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Monday, March 15, 2010
Megadeth, Testament, Exodus

Megadeth, Testament, Exodus

3/16/2010, Rams Head Live, Baltimore.

UNCORKED! Gala

3/15/2010, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore.

Baltimore's catering scene gathers for an evening of hedonism and, more aptly, gluttony at the American Visionary Art Museum. A feast for the senses, the benefit features cocktails, a three-course dinner prepared by highlighted chefs and caterers, an...[MORE]

Baltimore Speaker Series: David Brooks

3/16/2010, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore.

Stevenson University's Baltimore Speaker Series is really taking advantage of America's love affair with all things political by bringing in a few defunct politicians, a former first lady, an aging actress, and a PBS regular to the Meyerhoff to talk ...[MORE]

The Only Good Corporation is an Undead Corporation

3/16/2010, The Black Cherry Puppet Theater, Baltimore.

Black Cherry's description of this show is short on specifics and heavy on maybes. There may be nudity in Rebecca Nagle's piece. The coffee shop that Annex and Bedlam's work is set in may be a Federal Hill coffee shop. We do know that the title perfo...[MORE]

Mobtown Modern: High Art

3/17/2010, Metro Gallery, Baltimore.

Back in October, the Mobtown Modern concert series presented a program of contemporary music that emphasized the low end of the musical spectrum (think Scelsi's Maknongan played on baritone sax). Tonight, flautists Katayoon Hodjati and Marcia Kamper ...[MORE]

Art by Bret McCabe:
Life and Tech
: A new art show explores the uncertain boundaries between humans and machines

Feature by Michael Northrup:
Homeless and Hungry
: Portraits by Michael Northrup

No Cover Review by Al Shipley:
A Long Time Comin'
: R&B prodigy CJ earned his first Grammy nomination before he could buy liquor, but he's just getting started

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Homeless and Hungry

Portraits by Michael Northrup

By Michael Northrup

Traveling around Baltimore's major thoroughfares inevitably brings you face to face with impossible-to-ignore evidence of one of the city's longstanding problems: people standing in the median at major traffic lights holding signs bearing some variation of the plea homeless and hungry.

NEWS

Homeless and Hungry: Portraits by Michael Northrup | Feature by Michael Northrup

A Pattern of Failure: Child-welfare advocates and prosecutors weigh in on a bill that would make child neglect a felony in Maryland | Mobtown Beat by Erin Sullivan

Murder Ink | The Mail

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COLUMNS

Conspiracies: In America, nearly every black person believes in conspiracies. Now that I've gotten that massive generalization out of the way, think about it for a second. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

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COMICS

Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III

Important Comics: by Dina Kelberman

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

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ARTS

Life and Tech: A new art show explores the uncertain boundaries between humans and machines | Art by Bret McCabe

Career Play: Three one-acts depict a working world that's more talk than action | Stage by Geoffrey Himes

If This is Living . . .: This bleakly comic Russian play wonders how it feels to die | Stage by Bret McCabe

Curtain Time

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MUSIC

Astro Travelin': Dâm-Funk plots another new course in funk music | Music by Nate Oak

CJ Hilton | Review by Al Shipley

Jack Rose: Luck in the Valley | Review by Michael Bryne

The Short List

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FILM

No Sweat | Review by Joe Tropea

New This Week

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EAT

Langermann's | Review by Mary K. Zajac

Banksy's Café | Review by Lee Gardner

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Shelter From the Storm

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3/12/2010: Cirque de la Symphonie and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, March 11 in Noise by Bret McCabe

3/12/2010: The New Yorker's Richard Brody Gushes Over Matthew Porterfield—Again in Arts and Minds by Lee Gardner

3/12/2010: Maryland official considered for open Fed seat in Crash Course

3/12/2010: John Elder, R.I.P. in The News Hole by Edward Ericson Jr.

3/12/2010: What Lehman Did in Crash Course by Edward Ericson Jr.

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Film > Remember Me: Actually, forget about it 3/12/2010

Stage > Toy Meets World: Puppets act out a very grown up tale of life and love 3/11/2010

Councilmania > Councilmania: Keeping tabs on the City Council's activities so you don't have to 3/9/2010

Film > The Ghost Writer: Roman Polanski stitches together a timely political thriller 3/8/2010

Film > Alice in Wonderland: Tim Burton turns Lewis Carroll's children's classic into a coming-of-age adventure 3/8/2010

Baltimanual.com: Check out our guide to Charm City

Family Portraits: Profiles of BGF members indicted in Maryland

Wired: Following the players in Baltimore's real shadow economy.

Murder Ink: Search Baltimore homicides by victim, location, year and more.

Movie Times: Search films playing in local theaters

Murder Ink by Anna Ditkoff
The worst criminal can't be rehabilitated. By definition they are already a waste of tax dollars. As to your other poi ...

Wonder Woman: The Life, Death, and Life After Death of Henrietta Lacks, Unwitting Heroine of Modern Medical Science
I heard on television today that Henrietta'a Lacks grave will have a donated gravestone in spring of 2010. ...

Murder Ink by Anna Ditkoff
BMORENEWBIE YOU ARE LIVING IN BIZARRO IF YOU THINK THAT MOST PEOPLE IN THE INNER CITY WANT TO BE THERE. AND WHY WOULD T ...

Murder Ink by Anna Ditkoff
When I read the various comments on here, I am reminded time and again that either I am living in Bizarro world or some ...

Jose Morales Update: 262 Months by Edward Ericson Jr.
I can tell you that this guy had to tell on someone to get this little bit of time.for 6 kilos of cocaine and trying to ...

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