In This Week's City Paper

It’s The Queer Issue, meaning it’s also Pride Time. Newly installed arts editor Bret McCabe gets catty with the members of the Charm City Kitty Club, Baltimore’s queer-gal cabaret. For more, check out individual Kitties’ web sites like Rahne Alexander and Kristen Anchor. In the same section, Gadi Dechter memorializes shuttered male strip club Atlantis, and Christina Royster-Hemby gets local religious leaders to talk about homosexuality. Oh, and paper dolls!

In Mobtown Beat CP intern Rodney Foxworth third-parties with former Ralph Nader press secretary/former NORML chief Kevin Zeese, who’s considering a run for Paul Sarbanes’ soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat next year, under the auspices of a “Unity Campaign,” made up of Maryland’s various smaller political parties. And in the resurrected Media Circus, Dechter digs into a Dan Rodricks Sun column, in which he asks drug dealers to stop killing each other, using some problematic vernacular in an open letter.

In A&E, Ned Oldham strings up South Baltimore luthier (aka guitar maker/tuner) Phil Jacoby, who’s talking at the Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans at McDaniel College in Westminster this weekend. For more info on the tuning machine mentioned in the article, check out Plek.com.