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'Let's Spend' is a Ceaseless Cascade Of Clichesnew
No one expects A Farewell to Arms when picking up a book titled Let's Spend the Night Together, but you should expect more than what's offered here.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ed Schrader |
08-21-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Interloper': Thoroughly Dark & Uncannily Disturbingnew
This debut novel may not make it into the literary canon, but it is definitely worth a close read -- Wilson has a promising career ahead of him.
Baltimore City Paper |
Anny Hoge |
08-21-2007 |
Fiction
Baltimore Campaign Beat: 7th District Celebritiesnew
Familiar names challenge incumbent Belinda Conaway in council race.
Baltimore City Paper |
Van Smith |
08-21-2007 |
Politics
Strife During Wartimenew
Four years after the U.S. invasion, expatriate Iraqis' news from home isn't getting any better.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tom Chalkley |
08-21-2007 |
War
Corn Wholenew
Basically, pre-Columbian and Mesoamerican-wise, if you represent Corn, I salute you.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
08-14-2007 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
What Bush Didn't Saynew
The president offers sympathies and assistance to Minneapolis and calls on Congress to act before recess -- we fill in the gaps.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
08-14-2007 |
Commentary
'My Best Friend': Who Needs Strangers?new
In the end, the film is too gimmicky -- it climaxes with Bruno on the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire -- to ever be a great movie, but it offers plenty of small pleasures.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: My Best Friend, Patrice Leconte
'Introducing the Dwights': An Indie Yawnernew
The only reason movies like this exist is to provide targeted upscale art-house audiences with colorfully ignorant lower-class exotics to whom they can vicariously feel superior.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
'No End in Sight': Sobering Observations Soberly Presentednew
The truly horrible thing about Charles Ferguson's absolutely depressing documentary is that nothing it says is really new.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight
Checking in with the Latest Round of MuzikMafia Releasesnew
In some quarters, the MuzikMafia was hailed as country-music saviors who would change the way music was made in Nashville; in others, they were dismissed as flashes-in-the-pan who would soon vanish like most novelty acts -- neither prediction proved accurate.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
08-14-2007 |
Music
Red Sammy Debuts Its Forlorn Folksy Gothicnew
Every one of its 11 languid and dolorous "gothic Americana" songs hangs with the same tawdry antebellum decay familiar to anyone who's whiled away a sticky August night in Baltimore drinking too much beer and nursing heartache.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
08-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Red Sammy
Relative Stranger: The Other Einstein Biographynew
The man behind the icon in Neffe's new biography.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
07-31-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Rescue Dawn': The Sheltering Flynew
As usual, a Werner Herzog movie isn't what it looks like on the surface.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog
Novelist Thomas Long Hits The Big Screennew
Long's book A Thug's Life, a novel about a pair of West Baltimore drug dealers turned into a direct-to-DVD movie adaptation, 4 Life, on a big screen with celebrity guests, radio personalities, and fans.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jason Torres |
07-31-2007 |
Movies
Tags: 4 Life, Tony Austin
The Music According to Lafayette Gilchristnew
The Bolton Hill resident did things to those funk and hip-hop beats that had never been heard on MTV.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jess Harvell |
07-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lafayette Gilchrist
