The late Ralph Brave’s feature decodes the effort to map the human genome, with a sidebar on where to look online for DNA sequencing data. The Nose untangles discrimination flaps in the Baltimore Police Department and gives the coda on the Joyce Scott exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In Mobtown Beat, Tom Scocca...
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Eileen Murphy’s feature profiles the work and life of Reservoir Hill photographer Carl Clark. The Nose reports that Baltimore’s zoning crackdown on local BDSM venues is over. In Mobtown Beat: Michael Anft covers a neighborhood’s dispute with Soil Safe, a dirt-recycling plant; Anne Ray reports on the Maryland Green Party’s efforts to get its presidential candidate...
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There are four–count’em, four–features in this week’s issue: Molly Rath’s profiles of candidates for Baltimore schools superintendent, Curt Guyette on the outcome of an airbag-fatality lawsuit, Rath and Brennen Jensen on development plans for Baltimore’s Westside, and Rath on welfare-reform challenges. The Nose picks through the rubble of the collapse of the erstwhile Gypsy’s...
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The feature hole is filled by Molly Rath’s two-pack on neighborhood redevelopment—one on efforts to revitalize Patterson Park and another on the opportunity costs of picking which neighborhoods to try to save—and Mark Gauvreau Judge’s piece on the internet’s impact on the art of letter-writing. The Nose reports that Pen Lucy is happy that...
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The Y2K Sizzlin’ Summer package is: Joe MacLeod and Jefferson Jackson Steele photofeaturing the Vans Skatepark at the Potomac Mills Mall; Michael Anft trying to find the hellbender salamander; Brennen Jensen learning to sail at the Downtown Sailing Center; Kathy Link vacationing in Indonesia; Christopher Skokna figuring out what it takes to build a...
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The two-pack of features is Dan Kennedy, on alt-press infighting over flawed journalism that wins awards, and Eileen Murphy, on writer Sophie Kerr and the Washington College literary prize that bears her name. In the news, the Nose pokes around a mysterious sign atop the Congress Hotel, a controversy over firehouse closings , and an...
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Due to technical problems, this week’s X-Content is a bit truncated: Only the feature, news, Charmed Life, and the columns are available at the moment. The feature, by Natalie Davis, profiles the founding of the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival by computer entrepreneur Don Hooker. In the news: The Nose shows how the Baltimore Police Department isn’t...
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Augusta Olsen’s feature explores the sustainable-living ethos of the permaculture movement while providing local contacts for how to live within the Earth’s means. In the news, the Nose catches up with D.S. Bakker and his mannequin, Bud; Brennen Jensen covers the American Visionary Art Museum’s second annual Kinetic Sculpture Race; and Eileen Murphy reports from...
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Heather Joslyn’s feature covers the stage-to-film success of David Drake’s The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. In the news section, the Nose  ruminates on the new requirement at Baltimore City public golf courses that players rent motorized carts; in Media Circus, Eileen Murphy critiques the national media’s obsession with the Elian Gonzalez...
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Inside the issue, the annual City Paper guide to the Maryland Film Festival, Film Fest Frenzy, gives a rundown of the second annual fest’s festivities. The short-lived tenure of Ron Daniel as Mayor Martin O’Malley’s first police commissioner is the focus of Molly Rath’s feature, with Terrie Snyder’s interview of Daniel’s expected replacement, Ed Norris,...
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Michael Anft’s feature about urban environmentalism’s prospects in Baltimore is accompanied by a tally of green pluses and minuses from the 1990s. In Mobtown Beat, Molly Rath reports that pews are filling at St. Patrick Church in Upper...
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Project Censored’s round-up of overlooked news in 1999 fills the feature hole with four elements: the 10 most-ignored stories, another 15 articles that were also unheralded, a list of 10 stories that got way too much play, and...
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Molly Rath’s feature, “Swimming with Sharks,” reveals a nascent credit crisis from a decade ago, when homeowners in Baltimore’s poorest neighborhoods were underwater from refinancing packages sold by subprime lenders. In Mobtown Beat, Brian Simpson reports on the city’s...
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A two-pack of film features this week: Ian Grey on the “insidious phenomenon” of movies getting longer, and CP writers make their Oscar picks for films released in 1999. In Mobtown Beat, Van Smith reports that legislators in Annapolis...
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Tom Chalkley’s feature considers Frederick Douglass’ legacy in Baltimore, where ambivalence about the city’s slave-trade legacy continues. The piece includes insights from a man who calls himself Frederick Douglass IV, who, it later came to light, falsely portrayed...
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The feature hole is filled by three pieces about Detroit automakers and climate change—two by Curt Guyette and one by Michael Anft—and a fourth, on the risks of self-esteem education, by Andrew Reiner. In Mobtown Beat, Terrie Snyder reports...
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We here at X-Content try mightily to post City Paper’s decade-old content exactly 10 years to the day after it was first published. Alas, the year 2000 was a leap year, and it jumped up on us, so...
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A must-read for the scrapple-and-rye crowd is Tom Scocca’s feature, “You Gonna Eat That?” If this—”And in Baltimore, people characteristically eat—what? The Whole Pig, yes, consolidated into a loaf and sliced and fried for breakfast. The familiar and...
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Brennen Jensen, in one of this week’s two features, learns bar-room history from the famous matron of Club Charles, Esther Martin: “‘Esther did the right thing,’ Waters says. “‘She changed it from the scariest bar in Baltimore...
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Comic-strip fans Tom Scocca and Vincent Williams team up to fill the feature hole with a story about two young syndicated cartoonists with Maryland roots: Aaron McGruder and Frank Cho. Mobtown Beat is Jill Yesko on a local...
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