This week's
by Brandon Weigel marks the retirement of beloved Baltimore post-punks Double Dagger, whose members figuratively move out to the burbs to sip iced tea and rake leaves on this week's cover, but in reality have launched three awesome new bands: Roomrunner, Peals, and Pure Junk. Also
of the last DD album and the new Peals and Roomrunner ones.
In Mobtown Beat, Edward Ericson Jr. looks under the hood at the new
, built with over $100 million in government money, and finds that the much celebrated "green" job creator will generate about 25 jobs and won't sell cars anywhere near Maryland. Van Smith follows up on the fate of some of the
during the General Assembly. Don't miss
, where our hero blows his first paycheck on Scratch-Offs,
, where marathoners are up, but the bay, The Sun, the police department, and Rex Ryan are all down, and
.
In
, J.M. Giordano talks to Onyx, the mild-mannered manager of Chiapparelli's by day, badass wrestler by night.
In the Arts sections, Charles Cohen marvels at
; We review four new films with single-word titles:
; In music, we've got profiles of boundary-crossing
and inventive indie-rockers
, plus Josh Sisk's heavy music column,
. In books, Baynard Woods interviews
about his new book of wisdom from the newsroom, The Old Editor Says and in stage, we review Single Carrot's production of
.
In Eats and Drinks, John Houser III tries out the new
, Jenn Ladd previews the many tasty concoctions available at
this weekend, and also checks out
in Cheap Eats. As usual, don't forget the
and
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