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Ten Years Ago in City Paper: May 8, 2002
Mike Godwin’s feature explores future scenarios for the consumption of copyrighted digital entertainment.
In Mobtown Beat, Van Smith goes to the annual Intertribal Powwow at Ferry Bar Park and Brennen Jensen examines how arts districts are turning old factories into new studios.
Michael Anft’s Media Circus offers constructive criticism of City Paper.
Tom Chalkley’s Charmed Life wonders what Cretaceous-era artifacts may be buried beneath Mobtown’s streets.
The Mail has letters from Lisa Linville, Sutton Stokes, John Grant, and Shane Tanzymore.
The columns are: Joe MacLeod’s Mr. Wrong, on canned fruit; Mink Stole’s Think Mink, on dating youngsters and chasing men; and Wiley Hall III’s Urban Rhythms, on apologizing bureaucrats.
Scocca & MacLeod’s proto-blog, Funny Paper, reads the comics so you don’t have to.
Books is Anna Ditkoff, singing the praises of Ayun Halliday’s graphic novel about parenting, Big Rumpus.
In Art, Mike Giuliano checks out the latest at Gomez Gallery: sculpture by Victoria Montero and photographs by Nathan Congdon and Susan Rubin.
Bones is Douglas William Mowbray’s poem, “Bobbie.”
In Stage, Anna Ditkoff profiles the penniless, theater-less Mobtown Players, and John Barry appreciates the hate in Fells Point Corner Theatre’s production of George F. Walker’s Heaven.
Bret McCabe’s Music piece gets inside the heads of Ink.
In Film: Jack Purdy makes nice with Pal Joey; Luisa F. Riberio finds that Mildred Pierce is no Mommy Dearest and extols the intelligence of Enigma; Lee Gardner is impressed with the sexual realism of Y Tu Mama Tambien and thankful for The Last Waltz; Ian Grey actually likes Spider-Man, but finds Unfaithful so “not-there,” he isn’t sure he actually saw it; and Eric Allen Hatch pans Hollywood Ending.
Michelle Gienow’s Dish recommends Petticoat Tea Room for Mother’s Day.
In Cheap Eats, Tim Hill gets something like a corn dog at Saigon Restaurant.
