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Ten Years Ago in City Paper: Feb. 27, 2002
City Paper’s 2002 Eat dining-guide issue features two meaty packages by food critic Michelle Gienow. In her Apocalypse Chow package in the paper, Gienow proclaims her affinity for off-the-beaten-track eateries, reviewing Toby’s Diner, Beltway Motel and Restaurant, J&B Hotdogs, Port Truck Stop Restaurant, and Jim’s Diner. In Eat, Gienow’s Time to Eat package describes the cuisines of 1900-1919, the 1920s, the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, and the 2000s at local restaurants.
The Mail has letters from Nigel Assam, Kevin Kamps, Bradley Paul, and C. Scales.
Afefe Tyehimba’s Mobtown Beat reports how addiction-treatment advocates are pressing for public funding in Maryland’s tight budget.
The Nose sees Baltimore police helicopters flying for an advertising shoot, legislators looking to protect predatory lenders, and the American Urological Association, along with its William P. Didusch Museum, leaving Baltimore for Anne Arundel County.
Michael Anft’s Media Circus covers WBAL radio’s Mic Time With Mayor O’Malley and possible labor-union fall-out over The Sun’s partnership with WMAR-TV.
Brennen Jensen’s Charmed Life recounts the heroic death in WWI of erstwhile Baltimore News real-estate editor George Buchanan Redwood.
The columns are: Suz Redfearn’s Germ Bag, on her Starbucks addiction; Joe MacLeod’s Mr. Wrong, on failing to bet on the Olympics; Mink Stole’s Think Mink, on cross-cultural marriage and smothering boyfriends; Wiley Hall III’s Urban Rhythms, on air-travel classism; and Tom Scocca’s 8 Upper, on the winter Olympics.
Scocca & MacLeod’s proto-blog, Funny Paper, reads the comics so you don’t have to.
In Art, Mike Giuliano looks at the photographs of Nathan Lyons and Edward West at University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Albin O. Kuhn Gallery, and checks out the paintings of Sergio Roggerone and Lauren Unger at Gomez Gallery.
Anna Ditkoff’s Stage piece says the Paragon Theatre Company’s production of Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers is itself lost.
The cancellation by WEAA of Underground Experience, a house-mix radio show by Oji Morris and Brian Pope, is bemoaned in Bret McCabe’s No Cover.
In Film: Ian Grey praises the everyone-loses Vietnam War film, We Were Soldiers, and sees poetry in The Devil’s Backbone; Lee Gardner gets the big picture in Life and Debt, enjoys a whole lot of singing and dancing in That’s Entertainment, and bets on Bob le Flambeur; Andy Markowitz feels for The Dead Zone; Joe MacLeod tries not to sleep through Dragonfly; and Adele Marley wishes John Q had been better.
Michelle Gienow’s Dish takes G&M Restaurant’s crabcakes down a few pegs, while Tom Scocca’s Cheap Eats breaths in the “wholesome stink” at Combalou Fromagerie and Café.
