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		<title>City Paper a Finalist for three AAN Awards</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/city-paper-a-finalist-for-three-aan-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Serpick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Paper is among the finalists for three Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) awards, in writing, design, and photography categories, AAN announced today. In the &#8220;LONG-FORM NEWS STORY circulation 50,000 and over&#8221; category, staff writer Edward Ericson Jr. was nominated for &#8220;Minding Her Own Business&#8221; (Sept. 11, 2012), about the efforts of a disabled woman, Deborah Quasney, to regain control of her finances. In the &#8220;EDITORIAL LAYOUT circulation 50,000 and over&#8221; category, contributing photographers Ryan &#8220;Rarah&#8221; Stevenson and Frank Klein, illustrator Alex Fine, and art director Joe MacLeod were nominated for &#8220;Never Mind the Crab Cakes, Here&#8217;s the Cheese Fish&#8221; (March 7, 2012). You can also read the story, in it&#8217;s non-finalist format here. And in the &#8220;PHOTOGRAPHY circulation 50,000 and over&#8221; category, Rarah was nominated again for his year of work. Winners will be announced at the AAN convention in July. Congratulations to the all the finalists!]]></description>
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		<title>X-Content: 10 years ago in City Paper: May 21, 2003</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/x-content-10-years-ago-in-city-paper-may-21-2003/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Paper’s 2003 Sizzlin’ Summer issue features an introduction, Emily Flake on Pimlico racetrack, Mark Fatla on minor-league baseball parks, Erin Sullivan on the “Painting Lady” of Canton, Tim Hill on the 12 O’Clock Boyz, Van Smith on the Eastern Shore’s Mason-Dixon markers, Blake de Pastino on Vera’s White Sands, the I-Team on Baltimore’s coldest draft beers, Waris Banks on butt-waxing, and Anna Ditkoff on Baltimore guidebooks. The Mail has letters from Mayor Martin O’Malley, Christina Rathel, and Alan Rebar. The columns are Joe MacLeod’s Mr. Wrong, on the Sizzlin’ Summer issue, and Mink Stole’s Think Mink, on cruel kids and parental disclosures. Scocca &#38; MacLeod’s proto-blog, Funny Paper, reads the comics so you don’t have to. Emily Flake’s Lulu Eightball gets her head straight. Better Live!-ing gives a host of tips to the Baltimore Sun’s faux alt-weekly, Live! In Film: Ian Grey lauds Blue Car and Richard Gorelick is left bored and confused by Laurel Canyon.]]></description>
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		<title>The way Preakness used to be</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/the-way-preakness-used-to-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Serpick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Brandon Weigel posted yesterday about his experience at the 2013 Preakness, his first. He talked about his vantage point from the grandstand, his bets, his entry into into the cushy confines of the VIP section. I was moved to respond, first, to tell the young whippersnapper how things were &#8220;in my day,&#8221; and also because Brandon did something that drove me crazy each of the 12 or 13 years I went to Preakness: He ignored the action on the infield, where most Preakness-goers spend their day. I attended my first Preakness in 1992, as a high school senior. The night before, three friends and I pooled our money and asked my sister&#8217;s boyfriend to buy us a case of beer. He did so without a second&#8217;s thought or a cut while I waited in the backseat of his car &#8211; God bless you, Jason Becker, wherever you are. We didn&#8217;t know anything about horses &#8211; didn&#8217;t see one all day &#8211; but loved getting drunk in the sun with our friends. Maybe loved it too much: My day ended passed out near a pool of my own vomit, hours before the 10th race. When I finally got home, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fake Seal seeks to raise &#8220;billion a year&#8221; for vets</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/fake-seal-seeks-to-raise-billion-a-year-for-vets/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/fake-seal-seeks-to-raise-billion-a-year-for-vets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Ericson Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[back our vets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reporter typically gets a half dozen charity solicitations each day in the email, and most go to the trash. This one a couple weeks back caught my eye because of one phrase: “WWII Navy Seal.” Hi Edward, Earl Littman, fmr Navy Seal (Team 1 !) has a new mission. He has a plan to raise 1 billion every year.  This is just kicking off. As everyone knows, Navy Seals are the toughest of the tough, heroes who rescue the heroes who get in trouble, the guys who killed Osama Bin Laden. Seals are mythical supermen with superpowers. As many people don’t know: they started Sealing in 1962 &#8211; about 17 years after the end of WWII. Before the Seals there were the frogmen, the underwater demolition teams, which did indeed begin training circa 1942. The frogmen are the fathers of the Seals. They are not Seals, but some confusion is inevitable, and a WWII UDTR team member could be forgiven if, for the sake of simplicity in modern times, he called himself a “WWII Seal.” He could, that is, if there was a record of him completing UDTR training during World War II. Turns out that record is easy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the outhouse to the penthouse: my day at the Preakness</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/from-the-outhouse-to-the-penthouse-my-day-at-the-preakness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Weigel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be easy for City Paper to take the position the Preakness sucks. The crowd, after all, is overwhelmingly stuffed shirts, blue bloods, and what our art director Joe MacLeod referred to as &#8220;Easter Catholics,&#8221; people who turn up to the race track once a year for the high holiday of Maryland racing and don&#8217;t show their face for another year. But that argument is not going to be made here. While no track regular, I have been to Pimlico and Laurel on regular racing days enough to know what it&#8217;s like to play the ponies with closer to 100 people than 100,000. Seeing the place bustling with patrons and waiting in long lines (for food, for bets, for Black Eyed Susans, and just about everything else) was a welcome sight over the typical humdrum of a Saturday afternoon. The crowd brought a palpable energy and excitement to the rickety old grandstand and concourse at Old Hilltop, creating a noticeable buzz when the pack of horses came around the final turn and began the surge for the finish line. For me, it served as proof  the old-timers who lament the loss of the good ol&#8217; days are right when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dundalk&#8217;s prodigal porn star writes home</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/dundalks-prodigal-porn-star-writes-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Lockwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in the Dundalk area of town and graduated from Patapsco High School way back in 1988. I’m a Baltimore Boy through and through &#8211; if you cut me I bleed Old Bay and Natty Boh. It took many years for me to accept this about myself. When I was growing up in the 1980s in  economically depressed and socially backwards, thinly populated Dundalk, I found it quite difficult (and painful) to be accepted as Patapsco High School’s resident counter-cultural-punk-rock-provocateur-artiste. Thankfully, things are quite different today. These days, I am celebrated for and indeed make my living as such, being an award-winning, internationally-known adult film star of nearly 1,500 pornographic scenes shot with the most attractive Penthouse Pets, Playboy models, and sexy adult starlets all over the world, and appearing on the nationally televised Showtime series, “Family Business.” (read City Paper&#8216;s previous story about me here.) When I was kid growing up in Charm City, I had a fake ID that said I was 18 so that I could get into Cignals on Charles St. every Friday night where me and my “progressive music” (as it was called back then) loving friends would dance all night in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brunch (and more) at Bluegrass Tavern</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/brunch-and-more-at-bluegrass-tavern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 23:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baynard Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we went to Bluegrass Tavern (1500 S. Hanover St., [410] 244-5101, bluegrasstavern.com)  to check out their new spring menu, but started with the charcuterie plate (happy hour is four items for $10) and some rye at the bar (The Willett rye is especially good, with a nice spicy kick). We ordered the smoked fried chicken ($16), which was not new, but was succulent and amazing, and the spring rabbit confit ravioli ($22), which was served with marrow butter, heritage carrots, and a delicious pea puree. We were impressed and had never had brunch at Bluegrass, so we stopped by this afternoon and were pretty blown away. The bloody marys ($6) had pickled okra. That was enough to start things right (note to every other brunch place: pickled okra is great and in general the more pickled stuff the better). The drink itself tasted more like gazpacho than the Mr. and Mrs. T’s mix you may be used to, chock full of little cucumber pieces (it could have used more horseradish). We got the pimento cheese and crackers ($6) and the deviled eggs ($4) to start, and both were tasty, but it was the Country Benedict ($12) and the biscuits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alleged BGF leader Tavon White wins transfer out of Maryland prison</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/alleged-bgf-leader-tavon-white-wins-transfer-out-of-maryland-prison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 19:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After complaining in court about the conditions of his confinement in Maryland’s prison system, Tavon White, the lead defendant in the high-profile racketeering case against alleged members of the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang, today was granted his request to be transferred to federal custody by U.S. District judge Ellen Hollander. The reasons cited by the judge were the lack of opposition from prosecutors in White’s pending state and federal cases and “the allegations of corruption among the Division of Correction’s staff in at least one of its correctional institutions,” according to court documents.]]></description>
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		<title>Feds sue to keep $61,000 in cash seized from home of former deputy mayor and state delegate Salima Siler Marriott</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/feds-sue-to-keep-61000-in-cash-seized-from-home-of-former-deputy-mayor-and-state-delegate-salima-siler-marriott/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 19:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before Christmas 2007, Baltimore deputy mayor for community and economic development Salima Siler Marriott (D), a former long-time state delegate, had to deal with the news that her son, Patrice Marriott, then 40 years old, had been indicted in federal court for being a felon in possession of a firearm. It was no doubt embarrassing, but it wasn’t the first time – as the charge indicated. Her son had a long record of felony drug arrests, including in other states, and while many of the charges had been dropped over the years, sometimes they stuck. Now Salima Marriott is out of public office, but her son is still causing her problems – including a police raid last November on her Park Heights house on Homer Ave., where Patrice Marriott also lived. Weeks earlier, according to court records, Patrice Marriott had been stopped by police while driving a car in the 2200 block of North Eutaw St., and the cops had found him in possession of about 160 grams of cocaine and nearly $1,800 in cash. He was arrested, but the investigation continued – including the execution of a search warrant on the Marriott home on Nov. 21. The raid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARC train to begin weekend service!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/marc-train-to-begin-weekend-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Serpick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hallelujah! After virtually universal agreement (by the people we talk to, anyway) that the MARC train should run from Baltimore&#8217;s Penn Station to D.C.&#8217;s Union Station on weekends (which has been promised since at least 2008), it will finally be so, according to a report in the Baltimore Business Journal. The additional service was approved as part of The Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act, signed by Governor O&#8217;Malley today. The act includes $4.4 billion in transportation infrastructure spending, including $100 million to improve MARC service, partially paid for with a 4-cent increase in the state&#8217;s gas tax, starting July 1st. No date has been set for the weekend service to begin. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Misfortune mounts on ill-fated &#8220;party&#8221; ride</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/misfortune-mounts-on-ill-fated-party-ride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not like it really needs saying, but: Don’t take pills and drive, especially if you’re traveling with heroin and lots of cash and don’t have a job. To drive the point home, consider the case of 49-year-old Sandra Diane Rust and 50-year-old Samuel Cornelius Rust, III, a married couple from Pennsylvania. They were driving a 2006 Chevrolet Aveo on the Baltimore Beltway&#8217;s outer loop last Nov. 2, when Sandra crashed it into an empty SUV parked on the shoulder near the exit for Route 40. When Maryland State Police responded and noted that Sandra’s “speech was slow and slurred and she had bloodshot and glassy eyes,” according to court records, she denied she’d been drinking – though she admitted “that she took her prescribed Oxycodone, but could not remember how many she took or how long ago before the collision she took them.” The couple was taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma for treatment, where Samuel died from his injuries. Matters turned even worse for Sandra after the Maryland State Police arrived at Shock Trauma to Mirandize her on suspicion of driving under the influence, court records say. A trooper asked Sandra for her drivers license, and she said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New J. Paul&#8217;s menu: Bourbon mojitos and ribeye egg rolls</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/new-j-pauls-menu-bourbon-mojitos-and-ribeye-egg-rolls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[J. Paul’s, in a spot that may as well be a corner table on the Inner Harbor, recently launched a menu that continues in its seafood-heavy tradition, adding a few twists. As in, a Mojito made with bourbon and brown sugar. Kind of a Maryland club take on Brazilian decadence. Heavy noshers can start with a bucket of shellfish ($36) and gnaw their way through snow crab, mussels, shrimp and corn, sopping up the lemony brine with chewy baguette, or take the red meat route, with Philly rolls ($10), a twist on egg rolls – these stuffed with ribeye steak and caramelized onion, swimming in a peppery cheese-whizzy sauce. Newcomers also include the salmon ($22, pictured)  – grilled to a nice crusty finish and served on mashed potatoes slathered in a citrusy butter sauce. There’s a good excuse to dine by the water while doing good on May 30: The summer patio party, $25 includes rail drinks, wine and cans of Natty Boh, plus some filling appetizers – with proceeds going to Boys Hope Girls Hope of Baltimore. Information at j-pauls.capitalrestaurants.com]]></description>
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		<title>Judge schedules two-month jury trial in BGF racketeering case, starting June 2014</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/judge-schedules-two-month-jury-trial-in-bgf-racketeering-case-starting-june-2014/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 19:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland U.S. District judge Ellen Hollander today issued a scheduling and discovery order in the Black Guerrilla Family prison-gang racketeering case that has caused a national sensation since the indictment was unsealed on Apr. 23, exposing anew Maryland’s longstanding problem of correctional corruption. The two-month jury trial, scheduled to start on June 9, 2014, will be preceded by many months of sharing evidence and arguing motions between the 25 defendants’ attorneys and federal prosecutors Robert Harding and Ayn Ducao. Hollander urged defense attorneys for the 13 indicted correctional officers “to form one group, and counsel for the inmates to form another group, and to collaborate with regard to the submission of joint motions,” so as to “avoid unnecessary duplication of motions.”]]></description>
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		<title>The BGF’s Tavon White complains about conditions in new facility</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/the-bgfs-tavon-white-complains-about-conditions-in-new-facility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tavon White (pictured), the alleged Black Guerrilla Family leader charged in a racketeering indictment stemming from correctional corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center, is currently being held at North Branch Correctional Facility (NBCI) in Cumberland – and he’s not happy about his conditions of confinement there, according to a motion for a hearing filed this morning by his attorney, Gary Proctor. Saying White’s “continued confinement within the Maryland Department of Corrections needs to be reconsidered,” Proctor’s motion points out that White’s belongings had yet to make it to NBCI, leaving him with only “a jump suit, one pair of underwear, shower sandals, [and] a sheet for the bed.” Letters from White to Proctor “have yet to arrive” at Proctor’s address, and White was only “allowed to make one call to counsel on arrival, but none since.” What’s more, Proctor says his visit with White was limited to “less than an hour” and was “non-contact” – though Proctor had been assured previously he’d be able to visit him face to face – so going through documents “is nigh on impossible when talking through glass, with no means to pass documents through to one another.” Proctor asserts that, given his experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naked Lunch: Mike Isabella to debut Skinny Dipper oysters at Preakness</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/naked-lunch-mike-isabella-to-debut-skinny-dipper-oysters-at-preakness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Skinny Dipper oyster is certainly upping the ante when it comes to suggestive foods. The alluring bivalve with the even more alluring moniker will be making its debut on Preakness day (May 18) at Preakness Village for a VIP slurping session. The Skinny Dipper will be proffered at Chef Mike Isabella’s raw bar at Preakness Village near the finish line. For those who won’t be hoofing it to the track that day, Ryleigh’s Oyster House in Federal Hill (36 E. Cross St.) will host a buck-a-shuck launch. The Skinny Dipper is the poster girl, so to speak, for the nascent True Chesapeake Oyster Co., which has recently begun farming the creatures from St. Jerome’s Creek in St. Mary’s County. Look for True Chesapeake’s other offerings on local menus this summer. We’re told the Skinny Dipper is plump and sweet, with just a hint of salt.]]></description>
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		<title>Longtime liquor license official to retire following critical audit</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/longtime-liquor-license-official-to-retire-following-critical-audit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Ericson Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Daniels (pictured), the executive secretary of the Board of Liquor License Inspectors and a fixture for decades, has announced his retirement, effective July 1 in the wake of a critical state audit of the agency. “OMG&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;is it Christmas? Today? Pinch me, seriously!!!” Beth Hawks, a west-side small business owner, wrote in an email on Thursday, May 9. “I can hardly contain my JOY!!” Daniels confirmed his retirement to City Paper on May 13. “Frankly this has nothing to do with the audit,” he says. “Everybody would probably like for it to look like that but truth is there is a major philosophical difference between me and the agency and the mayor and her designs on all things liquor.” Daniels says he did not read the Maryland Daily Record story saying he had resigned. (Dated May 10, it is behind a pay wall). The state audit, released early last month, found inspectors not doing inspections, inspectors inspecting closed establishments and not noting they are closed, failure to confirm criminal background checks and a host of other problems (“Audit Slams Liquor Board,” Mobtown Beat, April 10). “I’m tired of all the BS,” Daniels continued. “I’ll be 66 in July and eligible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Bill O’Reilly call MD corrections boss Maynard &#8220;a moron&#8221; over BGF scandal</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/watch-bill-oreilly-call-md-corrections-boss-maynard-a-moron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The News Hole]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News show The O’Reilly Factor yesterday aired a new segment about Maryland’s correctional corruption scandal (watch it below), with correspondent Jesse Watters interviewing an anonymous former Baltimore City Detention Center detainee who described a free-for-all party scene for inmates and confronting Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services secretary Gary Maynard. O’Malley, while fielding Watters’ questions about the 2010 Correctional Officers’ Bill of Rights law that curtailed Maryland government’s disciplinary powers over prison staffers, claimed “there have been 89 people terminated from the corrections service even before these 13” correctional officers were indicted in April for racketeering with the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang and asserted, as he has before, that “we initiated this investigation.” When Watters asked Maynard whether he should lose his job over the scandal, Maynard said “we opened up this problem” and “I know I’m the man to fix” it. Watters invited him to come on the show, and Maynard retorted, “I don’t watch his program” – to which Watters suggested, “Maybe you should,” and Maynard, sounding very much a cornered school boy, retorted, “Well, maybe you should.” “Is that guy as dumb as he sounds?” host Bill O’Reilly asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>X-Content: 10 years ago in City Paper: May 14, 2003</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/x-content-10-years-ago-in-city-paper-may-14-2003/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Chalkley’s feature profiles expatriate Iraqis in Baltimore. In Mobtown Beat, David Morley airs concerns about drug-treatment providers in Hollins Market; Van Smith covers the election season’s first candidate forum; and Alejandro Danois remembers Sam Lacy. The Nose sorts through Baltimore’s ongoing police-prosecutor spats. Michael Yockel’s Charmed Life gives props to The Sun’s crime-blotter scribe, Dick Irwin. Uli Loskot’s How’s it Going? gets answers from Aaron White, Yolanda Clifton, and Virginia Hendriksen. The Mail has letters from Denise Preis, Marc-Oliver Wright, Allen Smith, Christopher Murphy, Regina Boyce, Michelle Strunge, and Natalie Salabes. The columns are: Brian Morton’s Political Animal, on the death of hypocrisy; Eddie Matz’ Shirts and Skins, on the mercurial Orioles; Afefe Tyehimba’s Third Eye, on dancing with Fluid Movement; and Mink Stole’s Think Mink, on getting the squeeze and goth anxiety. Scocca &#38; MacLeod’s proto-blog, Funny Paper, reads the comics so you don’t have to. Emily Flake’s Lulu Eightball discovers bodily wonders. Art is Brennen Jensen, profiling Baltimore-based movie-scenester Vince Peranio, whose career is being spotlighted by Trash to Treasure, an exhibit at the Patterson Center for the Arts. In Stage, Anna Ditkoff puts the spotlight on the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival; David Morley describes the latter-day politics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State offers online open source data trove (O’Malley style)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Ericson Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Maryland state government quietly announced its brand-new online open source data trove last Wednesday. Gov. Martin O’Malley (last seen burying his head in the sand over corruption in state prisons) called the portal “a movement away from ideological, hierarchical, bureaucratic governing and toward information-age governing that is fundamentally entrepreneurial, collaborative, relentlessly interactive and performance driven.” O’Malley talks a mighty good game on the stump. As always, watch what he does. The State Integrity Project was recently unimpressed with Maryland’s access to public records, giving the state an F on that score while ranking us 40th among states in terms of corruption risk. That was just a survey, though. People were asked if data was available and if the access to the information was “effective.” The best way to see what’s available and its potential effectiveness is to visit the new site for a test drive. This we did. We give it an F too. Like many O’Malley initiatives, it looks impressive at first glance. There are more than 200 “data sets” available through the website, and you can list them in order by several different criteria, including “relevance” “most accessed” “alphabetical” and “most recently updated.” Sounds good, right? Here’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explore the many ways to celebrate American Craft Beer Week</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/explore-the-many-ways-to-celebrate-american-craft-beer-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenn Ladd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week marks the celebration of a made-up marketing gimmick, but one that&#8217;s a little easier to swallow than many: American Craft Beer Week, from May 13-19. High-end beer-drinking opportunities abound. Old standby Max&#8217;s Taphouse highlights a different style of beer every day this week. Today, May 13, it&#8217;s mouth-puckering sours, including Allagash&#8217;s oak tank-aged FV 13 in bottles as well as The Bruery&#8217;s tart and wheaty Hottenroth Berliner Weisse on draft; many others available. Tuesday features a lengthy list of hoppy brews. Look for Ballast Point Sculpin IPA on nitro, Elysian&#8217;s Superfuzz Blood Orange Pale Ale on draft, and Lagunitas Hop Stoopid on cask. Wednesday is dedicated to Belgians and Belgian-styles (saisons, quads, etc.). Thursday showcases the bar&#8217;s barrel-aged stash, with lots of bourbon and oak represented. There are stouts aplenty in Friday&#8217;s dark ales selection. Max&#8217;s breaks out the experimental offerings on Saturday, with Stillwater&#8217;s brettanomyces-fermented malt liquor, Forty Faave, and Berlin, Maryland&#8217;s Burley Oak brewery&#8217;s Rude Boy red ale with added marshmallows, parsnips, and tangelos on cask. Sunday is a bit of a mishmash, with a wheats/wits/ales/lagers roundup. The sister joint to Pratt Street Ale House in Columbia, The Ale House hosts a beer dinner tonight, featuring [...]]]></description>
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