Ten Years Ago in City Paper: Aug. 9, 2000

The two features are Brennen Jensen's

(including a

) and Tom Scocca's dispatch from the

. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen taps into

. The Nose reports back from a meeting about a proposed

and sheds light on graduate student Shakiru Makanjuola's suggestions on

. Tom Chalkley, in Media Circus, rounds up

and considers

. Charmed Life is Brennen Jensen on

. The columns are: Suz Redfearn's Germ Bag, on

; Joe MacLeod's Mr. Wrong, on

; Wiley Hall III's Urban Rhythms, on

; Joab Jackson's Cyberpunk, on

; and Tom Scocca's 8 Upper, on

. Books is Michael Corbin considering the hard questions raised by Pamela Newkirk's

. Mike Giuliano, in Art, reviews the latest at Gomez Gallery:

. Zine Pool is John Sewell on Rob Gorezyca's

In Stage, Mike Giuliano thinks Rosemary Frisino Toohey's

, at the Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre, is an improvement on Toohey's prior Baltimore Playwrights Festival (BPF) entry; and Michael Anft says P.S. Lorio is promising, based on her

Four Scenes: A Hungarian Trilogy

, staged at College of Notre Dame's LeClerc Hall as part of the BPF. Music is Geoffrey Himes getting excited about the return of jazz pianist

, and Vincent Williams happy that

gets to make the music it wants. In Television, Adele Marley is bored by

. Film is: Ian Grey, finding

confusingly unfunny but totally getting

; Heather Joslyn liking

; and Lee Gardner calling

"feeble." In Belly Up, Susan Fradkin had enough at

, and it was good.

(Editor's note: Please remember that this restaurant review is exactly a decade old, so take any information within with a shaker of salt.)