is duly impressed by Douglas Murray's
; Eileen Murphy has seen better from Amy Bloom than her story collection,
; Adrienne Martini thinks Melissa Scott's novel,
, "falls flat"; and John Sewell finds guilty pleasure in the short stories of Matthew Klam's
. In Art, Mike Giuliano reviews the works of four artists
—
—
hanging at Goya-Girl Press in Hampden. Bones is
by John Biggs. Brennen Jensen, in Stage, gushes about Ronda Cooperstein's
, staged as part of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival. Feedback is: Matt Conaway on
at the Baltimore Arena; Daniel Piotrowski on
at the Ottobar; and Geoffrey Himes on
at Artscape. Know Your Product is Lee Gardner on the Fuses
and The Uniform's
Thirty-Three Revolutions + Some Other Minor Skirmishes
, Labtekwon's
, and the Onus'
. In Film: Ian Grey is creeped out by
and bored stiff by
; Adele Marley is nice to
; Luisa F. Ribeiro says
"shouldn't be missed," while
sets the bar for rom-coms; and Jack Purdy guesses
was a drunken Rat Pack concept
. In Belly Up, Susan Fradkin tries out
—
Big Fat Daddy's, Big Al's, and Chaps Pit Beef—and dubs Big Al's the best.
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