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Correction: According to the Baltimore City Comptroller’s Office, the $10,000 one-year city contract with “Issue Media Group – Bmore,” which we reported was awarded yesterday by the Board of Estimates, was in fact withdrawn from the board’s agenda prior to the meeting. No further information about the contract—listed on page 60 of the board’s...
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On Jan. 11, the last of 10 bank-account seizure warrants filed in connection with the ongoing federal probe of online gambling were returned to U.S. District Court in Maryland. The latest returns—for three warrants, all seeking funds from accounts held by a payment-processing company called HMD, Inc.—brought in $1,547,559.33. Earlier, in late 2009, returns...
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Geoffrey Himes, in his feature “From the Hills,” explores the musical migration of bluegrass to Baltimore: “Bluegrass might be a recessive gene in Baltimore’s DNA, just waiting for the right circumstances to express itself again.” In Mobtown Beat, Tom Scocca covers the Playhouse Theater’s revival showing Korean movies, and Eileen Murphy reports on artists...
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Only two Baltimore City legislators—state Sen. Joan Carter Conway (D-43rd District) and state Del. Frank Conaway Jr. (D-40th District)—filed bills prior to the opening bell of the new state’s legislative session, which starts tomorrow. Here’s the rundown of their pre-filed legislation. Senate Bill 2, “Task Force on the Minority Business Enterprise Program and Equity...
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It’s official: The 68th Street Dump, a Superfund site in Rosedale that doubles as a woodsy playground for trespassing locals, is definitely not safe for recreation—though moreso because of the rough terrain than the pollutants that linger in the soil there, according to a newly released public-health assessment by the U.S. Department of Health...
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The cover story of City Paper‘s first issue of the new millennium is Joab Jackson’s how-to guide to digitizing music from vinyl, advising that “digital music is still an entirely new way of thinking about recorded music.” The sidebar notes that digital copies aren’t always perfect. Mobtown Beat features Molly Rath on the co-dependent...
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Darvin Moon became a folk hero to many (including yours truly) when he rose from small-time card games in Western Maryland to sit at the table for the World Series of Poker’s 2009 main event on Nov. 9. The same day, City Paper earned the ire of many readers by reporting that Moon—whose aw-shucks,...
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In this week’s feature, “Charmed Century,” Tom Chalkley and Brennen Jensen scroll through the century’s Baltimore news, with a time-line accompaniment. In Mobtown Beat, Andrew Reiner profiles the African Museum, part of Yahney Sangarey’s effort to change perceptions about Africa, and the Nose sniffs out a film-in-progress about west side merchants whose businesses are...
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The Sun‘s crime reporter, Justin Fenton, has been on a roll, measured as much by his prodigious output of stories as by the depths to which he’s been digging. ‘ His coverage of the recent stabbing death associated with a party held at the Great Blacks in Wax Museum has been particularly probing. The...
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Michael Anft’s feature about the impending demolition of Flag House Courts, the last of the city’s public-housing high-rises, examines a city program that critics dubbed “a deliberate effort to reduce the density of poverty by reducing the number of housing units for the poor.” In Mobtown Beat, Molly Rath anticipates that Laura Weeldreyer’s arrival...
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Staff writers Michael Anft and Molly Rath fill the feature hole by expounding “Ten Things We Love About 1999″ in Baltimore news: Martin O’Malley as the new mayor, the flailing school-reform effort, the high murder rate, the weather, the Westside renewal project, the Annapolis battle over the Intercounty Connector, chronic poverty, expelled state Sen....
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Lynae Chapman Warren Brown is highly exercised on Dec. 9, as he returns to the defense table from Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge David Young’s bench. “I’ll say for the record, your honor,” the criminal-defense attorney declares, “that the state can forget about any help from this young lady.” Brown is referring to his...
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