Pick a Winner
City Paper's endorsements for the 2010 primary election
We Need to Talk
A few weeks ago, while reading the news, something inside me broke. I bet it’s happened to you too. For years you hear about rapes, murders, incivilities, some seemingly unthinkable act of degradation repeated just one week later with a twist, and you don’t even blink.
The Jury Is Out
In state’s attorney race, Jessamy stands on a troubled record while Bernstein runs on reform and limited experience
Murder Ink
Murders this Week: 2
Murders this Year: 142
Several murder victims from August have now been identified. The man shot repeatedly in the 2200 block of Germania Avenue on Aug. 8 was Tavon Caldwell, a 25-year-old African-American. Shelred Carr, a 58-year-ol
Murder Ink
Murders this Week: 5; Murders this Year: 147
Murder Ink
Murders this Week: 5; Murders this Year: 147
Money Men
GOP comptroller candidates seek right to unseat Franchot
Going the Distance
The relatively lengthy running time of Going the Distance, coupled with its wearily predictable ending, gives you plenty of time to think about the relentless demands of commercial moviemaking.
Feature:
City Paper's endorsements for the 2010 primary election.
By Lee Gardner and Bret McCabe |
9/8/2010
Fest Feedback
Thanks to City Paper for its coverage of BiMA.fest last week, and thanks to all the people that attended the events and seminars this weekend, as well as sent e-mails of encouragement about your experience of the events.
Money Men
GOP comptroller candidates seek right to unseat Franchot
Second Guessing
Kent Tillman wants a new trial for the murder he confessed to 16 years ago
The Jury Is Out
In state’s attorney race, Jessamy stands on a troubled record while Bernstein runs on reform and limited experience
The Usual Suspects
Most Incumbents Are Sitting Predictably Pretty in Baltimore’s Legislative District Races
Murder Ink
Murders this Week: 2
Murders this Year: 142
Several murder victims from August have now been identified. The man shot repeatedly in the 2200 block of Germania Avenue on Aug. 8 was Tavon Caldwell, a 25-year-old African-American. Shelred Carr, a 58-year-ol
Larnell Is Right On
Regarding the letter from Larnell Custis Butler in the Aug. 25 issue where she blasted Republicans (“Republican White Devils,” The Mail)—from a blue-eyed devilish white—you go (home)girl! You are so right on!
I don’t know why the Republican Party isn’t ab
Where I Come From:
A few weeks ago, while reading the news, something inside me broke. I bet it’s happened to you too. For years you hear about rapes, murders, incivilities, some seemingly unthinkable act of degradation repeated just one week later with a twist, and you don’t even blink..
By Lionel Foster |
9/8/2010
Political Animal:
I’ve lived in this city for 20 years, and for 15 of them Patricia Jessamy has been the state’s attorney for Baltimore City. During that time, I’ve seen crime go up and go down..
By Brian Morton |
9/1/2010
Books:
Grimm’s fairy tales are, well, grim. Reading them after a childhood of being fooled by story books and Disney movies is a bit shocking and totally wild..
By Wendy Ward |
9/8/2010
Books:
The Sweet Valley High twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield wouldn’t survive a day in Baltimore, no doubt, but not for the reasons you might suspect..
By Wendy Ward |
9/8/2010
Books:
Fact: It’s going to be a long time before another stream of American art comes as close to capturing the lives of Latin American women in America as Jaime, Gilbert, and Mario Hernandez’s Love and Rockets comics/spinoffs, if only because Los Bros Hernandez have now been following some of their characters for more than 20 years..
By Bret McCabe |
9/8/2010
Film:
As Martin Scorsese settles into his cinematic dotage, directors whose crime movies can stand tall beside his prime-era verve, grit, and sweep are suddenly mushrooming around the globe..
By Lee Gardner |
9/1/2010
Film:
Q&A with the Animal Kingdom director.
By Lee Gardner |
9/1/2010
Going the Distance
The relatively lengthy running time of Going the Distance, coupled with its wearily predictable ending, gives you plenty of time to think about the relentless demands of commercial moviemaking.
Surface Tensions
Not much human grit beneath the nails of this very well-manicured thriller
New This Week
MACHETE In Grindhouse Robert Rodriguez created a trailer practically suited to character actor workhorse Danny Trejo’s unvarnished charisma, and now that preposterous concept becomes an actual feature. Who cares if it’s good or merely “good”—Rodriguez has
Mao's Last Dancer
Directed by Bruce Beresford; Opens Aug. 27 at the Charles Theatre
Up in Arms
Witty French comedy Micmacs pits weapons dealers against a wily band of outsiders
New This WeekCinema Paradiso, (500) Days of Summer, The Last Exocism, Mao's Last Dancer, Takers
Listening Party:
Susan Alcorn
Touch This Moment
Uma Sounds
An organ-like hum begins to fluctuate in timbre and intensity, snowballing into a buzzing morass. Just more than a minute and a half into this anxious squall it fades to near silence, before a gentler sound .
By Bret McCabe |
9/1/2010
The Short List:
WEDNESDAY: Today Is the Day makes suitably evil math-cum-noise-metal at the Ottobar with A Storm of Light, the Passage Between, and Questioner. 30 Seconds to Mars, Jared Leto’s not very good band, looks really cool at Sonar with Violent Soho and Loving th.
By Michael Byrne |
9/1/2010
Listening Party:
The Coil Sea is the project of Arbouretum frontman Dave Heumann; Big in Japan’s Matthew Pierce and Michael Lowry; Michael Kuhl; Jimmy Wallace of Asheville, N.C.; and Walker Teret, a Baltimore folk veteran who plays with too many bands to mention..
By Michael Byrne |
9/8/2010
The Short List:
WEDNESDAY: The psychedelic Swedes in Dungen take on the Ottobar with Wooden Shjips and the Frauds; the goth-metal Swedes of Katatonia play Sonar with Swallow the Sun, Orphaned Land, and Nightfire..
By Michael Byrne |
9/8/2010