Ten Years Ago In City Paper: Jan. 30, 2002
Molly Rath’s feature untangles what’s fundamentally wrong with Maryland’s juvenile-justice system.
In Mobtown Beat, Afefe Tyehimba looks at efforts to restore ex-felons’ voting rights in Maryland.
The Nose smokes Comptroller William Donald Schaefer’s contraband-tobacco efforts.
Michael Anft’s Media Circus examines media jingoism.
In Charmed Life, Charles Cohen checks out the Baltimore Exposure Art Show.
The columns are: Suz Redfearn’s Germ Bag, on going to see the doctor; Joe MacLeod’s Mr. Wrong, on Super Bowl XXXVI; Mink Stole’s Think Mink, on mean moms and abusive exes; Wiley Hall III’s Urban Rhythms, on standardized school testing; and Tom Scocca’s 8 Upper, on how bad teams make the Super Bowl.
Scocca & MacLeod’s proto-blog, Funny Paper, reads the comics so you don’t have to.
In Books, Brennen Jensen celebrates the release of James Taylor’s Shocked and Amazed Vol. 6.
Art is Mike Giuliano, on the paintings of Bill Fisher and Jesus Matheus at Gomez Gallery.
In Stage, Mike Giuliano has some bones to pick with Fells Point Corner Theatre’s production of Lynn Notage’s Crumbs from the Table of Joy.
Film is: Lee Gardner, praising Lantana; Andy Markowitz, calling Semi-Tough “the funniest football movie ever”; Ian Grey, finding relief in Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and being unnerved by The Mothman Prophecies; Eric Allen Hatch, giving The Bad Seed its due; and Adele Marley, saying Nicole Kidman saves Birthday Girl and finding that nothing can save A Walk to Remember.
Michelle Gienow’s Dish finds Soigne “outstanding.”
