http://www.citypaper.com/ Recent Baltimore City Paper Content. en-us Copyright 2008 Baltimore City Paper http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15958 Noise by Al Shipley. It only happens once or twice a year, but now and then it feels like the whole Baltimore hip-hop community converges together under one roof for a particular show, where damn near half of it is on the bill and much of the remainder is in the audience networking. Usually, the occasion is the annual... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15957 The News Hole by Jeffrey Anderson and Van Smith. Phillip Robinson Winkfield came up for arraignment on drugs and weapons charges in Baltimore City Circuit Court on June 30, when he met his adversary: the chief of the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office narcotics division, Antonio Gioia. Such high-level handling of Winkfield's case by the city... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15956 News by Anna Ditkoff. Murders This Week: 3 Murders This Year: 105 The names of the two unidentified victims from last week have been released. The man shot to death in the 400 block of West 28th Street in Remington on June 19 was Donta Gregory, a 32-year-old African-American. The woman strangled to death on June 22 in t... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15955 Mobtown Beat by Van Smith. "They locked me up," James Riffin declares, when reached by phone on June 26. "Got out last night." Riffin spent nearly two weeks in the Baltimore County Detention Center, incarcerated for what the law calls "constructive contempt," since he had failed to cough up a $250,000 bond that had been ord... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15954 Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.. Martin O'Malley was elected mayor of Baltimore on a promise to clean up crime and drive down the murder rate. He famously implemented Citistat, a computer and data-based system of holding police divisions responsible for the crime in their sectors. The system was about "openness and transparency."... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15953 Feature by Christopher Landers. Joslyn Hayes is tired. She has walked to the Central Booking and Intake Center from Erdman Avenue and Belair Road, she says, and it's hot out. Down the stairs at the Eager Street entrance with $100 in her pocket, she looks through the thick glass into a small room. "They gave him 31 days," she te... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15951 Stage by Bret McCabe. Watch out for the strolling, stumbling performers of Twelfth Night meandering through the Evergreen House meadow to the stage when this Baltimore Shakespeare Festival production starts up. The entire cast enters from so far offstage it might as well be called a parking lot, and the first sight of t... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15950 Stage by John Barry. In Jarvis Legend's Borrowed Skin--Julie Lewis' contribution to the BaltimorePlaywrights Festival--a writer sits down at his trusty typewriter, and the room starts to fill up with bizarre characters who appear to have been the product of a caffeinated brain storm. The characters themselves are somew... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15949 Stage by Bret McCabe. The Baltimore Playwrights Festival entry Finding Fossils should be a Lifetime movie. It all has the requisite melodramatic elements. A father and son get together at the family riverside vacation cabin about a year after the death of the wife/mother who spent most of her life holding them together.... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15948 Social Studies by Vincent Williams. Let me be perfectly clear: I don't expect much from Meet Dave. Eddie Murphy is a comedic genius and a box-office legend but his film career, when looked at in totality, is a little dicey. For every Beverly Hills Cop or Nutty Professor, there's one or two films like Haunted Mansion and The Holy Man... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15947 Music by Michael Byrne. WEDNESDAY: Bobby T and his Voyagers drop their, uh, blues hammer at the 8X10 with Mike Miz Band and Lucid. THURSDAY: Moscow Telephone makes a little bit of postrock apocalypse at the Metro Gallery with Tristan Da Cunha, A.R. Plovnick, A Cat Called Cricket and Albatross. Blaq Starr hosts an awfully... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15946 Music by Brandon Soderberg. Three decades after their original releases, both Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson's 1977 stoner-pop album Pacific Ocean Blue (Epic/Legacy) and the Droids' 1978 space-disco relic Star Peace (Repressed) are receiving the re-release treatment, and the coincidence is plenty apt. In the late '70s, bot... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15945 The Mail. I wasn't going to, but I couldn't help myself: Leo Williams, you, sir, are an idiot ("Barack Obama Not the President for Black or White," The Mail, June 25). For one, Barack Obama has never declared himself "leader of all disenfranchised black people," or has been anointed such proclaimed leader. T... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15944 Feedback by Robbie Whelan. A few weeks after the digital release of its fourth studio album, Stay Positive, the Hold Steady returned to Baltimore, the site of its second- and fourth-ever live shows, and boy were the middle-aged men in the audience loving it. We're talking fist-pumping and receding hairlines in equal measure,... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15943 Books by Adrienne Martini. In Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias (Atlantic Monthly Press), writer Andrew D. Blechman goes where few under the age of 50 have dared go when he probes at the smelly underbellies of America's age-restricted retirement communities. Right about now, you're thinking that there... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15942 Art by Martin L. Johnson. In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, one of the world's best known artists sums up and defends his career ambitions by declaring "good business is the best art." As commercial as the art world might be these days, you could wander through a half dozen galleries before finding someone who would agree w... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15941 Political Animal by Brian Morton. Back before we got John Roberts as the nation's newest chief justice of the Supreme Court, it was widely bandied about that Antonin Scalia had a hankering to be elevated to the position. In some ways, it is rather surprising that George W. Bush didn't appease him in this quest, as it would have ful... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15940 Books by Violet Glaze. M. Scott Peck's life was difficult. To the millions of people who read his 1978 masterwork The Road Less Traveled, that's no surprise--after all, the self-help book's very first sentence warns that "Life is difficult." What's surprising is how difficult Peck made life for everyone around him. The... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15939 Comics by Chris Minetree. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15938 Graphic Feature by John Ellsberry. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15937 Comics by Emily Flake. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15936 Comics by Ben Claassen III. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15934 Noise by Raymond Cummings. Last spring, Baltimore/Washington metro area all-femme outfit Odd Girl Out released its first record after a torrent of fits, starts, catastrophes, and road bloacks. Drawing heavily on pop-punk, Joan Jett, and alt-rock in general, Hurry Up and Wait was a tuneful jolt of local rock fun, and revisitin... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15933 Noise by Michael Byrne. Well, Artscape actually announced this some time ago, but we figured it'd be more fun to give you an overload headache. "Busy weekend" doesn't come close. You can find all of Artscape details here, but highlights and/or headliners include Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Roberta Flack, Felicia Carter,... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15932 UliBlog by Uli Loskot. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15931 UliBlog by Uli Loskot. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15930 UliBlog by Uli Loskot. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15929 Noise by Al Shipley. As much criticism as Pearl Jam has taken over the past decade for the retail overkill of making every single concert it plays commercially available as a live album, the side effect of forcing the band to change its set lists drastically from night to night is an easy positive. Constantly digging up... Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15928 UliBlog by Uli Loskot. One day Ana and I were invited to visit the home of one of the Bodytree students. On a rainy morning we set out by foot into the thick forest on the other side of the Kallar river with Maina to visit her father. Many Adivasi people live very, very simply in mud houses in the forests on the slopes of... Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15927 The News Hole by Erin Sullivan. Turns out that blogging intern we wrote about earlier was right: The Sun just announced that the Baltimore Sun Media Group will eliminate about 100 more jobs by early August.... Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST