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Ten Years Ago in City Paper: May 29, 2002
George Cerny’s feature covers the tempest brewed by historian Vernon Pedersen’s The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-1957.
In Mobtown Beat, Van Smith shows how the Leonie Barnes arson-murder trial exposed the Baltimore City Fire Department’s investigative frailties.
The Nose wonders about a Hollins Market shooting in front of the after-hours club Enterlude, and finds nonprofits in a huff about lack of tent-space at HFStival.
Michael Anft busts the myth of the left-leaning media in Media Circus.
Brennen Jensen’s Charmed Life takes a close look at Ailanthus altissima, better known as the weed tree, the ghetto palm, or the stink tree.
The Mail has letters from Bob Rowe, Charles Nieberding, Michael Plakosh, and Max Obuszewski.
The columns are Suz Redfearn’s Germ Bag, on the prom; Joe MacLeod’s Mr. Wrong, advising this year’s graduates about the food-service industry; Mink Stole’s Think Mink, on spousal hostility and gift-giving; and Wiley Hall III’s Urban Rhythms, on customer service.
Scocca & MacLeod’s proto-blog, Funny Paper, reads the comics so you don’t have to.
In Imprints: Susan Muaddi Darraj recommends Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter; Frank Diller is exhausted by Henry Petroski’s Paperboy; and Joab Jackson finds Janna Levin’s How the Universe Got Its Spots a worthy failure.
Mike Giuliano’s Art checks out School 33 Art Center’s latest: works by Nora Sturges, Kathryn Henneberry, Edda Jakab, and Sherri Chambers.
In Stage: John Barry takes a wild ride with Center Stage’s production of Rinde Eckert’s And God Created Great Whales; and Anna Ditkoff says Theatre Project’s production of David Drake’s Son of Drakula feels like a work in progress.
Bret McCabe, in Music, learns why Wordsound’s Skiz Fernando, made a movie called Crooked.
Television is Ericka Blount Danois, reporting on The Wire.
In film: Lee Gardner is blown away by Dogtown and Z-Boys and figures Downhill Racer at least has archival value; Ian Grey is bored by The Sum of All Fears; Joe MacLeod sets foot on The Wild, Wild Planet; and Eric Allen Hatch finds Enough clumsy, but happily gets up in the old Grand Hotel.
Michelle Gienow’s Dish is right at home at Martick’s Restaurant Francais, and her Cheap Eats gushes over Imperial Gourmet.
