Have you ever been in an art gallery and thought This could use some more action? Well, some­one had a sim­i­lar thought and four years ago founded the Baltimore-based Super Art Fight, a col­lec­tion of artists who go head to head in com­pe­ti­tion. The group...
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Michael Anft’s fea­ture hand­i­caps Mary­land horse-racing’s prospects for sal­va­tion from slots rev­enues, and Phyl­lis Orrick reflects on City Paper’s first decade. In Mobtown Beat, Ericka Blount Danois looks at BGE’s deci­sion to send cus­tomers to ACE Cash Express to make util­ity payments. The Nose shines the...
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So the Bal­ti­more Grand Prix has its third cor­po­rate coor­di­na­tor in less than a year, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced yes­ter­day. The Sun had it first, focus­ing on the mar­quee name of Michael Andretti.  But the online Bal­ti­more Brew has a bit more con­text about the...
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Amer­i­can Sugar Refin­ing, Inc., has been sued by the U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA) over the oper­a­tion of boil­ers at its iconic Domino Sugar plant over­look­ing Baltimore’s Inner Har­bor. Accord­ing to the law­suit, filed May 9 in U.S. Dis­trict Court in Mary­land, Amer­i­can Sugar...
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We’ve all got to eat. But that doesn’t mean we have to treat our daily intake of edi­ble items like putting gas in the old auto. We need food, but we also want it. Here at the City Paper, we love ...
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Mike Godwin’s fea­ture explores future sce­nar­ios for the con­sump­tion of copy­righted dig­i­tal enter­tain­ment. In Mobtown Beat, Van Smith goes to the annual Inter­tribal Pow­wow at Ferry Bar Park and Bren­nen Jensen exam­ines how arts dis­tricts are turn­ing old fac­to­ries into new stu­dios. Michael Anft’s Media...
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Back in Jan­u­ary, I used my iPad to spend $1.99 for Presto­B­ingo Shapes, a kids’ app put out by Joyce Hes­sel­bert and occa­sional City Paper con­trib­u­tor Dave Plunkert’s Spur Design in Baltimore. The app has a series of clean, col­or­ful illus­tra­tions that use shapes to...
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Panic not. There’s a whole busi­ness week until Mother’s Day. But it’s time to make a plan. Here are a few restau­rant brunch spe­cials that have shown up in our inbox recently that are sure to make your mom feel like queen for a day. The...
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UPDATE: A sen­tence has been removed from this post at the request of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Daniel McIn­tosh has long main­tained he’s been the major­ity share­holder of Sonar night­club in down­town Bal­ti­more since he took over from co-founder Lon­nie Fisher in 2007....
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Justin Fen­ton has scoop: Fred­er­ick Beale­feld, Bal­ti­more City’s police com­mis­sioner, is going to announce that he’s step­ping down today. And the Mayor’s office con­firms, Sun says.….
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