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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In the feature hole are Earl Byrd’s story of his hard-fought redemption from drugs and crime and CP’s 2003 Martin O’Malley Calendar. Ericka Blount Danois’ Mobtown Beat profiles a new natural-foods buying club. The Nose wrinkles over possible litigation involving the arson murders of the Dawson family and new tactics by debt collectors. Brennen...
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The 2002 /City Paper/ Holiday Guide features: an introduction, profiles of people who work through the holidays, Bret McCabe on holiday music, an Emily Flake advent calendar, and a list of gift ideas. In Mobtown Beat: Terrie Snyder reports on Baltimore cops on the clock for the Ehrlich campaign; Brennen Jensen profiles a homesteading...
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Erin Sullivan’s feature profiles the Baltimore-Linwood Community Football League for boys an/ girls. In Mobtown Beat, Van Smith augurs the future of Baltimore’s three outgoing state senators, Barbara Hoffman, Perry Sfikas, and Clarence Mitchell IV. The Nose sniffs out Baltimore City voting problems and how the recent elections shook out for Maryland’s third parties. Charles...
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Lauren Goldsmith’s photo-feature travels with a busload of Baltimore activists to a peace rally in Washington, D.C. In Mobtown Beat, Anna Ditkoff tells how Harborplace performer Jerry Rowan’s sniper joke cost him his gig. The Nose likes the scent of the Baltimore City Council’s anti-war resolution, but not the state of Gertrude Stein’s former...
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The features are: Ooh, Scary!, CP’s Halloween masks; CP’s endorsements for the general election; and Terrie Snyder on why some murders count more than others. In Mobtown Beat, Afefe Tyehimba examines a New Shiloh Baptist Church community-development project and Van Smith raises security concerns about computer voting in Maryland and elsewhere. The Nose peruses...
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The pre-election feature package is Van Smith on Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Spear Lancaster and anti-Libertarian activist Kevin O’Connell, and Tom Siebert comparing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Kennedy Townsend to a fellow scion of a political dynasty, George W. Bush. In Mobtown Beat, Waris Banks reports on activists’ efforts to have the Baltimore City Council...
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Charles Cohen’s feature sizes up how well Maryland and Virginia are working together to help shore up the Chesapeake Bay oyster fishery. In Mobtown Beat, Afefe Tyehimba reports on the city’s persistently dangerous playgrounds and Brennen Jensen updates the city’s efforts to bring a supermarket to Oldtown Mall. The Nose wonders whether Robert Ehrlich’s...
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Brennen Jensen’s feature plumbs the prospects for Oldtown Mall’s redevelopment. In Mobtown Beat, Erin Sullivan reports on ACORN’s charges of a bank’s racial discrimination and Eric Allen Hatch covers an anti-war protest in downtown Baltimore. Tom Chalkley’s Charmed Life rolls by a Lansdowne skateboarding park. Christopher Myers’ How’s it Going? gets answers from Kip...
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Afefe Tyehimba’s photo-feature showcases some of Baltimore’s store-front churches. In Mobtown Beat, Afefe Tyehimba covers universal health-care bills in the Maryland legislature and Charles Cohen reports that city crews removed historic granite curbstones from the Hollins Market neighborhood. The Nose catches up with George Balog, the former Baltimore City public-works director turned owner of...
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City Paper’s 2002 Big Books issue focuses on pulp literature, and has an introduction and five features: Tom Chalkley on H.L. Menken’s role in the genre; Lizzie Skurnick on her Sweet Valley writing gig; Christopher Skokna on comics as literature; Wendy Ward on getting hooked on mass-market paperbacks; and Mahinder Kingra on sci-fi giants Philip...
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City Paper’s 2002 Best of Baltimore issue includes an introduction, the readers poll, a “What’s the Best?” photofeature by Christopher Myers, and winners in: Baltimore Living (with a section opener by Michael Anft on condolence writer JoAnn Sharpe), Eats and Drinks (with a section opener by Michelle Gienow on Duff “The Cake Guy” Goldman),...
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OC Alternatives Sizzlin’ Summer Calendar: Assateague Island National Seashore, North Point State Park, Rehoboth Beach, and more 5/15/2013
Charm Offensive Feature: Meet the unpaid, underappreciated, and underprotected stars of underwear football By Violet Levoit 5/22/2013
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
Sage Advice Eats and Drinks: Mount Washington spot survives a year, but must refine for the long haul By John Houser III 5/22/2013
City Treasure City Folk: Charlie Riemer kept City Hall running, finishes his own race By Rafael Alvarez 5/22/2013