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Gifts for the Holidazednew

Are your holiday fires slowly dying as you search for some good buying? Fret not, for we offer a list of tried and truly unique gifts for the wine and food lover on your list.

NUVO | Jill Ditmire | 12-07-2006 | Food+Drink

Tags: 2006gift

Getting Into the Moodnew

Liven up your holiday cheer with four great indie label CDs.

NUVO | John M. James | 12-07-2006 | Music

Tags: 2006gift

Mystery Mannew

Forty-plus free-blues LPs reflect Jandek’s reclusive nature.

NUVO | Michael Tapscott | 12-07-2006 | Music

Tags: Jandek

Bead to Blingnew

Far from sapping your will to bead with dry prose and unintelligible diagrams, this book actually inspires the beader within.

NUVO | Lisa Gauthier | 12-07-2006 | Nonfiction

Tags: Kate Shoup Welsh, Not Your Mama's Beading

Catholic School Girls Rulenew

McGarry's latest novel follows the intellectual awakening of a prim, proper, and spoiled 1960s young woman.

Baltimore City Paper | Violet Glaze | 12-07-2006 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: A Bad and Stupid Girl, Jean McGarry

Baggage Claim: Matchmakernew

I would like to take this to a higher level, at least tell people we're seeing each other rather than hooking up on the DL -- what should I do?

NUVO | Lisa "Lou" Welch | 12-07-2006 | Advice

Tags: advice columns

Don't Run, Evan!new

Bayh is like John Edwards without the charisma -- and since Edwards pretty much lacks any charisma, that's quite an insult.

NUVO | Steve Hammer | 12-07-2006 | Commentary

Tags: 2008 presidential election

Man of Godnew

A new documentary charts the rise and fall of Jim Jones.

Baltimore City Paper | Bret McCabe | 12-07-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Stanley Nelson, Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple

She Saidnew

Shut Up and Sing takes a candid look at pop music's most fearless women.

Baltimore City Paper | Ian Grey | 12-07-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Shut Up and Sing, Barbara Kopple, Chicks, Dixie

Ho Ho Nonew

Dear Santa, for Christmas I'd like to ask for some kindness and tolerance for my fellow man -- especially from foaming-at-the-mouth conservatives.

Baltimore City Paper | Brian Morton | 12-07-2006 | Commentary

Tags: Dennis Prager, Keith Ellison

Cover Menew

After listening almost exclusively to cover albums over the past couple of months, I've come to realize that a good cover of a song is ultimately a credit to the original artist.

Baltimore City Paper | Vincent Williams | 12-07-2006 | Commentary

Tags: Radiohead, cover albums