Noise In 2005, Baltimore's Lake Trout brought down a band from Boston called Apollo Sunshine to open a couple of shows at the Ottobar, and the out-of-towner proceeded nearly to blow its hosts off the stage on both occasions. Combining shit-kicking Southern rock with disjointed art rock and big, bold pop hooks, Apollo Sunshine felt like a breath of fresh air at the time, and we spent the next three years jamming the band's excellent first two albums and awaiting a third. But when Shall Noise Upon was f ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist Dr. Evil Occupation: Fictional Villain; CEO (emeritus), Omincon Compensation: unknown Interests: space, rockets, "lasers," sea bass with head-mounted "lasers," world domination, etc. Demand: "100 beeelion dollars" What He Will Do If You Don't Obey: Blow up the Earth with his moon-based "laser." Henry "Hank" Paulson Occupation: Treasury Secretary, Fictional Economic Savior Compensation: $46.7 million (Last 5 years at Goldman Sachs) Interests: interest rates, M1, TED Spread, world domination, ... [MORE]
Noise Nicky Smith (the son of City Paper co-founder Russ Smith) has a short black-and-white documentary, Shut Down and Shut Up, circulating online right now that is worth a look. Basically, it's him sitting down with the proprietors of the since-defunct Scarey Studios, Floristree, the Hexagon, Hamilton Arts Collective, the since-defunct Wham City, the Bank, and the "NC" ("Scott," with his face blurred and voice altered), and talking about the challenges and motivations behind running a DIY space ... [MORE]
The News Hole The JTA news service reports: "Two adults and one juvenile...allegedly defaced signs at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and Beth Tfiloh Synagogue ... with spray-painted inverted swastika symbols and the phrases 'Nazis' and 'WK.' A police spokesman told the Times that investigators do not believe the case is 'hate-related.' Seems an unlikely snap judgment, but then it gets weird when you find out all three were Jewish. ... [MORE]
Murder Ink On Sept. 7 2006 Darrell Artis, a 25-year-old African-American man, was drinking with a group of people in a parking lot in the 7100 block of McClean Boulevard near the Perring Parkway Shopping Center. Artis got into a fight and was shot repeatedly. He died in the parking lot while the rest of the group fled. According to police, LaTosca McCullough, a then-26-year-old African-American woman, and Marquise Brown, a then-27-year-old African-American man, were arrested eight days later for Artis' mur ... [MORE]
Feedbag "Waiting burned the wagon," the burly man at Mr. Bartenfelder's farm stand said as he hustled over to take money in exchange for a bunch of beets on Saturday at the Waverly farmers' market. Here are a few fleeting seasonal crops you don't want to wait on either, as they'll be gone in a week or two: chestnuts from Lewis Orchards, English walnuts from Gardener's Gourmet, Concord grapes from Reid's Orchard. The Waverly market also welcomed a new purveyor to the market this week. Chesapeake Greenhou ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist It happens every four years, but whenever we've got a presidential election, otherwise normal-looking people turn to sputtering ideologues, certain that they're right and the other side is dead wrong, if not completely insane (for confirmation of this theory, please see the rest of the internet). Scientific American has an interesting interview with neurologist and author Robert Burton, on the dangers of being certain, and how it doesn't always mean we're right. ... [MORE]
The News Hole Anthony Wayne Ballard, aka Buzzard, a 38-year-old man from Baltimore, pleaded guilty on Oct. 8 to major drug-distribution charges and participation in an identity-theft scam that involved a mole inside the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration. In 2006 Ballard was stopped in Prince George's County along with Maurice Phillips, indicted kingpin of the Phillips Cocaine Organization of Philadelphia, and fugitive drug trafficker Shawn Michael Green, best known locally as a business associate of Ea ... [MORE]
UliBlog I take a local bus from the Ashram back to Trivandrum where my train leaves from for Hyderabad the next morning. Every hotel in my price category seems to be booked up and I end up staying in a dingy, cheap joint in a dark alley with a friendly attendant. I notice only single men this place, which worries me a bit at first. Later I find out that many men come from far to work in Trivandrum and occupy all the cheap hotels during weekdays. The next morning I am ripped out of my dreams by loud ... [MORE]
Noise International music publicists have a bizarre talent for landing press releases in the in boxes of even the most occasional freelance music journalists; last time (for me), it was an agent hyping Iranian pop-punk band Hypernova's unprecedented U.S. "invasion." The primary hook of the blurb concerning Japanese label Matsuri Studio's Zazen Boys was the fact that Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann had recorded and mixed their latest release, Zazen Boys 4, at his coveted Tarbox Road Studios. Additi ... [MORE]
Noise On Friday, Oct. 3, Sonar served as host to the Baltimore preliminary for the 2008 Scribble Jam. The long-running annual hip-hop festival, which includes competitions for rappers, producers, and DJs, has launched the careers of many famous MCs, including Eminem. And I was invited to serve as one of the, er, "celebrity competition judges" to help pick an MC and a producer to send to the big tournament in Cincinnati later this month. Surprisingly, it was the latter that turned out to be hungriest: ... [MORE]
The News Hole Editor's note: Read accompanying article about Noel Liverpool Sr.. Noel Liverpool Sr. entered Morgan State University with the class of 1989. Since the mid-1990s he has engaged in a multitude of business and real estate transactions, and he has been sued more than a dozen times. Companies: All but two of the following Liverpool companies are defunct. Inner City Gear Inc., incorporated in 1995 as clothes retailer located in Mondawmin Mall; charter forfeited in 1999. Inner City Gear En ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist An enthusiastic, if slightly bleary, crowd gathered early Monday morning at the Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel to watch NASA's Messenger spacecraft take a spin past Mercury. The maneuver was the fifth cushion in an elaborate interplanetary bank shot that will leave Messenger orbiting Mercury in 2011, and brought it within 125 miles of the surface, snapping pictures of some parts of the planet that have never been photographed by spacecraft. Messenger will be the first spacecraft to orbit t ... [MORE]
The News Hole Is a brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai a drug trafficker? Nobody seems to know for certain, not even the feds who say they don't have solid evidence that Ahmed Wali Karzai is involved in drugs. But a story by The New York Times, which appeared Oct. 4, quotes various White House sources as saying that U.S. officials strongly believe that Ahmed Wali Karzai, chief of the Kandahar Provincial Council, is dealing in heroin and that his brother is protecting him from investigation. The story sa ... [MORE]
The News Hole On Saturday, WMAR TV posted a news brief on its web site noting that three out of five households in the Baltimore area watched Friday night's vice-presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. According to Nielsen, Baltimore was the top TV market in terms of viewership for the debate. We can only hope Baltimore residents show the same level of interest at the polls. Chances are, they will this year, because it's a presidential election. But we suspect that once the presidential race ... [MORE]
Noise Los Solos is a new monthly performance series featuring--you guessed it--solo performances. The twist here is that the series presents only women, pairing a local and an out-of-town artist on each bill. Pulling from the experimental undergrounds of dance, music, theater, and, video, Los Solos is programmed by curators-cum-artists Jackie Milad and Bonnie Jones. The series kicked off in September with electro-psych improv performances from Baltimore's Whispers for Wolves and Philadelphia's Fursaxa ... [MORE]
Noise With some 60 people removed from the upper ranks of Baltimore's music-making population for the Baltimore Round Robin Tour, music, especially local music, is a little thin around town. It's like fishing season in a small coastal town. But, still, there's no reason you need to stay home: FRIDAY: Adam Gonzo and Mark Brown's Served dance party gets an extra kick tonight from Philly's DJ Sega, spinning his unpolished rock remix-heavy take on Baltimore club at the Windup Space. 9 p.m. $5. Helios Cre ... [MORE]
The News Hole When Ira C. Cooke's 2004 California conviction for helping to bilk a mental health clinic's money was overturned on appeal in 2006, the former lawyer/lobbyist declared himself ready to be reinstated to the Maryland lobby game. He was, and this year represented the interests of the bail-bonds, sedan-service, and parking-garage industries before Annapolis legislators. Now Cooke wants his Maryland law license back, too, which he surrendered shortly after the since-overturned conviction. Yesterday, ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist Today through Sunday are the final four dates to catch the American Opera Theater's imaginative interpretation of Georges Bizet's workhorse Romantic opera Carmen. Featuring a new book by AOT artistic director Timothy Nelson, Le Cabaret de Carmen takes as its inspiration an unorthodox 1981 version of the opera as imagined by innovative British stage director Peter Brook--who directed the famed 1966 English version of Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed b ... [MORE]
Noise Of all the iconic alt-rock bands to have reunited and hit the touring circuit in the past couple years, there's probably none with a comeback story as harrowing and dramatic as that of the Meat Puppets. After the band fell apart in 1995 due to bassist Cris Kirkwood's heroin addiction, he entered a lengthy downward spiral, which included his wife's overdose and death and a 2003 altercation with a security guard that resulted in Kirkwood being shot, hospitalized, and sentenced to two years in pris ... [MORE]
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