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Ten Years Ago in City Paper: May 1, 2002

May 1, 2012
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Lee Gardner’s feature examines the new documentary boom.

In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen hits the stands to watch Baltimore’s female football team in action.

Brennen Jensen’s Charmed Life visits Baltimore County’s Agriculture Building, an erstwhile almshouse.

The Mail has letters from Dave Sessoms, Stacey Freedman, Cheryl Hemmeter DeLuca, Mitch Mirkin, Amy Weitzel, the Link editorial board, Alan Barysh, Russel Lindquist, Larry Gramling, and Rodger Thompson.

The columns are: Sandy Asirvatham’s Underwhelmed, on driving; Mink Stole’s Think Mink, on overbearing men and bartender-boyfriends; and Wiley Hall III’s Urban Rhythms, on Catholicism.

Scocca & MacLeod’s proto-blog, Funny Paper, reads the comics so you don’t have to.

In Art, Mike Giuliano checks out line drawings by Calla Thompson, James Von Minor, and Michael Weiss at Maryland Art Place, and Bret McCabe finds fault with the works of Gill Furoy hanging at G-Spot.

Music is Geoffrey Himes, admiring Whiskeytown’s former singer/fiddler, Caitlin Cary.

In Feedback, Geoffrey Himes enjoys listening to Gary Thomas and the Peabody Jazz Faculty at Paloma’s and Hank Baker can still hear after seeing Motorhead, Morbid Angel, Speedealer, and Today is the Day at the Recher Theater.

Bones is Roberto Swank’s poem, marriage/lunch in Miami.

In Film: Maurice Martin plays up Dan Poole’s Spider-Man over Tobey Maguire’s; Eric Allen Hatch explains the documentary Fluid Movement; and the Maryland Film Festival is amended.

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