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It would be easy for City Paper to take the position the Preakness sucks. The crowd, after all, is overwhelmingly stuffed shirts, blue bloods, and what our art director Joe MacLeod referred to as “Easter Catholics,” people who turn up to the racetrack once a year for the high holiday of Maryland racing and...
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In a post on its blog yesterday — April Fools’ Day, mind you — Atomic Books announced plans to take over a space being vacated in the spring by Doubledutch Boutique and expand the square footage of both the bookstore and record shop Celebrated Summer. The space that Celebrated Summer and the store’s offices...
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While it was only discovered recently the makers of Baltimore’s iconic Berger Cookies were operating without a city license, the feds were nice enough to license the bakery years ago. DeBaufre Bakeries returned the favor by not paying all of its taxes, according to a report. The Internal Revenue Service filed a notice of...
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The Baltimore City Health Department approved a new license for the Berger cookie factory Wednesday morning, and the coveted cookies–which had been going for $25 a box on eBay during the shutdown–should return to store shelves soon. The license was picked up this afternoon. As part of an inspec­tion for the Berger cookie fac­tory...
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The Food and Drug Administration will issue a “Form 483″ to managers at the factory where the iconic Berger cookies are made, as part of an ongoing investigation, George Strait, special assistant communications at the federal agency’s Office of Regulatory Authority, confirmed today. Form 483 is issued “at the conclusion of an inspection when...
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