Ten Years Ago in City Paper : Feb. 6, 2002
The feature is the second installment of Molly Rath’s exploration of what’s wrong with Maryland’s juvenile-justice system.
In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen reports that a live-theater company has leased the shuttered Playhouse movie theater.
The Nose sniffs out Johns Hopkins University’s largesse from state coffers and former gubernatorial candidate Eileen Rehrmann’s new job helping the city collect more money from its water-metering system.
Brennen Jensen’s Charmed Life gets a tour of the American Brewery building.
The columns are: Sandy Asirvatham’s Underwhelmed, on cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner; Mink Stole’s Think Mink, on sad solitude and birth control; Wiley Hall III’s Urban Rhythms, on adoption by gay couples; and Tom Scocca’s 8 Upper, on Super Bowl 36.
Scocca & MacLeod’s proto-blog, Funny Paper, reads the comics so you don’t have to.
In Imprints: Michael Anft drifts with Cees Nooteboom’s novel, All Souls Day; Heather Joslyn stoically bears Madelon Sprengnether’s memoir, Crying at the Movies; and Ned Oldham gets Alan Licht’s memoir, An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn.
Lee Gardner’s Art checks out Situated Realities, a digital art show at Maryland Institute College of Art’s Decker and Meyerhoff galleries.
Bones is Megan Snyder-Camp’s poem, “Mardi Gras”.
In Stage, Jack Purdy praises Rep Stage’s production of Elizabeth Egloff’s The Swan.
In Music, Rjyan Kidwell goes to auditions for a new Limp Bizkit guitarist.
Geoffrey Himes’ Know Your Product talks with June Star about their new album, Telegraph.
In Film: Eric Allen Hatch enjoys the discomfort of Storytelling; Luisa F. Ribeiro says Burt Lancaster is at his best in The Train; Jack Purdy puts Who’ll Stop the Rain among the best of second-tier films of the ‘70s; and Lee Gardner casts ABC Africa as a heart-wrenching, well-shot vacation video, while being charmed by Gold Diggers of 1933.
Michelle Gienow’s Dish goes back to Thai Restaurant to find its reinvention isn’t as good as the original.
