Tom Chalkley, Eileen Murphy, and Tom Scocca team up to produce a feature about some of Baltimore’s unsung heroes: John Coates, Mike DeMarco, Paul Iwancio, Jacquiline Johnson, Dorothy Lofton Jones, Lenny Stem, Nancy Supik, Stephen Teret, Bill Tiefenwerth, and Pat Welch. In Mobtown Beat, Eileen Murphy reports that Scott Huffines plans to close Atomic...
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CP’s 2000 Holiday Guide line-up, after an introduction, includes Michelle Gienow on Christmas gardens, Michael Anft on hiring Santa, and Adele Marley on living nativities. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen covers a gay-history project. Tom Chalkley’s Media Circus comments on Election 2000 and Anthony McCarthy’s new gig at the Baltimore Times, where an R.B....
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The two-pack feature hole is filled with Eileen Murphy’s dissection of Highlandtown’s revitalization and, writing under a pseudonym, Alexander Kogan’s lament of losing a friend to ecstasy. Mobtown Beat is Tom Scocca, on the International Basketball League’s stab at a second season. Meanwhile, The Nose tries to gauge what’s to come of the Historic...
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CP gets into the Halloween spirit with two features: Baltimore ghost stories by Tom Chalkley, Charles Cohen, and Brennen Jensen; and “Ooh, Scary! Halloween Masks” by Joe MacLeod and Tom Scocca. In Mobtown Beat, Eileen Murphy looks at a project that casts tree-plantings as art, and Michael Anft explores a developer’s plan for Fort...
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The feature is Michael Corbin on Baltimore’s life-saving, little-discussed needle-exchange program. Mobtown Beat is: Brennen Jensen on confusion over the city’s policy of demolishing old buildings; Tom Scocca on confusion over who can prescribe the abortion drug RU-486; and Terrie Snyder on litigation over the city’s police helicopters. The Nose puts West Nile virus...
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The two features are Brennen Jensen’s interview with a drug addict (including a timeline of Baltimore’s drug-war milestones) and Tom Scocca’s dispatch from the Republican National Convention. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen taps into neighborhood frustrations over the city’s rush to demolish homes in historic Union Square. The Nose reports back from a meeting...
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The feature is Michael Anft, on then-Mayor Martin O’Malley’s seeming preference for the business community over neighborhood groups. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen reports on the possible closing of an addiction-rehab house in West Baltimore. Charles Cohen, in Charmed Life, tells of suffragist Edith Houghton Hooker, publisher and editor of Maryland Suffrage News. The...
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Eileen Murphy’s feature considers the perplexing lack of racial diversity in Baltimore’s visual-arts scene. In Mobtown Beat, Michael Anft reports on community misgivings about where to build a new west-side fire station, and Brennen Jensen announces the birthday of Brickhill’s oldest resident, Mamie Spicer. The Nose updates the union situation at University of Maryland...
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Tom Scocca’s feature gets the story of West Baltimore’s Umar Boxing Club. Mobtown Beat is Terrie Snyder’s report that manufacturing defects caused the 1998 police-helicopter crash that killed Baltimore police officer Barry Wood. Meanwhile, the Nose suspects University of Maryland Medical Center of intimidating union demonstrators, finds a possible way for public-schools activists to...
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Lee Gardner’s feature surveys Baltimore’s hip-hop scene, while Mark Gauvreau Judge smacks down Harry Potter. In Mobtown Beat, Liz Steinberg showcases a MICA student’s guerrilla-art project, while Michael Anft reports on a nascent effort to downsize the Baltimore City Council. The Nose updates the adventures of D.S. Bakker and his globe-trotting side-kick, Bud. Charles...
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Michael Anft’s history of Baltimore bricks. The columns are: Sandy Asirvatham on sexual violence toward women in Underwhelmed; Wiley Hall III on abortion in Urban Rhythms; Joab Jackson on online privacy in Cyberpunk; and Tom Scocca on the NBA draft in 8 Upper. In Books, Michael Anft delves into the doubts about American prosperity...
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Two big-picture features: Andrew Reiner argues that history repeats itself because Americans disdain it and Natalie Davis investigates the Christian debate over gay rights. The Nose collects the moans and groans of business owners affected by the shutting down of the Charles Street bridge over I-83 and the Amtrak tracks. In Mobtown Beat, Eileen...
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