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  • 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.
  • Disorder in the Courts Some courthouse races may be obscure, but they're rarely dull
  • 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
  • Lulu Eightball

September 9, 2010

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Pick a Winner

Feature City Paper's endorsements for the 2010 primary election. By Lee Gardner and Bret McCabe | 9/8/2010
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Disorder in the Courts

Mobtown Beat Some courthouse races may be obscure, but they're rarely dull. By Edward Ericson Jr. | 9/8/2010
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Ligeti's It

Music Mobtown Modern begins an ambitious new season with a tribute to a late 20th century giant. By Lee Gardner | 9/8/2010
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The Write Stuff

Books Nick Kent's tall tales of degradation and excess. By Neil Ferguson | 9/8/2010

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  • 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.

Murder Ink

Murder Ink: Murders this Week: 5; Murders this Year: 147. By Anna Ditkoff | 9/8/2010
Pick a Winner

Pick a Winner

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.
  • Disorder in the Courts Some courthouse races may be obscure, but they're rarely dull
  • 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

We Need to Talk

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

No Simple Answers

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
By the Book

By the Book

Stage: Giles Havergal's stage adaptation transcribes the source novel way too much. By Geoffrey Himes | 9/8/2010
The Write Stuff

The Write Stuff

Books: Nick Kent's tall tales of degradation and excess. By Neil Ferguson | 9/8/2010
Kate Bernheimer: <em>Horse, Flower, Bird</em>

Kate Bernheimer: Horse, Flower, Bird

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
Natalie Standiford: <em>Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters</em>

Natalie Standiford: Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters

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
Patricia Engel: <em>Vida</em>

Patricia Engel: Vida

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
New This Week

New This Week

New This Week: Cairo Time, Fantastic Voyage, and Resident Evil: 3D. By CP Staff | 9/8/2010
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A Fan's Film

Feature: Baltimore's Michael Dougherty writes and directs a movie inspired by Joss Whedon's Serenity. By Kurt Anthony Krug | 9/1/2010
Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom

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
David Michôd

David Michôd

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 Week Cinema Paradiso, (500) Days of Summer, The Last Exocism, Mao's Last Dancer, Takers
Susan Alcorn: Touch This Moment

Susan Alcorn: Touch This Moment

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

The Short List

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
Rachel Levy

Rachel Levy

Music: Q&A With the Organizer of the Female Fronted (Fuck Yeah!) Fest. By Michael Byrne | 9/1/2010
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Ligeti's It

Music: Mobtown Modern begins an ambitious new season with a tribute to a late 20th century giant. By Lee Gardner | 9/8/2010
Coil Sea: <em>Coil Sea</em>

Coil Sea: Coil Sea

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

The Short List

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
<i>Top</i> Quality

Top Quality

Free Range: Vino Rosina's delicious, charming parts make for a satisfying whole. By Mary K. Zajac | 9/1/2010

Java Moon Café

Cheap Eats: Penn Station, 1515 North Charles St, javamooncafe.com. By Michael Byrne | 9/8/2010
Waiting Area

Waiting Area

Free Range: Good flavors peek through Regions’ curious concept and overwhelmed service. By Mary K. Zajac | 9/8/2010
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101

101

Introduction: A guide to City Paper’s guide to Baltimore for college students. By System Administrator | 8/16/2010
  • Mixer Meet fellow Baltimore-area college students and recent grads
  • Part-Time Pincushions Local students earn cash by donating their bodies—and minds and time—to science
  • Underground Sounds Some of the best music in the city lives in unofficial spaces
  • Harm City? Not necessarily, if you keep basic street sense in mind
  • In The Hunt First rule of finding an apartment: Remain calm

>Read more in City Paper 101, a College Guide