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City Paper is among the finalists for three Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) awards, in writing, design, and photography categories, AAN announced today. In the “LONG-FORM NEWS STORY circulation 50,000 and over” category, staff writer Edward Ericson Jr. was nominated for “Minding Her Own Business” (Sept. 11, 2012), about the efforts of a disabled...
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My colleague Brandon Weigel posted yesterday about his experience at the 2013 Preakness, his first. He talked about his vantage point from the grandstand, his bets, his entry into into the cushy confines of the VIP section. I was moved to respond, first, to tell the young whippersnapper how things were “in my day,”...
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Hallelujah! After virtually universal agreement (by the people we talk to, anyway) that the MARC train should run from Baltimore’s Penn Station to D.C.’s Union Station on weekends (which has been promised since at least 2008), it will finally be so, according to a report in the Baltimore Business Journal. The additional service was...
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We say CNN ripped us off. You be the judge. On May 1, City Paper published this story, with the headline “Robocop: Retired city policeman takes refuge among droids,” about former city police officer Mark Haygood (pictured) who now makes robots out of old toys and alarm clocks and the like. On May 10,...
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The fire that roared through a building housing several auto shops as well as the Open Space Baltimore gallery and arts space and several apartments Tuesday night did significant damage, but residents are safe and grateful for all the support they’ve received. Jasmine Sarp, an artist and CP designer who works with the thriving DIY...
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Early this evening, a two-alarm fire engulfed the building at 2720 Sisson St. in Remington containing several auto repair shops and the Open Space Baltimore gallery.  One firefighter was taken to Mercy hospital with minor injuries and others were evacuated after a partial roof collapse. City Paper designer Jasmine Sarp, one of the resident...
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At an April 23 press con­fer­ence, the lat­est Black Guer­rilla Fam­ily (BGF) prison gang rack­e­teer­ing indict­ment was announced, detail­ing charges against 25 defen­dants (a roster including detail background information on each is here), including 13 Mary­land cor­rec­tional offi­cers (COs) who allegedly facil­i­tated the gang’s oper­a­tional takeover of two Bal­ti­more deten­tion facil­i­ties. What follows is...
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Contributing photographer Noah Scialom sends along the following note along with seven accompanying pictures… With a slight chill in the air, in the still, not-quite-spring-weather this morning, I grabbed my cameras and coat and set off to take some pictures of a press conference in Remington. As I pulled up to the corner of...
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Dr. Ben Carson stepped onto the national stage in February with his pointed, right-leaning speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, defending the flat tax and slamming Obamacare in front of President Obama, and has stayed there ever since. In a series of subsequent public appearances, on Fox News, at the CPAC conference, and on...
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Have you read the Washington Post travel piece on Baltimore that ran today? In it, writer Marc Fisher basically comes out and admits that he bases his opinion of Baltimore on The Wire, Randy Newman’s 1977 album cut, “Baltimore,” and a trip to AVAM. And like a lot of ignorant, elitist DC folks, he...
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It’s not often that the worlds of bail bonds and tech startups overlap, but they do in the Nochumowitz family, founders of Big Boyz Bail Bonds, of the ubiquitous pens, who have branched out as of late with a startup called BetaPunch. And the Nochumowitzes have brought their unique brand of asshole behavior to...
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Last week, Rolling Stone ran a story about how TV meteorologists—the “weather experts” who have the most contact with the general population—tend to be doubters of the science of climate change. This despite the fact that ragtag conspiracy theorists like NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS),...
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