Feature Archives:
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2/9/2005 |
Street of Dreams
Pennsylvania Avenue Was Once the Center of Black Life and Culture in Baltimore—Can it Be Again? The Second of a Two-Part Series
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2/2/2005 |
Street of Dreams
Pennsylvania Avenue Was Once the Center of Black Life and Culture in Baltimore—Can It Be Again? The First of a Two-Part Series
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1/26/2005 |
Performance Anxiety
Backstage in the No-Pay, Low-Glory World of Community Theater
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1/19/2005 |
The Toll
Young Men Struggle to Find Meaning in a Neighborhood Where Homicide is Routine
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1/12/2005 |
Soldier’s Heart
Thousands Of Iraq War Veterans Will Come Home To Face Serious Psychological Problems And A System That May Not Be Ready To Help Them
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1/5/2005 |
Who Killed Sister Cathy?
One of Maryland’s Coldest Murder Cases Heats Up
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12/29/2004 |
Brinksman
Paul Nitze
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12/29/2004 |
People Who Died 2004
Our Annual Salute to Now-Still Cultural Movers and Little-known Lives
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12/29/2004 |
The Beautiful Game
Leonidas da Silva
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12/29/2004 |
Just Dandy
John Stephen
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12/29/2004 |
Unbeautiful
Mercedes McCambridge
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12/29/2004 |
Man With a Plan
David Wallace
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12/29/2004 |
Rhythm King
Coxsone Dodd
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12/29/2004 |
Not Like Everybody Else
Greg Shaw
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12/29/2004 |
Border Woman
Gloria Anzaldúa
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12/29/2004 |
In the Cut
Charlotte Zwerin
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12/22/2004 |
Stranger Than Fiction
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12/8/2004 |
Learning Curve
Are Charter Schools the Right Answer to Baltimore’s Public-School Woes?
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12/1/2004 |
Little Vegas
What Can Maryland’s Troubled History with Slot Machines Tell Us About the Odds for the Future?
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11/24/2004 |
Fat Chance
As the Weight-Loss Surgery Business Booms, Patients Face the Ultimate Lose-Lose Situation
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11/10/2004 |
God, Gays, and Guns
A Debriefing From Battleground Ohio
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11/10/2004 |
I See Dance People
15 Years After Putting Baltimore on the House Music Map, the Basement Boys Still Walk Among Us
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11/3/2004 |
Ballers
Who’s Got Game in the World of Madden NFL?
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10/27/2004 |
Mayor
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10/27/2004 |
U.S. Representative 2nd District
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10/27/2004 |
U.S. Representative 3rd District
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10/27/2004 |
City Council President
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10/27/2004 |
U.S. Senate
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10/27/2004 |
Your Vote Matters
City Paper’s Voter Guide for the 2004 General Election
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10/27/2004 |
President
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10/27/2004 |
U.S. Representative 7th District
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10/27/2004 |
City Comptroller
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10/27/2004 |
Councilmanic District Seats
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10/27/2004 |
The Fine Print
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10/13/2004 |
Tax Break
A Yet-to-be-Released Study Concludes that the City isn’t Getting its Full Share from Property Taxes
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10/6/2004 |
The Man Behind the Curtain
“Buffalo’S Biggest Slumlord” Comes to Baltimore
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9/8/2004 |
Homicidal Tendencies
How Do We Kill One Another? Let Us Count the Ways. Baltimore Homicides, 1988-2002.
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9/1/2004 |
Maryland’s Stem-Cell Wars
Inside the Battles Over Embryos, Cloning, and the Future of Medicine
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8/25/2004 |
In Custody
Do Chartrese Cunningham’s Jail Time and Past Drug Habit Mean She Should Never Get Her Son Back?
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8/18/2004 |
Mr. Fix-It
Joshua Siegel is Rehabbing Decrepit Reservoir Hill Housing. That’s a Good Thing, Right?
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8/11/2004 |
Epidemic Proportions
HIV/AIDS Still Ravages Baltimore, but the Disease—and the People Who Have It—Have Changed. How Can the Little-Known Group That Funds the City’S HIV/AIDS Programs Keep Up?
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7/28/2004 |
Scaling Back
The Baltimore Zoo Closes the Reptile House and Hopes Less is More
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7/14/2004 |
Mortal Thoughts
Philosopher Alphonso Lingis Brings the Real World to the Ivory Tower
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7/7/2004 |
A Shot in the Dark
Was Dexter Hill’s Death at the Hands of a Baltimore City Police Sergeant Justifiable, or Just Plain Homicide?
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6/30/2004 |
Ghosts in the Machines
What Happens to Your Online Self When You Die?
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6/23/2004 |
A Down Low Shame
What Some Black Women Don’t Know About Their Men Could Hurt Them
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6/16/2004 |
Caught on Tape
Filmmaker Kent Bye Says the Media is Partially Responsible for the Iraq War--and He Has the Footage to Prove it
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6/16/2004 |
Calling Baghdad
Iraqi Baltimoreans React to the Latest News from Home
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6/2/2004 |
To the Dogs
Baltimore Animal Control Saves Animals From Hunger, Neglect, and Cruelty and Delivers Them to Confinement, Poor Conditions, and a One in 10 Chance of Survival
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5/19/2004 |
The Corrections
Inmates at the Baltimore Detention Center Want Out--But Until Then They'd Like Medical Care, Decent Food, and Humane Treatment
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5/12/2004 |
The Great Go-Goop War, Part 2
In continuing homage, and with further apologies, to the late Theodor Geisel.
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5/5/2004 |
Fur Piece
Inside the Making of John Waters' A Dirty Shame
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4/28/2004 |
Fables of the Reconstruction
A Coalition Memo Reveals that Even True Believers See the Seeds Of Civil War in the Occupation of Iraq
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4/28/2004 |
The Memo
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4/28/2004 |
Orchestral Maneuvers
Can the BSO Build a Future on the Music of the Past?
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4/21/2004 |
Hacks
A Baltimore Way of Life
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4/14/2004 |
Out of Africa
International Scam Artists Steal Big Money Through a New Telephone Service for the Deaf--and AT&T; and the State of Maryland Benefit
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4/7/2004 |
Along Came a Spiral
Danielle Thought Falling Into a Life of Drug Addiction and Prostitution Was Hard--Until She Tried to Get Out
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3/31/2004 |
Along Came a Spiral
A Drug Habit Leads to a Desperate Life of Prostitution--It Could Happen to Anyone. Ask Danielle.
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3/24/2004 |
Wonder Drug
Buprenorphine's Advocates Say it Could Revolutionize Addiction Treatment Here in the Nation's Heroin Capital and Wonder Why it's Taking So Long
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3/17/2004 |
God • Family • Republic
Pasadena Attorney Michael Peroutka is the Constitution Party's Favored Candidate for President of the United States. Is it a Match Made in Heaven?
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3/10/2004 |
Pie in the Sky
The Winstead Brothers Say They Have the Answer to Downtown Transit Woes--Gondolas
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3/3/2004 |
The Hot Seat
Dr. Thomas Butler Had Very Good Reasons for Carrying Bubonic Plague Aboard Passenger Flights--But That Didn't Stop The U.S. Government From Ruining his Life
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2/25/2004 |
Vote Anyway: CP's Guide to Maryland's Primary Election
Forget "Electability" for a Minute--Where do Edwards, Kerry, Kucinich, and Sharpton Really Stand?
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2/18/2004 |
Breaking the Mold
As African-American Museums Boom, Great Blacks in Wax Keeps Showing and Telling Black History on its Own Terms
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2/4/2004 |
Falling Waters
One Longtime Polluter is Cleaning Up, But the Jones Falls' Troubles are Far From Over
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1/28/2004 |
Picking up the Pieces
In the Heart of a Broken Country, American Soldier- Diplomats are Trying to Create Democracy Amid Chaos
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1/21/2004 |
Scene Stealer
With Little More Than a Video Camera, Jon Routson Turns Low-Tech Movie Bootlegging into High-Concept Art
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1/14/2004 |
East Meets the East Side
With the Help of a Jewish Grandmother, Exiled Tibetans Plant Roots in Baltimore
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12/31/2003 |
People Who Died: Our Annual Salute to Dearly Departed Subcultural sub-celebrities
Each year when we arrive at these dim and narrow days at the end of the calendar, our thoughts turn...
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12/31/2003 |
Pig Lit
Paul Zindel
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12/31/2003 |
Falling Star
Leslie Cheung
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12/31/2003 |
Founding a Movement
Cholly Atkins
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12/31/2003 |
Model Citizen
Suzy Parker
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12/31/2003 |
Fought the Power
Walter Sisulu
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12/31/2003 |
Pop Life
Mickie Most
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12/31/2003 |
The Breath of Life
Dr. Peter Safar
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12/31/2003 |
Black Beauty
Frank Lowe
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12/31/2003 |
Sitting Pretty
William F. Draper
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12/24/2003 |
Silent Night
Area Widows Talk About Love, Loss, and the Gift of Life
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12/10/2003 |
In His Words
When Tony Schaefer Disappeared, the Only Clues He Left Behind Were Hundreds of Pages of Stories That No One Had Ever Read
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12/3/2003 |
Something in the Air
Joanne Douglas Believes That Working at the City's Ashburton Water Filtration Plant Made Her Sick--And She's Not the Only One
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11/26/2003 |
Girls, Interrupted
A New Documentary Film Follows Two Baltimore Teens Through the Juvenile Justice System and Finds No Hollywood Endings
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11/26/2003 |
Pressing the Flesh
Porn King Larry Flynt Comes to Baltimore--But What Does He Really Want?
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11/12/2003 |
Seeing What Develops
On the surface, Baltimore is no one's idea of a boom town.
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11/12/2003 |
The City That Builds
From The Inner Harbor to the Hippodrome, 30-Plus Years of Baltimore Development
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11/12/2003 |
The Last Neighborhood
What's Going to Happen to Old-School Locust Point Now That It's the Hot New Place to Live?
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11/12/2003 |
Field of Schemes
A Cavalcade of Baltimore Projects, Done and Undone
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11/12/2003 |
A Bitter Pill
A New Biotech Park Promises to Cure What Ails Middle East, but Not Without Side Effects
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11/12/2003 |
How's it Growin'?
Anna Ditkoff asked a number of Baltimoreans, both eminent and everyday, a single question: "If you...
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10/22/2003 |
Time and Tide
Will the Erosion of Maryland's Critical Areas Act Mean Even Bigger Trouble When the Next Isabel Comes Along?
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10/15/2003 |
Time Served
A Day in the Life Of An Inmate at Central Booking
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10/8/2003 |
The World According to Barber
University of Maryland Professor Benjamin Barber Says the War on Terror Plays Right Into Terrorists' Hands and Prescribes "Preventive Democracy." He's Been Right Before.
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10/1/2003 |
Card Games
Should Buyers Beware of How Supermarkets Use "Loyalty Cards" to Collect Personal Data?
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9/3/2003 |
Is This Seat Taken?
City Paper's Primary Election Endorsements
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8/27/2003 |
Believe It. . .Or Not
Measuring O'Malley's March on Baltimore
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8/20/2003 |
Secrets and Ties
Author Laura Lippman Takes a Break From Heroine Tess Monaghan With Every Secret Thing, "The Most Hard-Boiled Book to Ever Begin With A Barbie Doll."
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8/13/2003 |
What's Up, Doc?
More and More Baltimoreans Know that Walbrook High School Principal Andrey Bundley is Running For Mayor. But for Many the Question Remains, who is Andrey Bundley?
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8/6/2003 |
Aging Out
Sinika Has Been in Baltimore's Foster Care System Since She Was 12. Now That She's 18 And Out of the Program, the Question Before Her is: What's Next?
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7/30/2003 |
Your Art Here
Will the Station North Arts District Paint a Brighter Future for Midtown?
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7/23/2003 |
And They're Off
City Paper's Guide to the Primary Race, 2003
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7/9/2003 |
Disjointed
Prison Poet and Thinker Shaka N'Zinga is Paying for the Violent Crimes of Street Thug Arthur Wiggins. But You Can't Let Out One Without Letting Out the Other.
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7/9/2003 |
To Die For
Meet the D.I.Y. Pinups Suicide GirlsùNot Your Average Indie-Girl Next Door.
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6/25/2003 |
The Great Black Hope
The Search for an African-American Candidateto Take on O'Malley
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6/18/2003 |
Labor and Management
The Baltimore Museum of Industry Tries to Adapt to Postindustrial Times and Faces a Battle for Its Soul in the Process
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6/11/2003 |
Searching High and Low
José Villarrubia's Art Was Still a Work in Progress Until He Returned to his First Love--Comic Books
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6/4/2003 |
The Believer
If Anyone Can Sell the Mayor's Bumper Sticker Uplift Campaign to Baltimoreans, Richard Burton Can
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5/28/2003 |
Under The Wire
David Simon Talks About Baltimore, the New Season of His HBO Series, his Critics in City Government, his Former Bosses at The Sun, and the Decline of the Working Stiff.
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5/14/2003 |
From Baghdad to Baltimore
Expatriate Iraqis Talk About Life Under--and After--Saddam Hussein
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5/7/2003 |
Safe at Home?
As Property Values in Canton Rise, so Do Concerns About Violent Crime--Whether Anyone's Talking About It or Not
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4/30/2003 |
Back to School
Baltimore's Public Schools Failed Rodell Bailey-El. Sojourner-Douglass College Redeemed Him.
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4/30/2003 |
Diversity Straining
Affirmative Action May be Good For Schools, But What About Students of Color?
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4/23/2003 |
Fast, Cheap & Out of this World
The Blood-Splattered Bargain Basement Cinema Empire of Don Dohler
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4/23/2003 |
Dohler-Esque
You Can't Tell the Rampaging Aliens, Crusading Sheriffs, Sinister Families, and Sexy Vampires Without a Scorecard
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4/16/2003 |
Black Soil
Maryland's African-American Farmers Hope a New Deal with Fidel Castro will Bring in the Long Green
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4/9/2003 |
Flavor In Your Ears
The Word on Poetry for the People Baltimore
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4/2/2003 |
Queen for a Day
Behind the Tucking, Taping, and Lip-syncing at the Miss Gay Maryland Pageant
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3/26/2003 |
Songs About Yucking
After Five Years of Rocking and Mocking Audiences from Baltimore to Europe, Oxes Get Ready for Their Next Move--Whatever That Is
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3/19/2003 |
The Great Go-Goop War
In homage, and with apology, to the late Theodore GeiselOn a faraway planet beside a far starSo far...
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3/12/2003 |
A Sum for All Fears
Forget the Duct Tape, Maryland's Zytech Engineering Wants to Bring Panic Rooms to the Masses
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3/5/2003 |
Welcome to Stalin World
Vivat! Terror, Tourism, and Soviet Art
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2/26/2003 |
Life in the Slow Lane
Baltimore's Slow Foodies want you to think about what you're eating before you put it in your mouth
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2/26/2003 |
Chicken Run
Seated behind the wheel of his golf cart, whose windshield has been playfully stenciled with the...
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2/26/2003 |
Take the Cannoli
Quite perceptibly, Nino Germano realizes that he is messing with the goose that laid the golden egg...
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2/26/2003 |
Eat Their Vegetables
Back in the fall of 1994, Beckie and Jack Gurley made what appeared to be their breakthrough sale...
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2/26/2003 |
Chips Ahoy
"You gotta hear this," Sarah Cohen says with a grin, inserting a disc into the CD player behind the...
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2/19/2003 |
Hoop Realities
Charged With Turning Around Morgan State's Underfunded, Underappreciated Men's Basketball Team, Butch Beard Faces a Nearly Insurmountable Challenge. He's Used to It.
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2/12/2003 |
Archie Bunker's Taverns
Down in Curtis Bay, The Bars Say it All
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2/5/2003 |
The Big Payback
Raymond Winbush Brings the Debate Over African-American Reparations to Bookstore Shelves With Should America Pay?
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2/5/2003 |
Pox Americana
A Baltimore Doctor, an Envelope Full of Scabs, and a National Scandal Over Smallpox Vaccination in the 1820s
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1/29/2003 |
True Believers
Vaughn Vigil and Bryan Taylor are Fighting a Daily Battle Against Drug Dealing in Their Neighborhood. They are Still Waiting for Reinforcements.
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1/15/2003 |
From Baltimore to the Bush
A Day in the Life of Baraka School
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1/8/2003 |
The Family That Plays Together . . .
Meet the Featherstones--Two Generations of Professional Musicians, Educators, and Now Hitmakers
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1/1/2003 |
For Better or For Worse
The divided Community of Waverly Grapples With the Pain and the Promise of Changes Along 33rd Street
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12/25/2002 |
People Who Died
Our Annual Salute to the Late Near-Great and Unjustly Obscure
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12/25/2002 |
A Fine Line
John Buscema
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12/25/2002 |
Lurid Imaginings
Mati Klarwein
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12/25/2002 |
Droll Economy
Howard Thompson
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12/25/2002 |
Living Doll
Ruth Handler
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12/25/2002 |
With a Clue
Mildred Benson
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12/25/2002 |
Spin Doctor
Ed Headrick
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12/25/2002 |
All My Trials
Mickey Newbury
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12/25/2002 |
Fist Finds Fist
Uziel Gal
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12/25/2002 |
Queer As Folk
Harry Hay
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12/18/2002 |
The Year in News
Jan. 5The Maryland Lottery announces its relocation to Montgomery Park, a new redevelopment of the...
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12/18/2002 |
The Year in Film
It was an absolutely fantastic year for movie lovers of all kinds.
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12/18/2002 |
The Year in Music
The tail end of 2001 brought out the flag-waving American in almost every musician, but we really...
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12/18/2002 |
The Year in Local Music
Surely I wasn't the only person in town who read The Sun's Sunday, Dec.
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12/18/2002 |
The Year in Books
1 Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (Houghton Mifflin) You know a novel is going to...
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12/18/2002 |
The Year in Television
Two weeks ago, when Roone Arledge --the instrumental TV producer who created such broadcast...
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12/18/2002 |
The Year in Art
1Painted Prints at Baltimore Museum of Art Judging from the exhibit's subtitle--The Revelation of...
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12/18/2002 |
The Year on Stage
1Fences at Everyman Theatre A good play is entertaining, but a great play can transport you to...
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12/11/2002 |
Future Vote
Computerized Balloting is Taking Over Elections In Maryland--But Can We Trust the Results?
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12/4/2002 |
Shadow of Her Smile
Bea Gaddy's Children Work to Keep Her Legacy Alive
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11/27/2002 |
The 2003 Martin O'Malley Calendar
As a glowing profile in the December issue of Esquire magazine pointed out, Martin O'Malley wears...
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11/27/2002 |
Hard Time
A Baltimore Writer Celebrates a New Life Off Drugs and off the Streets
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11/13/2002 |
A League of Their Own
Coach Don Ferges and the Baltimore-Linwood Football League Take the Game off the Streets
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10/30/2002 |
Hold Your Nose and Vote
City Paper's General Election Endorsements
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10/30/2002 |
Death Toll
Some Murders Count, but Most Don't
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10/23/2002 |
Odd Man Out
Meet Spear Lancaster--Maryland's Libertarian Candidate for Governor
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10/23/2002 |
The Anti-Libertarian
To Kevin O'Connell, libertarianism is the invention of a cabal bent on destroying the U.S.
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10/23/2002 |
What's in a Name?
For Maryland's Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee and the Sitting President, Moniker is (Indispensable) Destiny
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10/16/2002 |
Shell Game
When it Comes to the Chesapeake Bay's Failing Oyster Fishery, Maryland and Virginia Make Uneasy Bedfellows
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10/9/2002 |
Shopworn
Is Redevelopment Finally Coming to Oldtown Mall, or will the Battered Strip Remain a Boulevard of Broken Dreams?
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9/11/2002 |
Autumn in New York
Post-Sept. 11 Manhattan Shines in a Different Light
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9/4/2002 |
Good Eggs
Our Endorsements for Maryland's Primary Election
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9/4/2002 |
Governor
Democrat: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
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9/4/2002 |
Attorney General
Republican: No Endorsement
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9/4/2002 |
Comptroller
Democrat: John Willis
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9/4/2002 |
Baltimore City State's Attorney
Democrat: Anton Keating
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9/4/2002 |
2nd Congressional District
Democrat: C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger
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9/4/2002 |
3rd Congressional District
Democrat: Ben Cardin
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9/4/2002 |
7th Congressional District
Democrat: Elijah Cummings
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9/4/2002 |
40th Legislative District
Senate--Democrat: Ralph Hughes
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9/4/2002 |
41st Legislative District
Senator--Democrat: Barbara Hoffman
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9/4/2002 |
43rd Legislative District
Delegates--Democrats: Maggie McIntosh, Kenneth Montague, Michael Dobson
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9/4/2002 |
44th Legislative District
Senate--Democrat: Verna Jones
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9/4/2002 |
45th Legislative District
Democrat--Delegates: Doris Minor-Terrell, Aaron Keith Wilkes, Clarence Davis
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9/4/2002 |
46th Legislative District
Delegates--Democrat: Peter Hammen, Carolyn Krysiak, and Brian McHale
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8/28/2002 |
East Side Story
A New Wave of Refugees Takes Shelter in Baltimore--And Could Revitalize a Struggling Neighborhood in the Process
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8/21/2002 |
Animal Kingdom
A Zoological Field Guilde to Baltimore Politics
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8/14/2002 |
Ahead of the Curve
Despite the Sorry State of Baltimore's Public High Schools, Some Students Make the Grade
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8/7/2002 |
So Much For the Evidence
DNA Profiling Could Revolutionize Law Enforcement in Maryland--If We Let It
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7/31/2002 |
By the Numbers
Digital-Video Projection Promises Big Money for the Entertainment Industry--and Big Changes in the Way We Go to the Movies
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7/24/2002 |
Misery Loves Company
Introducing the Pro-Anorexia Web, Where the Ultimate Control Freaks Find Friendship,
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7/24/2002 |
A Letter From Ana
(This essay can be found frequently on anorexia-related Web sites.)Allow me to introduce myself.
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7/10/2002 |
In Full Bloom
Fertile Ground's Musical Harvest
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6/26/2002 |
Signs - and - Wonders
The - World - of - the - Baltimore - Glassman
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6/19/2002 |
Party Hardy
Baltimore's Republicans Soldier On, Despite the Odds
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6/12/2002 |
Bee All That You Can Bee
Tales of Trichotillomania From the Nation's Biggest Spelling Showdown
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6/12/2002 |
The List
ROUND ONE: connoisseur paragoge seguidilla fricassee loquacious hieroglyphics anschluss farinaceous...
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6/5/2002 |
Schooled
When Edgewood Elementary Was Targeted to Close, Parents Say They Got a Lesson in Getting Dismissed
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5/29/2002 |
Seeing Red
A Historian Crashes Maryland's Communist Party
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5/15/2002 |
Waiting for the Dough
Maryland's Horseplayers Hope Slot Machines and a New Governor Will Help Bail Out the Industry. But Can Even an Infusion of Cash Save Pimlico?
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5/15/2002 |
Punching the Clock
City Paper: The First Decade
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5/8/2002 |
Hollywood Vs. The Internet
Why Entertainment Companies Want To Hack Your Computer
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5/1/2002 |
Docs-ology
DV, TV, and The New Documentary Boom
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4/17/2002 |
Wonder Woman
The Life, Death, and Life After Death of Henrietta Lacks, Unwitting Heroine of Modern Medical Science
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4/10/2002 |
Councilmanic Depression
An Illustrated Tour Through the Days and Nights of the Baltimore City Council.
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4/3/2002 |
Zeros of Birdland
Presenting the Most Useless Orioles of All Time
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4/3/2002 |
ManagerPhil Regan, 1995He looked like Spiro T. Agnew and managed like a rhesus monkey with a...
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3/27/2002 |
Grass Roots
How Medical Marijuana Moved From Fringe Issue to Political Buzz
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3/13/2002 |
Moscow Nights
Getting Down With Baltimore's Burgeoning Eastern Bloc
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3/6/2002 |
Microbe Managers
Meet the Next Generation of HIV Prevention
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2/27/2002 |
Apocalypse Chow
Baltimore's Diners at the Edge of Nowhere
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2/27/2002 |
Apocalypse Chow
Tony's Diner
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2/27/2002 |
Apocalypse Chow
Beltway Motel and Restaurant
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2/27/2002 |
Apocalypse Chow
J&B; Hotdogs
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2/27/2002 |
Apocalypse Chow
Port Truck Stop Restaurant
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2/27/2002 |
Jim's Diner
Industrial Southeast Baltimore is a severe linear landscape of railroad tracks, train yards, and...
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2/20/2002 |
The Revolution Will Be Vocalized
Tonya Maria Matthews' Spoken Word Speaks Louder and Louder
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2/20/2002 |
Grandma Get Your Gun
Grandma, get your gun.The wolves are in the yard.They have come for the children.
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2/13/2002 |
A Little Bitta History About That Devil: Love
A Hand-Drawn Feature
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2/6/2002 |
Shackled
Why Maryland's Juvenile-Justice System Is Set Up to Fail Baltimore's Poor Young Men
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1/30/2002 |
Shackled
Why Maryland's Juvenile-Justice System is Set Up to Fail Baltimore's Poor Young Men
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1/23/2002 |
Making the Band
Two Marylanders Get Ready to Find Out if There's Life After Popstars
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1/16/2002 |
A Beer to Call Your Own
Tales from the Rise and Fall of National Brewing
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1/9/2002 |
Street Wise
One Family's Education in Baltimore Living
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1/2/2002 |
Scary Movies
Terrorism, Hollywood-Style
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1/2/2002 |
Niggers, Old and New
Did Sept. 11 Make Being Black Any Different?
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1/2/2002 |
Forward Into the Past
Why New Year's Is a Time for Looking Backward
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12/26/2001 |
The View From the Hill
Resevoir Hill Residents in Their Own Write
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12/26/2001 |
". . . It can't stop at our own doorsteps."
Someone who doesn't live here might say that it takes too much work to live in Reservoir Hill.
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12/26/2001 |
"'. . . What will you do if we hire you?' Hang around . . ."
The Corpus Christi Community Center is a small place in the corner of a large car-repair facility...
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12/26/2001 |
". . . Most of the time, the beauty and vitality win out"
I love my neighborhood. Yes, I'm concerned about the mounting problems that face us, but most of...
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12/26/2001 |
". . . While you are there, dress it up."
I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. On my block there were cherry trees, and my father had a grapevine in...
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12/26/2001 |
"I can't imagine living anywhere else"
To many people, a house or a neighborhood is simply a place where one happens to live--an address.
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12/26/2001 |
". . . The sense of community I enjoyed growing up in rural Georgia."
It was March 1984, and interest rates had dropped down below 13 percent. It was time to buy a house.
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12/26/2001 |
". . . This community is far from perishing."
I have been told that I'm wasting my time as a community organizer and resident in Reservoir Hill,...
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12/19/2001 |
The Year in Film
After years of herniating itself searching for ever lower common denominators, Hollywood finally...
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12/19/2001 |
The Year in Music
A quick backward glance over 2001 seems to reveal that pop music has run out of readily available...
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12/19/2001 |
The Year in Local Music
As a music bloke who's dashed off copy in a handful of cities, I can tell you from experience that...
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12/19/2001 |
The Year in Television
1Sept. 11 attack coverage (NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and Fox News Channel) Watching the second plane...
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12/19/2001 |
The Year in Books
As consumer goods, books make us behave strangely.
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12/19/2001 |
The Year on Stage
1Passion, Fells Point Corner Theatre It was startlingly ambitious of the FPCT to mount this 1994...
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12/19/2001 |
The Year in Art
1Walters Art Museum reopens Though this annual superlatives space is usually devoted strictly to...
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12/19/2001 |
The Unabridged List
City Paper Critics' Personal Bests
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12/12/2001 |
People Who Died
A Salute to Some of 2001's Dear Departed Cult Culture Heroes
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12/12/2001 |
At the Drive-In
Samuel Z. Arkoff, 1918-2001
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12/12/2001 |
The Art of Living
Balthus, 1908-2001
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12/12/2001 |
No Big Eyes
Jane Greer, 1924-2001
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12/12/2001 |
Living in Darkness
James Carr, 1942-2001
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12/12/2001 |
Catch a Wave
Jeanne Loriod, 1928-2001
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12/12/2001 |
Talkin' Picture
Fred Neil, 1936-2001
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12/12/2001 |
The Smell of the Grease Pit
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, 1932-2001
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12/12/2001 |
Do the Math
Iannis Xenakis, 1922-2001
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12/5/2001 |
Fade to Black
With No Money and Few Friends in High Places, Baltimore's Public-Access Cable Station Faces Cancellation
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11/28/2001 |
The Game
A Century of Grudges With the Oldest Rivals In Girls' Hoops
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11/21/2001 |
Unsung Heroes
Baltimoreans We're Thankful For in 2001
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11/7/2001 |
Home Front
In The Struggle To Renew Reservoir Hill, Housing Is The Biggest Battleground
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10/31/2001 |
Grave Circumstances
Sentiment, Skullduggery, and Eerie Sights in Baltimore's Cities of the Dead
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10/24/2001 |
Why Is This Man Smiling?
Carlos Batts Wants You to Know That He Is Not a Pornographer. So What Is He?
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10/10/2001 |
Growing Pains
A Reservoir Hill Childhood, Yesterday and Today
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10/10/2001 |
Between the Lines
Cal Ripken wasn't great because he played all those games; he played all those games because he was great.
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10/3/2001 |
Choose or Lose
A Decade After Passing One of the Country's Strongest Abortion Laws, Maryland Faces New Challenges to Choice
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9/12/2001 |
Hot Line
The Feds Are Considering Shipping Spent Nuclear Fuel Through the Howard Street Tunnel. Are They Playing With Fire?
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9/5/2001 |
Course Correction
Two Years Before Desegregation Became the Law of the Land, a Baltimore High School Opened Its Doors to 13 Black StudentsVery Quietly
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8/29/2001 |
The Marsh of Progress
At Fort McHenry, Enterprising Environmentalists Restore Wetlands One Plant, One Bird, One Acre at a Time
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8/22/2001 |
Net Gain
How a Jaded Tennis Bum Recaptured His Love of the Sport
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8/15/2001 |
The Big Picture
It was something like the fence-painting scene from Tom Sawyer, relocated to Southwest Baltimore...
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8/8/2001 |
Class Struggle
Rising to the Challenge of Teaching Reservoir Hill's Children
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8/1/2001 |
One Big Happy Channel
Think Consolidation Has Been Good for Radio? Wait'll You See What's Coming to TV
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7/25/2001 |
Fresh Fish
Never Mind the Labels--Lake Trout Keeps Swimming in Search of New Sounds
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7/25/2001 |
Teaching Fellows
In a Pre-School Classroom, White and Black Yield to Shades of Gray
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7/18/2001 |
The End of the World as We Knew It
Taking a Tour of Cold War Baltimore
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7/4/2001 |
Strike Up the Band
In Step with the Baltimore Westsiders
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6/20/2001 |
Killer Trash
Why Reservoir Hill Can't Take Out the Garbage
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6/13/2001 |
Quiet, Please
On the Consequences of a Society Living Out Loud
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6/13/2001 |
Light Show
The Flashing Blue Return of a Retail Icon
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6/6/2001 |
Away Game
A Love of Basketball Keeps Roddie Anderson's Life in Czech
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5/30/2001 |
Duty Now for the Future
Getting a Look at the Boys of the Summer After Next
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5/16/2001 |
A City on a Hill
How One Neighborhood Reflects the Challenges of Baltimore Life
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5/16/2001 |
House of Pain
Under a New HUD Administration, Baltimore Faces Federal-Funding Withdrawal
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5/9/2001 |
Ask Questions First
Carroll County Aims to Head Off School Violence Before It Strikes
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5/9/2001 |
Turn the Page
What the Pratt's Woes Portend for the Future of Libraries
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5/2/2001 |
True Stories
One Filmmaker, Two Photographers, and the Nature of Documentary
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4/25/2001 |
Courting Success
Program Aims to Build a Future for Juvenile Drug Offenders, One Youth at a Time
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4/18/2001 |
First Blood
Baltimore, the Civil War, and the Lasting Legacy of the Pratt Street Riots
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4/18/2001 |
"For God's Sake Don't Shoot!"
Numerous accounts and memoirs of the events of April 19, 1861, were written in the years afterward.
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4/11/2001 |
Sweet Inspiration
Cyrus Chestnut Looks Back to Gospel to Find the Future of Jazz
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4/4/2001 |
News Hole
The Stories You Probably Didn't Read All About Last Year
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4/4/2001 |
Closing the Book
Why the Bibelot Story Stopped at Chapter 11
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3/28/2001 |
Life and Basketball
The Redemption of Woody Sauldsberry
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3/21/2001 |
240-Minute Man
Gabe Sinclair Has Seen the Future, and It Includes a Four-Hour Workday
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3/14/2001 |
Bal™ore
A Cadre of Consultants Aims to Make Charm City the Choice of a New Generation
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3/7/2001 |
Leap of Faith
A New Attitude and a Dose of Prayer Renew a Historic Catholic School
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2/28/2001 |
Naming the Parts
In Search of the Real Haussner's
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2/28/2001 |
Critical Mess
Why the Rock Elites Keep Kissing Eminem's Ass
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2/21/2001 |
Poop Dreams
It's a guano-covered rock in the sea. So why do so many people want a piece of Navassa Island?
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2/14/2001 |
Love is All Around
A Valentine's Day Collection of Mash Notes to Baltimore
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2/14/2001 |
Am I Pop or Not?
The Real World of a Reality-TV Audition
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2/7/2001 |
Game Show
Life, Death, and Super Bowl XXXV Through the TV Eye
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2/7/2001 |
A Fan's Gloat
How a Championship Feels From North of the Border
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1/31/2001 |
It Knows What You Watched Last Tuesday
The Portable People Meter Is About to Take the Ratings Business Up Close and Personal
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1/24/2001 |
Hail to the Thief
Pageantry and Protest on the Inauguration Trail
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1/17/2001 |
Being Bill Clinton
Eight Views of the 42nd President
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1/17/2001 |
Sweet Little Lies
Charismatic leaders, the kind who start cults, are usually escapees from their own pasts--men (or,...
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1/17/2001 |
It May Be Necessary to Destroy the Democratic Party in Order to Save It
For me, the defining image of Bill Clinton's presidency has nothing to do with sax solos or cigars,...
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1/17/2001 |
Brother Bill
First, it was the style. Call it smooth, cool, flavor--Bill Clinton had it.
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1/17/2001 |
The Hustler
There are many things William Jefferson Clinton might well be remembered for: the elevation of...
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1/17/2001 |
Queer as Votes
Before 1992, I'd never seen a presidential candidate reach out to my people--queer people--with...
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1/17/2001 |
Role Over
Every Sunday my church has what they call a 'Children's Ministry,'" my friend Michelle is telling...
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1/17/2001 |
Oh Danny Boy
I used to live in a small town that was absolutely dominated by this guy named Danny.
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1/17/2001 |
10 Years After, or A Tale of Two Ex-Presidencies
22nd Amendment Overturned; "Tanned, Rested, Ready" Clinton Vows Run
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1/10/2001 |
Captain Chesapeake
Taking an Unsentimental Journey with Baltimore's Last Independent Tugboat Skipper
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1/3/2001 |
Game Face
Is Sportsmanship in the Eye--or the Color--of the Beholder?
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12/27/2000 |
Murder One
A Baltimore Killing Behind the Numbers
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12/20/2000 |
The Year in News
1. We Have a Winner?Our annual listing of all that's most fit to print is usually an exercise in...
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12/20/2000 |
All the News Not Fit to Print
The Year in Non-News
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12/20/2000 |
The Year in Film
Science-fiction author Theodore Sturgeon once fashioned a maxim about the genre that came to be...
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12/20/2000 |
10 Best Films: Ian Grey
1Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, United States) Four very different souls go to Consumer...
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12/20/2000 |
10 Best Films: Heather Joslyn
1Chicken Run (Peter Lord and Nick Park, United Kingdom/United States)* A thrilling, inspirational...
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12/20/2000 |
10 Best Films: Luisa F. Ribiero
1Urbania (Jon Shear, United States) This kinetic, provocative tale of a catastrophic day in the...
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12/20/2000 |
The 10 Most Annoying Things About Music in 2000 . . .
1Lists As a dyed-in-the-wool, former-record-store-clerk music geek, I love a good list as much as...
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12/20/2000 |
. . . and the 10 Best
1D'Angelo, Voodoo (Virgin) Sure, better songs would have been nice.
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12/20/2000 |
10 Best Albums: Rjyan Kidwell
1Outkast, Stankonia (Arista/LaFace) Outkast knows precisely when to throw you a curve ball and when...
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12/20/2000 |
10 Best Albums: Daniel Piotrowski
1Modest Mouse, The Moon and Antarctica (Epic) Although it is by no means a departure for the...
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12/20/2000 |
10 Best Albums: Vincent Williams
1Jill Scott, Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol.
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12/20/2000 |
10 Best Albums: John Lewis
1Otha Turner and the Afrossippi Allstars, From Senegal To Senatobia (Birdman) A trio of African...
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12/20/2000 |
The Year in Television
IN TV LAND, 2000 TURNED OUT TO BE THE YEAR WHEN GOING TO THE TROUBLE OF MANUFACTURING FICTIONAL...
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12/20/2000 |
The Year in Books
Like many wannabe serious writers, I've long felt the need to visit Paris.
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12/20/2000 |
10 Best Books: Michael Anft
1Plowing the Dark, by Richard Powers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Split between the heady digital...
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12/20/2000 |
10 Best Books: Mahinder Kingra
1Tulipomania, by Mike Dash (Crown) An elegant and entertaining work of popular history that...
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12/20/2000 |
10 Best Books: Eileen Murphy
1The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) Atwood hasn't abandoned her...
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12/20/2000 |
The Year in Theater
FIVE SCRIBES, 10 SHOWS-- CITY PAPER THEATER CRITICS MICHAEL ANFT, ANNA DITKOFF, MIKE GIULIANO,...
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12/20/2000 |
The Year in Art
1Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930, Walters Art Museum There were...
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12/13/2000 |
Poor Relations
In Northeast Baltimore, Neighbors Divide Over the Prospect of Public Housing
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12/6/2000 |
Glory Hole
The Marble Bar, the Basement That Hosted Both Henry Fonda and Iggy Pop, Turns Another Page
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11/29/2000 |
Treading Water
Can the Port of Baltimore Survive in Globalized Seas?
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11/22/2000 |
Unsung Heroes
Our Sixth Annual Salute to a Few GOOD Baltimoreans
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11/8/2000 |
The Art of Revitalization
Highlandtown Experiments With Creative Avenues to Urban Renewal
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11/8/2000 |
The Ecstasy and the Agony
What I Learned the Hard Way From the Happy Pill
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11/1/2000 |
Publisher Perish?
Facing Angry Authors and a Mountain of Debt, Bruce Bortz and Bancroft Press Struggle to Turn the Page
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10/25/2000 |
OOH, SCARY!
For All Hallows' Ween, we at Baltimore's Most Cheaply Thrilling Alternative Weekly once again offer...
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10/25/2000 |
Charmed Afterlife
Baltimore's Ghost Stories to Tingle Your Spine
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10/18/2000 |
Shadow of a Doubt
Kenneth Collins has lived on Maryland's death row for more than a decade. Newly recanted testimony and old concerns about his defense raise questions over whether he belongs there.
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10/11/2000 |
The Needle and the Damage Undone
Needle exchange Is credited with slowing the spread of AIDS in Baltimore. So how come nobody wants to talk about It?
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10/4/2000 |
The Closet Tapes
A Treasure Trove of Classic Live Recordings Revives BaltimoreÆs PremierJazz
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9/27/2000 |
RU Serious?
After Years of Delay, the Feds Are Finally Ready to Approve the "Abortion Pill." Sort Of.
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9/27/2000 |
The Star Pill
An Abortion Drug Goes Underground
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9/6/2000 |
Shooting Baltimore
Introduction
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8/30/2000 |
Shake Your Moneymaker
The Problem With Al Gore, Populist
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8/30/2000 |
All in the Family
How Three Multigenerational Firms Survived a Total of 547 Years in Baltimore's Volatile Business Climate
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8/30/2000 |
Old-World Traditions
Some Truly Ancient Family Businesses
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8/23/2000 |
Where's the Party?
Looking for Fun in Baltimore's Under-21 Nighlife Wasteland
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8/23/2000 |
Generation Gap
How I Was Cast Out From the Garden of Freakin'
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8/16/2000 |
The Last Tycoon
Love Him or Hate Him, Peter Angelos Holds the Key to Downtown's Future.
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8/9/2000 |
High Life
An Addict Comes Clean on Four Decades of Feeding the Need
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8/9/2000 |
Getting the Habit
Milestones in Baltimore's Drug History
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8/9/2000 |
Baby Elephant Walk
Diary of a Four-Day Infomercial
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8/2/2000 |
Company Man
The Business Community Loves the Mayor, But Is the Honeymoon Over for Neighborhood Groups?
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7/26/2000 |
The Color Field
The Baltimore Art Scene in Black and White
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7/19/2000 |
Glove Story
From Streetside to Ringside with the Umar Boxing Club
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7/12/2000 |
On the Down Low
Can Baltimore Hip-Hop Come Up from Underground?
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7/12/2000 |
The Trouble with Harry
A Ringing Dissent to Pottermania
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7/5/2000 |
A River of Trouble
A Revitalization Has Much of Essex and Middle River Fighting Mad--And Baltimore County Executive Dutch Ruppersberger Fighting for His Politcal Life
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6/28/2000 |
Past Imperfect
Why Americans Still Think History Is Bunk
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6/28/2000 |
One Broken Body
In Church Halls and Convention Halls, the Nation's Mainline Protestants Debate--and Divide--Over Gay Rights
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6/21/2000 |
Unnatural Selection
Will Unlocking the Human Genome Create an Evolution Revolution?
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6/21/2000 |
The Novel Gene -- Online
"Would you like to find a novel gene?" asks a scientist at a reknowned research institution.
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6/14/2000 |
Double Vision
Carl Clark's Art Captures the Urban Experience--and Explores His Own
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6/7/2000 |
Who Wants to Be a Schools CEO?
A Peek at the Process that Will Select Baltimore's Next Superintendent -- and at the People Who Want the Job
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6/7/2000 |
Anatomy of a Verdict
How Chrysler Won--and a Crusader Lost
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6/7/2000 |
West-Side Story
What's at Stake in the Rush to Redevelop Baltimore's Original Downtown
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6/7/2000 |
Back to Reform School
So Far So Good, but Trickier Cases and a Beleaguered System Signal That Welfare Reform¹s Toughest Days Lie Ahead.
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5/31/2000 |
Testing Ground
A New Strategy for Saving City Neighborhoods Takes Root In Patterson Park
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5/31/2000 |
Turf Wars
The Politics of Neighborhood-Revitalization Policy
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5/31/2000 |
Return to Sender
What We Lost When We Went Online
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5/17/2000 |
Censored Sensibilities
A Dispute Over Project Censored Illuminates Fissures within the Alternative Press
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5/17/2000 |
Book Smart
Reading Up on Sophie Kerr, the Woman Who Turned a Small Eastern Shore College into a Literary Mecca
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5/10/2000 |
Steady Rollin' Man
How a Computer Guy Created the Little Blues Festival That Could
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5/3/2000 |
Green Grass and High Tides Forever
Can Permaculture Save Our Environment from a Throwaway Future?
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Feature
5/3/2000 |
Getting Green
Call these numbers for information on the following:Permaculture seminars at Heathcote:(410)...
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4/26/2000 |
A Kiss is Still A Kiss
David Drake's Award-Winning Play Comes to the Screen -- and Its Creator Again Finds the Voice It Gave Him
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4/19/2000 |
Command Decisions
The Bumpy Road to a New Police Department
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4/19/2000 |
"We Are the Last Line of Defense to Kids in This City"
Norris Speaks
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4/12/2000 |
Green in the City
In the cramped basement of a tiny rowhouse in a gritty neighborhood, eight teenagers snip...
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4/12/2000 |
Green in the 1990s
Five Steps Forward, Five Steps Back
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4/5/2000 |
Bad Media
Project Censored Picks the News that Didn't Make the News in 1999
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4/5/2000 |
The Rest of the Stories
11. America's Largest Nuclear Test Exposed Thousands Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St.
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4/5/2000 |
Junk-Food News
The Most OVERreported News Stories of 1999
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4/5/2000 |
Project Censored Judges
Robin Anderssen, chairperson, communication and media studies department, Fordham UniversityRichard...
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3/29/2000 |
Swimming with Sharks
Subprime Lenders Put the Bite on Baltimore's Poorest Homeowners
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3/22/2000 |
The Big Picture
How Greed, Ego, and Technology Are Making Movies Longer
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3/22/2000 |
Please, No Wagering
City Paper Film Critics Make Their Oscar Picks
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3/15/2000 |
Native Son
On the Trail of Frederick Douglass in Baltimore
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3/8/2000 |
Feeling the Heat
The Auto Industry Meets Global Warming
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3/8/2000 |
Riding It Out
GM Holds Firm Amid Storm of Controversy Over Climate Group
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3/8/2000 |
Green Light for Green Cars?
New technology that will dramatically improve fuel efficiency and cut greenhouse gases is already...
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3/8/2000 |
Why Johnny Can't Learn
He's Too Busy Feeling Good about Himself
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3/1/2000 |
Dead Reckoning
Five Years After Keri Sirbaugh's Murder, Her Parents and the Police Grapple With the Frustration of a Trail Gone Cold
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3/1/2000 |
The Survivors
A Year After Keri Sirbaugh's Murder, Her Mother, Father, Brother, Uncle, and Best Friend Struggle With Life After Death.
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2/23/2000 |
You Gonna Eat That?
A Field Guide to the Baltimore Diet
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2/16/2000 |
A Bar With a View
Unflappable Esther Martin Has Run the Club Charles Since 1951. Who Better to Tell of Her Block's Boom, Bust, and Possible Rebirth?
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2/16/2000 |
Education Inc.
Sizing Up the Companies Vying to Run Baltimore's Schools
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2/9/2000 |
Strip Mining
The Boondocks' Aaron McGruder and Liberty Meadows' Frank Cho Take the Funny Pages in New Directions
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2/2/2000 |
Around the Block
The Colorful Past, Controversial Present, and Uncertain Future of Baltimore's Red-Light District
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2/2/2000 |
What's Around the Block
There's a lot that's new about the Block these days: a new business association, a new Block-backed...
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1/26/2000 |
Councilmania
City Council 2000: What They Do, What They've Done, and Who Helped Them Get Where They Are
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1/26/2000 |
President
Sheila DixonAge: 45Years on council: 12 (representing the 4th District)Day job: Senior trade...
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1/26/2000 |
First District
John L. CainAge: 60Years on council: EightCommittees chaired: None (vice chair of the Finance and...
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1/26/2000 |
Second District
Paula Johnson BranchAge: 50Years on council: EightCommittee chaired: Urban and Intergovernmental...
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1/26/2000 |
Third District
Robert Walter CurranAge: 49Years on council: FourCommittee chaired: Judiciary and PolicyDay job: On...
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1/26/2000 |
Fourth District
Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr.Age: 32Years on council: FourCommittee chaired: TaxationDay job:...
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1/26/2000 |
Fifth District
Helen HoltonAge: 39Years on council: FourCommittee chaired: FinanceDay job: Agent for H&W; Insurance...
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1/26/2000 |
Sixth District
Norman A. Handy Sr.Age: 55Years on council: 41/2Committee chaired: Public SafetyDay job: Minister...
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1/19/2000 |
Great Scott
Artist Joyce J. Scott Kicks Down the BMA's Doors
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1/12/2000 |
From the Hills
How Mid-Century Migrants from the Mountains Brought Bluegrass--and More--to Baltimore
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1/5/2000 |
Burning Man
A Vinyl Lover Gets on the CD-Recording Bandwagon--and You Can Too!
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1/5/2000 |
The Myth of the Perfect Digital Copy
The days of digital recordings are here, and record-company execs foresee a time when it will be...
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12/29/1999 |
Charmed Century
100 Years Of Baltimore News--And You Are There
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12/29/1999 |
Time Passages
A Timeline of Baltimore Throughout the Last Century
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12/22/1999 |
Half Staff
Facing the End at Flag House Courts, The City's Last High-Rise Project
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Feature
12/15/1999 |
Ten Things We Love About 1999
The Year in News
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12/15/1999 |
Ten Things We Love About 1999
The Year in Film
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12/15/1999 |
Ten Things We Love About 1999
The Year in Music
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12/15/1999 |
Ten Things We Love About 1999: TV
The Year in Television
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12/15/1999 |
Ten Things We Love About 1999
The Year in Books
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12/15/1999 |
Ten Things We Love About 1999
The Year in Theater
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12/15/1999 |
Ten Things We Love About 1999: ART
The Year in Art
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12/8/1999 |
Home Court
The "Stars of Tomorrow"--And Yesterday--Bring Pro Basketball Back to Baltimore
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Feature
12/1/1999 |
The End
What Kurt Schmoke Did Right, and How He Went Wrong
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Feature
11/24/1999 |
Unsung Heroes
Our Fifth Annual Salute to a Few Good Baltimoreans
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11/24/1999 |
Michael Beer
Co-chair, Jones Falls Watershed Association
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11/24/1999 |
Lorig Charkoudian
Founder, Community Mediation Program
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11/24/1999 |
Richard Tryzno Ellsberry
Founder, ArtMobile
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11/24/1999 |
Frank Fischer
Mortgage-default counselor, St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center
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11/24/1999 |
Clyde Harris
Founder, Newborn Holistic Ministries
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11/24/1999 |
Gail Parker
Director, Brown Memorial Tutoring Program
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11/24/1999 |
Irona Pope
Parent liaison at City Springs Elementary School
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11/24/1999 |
Helen Quill
Coordinator, St. Joseph's Improvement Association
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11/24/1999 |
Arnold Ross
Coach, Bentalou Recreation Center
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11/24/1999 |
David Walsh-Little
Founder, Sowebo Center for Justice
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11/24/1999 |
Getting Involved
For information on volunteering for or donating to the organizations mentioned in this article,...
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Feature
11/10/1999 |
The Sixth Sensibility
Why Horror Movies Are Back with a Vengeance
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11/10/1999 |
My Dinner With Jerry
Getting Down to Fundamentals With Soulforce and Falwell
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11/3/1999 |
Y2K: Endgames And Entropy Curves
Notes on the Shape of Things to Come
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11/3/1999 |
Station Break
Will low-power FM change the face of radio? Not if the broadcasting industry can help it.
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10/27/1999 |
Endorsements
Mayor - Martin O'Malley
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10/27/1999 |
Endorsements
City Council President - Antonio Campbell
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10/27/1999 |
Endorsements
Comptroller - Joan Pratt
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10/27/1999 |
Endorsements
City Council 1st District - John Cain, Nicholas D'Adamo, Lois Garey
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10/27/1999 |
Endorsements
City Council 2nd District - Bea Gaddy, Brian Jones, Bernard "Jack" Young
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10/27/1999 |
Endorsements
City Council 3rd District - Robert Curran, Kenneth Harris, Lisa Stancil
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10/27/1999 |
Endorsements
City Council 4th District - Keiffer Mitchell Jr., Catherine Pugh
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10/27/1999 |
Endorsements
City Council 5th District - Helen Holton, Stephanie Rawlings
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10/27/1999 |
Endorsements
City Council 6th District - Joseph Brown Jr., Norman Handy
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10/27/1999 |
Endorsements
Ballot Questions
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10/20/1999 |
Wooden Ships
Re-creating a Schooner of Yore on the Eastern Shore
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Feature
10/6/1999 |
I, Goldberg
My Wrestler, My Surname, Myself
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9/29/1999 |
Artists In Residence
For Young Baltimore Artists, Squatting is a Rite of Passage. But With the Help of Business and Community Groups, Some Artists are Bringing Thier Formerly Illegal Housing Out Into the Open
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9/29/1999 |
The Blame Game
Dawgs, Ravens, and Recriminations at PSINet Stadium
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9/22/1999 |
1812 Overtures
The New Battle of Baltimore Is Reminding Americans About the City's Finest Star-Spangled Hour
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9/22/1999 |
White Like Me
Confessions of an O'Malley Voter
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9/8/1999 |
Endorsements
City Paper's Choices in Election 99
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9/1/1999 |
Making a Magnet
Baltimore's Fledgling High-Tech Community May Be the Key to Rebuilding the City and Slowing Sprawl
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9/1/1999 |
Follow the Money
Getting a Lead on Who Wants to See Bell, O'Malley, or Stokes Succeed
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8/25/1999 |
Y2K Complacent
Why You Should Worry A Little More About the Millennium Bug
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8/18/1999 |
Southern Culture Hits the Skids
Rednecks, White Panties, and Blue Ribbon Beer at Sleazefest ‘99
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8/11/1999 |
Mayoral Race
Seeking the City's Top Job Becomes a Study in Black and White
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8/11/1999 |
The Candidates
The Runners Sound Off on the Race Issue
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Feature
12/23/1998 |
Knowledge is Good
But an Education That Explores the Humanities—and Our Humanity—Is Better
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12/23/1998 |
Sowebo Blues
What Went Wrong—and What Might Be Going Right—in Baltimore’s Would-Be Arts Neighborhood
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12/9/1998 |
Bunker Mentality
The Life, Times, and Imminent Departure of Fells Point's Most Visible Citizen
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12/2/1998 |
Shaken, Not Stirred
A Journey Through Evangelicalism
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10/28/1998 |
Parris in the Fall
Why the Governor Thinks You Should Let Him Keep His Job
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10/28/1998 |
Pick 'Em
City Paper's General-Election Selection
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10/7/1998 |
Pins and Needles
Once the City's Largest Industry, Baltimore's Rag Trade is Stitched Into a Corner
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9/30/1998 |
America's Least Wanted
Inside the World of Maryland's Undocumented Aliens
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Feature
9/30/1998 |
Power Plays
A Former Intern on Bill, Monica, and Sleeping With the Boss
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9/23/1998 |
Go Fun Burn Man
What happens when the artistically inclined build a temporary city in the desert? You get 14 radio stations, two newspapers, and not enough water.
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9/23/1998 |
Some Call It Maze
Farms Take Getting Lost to a Whole New Level
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9/9/1998 |
Curtain Calls
City Paper's Primary Endorsements
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9/9/1998 |
The Giving Kind
Locus of Local Support for Gubernatorial Front-Runners Is a Tale of Three ZIP Codes
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9/2/1998 |
Making a Scene
Hampden's AXIS Theatre Is Shooting the Works With a Production of the Expensive, Taxing Angels in America. Can Such Bravado Turn This Tiny Stage Into a Major Player?
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8/19/1998 |
Slots O' Luck
Legalizing Slot Machines Would Mean a Jackpot for the State's Racetracks. But are One-Armed Bandits Robbing the Poor to Feed the Rich?
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8/12/1998 |
Power Players
Voters are Becoming Increasingly Irrelevant in Choosing Our Political Leaders. Here's a Look at Baltimore's Ruling Class--and How They Stay in Control
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8/5/1998 |
Going Ballistic
How We're Learning to Live With Guns
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7/29/1998 |
Out to Sea
How the Columbus Center Sank and Took More Than $100 Million of Your Money With It
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7/22/1998 |
Pagan Holiday
Drumming' Splashing' and Circles of Fire at Four Quarters Church and Farm
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7/22/1998 |
Something Wiccan This Way Comes
There's always something pagan happening at the Church of Four Quarters.
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7/15/1998 |
Black and White Like Me
Growing Up Multiracial in a Race-Obsessed World
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7/15/1998 |
A Boy and His Dogma
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Left
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7/8/1998 |
Grace Notes
A Decade of Dischord and Harmony with Lungfish
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7/1/1998 |
Puppy Love
Socializing Doggy-Style in Baltimore's Parks
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Feature
6/24/1998 |
Research Roulette
Are the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center's Schizophrenia Studies Harming the Patients?
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6/24/1998 |
Now Batting ...
Why This Baseball Fan Loves the Designated-Hitter Rule
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6/24/1998 |
Now Still Batting . . .
Whether Cal Should Sit Shouldn't Be Cal's Call
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6/10/1998 |
Your Electronic Self
Every Day More and More People You Don't Know Can Find Out More and More About You. Feel Helpless to Stop It? You Will.
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6/10/1998 |
Too Much Information
Online Resources for Data-Privacy Information
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6/10/1998 |
Opting Out
How to Keep the Marketers at Bay
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6/10/1998 |
88 Keys
A Media Funeral in the Age of AIDS
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5/13/1998 |
Silent Minority
In a City That Thinks in Black and White, Hispanics Are the Fastest-Growing Community--and the Most Overlooked
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5/6/1998 |
Book Value
Administrators and Activists Battle Over the Soul of the Pratt
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5/6/1998 |
A Shot in the Dark
Two Cars, Five Kids, One Gun, and a Decision to Make
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4/29/1998 |
Burning Questions
Understaffed and Overworked, the Baltimore City Fire Department--Once Hailed as the Nation's Best--Faces a Crisis Point
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4/22/1998 |
Down on Main Street
Sykesville Mayor Jonathan Herman Presides Over a Small-Town Renaissance
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4/15/1998 |
Kitsch and Tell
A Trip Down Baltimore's Tacky Treasure Trail
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4/15/1998 |
Turkey Joe's Kitsch List
An Expert's Accounting of Things That Make Baltimore Baltimore
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4/15/1998 |
Executive Sweets
Corporate Cronies Close Ranks Behind the Wyndham
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3/25/1998 |
Smack in the Middle of the'Burbs
Heroin Hits Home in Carroll County
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3/18/1998 |
Writers' Cramp
Days of Whine and Proses at the JHU Writing Seminars
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3/11/1998 |
Affirmative Access
What African-American Users Bring to--and Get From--the Internet
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3/11/1998 |
Rendering Unto Oprah
How Dead Pets, Bad Brains, and Free Speech Landed Me in Amarillo
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3/4/1998 |
Ne Plus Ultra
The "Free" World of Baltimore House Diva Ultra Naté
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2/25/1998 |
Uneasy Street
Can Old Hampden Coexist With The New Avenue?
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2/25/1998 |
That's a Wrap
Fond Memories of a Freedom Fighter
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