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Ten Years Ago in City Paper: May 15, 2002
Michael Anft’s feature handicaps Maryland horse-racing’s prospects for salvation from slots revenues, and Phyllis Orrick reflects on City Paper’s first decade.
In Mobtown Beat, Ericka Blount Danois looks at BGE’s decision to send customers to ACE Cash Express to make utility payments.
The Nose shines the lights on Gia Blatterman and the Little Italy bocce courts.
Charles Cohen’s Charmed Life listens to a horse-racing buff try to resurrect the fame of 1974 Preakness winner Little Current.
The Mail has letters from David Gonzalez, Eric Beatty, Kristen Anchor, and S.R. Hines.
The columns are: Suz Redfearn’s Germ Bag, on New Orleans’ Jazz and Heritage Festival; Sandy Asirvatham’s Underwhelmed, on the death penalty; Mink Stole’s Think Mink, on persnickety moms and workplace cock-blocking; and Wiley Hall III’s Urban Rhythms, on the death penalty.
Scocca & MacLeod’s proto-blog, Funny Paper, reads the comics so you don’t have to.
In Books, Rupert Wondolowski gets bloodied by Adam Johnson’s short-story collection, Emporium.
In Art, Mike Giuliano takes in Bernhard Hildebrandt’s paintings at C. Grimaldis Gallery and the premiere show at Gallery International, while Bret McCabe is impressed by the work of Erik Nils Frydenborg, on display at Mission Space.
Stage is Heather Joslyn, previewing a production of David Drake’s Son of Drakula at Theatre Project; and Jack Purdy, sweet on Everyman Theatre’s production of Warren Leight’s Side Man.
Luna’s Dean Wareham explains himself in Michaelangelo Matos’ Music.
In Know Your Product, Bret McCabe marks the release of The Boys March at Dawn by calling O’Malley’s March a “tribute band”; tips a hat to Adiofix’s Transit; gives ellen cherry an apple for The Ellen Cherry Primer; likes the music, though not the lyrics, of Liars Academy’s No News is Good News; gets assaulted by Sorrow’s End’s Mykado/Sorrows End; and bows to Sir Rabbit’s Sir Rabbit.
Television is Craig D. Lindsay, celebrating the end of The X-Files and Ally McBeal.
In Film: Joe MacLeod tries mightily to rank Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones; Ian Grey calls Event Horizon “a truly chilling, beyond-twisted junk film”; Adele Marley has nothing but praise for A Fish Called Wanda; Luisa F. Riebeiro takes her claws to The Cat’s Meow; and Lee Gardner forgives much to like The Day the Earth Stood Still, but gets itchy about Scratch.
Michelle Gienow’s Dish likes the crabs at Ocean City’s Bahama Mamas.
In Cheap Eats, Christopher Skokna is satisfied with Nino Taco.
