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		<title>A great day in Baltimore</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/06/a-great-day-in-baltimore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>City Paper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was one of those great days in Charm City when there was just too much awesome shit to do. Between the Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival at the Creative Alliance, the Pride celebrations in Mount Vernon (and the many after-parties), the Let&#8217;s Eat Charles Street Festival, an O&#8217;s home game, and the beautiful weather, it was hard for a committed Baltimorean to plan an itinerary. We did our best: The Folklife Festival, in its third year, was as awesome as ever. We watched blacksmiths, decoy carvers, and instrument makers all ply their trades, printed our own Globe poster, got our faces painted, and saw too many great performances to list, though doo-wop legends the Swallows (top) were magnificent, and Lafayette Gilchrist and the New Volcanoes (second from top) positively killed it with an intense, high-energy set. We ran into local beatbox master Shodekeh (third from top) at the festival. He had gotten a killer dragon painted on the right side of his face at Let&#8217;s Eat Charles Street and visited the awesome Folklife Fest face-painters to add some flourishes on the other side. We asked if he was performing that day and he sighed, lamenting that he couldn&#8217;t ever just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robocop launches a Kickstarter campaign</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/06/robocop-launches-a-kickstarter-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Ericson Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Haygood, the former cop and self-taught roboticist whose creation City Paper wrote about last month, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to build a new and better robot—and teach kids the wonder virtue of making stuff. “Hex is a less sophisticated humanoid platform but a perfect teaching tool as ALL of the basic fundamentals of advanced humanoid robotics apply,&#8221; Haygood writes in his pitch, which includes a great video. &#8220;Hex is a unique thing in all the world &#8211; a starter humanoid robot.” Haygood, who turned 50 a couple weeks ago, has been busy visiting schools and making contacts. He’s trying to raise $35,000 by July 30. Good luck, sir.]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Pride Closes at 9 p.m.; Rye Rye, DDm, Abdu Ali play Current</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/06/update-pride-closes-at-9-p-m-rye-rye-ddm-abdu-ali-play-current/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baynard Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of a heated controversy surrounding Baltimore Pride&#8217;s Block Party, Matthew Thorn, the executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland (GLCCB) released a statement today about the attempts of Pride Baltimore&#8217;s Block Party to appease neighbors who aren&#8217;t happy with the raucous event. Thorn listed four things that would be different this year: 1.Increased security in the event’s foot print 2. Centralization of the alcohol concessions run by the GLCCB, along with more direct control over the identification policies and procedures 3. Increased cleaning for after the Block Party both within the footprint and in some tangential areas 4. Ending the event one hour earlier than in years past, at 9pm, to facilitate improved conditions with regard to traffic, noise, litter and alcohol consumption Thorn goes on to say, &#8220;Unfortunately, many of the areas of concern that were specifically identified by area residents are simply beyond the control of the GLCCB, even at an immaculately run event of this size.  Of particular concern was the parking lot located behind Eddie’s Market, where there were numerous complains [sic]of open containers, public urination and other unfortunate behavior.  With these issues, the problem is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The way Preakness used to be</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/the-way-preakness-used-to-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Serpick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Brandon Weigel posted yesterday about his experience at the 2013 Preakness, his first. He talked about his vantage point from the grandstand, his bets, his entry into into the cushy confines of the VIP section. I was moved to respond, first, to tell the young whippersnapper how things were &#8220;in my day,&#8221; and also because Brandon did something that drove me crazy each of the 12 or 13 years I went to Preakness: He ignored the action on the infield, where most Preakness-goers spend their day. I attended my first Preakness in 1992, as a high school senior. The night before, three friends and I pooled our money and asked my sister&#8217;s boyfriend to buy us a case of beer. He did so without a second&#8217;s thought or a cut while I waited in the backseat of his car &#8211; God bless you, Jason Becker, wherever you are. We didn&#8217;t know anything about horses &#8211; didn&#8217;t see one all day &#8211; but loved getting drunk in the sun with our friends. Maybe loved it too much: My day ended passed out near a pool of my own vomit, hours before the 10th race. When I finally got home, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the outhouse to the penthouse: my day at the Preakness</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/from-the-outhouse-to-the-penthouse-my-day-at-the-preakness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Weigel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be easy for City Paper to take the position the Preakness sucks. The crowd, after all, is overwhelmingly stuffed shirts, blue bloods, and what our art director Joe MacLeod referred to as &#8220;Easter Catholics,&#8221; people who turn up to the racetrack once a year for the high holiday of Maryland racing and don&#8217;t show their face for another year. But that argument is not going to be made here. While no track regular, I have been to Pimlico and Laurel on regular racing days enough to know what it&#8217;s like to play the ponies with closer to 100 people than 100,000. Seeing the place bustling with patrons and waiting in long lines (for food, for bets, for Black Eyed Susans, and just about everything else) was a welcome sight over the typical humdrum of a Saturday afternoon. The crowd brought a palpable energy and excitement to the rickety old grandstand and concourse at Old Hilltop, creating a noticeable buzz when the pack of horses came around the final turn and began the surge for the finish line. For me, it served as proof  the old-timers who lament the loss of the good ol&#8217; days are right when they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dundalk’s prodigal porn star writes home</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/dundalks-prodigal-porn-star-writes-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Lockwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in the Dundalk area of town and graduated from Patapsco High School way back in 1988. I’m a Baltimore Boy through and through &#8211; if you cut me I bleed Old Bay and Natty Boh. It took many years for me to accept this about myself. When I was growing up in the 1980s in  economically depressed and socially backwards, thinly populated Dundalk, I found it quite difficult (and painful) to be accepted as Patapsco High School’s resident counter-cultural-punk-rock-provocateur-artiste. Thankfully, things are quite different today. These days, I am celebrated for and indeed make my living as such, being an award-winning, internationally-known adult film star of nearly 1,500 pornographic scenes shot with the most attractive Penthouse Pets, Playboy models, and sexy adult starlets all over the world, and appearing on the nationally televised Showtime series, “Family Business.” (read City Paper&#8216;s previous story about me here.) When I was kid growing up in Charm City, I had a fake ID that said I was 18 so that I could get into Cignals on Charles St. every Friday night where me and my “progressive music” (as it was called back then) loving friends would dance all night in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARC train to begin weekend service!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/marc-train-to-begin-weekend-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Serpick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hallelujah! After virtually universal agreement (by the people we talk to, anyway) that the MARC train should run from Baltimore&#8217;s Penn Station to D.C.&#8217;s Union Station on weekends (which has been promised since at least 2008), it will finally be so, according to a report in the Baltimore Business Journal. The additional service was approved as part of The Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act, signed by Governor O&#8217;Malley today. The act includes $4.4 billion in transportation infrastructure spending, including $100 million to improve MARC service, partially paid for with a 4-cent increase in the state&#8217;s gas tax, starting July 1st. No date has been set for the weekend service to begin. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Naked Lunch: Mike Isabella to debut Skinny Dipper oysters at Preakness</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/naked-lunch-mike-isabella-to-debut-skinny-dipper-oysters-at-preakness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Skinny Dipper oyster is certainly upping the ante when it comes to suggestive foods. The alluring bivalve with the even more alluring moniker will be making its debut on Preakness day (May 18) at Preakness Village for a VIP slurping session. The Skinny Dipper will be proffered at Chef Mike Isabella’s raw bar at Preakness Village near the finish line. For those who won’t be hoofing it to the track that day, Ryleigh’s Oyster House in Federal Hill (36 E. Cross St.) will host a buck-a-shuck launch. The Skinny Dipper is the poster girl, so to speak, for the nascent True Chesapeake Oyster Co., which has recently begun farming the creatures from St. Jerome’s Creek in St. Mary’s County. Look for True Chesapeake’s other offerings on local menus this summer. We’re told the Skinny Dipper is plump and sweet, with just a hint of salt.]]></description>
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		<title>Explore the many ways to celebrate American Craft Beer Week</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/explore-the-many-ways-to-celebrate-american-craft-beer-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenn Ladd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week marks the celebration of a made-up marketing gimmick, but one that&#8217;s a little easier to swallow than many: American Craft Beer Week, from May 13-19. High-end beer-drinking opportunities abound. Old standby Max&#8217;s Taphouse highlights a different style of beer every day this week. Today, May 13, it&#8217;s mouth-puckering sours, including Allagash&#8217;s oak tank-aged FV 13 in bottles as well as The Bruery&#8217;s tart and wheaty Hottenroth Berliner Weisse on draft; many others available. Tuesday features a lengthy list of hoppy brews. Look for Ballast Point Sculpin IPA on nitro, Elysian&#8217;s Superfuzz Blood Orange Pale Ale on draft, and Lagunitas Hop Stoopid on cask. Wednesday is dedicated to Belgians and Belgian-styles (saisons, quads, etc.). Thursday showcases the bar&#8217;s barrel-aged stash, with lots of bourbon and oak represented. There are stouts aplenty in Friday&#8217;s dark ales selection. Max&#8217;s breaks out the experimental offerings on Saturday, with Stillwater&#8217;s brettanomyces-fermented malt liquor, Forty Faave, and Berlin, Maryland&#8217;s Burley Oak brewery&#8217;s Rude Boy red ale with added marshmallows, parsnips, and tangelos on cask. Sunday is a bit of a mishmash, with a wheats/wits/ales/lagers roundup. The sister joint to Pratt Street Ale House in Columbia, The Ale House hosts a beer dinner tonight, featuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN steals City Paper’s story—and headline</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/cnn-steals-city-papers-story-and-headline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Serpick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We say CNN ripped us off. You be the judge. On May 1, City Paper published this story, with the headline &#8220;Robocop: Retired city policeman takes refuge among droids,&#8221; about former city police officer Mark Haygood (pictured) who now makes robots out of old toys and alarm clocks and the like. On May 10, the House of Blitzer ran this story, with the headline &#8220;The Real Robocop: Ex-policeman builds robot from household goods,&#8221; about, well, the same thing. Now, Lord knows, we don&#8217;t own the rights to Mark Haygood&#8217;s story, but a mention and a link would have been nice. And as for the headline, well, we&#8217;ll just say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Thanks Wolf! UPDATE: It&#8217;s been called to our attention that the Afro had a story about Haygood that was published two weeks before ours (although our writer, Edward Ericson, Jr., heard about him independently and was unaware of the Afro story). So, maybe CNN ripped them off. For what it&#8217;s worth, we still had the headline first! &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Psst: Fleet Street Kitchen and Ten Ten Bistro offer secret menus Friday night</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/psst-fleet-street-kitchen-and-ten-ten-bistro-offer-secret-menus-friday-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fleet Street Kitchen and Ten Ten Bistro are trying to capture the clandestine vibe of a secret supper with their seasonal chefs menus this Friday night only. Both of the Bagby Group restaurants (both helmed by new chefs) will offer special prix fixe, three-course menus ($45 at FSK, $35 at Ten Ten) highlighting ingredients like ramps foraged from the woods near the owner’s farm, as well as pork loin from the happy pigs raised there. But the menu is only for those in the know, and won’t be offered to just anyone. You have to ask. We got an early peek at the secret menus. Check &#8216;em out: Fleet Street Kitchen Farmer’s Bounty Prix Fixe &#8211; $45 Ten Ten Farmer’s Bounty Prix Fixe &#8211; $35]]></description>
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		<title>Why not again?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/why-not-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Vascellaro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was one year ago today Baltimore Orioles fans and local media outlets were starting to recognize that there was something special about last year’s team. The day before, on May 6, 2012 the Orioles outlasted the Boston Red Sox in a grueling 17-inning, six-hour epic that just might have been the defining moment and signature victory of the team’s remarkable season. Behind a pair of solo home runs by shortstop J.J. Hardy in the first and third innings, and a three-run shot from second baseman Robert Andino in the fourth, the Orioles staked a 5-0 lead which they soon relinquished, allowing the Sox to tie the score at 5-5 after five innings. Each team pushed a run across in the eighth and the score remained 6-6 through eight more innings. With the Orioles depleted of available relievers, designated hitter Chris Davis came on to pitch in the bottom of the 16th and recorded two quick outs before Red Sox outfielder Marlon Byrd reached base on an error. Boston shortstop Mike Aviles followed with what looked like a game-ending double, but center fielder Adam Jones retrieved the ball off the wall and threw a perfect relay to shortstop Hardy who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fells Point Farmer’s Market to honor Mick Kipp with memorial booth</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/fells-point-farmers-market-to-honor-kipp-with-memorial-booth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 20:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Fells Point Farmer’s Market opens tomorrow at 7:30 a.m., there will be a stand in tribute to Mick Kipp, who died suddenly of a heart attack after a hike last week. He was 51 years old. Kipp, who is remembered as much for his colorful personality as for the bright bandanas he wore, sold spices and rubs as the Whiskey Island Pirate. A memorial service was held today in Annapolis, followed by a gathering at Pickles Pub, his longtime employer. Kipp’s friends are looking to raise funds for his 18-year-old daughter Matoaka’s education. “Matoaka did an amazing eulogy for her father,” says family friend Merritt Dworkin. “She’s going to carry on his fun and sense of adventure.” The memorial booth at tomorrow’s market will be decorated with a pirate flag bearing Kipp’s likeness, and will have a memory book for guests to inscribe.]]></description>
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		<title>Open Space Update: Significant damage but “positive outlook”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/05/open-space-update-significant-damage-but-positive-outlook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 19:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Serpick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fire that roared through a building housing several auto shops as well as the Open Space Baltimore gallery and arts space and several apartments Tuesday night did significant damage, but residents are safe and grateful for all the support they&#8217;ve received. Jasmine Sarp, an artist and CP designer who works with the thriving DIY arts incubator and  lives in the building, says that they are sorting through the damage and are optimistic about the future. &#8220;Though it&#8217;s been tough, it&#8217;s been really amazing to see all the support that&#8217;s shown up to help out,&#8221; she says. &#8220;We are really grateful for the community we have around us. We&#8217;ll be meeting and talking about the future of Open Space through the weekend. We have a very positive outlook.&#8221; Sarp&#8217;s apartment was on the side of the building that also housed the gallery and was left largely unscathed. &#8220;Everything just stinks like smoke,&#8221; she says. &#8220;The artwork in the gallery was ok too, but the gallery itself was pretty gross, filled with water and charred stuff.&#8221; The other side of the building was harder hit. &#8220;The music practice space / printing studio on the other side of the building from us was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beloved friend, bartender, hot-sauce maker, pirate Mick Kipp, R.I.P.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/04/beloved-friend-bartender-hot-sauce-maker-pirate-mick-kipp-r-i-p/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Vascellaro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That big collective groan you may have heard or felt reverberating throughout the city last night and this morning was for the loss of one of contemporary Baltimore’s most loving and well-loved citizens, everyone’s friend Mick Kipp (City Paper&#8216;s &#8220;Best Pirate,&#8221; 2004). I can’t remember the exact moment I met “Mick the Pirate” because I feel like I’ve known him all my life. He had that kind of personality, like a favorite uncle you couldn’t wait to see at the holidays. Most likely it was before or after an Orioles game during my first year in Baltimore in 1999. Mick’s inextinguishable enthusiasm and zest for life made him instantly familiar with everyone he met. I can’t imagine he was more than one-degree of separation from anyone who lives in the city. A long-time bartender at Pickles Pub across the street from Oriole Park and fixture on the city’s culinary/market scene, &#8220;Whiskey Island Mick&#8221; aka &#8220;Mick T. Pirate&#8221; Kipp, made a name for himself selling hot sauces and spices of his own creation all over town. You could find Mick anywhere and everywhere peddling products like his famously popular Whiskey Island “Juke Joint Mojo” pulled pork BBQ sandwich, in front of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complete affidavit and indictment in new Black Guerrilla Family case offer details of jails in disarray</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Serpick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At an April 23 press con­fer­ence, the lat­est Black Guer­rilla Fam­ily (BGF) prison gang rack­e­teer­ing indict­ment was announced, detail­ing charges against 25 defen­dants (a roster including detail background information on each is here), including 13 Mary­land cor­rec­tional offi­cers (COs) who allegedly facil­i­tated the gang’s oper­a­tional takeover of two Bal­ti­more deten­tion facil­i­ties. What follows is the complete text of the 67-page search-warrant affi­davit (top) and 48-page indict­ment (bottom), which detail the drug-dealing, extor­tion, money laun­der­ing, and smug­gling, that have allegedly become common practice as a result of the gang&#8217;s control of the jails. Black Guerrilla Family Affidavit Black Guerrilla Family Indictment]]></description>
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		<title>Just another day in Remington</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Serpick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributing photographer Noah Scialom sends along the following note along with seven accompanying pictures&#8230; With a slight chill in the air, in the still, not-quite-spring-weather this morning, I grabbed my cameras and coat and set off to take some pictures of a press conference in Remington. As I pulled up to the corner of Miles Ave and 26th St and parked on top of a sidewalk littered with broken cement and debris,  I crossed the street to where a mixed crowd of developers, city representatives and Remington residents were gathering around an empty podium in the middle of the street waiting for the house behind it to come crashing down in attempt to demonstrate the city&#8217;s &#8220;Vacants to Value&#8221; program &#8220;at Work!&#8221; Quite a nice photo op for a city busy making its comeback. Miles is a typical Remington street, that is to say that it is actually an Avenue, but feels more like an alleyway, with a  small garden next to the home that is about to be demolished that looked like it could use the extra room for a few more vegetables. The crowd was excited for the show, and only a few seemed sad to see the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On his birthday, City Paper’s best of John Waters</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/04/on-his-birthday-city-papers-best-of-john-waters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baynard Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of his Birthday, we went back through the archives to find CP&#8216;s best stories about, or even by, John Waters. At the top of the list is this 1984  interview Waters did with Arthur Frederick Goode III, who was on Death Row in Florida. &#8220;Parking my rented car in the lot,&#8221; Waters wrote.  &#8220;I surveyed the incredible amount of barbed wire surrounding the prison and checked in with the administration. After being searched twice, I was escorted through many locked gates by a correctional guard who stopped speaking to me when he learned whom I had come to interview. I realized we were past the final security point when I saw Goode locked in a small holding cell&#8211;a cage really&#8211;with his hands handcuffed behind his back. &#8220;Are you the one to see me?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Yes,&#8221; I said, making eye contact for the first time.&#8221; &#160; And here is our 1998 profile with the director on the release of Pecker, in which he said: &#8220;I joke that the only negative thing about being famous is that I&#8217;ve lost my right to have bad sex&#8211;I can&#8217;t do that. Like you&#8217;re in a back room and someone says, &#8216;I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artichoke Haircut’s literature carnival won’t make sense</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/04/artichoke-haircuts-literature-carnival-wont-make-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baynard Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, April 20, Artichoke Haircut, which teamed up with Publishing Genius, Shattered Wig, Ink Press,  and 5ive:Ten will host the &#8220;This Won&#8217;t Make Sense Literature Carnival,&#8221; which the mag defines as &#8220;an absolutely ridiculous reading&#8221; at the Metro Gallery. Artichoke Haircut, a literary arts magazine, which just published its fifth issue, was founded, the editors say  was founded when they &#8220;were in a bar one night dreaming of living on an oil rig, of having a party-boat, of having pet sharks, of starting a magazine. Only one of those dreams came true.&#8221; Tomorrow&#8217;s reading will feature Michael Kimball and Matthew Savoca, whose &#8220;I Don’t Know,” I Said will be released by Publishing Genius next month, as well as others. It cost $5 and includes music from Drunk Monk. Following on the heels of last week&#8217;s CityLit Festival and Smartish Pace&#8217;s party, and preceding a big WORMS reading, also at the Metro Gallery, next month, this carnival continues to demonstrate the health of our literary community. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Henri rhymes with ennui: Reflections on “The Existential Musings of an Angst Filled Cat”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2013/04/henri-rhymes-with-ennui-on-the-existential-musings-of-an-angst-filled-cat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexa Kwiatkoski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henri, le Chat Noir: The Existential Musings of an Angst Filled Cat By William Braden It’s no coincidence that Henri rhymes with ennui, the French word for boredom and discontent. Henri is a deep-thinking cat fed up with the meaningless of the world and the complacency of his humans. He is a philosopher in the style of the French existentialists, which is why his YouTube videos are in French with English subtitles. Henri is full of references. His ideas come mostly from Camus and Sartre, and his films are in the tradition of New Wave visionaries like Goddard or Truffaut. Henri has comments on all aspects of mundane life. He often lounges around the house declaring, “I feel nothing.” Or he looks down on other felines, who prefer appeasing their humans to pondering the nature of existence. There is one traitor in particular that Henri despises, a goofy, untroubled cat called “the white imbecile.” In one video, Henri takes a trip to “Le Vet.” He describes this futile experience: “I try to tell the doctor about my depressive state, and my growing disillusionment with the world. But he just checks for gunk in my ears.” On the subject of Halloween, [...]]]></description>
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