Letter from the editor

SPORTS

• Guess Who's Back? USA Basketball and This Time They Mean Business With a 114-69 Exhibition Victory Over Puerto Rico
• Kerri Walsh Wins Again, So Does Her Husband Casey Jennings To Become Only The Second Married Couple to Capture Pro Beach Volleyball Titles

ENTERTAINMENT

• Mary J. Blige Brings "The Breakthrough" to Baltimore
• Mindi Abair, Life Less Ordinary at the Birchmere
• Shinedown, A Summer Act Not to Be Missed
• Rocking the World (Or, at Least Ours) with Three Days Grace--Pointed Goes Behind The Music of One Hot Band This Summer
• "On The Road" Hanging With Van Hunt "On The Jungle Floor"

Mystics Basketball Playoffs vs. Connecticut Sun-- August 18th