Film Fest Frenzy spotlights the Maryland Film Festival with an
and reviews of its lineup of
and
. Michael Corbin's feature charts the success of a program to help
. In Mobtown Beat, Terrie Snyder provides a glimpse of the Baltimore police department's
to bolster crime-fighting. The Nose makes note of
,
, the
, and a
. Brennen Jensen's Charmed Life tours
, a historic house with a rich past. The columns are: Suz Redfearn's Germ Bag, on
; Joe MacLeod's Mr. Wrong, on
; Mink Stole's Think Mink, on
; Wiley Hall III's Urban Rhythms, on
; Joab Jackson's Cyberpunk, on
; and Tom Scocca's 8 Upper, on boxing champ
. Scocca and MacLeod's proto-blog,
, reads the comics so you don't have to. Imprints are: Mahinder Kingra on Jonathan Lethem's sci-fi novel
, Joyce Brown on Yehuda Amichai's poetry collection
, Justin Hampton on the Russ Kick-edited collection of essays
, and Heather Joslyn on Richard Russo's novel
. In Art, Mike Giuliano checks out
at Galerie Francoise and
at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Bones is Carol Bindel's poem
In Stage:
Theatre Hopkins' production of
She Loves Me
and AXIS Theatre's production of
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
, Brad Aaron interviews
, and Jack Purdy gives the Spotlighters' production of Martin McDonagh's
its due. Feedback is Phil Andrews on
at Mount Vernon United Methodist Church and Barry Michael Cooper on
at the Lyric Opera House. In Music, Barry Michael Cooper plugs into the
and Tom Scocca remembers
. Film is: Heather Joslyn, unearthing
and getting intimate with
; Adele Marley, tumbling in the weeds of
; and Lee Gardner, reveling in
. In Belly Up, Susan Fradkin politely skewers
and
.
(Editor's note: Please remember that this restaurant review is exactly a decade old, so take any information within with a shaker of salt.)