14 search results for "Ode to the Boss"

City Paper’s 2003 Eat guide features Michael Yockel on Slow Food Baltimore, Springfield Farm, La Scala’s cannolis, Calvert’s Gift Farm, and Route 11 Potato Chips, plus a whole suit of dieting ideas – the City Paper Diet, the Halogen Diet, the Duchess of Windsor Diet, the Summer of Love Diet, the Bernie Carbo Diet,...
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Go On, which debuted with a full episode preview on NBC after the Olympics, is the latest Matthew Perry vehicle.  Since Friends, Perry has had two shows (Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip and Mr. Sunshine) canceled in their first seasons.  Could Go On be his first to, well, go on? It is hard...
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Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, the creators of How I Met Your Mother, are currently in negotiations with CBS to decide if the show will be extended to a ninth season.  The show’s eighth season will debut this fall.  According to Entertainment Weekly the co-creators have contingency plans for ending the series in both...
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Freshman City Councilman Nick Mosby has published an ambitious web-based (Flash Player) “magazine” called Seven, looking back at his first 100 days in office and featuring several well-written mini features about some highlights of the district such as the STEM school, Art Blocks and Shalik Fulton, an up-and-coming young leader. Mosby also highlights a...
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Quoting William Carlos Williams, Maryland’s highest court has upheld lower courts’ dismissals of a four-year-old libel suit filed against City Paper. “’It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it,’” Judge Glenn T. Harrell wrote in the Maryland Court of Appeals opinion, which was filed today. “There...
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in 2009 the FBI investigated 5,316 bank robberies, recovering approximately $8 million out of a total of $46 million that had been stolen—less than a week’s pay for Paulson.
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Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company Early in the 20th century in the Pacific Northwest, employment agencies started charging fees to casual laborers and itinerant workers looking for work, such as in logging camps. Members of the Industrial Workers of the World—aka the Wobblies—started trying to organize these workers, frequently by speaking out in the...
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“Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs,” the New York Times noticed on Saturday in a story about people it dubbed “the new poor.” The story is a good reminder to the ruling class. One should never forget that millions of rich douchebags pretend to have no idea how the majority of us live....
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Since Jan. 13, when City Paper mistakenly reported that the City of Baltimore awarded a $10,000, one-year contract to the online publication Bmore, new information has come to light about the deal, which was pulled from the Jan. 13 Board of Estimates agenda at the last minute. First Deputy Mayor Andrew Frank, answering questions...
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Andrew Reiner’s cover feature, “Wooden Ships,” is a first-person account of learning about wooden boat-building by helping to construct a replica of the schooner Sultana at a boatyard in Cambridge, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. In Charmed Life Tom Chalkley recounts the early-1800s adventures in Baltimore of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, who didn’t last...
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AIG reported a $1.8 billion quarterly profit as Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the company’s former long-time über boss, paid $15 million to the SEC to settle (unrelated) fraud charges. Quoth the WSJ: Shares were up 18% at $26.49 around midday Friday after the New York insurer and financial services company reported a surprising $1.82 billion...
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Porta potties from Don’s Johns lined the mall during the inauguration. | Image by Van Smith Savvy City Paper readers know that our paper’s fearless leader is publisher Don Farley. There’s a tradition here in the office of collecting and trading “Don”-related images, and here’s one for the ages, taken on the Mall during...
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