Alejandro Danois’ feature profiles Butch Beard, men’s basketball head coach at Morgan State University. The photo-feature by Kent Bye and Uli Loskot focuses on three war-related events: the “Bomb Saddam Party” at the Thunder Dome in Brooklyn and anti-war rallies in Washington, D.C., and Mondawmin Mall. In Mobtown Beat, Waris Banks examines Maryland’s lacking...
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Van Smith’s feature goes deep inside the bars of Curtis Bay. In Mobtown Beat, Erin Sullivan reports on the debate over the future of the Charles Village Benefits District. The Nose tracks Baltimore City Council squabbles over a bill to allow property condemnation for industrial redevelopment. Charles Cohen’s Charmed Life gets the lowdown on...
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Afefe Tyehimba’s feature explores the African-American reparations question with author Raymond Winbush, while W.E. Earle’s delves into Baltimore’s scandalous history with smallpox vaccination. In Mobtown Beat, Ericka Blount Danois reports on Baltimore’s budding martial-arts community of capoeira ethusiasts. The Nose stumbles upon an effort to have the 1700 block of North Charles Street named...
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Erin Sullivan’s feature profiles the lonely efforts of Vaughn Vigil and Bryan Taylor to rid their Madison Ave. neighborhood of drug-dealing. In Mobtown Beat, Ericka Blount Danois explains the risks of tax-refund loans and Brennen Jensen remembers Esther Martin, owner and founder of the venerable Club Charles. The Nose gets the skinny on the...
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The photofeature, Van Smith and Jefferson Jackson Steele’s Benchmark, uses Census data for areas around Baltimore’s “Greatest City in America” public benches to prompt reflection on Baltimore’s realities. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen examines the Citizens Planning and Housing Association’s hiring of Michael Sarbanes as executive director, and Van Smith dissects the underfunded “vision”...
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Nicole Leistikow’s feature reports from Kenya on the Baraka School. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen explores the format change at Towson University’s public-radio station, WTMD-FM 89.7. The Nose welcomes CP co-founder Russ Smith’s reunion with Baltimore and announces that Fells Point’s Chat Street is for sale. Charles Cohen’s Charmed Life catches up with aging...
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Ericka Blount Danois’ feature profiles the Featherstones, a family of Baltimore music makers. In Mobtown Beat, Waris Banks reports on financial straits at the Baltimore-based Black Educational AIDS Project. The Nose gives voice to an effort to give Dundalk some respect. Brennen Jensen’s Charmed Life trumpets big-band radio man Ken Jackson. The Mail has...
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Tom Chalkley’s feature looks at changes afoot in Waverly. In Mobtown Beat, Ericka Blount Danois reports on community damages wrought by Allen Becker’s predatory real-estate practices in Baltimore. The Nose second-guesses the appointment of Gary McLhinney as head of the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Tom Chalkey’s Charmed Life muses on murals depicting old Baltimore....
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The 2002 People Who Died issue salutes comics artist John Buscema, album-cover artist Mati Klarwein, movie reviewer Howard Thompson, Barbie creator Ruth Handler, Nancy Drew writer Mildred Benson, father of the Frisbee Ed Headrick, country songwriter Mickey Newbury, Uzi engineer Uziel Gal, and gay-activist iconoclast Harry Hay. Brennen Jensen’s Mobtown Beat profiles mass-transit big-thinker...
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City Paper’s 2002 Top Ten issue sums up the year in news, film, music, local music, books, television, art, and stage. In Mobtown Beat, Terrie Snyder reports how Jamal Abeokuto, the man charged with murdering eight-year-old Marciana Monia Ringo, managed to go free and disappear. The Nose bounces Anton Keating’s channeling of the late...
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Van Smith’s feature analyzes returns in Georgia’s 2002 election, the first in the country to uniformly use computer-based balloting, and finds security concerns relevant to Maryland’s – and the nation’s – voting future. In Mobtown Beat, Ericka Blount Danois reports on a proliferation of real-estate signs in Edmondson Village. The Nose gets a jump...
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Afefe Tyehimba’s feature chronicles the efforts of Bea Gaddy’s children to keep up their mother’s good works. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen tries to get to the bottom of why the renovation of Charles Village’s historic Census Building is bogged down in legal red tape. The Nose wades into the semantic transgender v. transsexual...
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OC Alternatives Sizzlin’ Summer Calendar: Assateague Island National Seashore, North Point State Park, Rehoboth Beach, and more 5/15/2013
Real-Life Embarassing Sex Stories Feature: Submitted by City Paper readers 2/13/2013
Murder Ink Murder Ink: Murders this Week: 5; Murders this Year: 77 By Edward Ericson Jr. 5/15/2013
Crazy Horse Film: Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman puts his focus on Le Crazy Horse de Paris, the French cabaret By Lee Gardner 4/4/2012
How to Throw a Louisiana Style Crawfish Boil! Sizzlin’ Summer: Ordering 1. Figure out how many people you have attending. I usually do this by selling tickets for $25 each via Paypal. 2. Once you know how many people will be attending, you can figure out how many pounds of crawfish you need to order. The suggested a By Ben Claassen III 5/15/2013
Sizzlin’ Summer Sizzlin’ Summer: Summer in Baltimore is a sensory explosion, from the scent of Old Bay-smothered steamed crabs and the taste of marshmallow-topped chocolate snoballs to the smell of Ocean City salt water mixed with sunscreen and the vision of fireflies. 5/15/2013