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Dennis Haney, The Wizard of Rosedale

Feature One of the country’s most respected magicians quietly holds court in a Baltimore County industrial park. By Jim Meyer | 1/11/2012
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The Year In News

Top Ten Political corruption, Occupy Baltimore, Baltimore Grand Prix, Police corruption, Voter turnout, and more. | 12/14/2011
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The Year In Film

Top Ten Drive, Bill Cunningham New York, Bridesmaids, Attack the Block, The Tree of Life, and more. | 12/14/2011
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The Year In Home Video

Top Ten Poetry, Red State, The Housemaid, The Bill Hicks Story, Uncle Boonmee, and more. | 12/14/2011
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The Year In Television

Top Ten Break Bad, Game of Thrones, Justified, The Good Wife, Luther, and more. | 12/14/2011
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The Year In Music

Top Ten Cass McCombs, Peaking Lights, Jay-Z and Kanye West, Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Beyonce, and more. | 12/14/2011
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The Year In Local Music

Top Ten Wye Oak, Pulling Teeth, Future Islands, Mullyman, White Life, and more. | 12/14/2011
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The Year In Art

Top Ten Cowboys and Engines, Jhana and the Rats of James Olds, Interior/Exterior, CART, DUOX, and more. | 12/14/2011
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The Year In Stage

Top Ten Rooms Play, A Raisin in the Sun, The Homecoming, A View From the Bridge, The Other Shore, and more. | 12/14/2011
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The Year In Intertubes

Top Ten The Baltimore Brew, Friends Records, @BigBoyzBail, Baltimore 311, Maryland Historical Society, and more. | 12/14/2011
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The Year In Books

Top Ten Blue Nights, There But for The, The Pale King, Uncanny Valley, Us, and more. | 12/14/2011
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Adjusting the Season-ing

Holiday Guide City Paper’s Annual Holiday Guide | 11/23/2011
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MICA Students Create An On-the-Spot Portrait of Occupy Baltimore

Feature A new MICA course called Visual Journalism requires students to take their drawing materials out into the city By Lee Gardner | 11/16/2011
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Future Islands

Music A rising Baltimore band takes success personally By Brandon Weigel | 11/2/2011
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Republicans, Libertarians, and Greens aim to make Baltimore’s general election matter

Feature Only Democrats have served as mayor since 1967, and only Democrats have sat on City Council for nearly 70 years. By Van Smith | 10/26/2011
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Double Dagger Last Show

Feature Free DIY poster! Print and assemble! | 10/19/2011
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Occupy Baltimore makes up a movement as it goes along

Feature Calls for the end of corporate personhood, the repeal of the Patriot Act, and a laundry list of other causes animate the crowd. By Edward Ericson Jr. | 10/12/2011
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Ale Blazer

Feature Hugh Sisson brought the brewpub to Baltimore. Then he really learned about the beer business By Jenn Ladd | 10/5/2011
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Open Books

Big Books Issue Eight bookish Baltimoreans talk about what they read By Andrea Appleton | 9/28/2011
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Best guess . . .

Feature 2011 Best of Baltimore: Intro | 9/21/2011
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EXHAUSTED Photographs From the 2011 Baltimore Grand Prix

Feature Photos by Sam Holden, Frank Klein, Michael Northrup, Rarah, and Josh Sisk By Joe Macloed | 9/14/2011
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Unfinished Business

Feature Bill Doyle believes that Saudi Arabia bankrolled the Sept. 11 attacks, and despite U.S. government opposition, he hopes to prove it By Jeff Gore | 9/7/2011
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Front-Running

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has the office and the cash, but lacks her rivals’ ambitious plans for change By Edward Ericson Jr. | 8/31/2011
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Baltimore’s new-music concert series Mobtown Modern and Evolution return

Music As the mainstream classical-music world winds down the summer festivals, Baltimore’s foremost new-music concert series are prepping for their 2011-2012 seasons. | 8/24/2011
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The Baltimore Grand Prix promises civic riches

Feature . . . but who are these guys, anyway? By Edward Ericson Jr. | 8/17/2011
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Learned Behavior

Books A new book argues that it's a mistake to assume education alone can fix our society By Michael Corbin | 8/10/2011
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Dateline: Online

Feature A guide to Baltimore’s online news ecology By Michael Byrne | 8/3/2011
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Caddy Da Don lives large while a summer jam takes off

Music After a short stint in prison, David Rice once again has become a ubiquitous presence on the Baltimore hip-hop scene By Al Shipley | 7/27/2011
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Seeing Stars

Feature NASA manned space flight may be grounded, but Maryland space science is preparing for lift off By Laura Dattaro | 7/20/2011
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Big Music Issue 2011

Big Music Issue No band is an island. And the same goes for rappers, venues, beats, genres, and all the rest of it. There always remains that connection between the macro and the micro, the guy twiddling knobs in some west Baltimore art space and the left-field leans of th | 7/13/2011
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Back To Nature

Music For the first time in years, Animal Collective returns home to Maryland By Brandon Weigel | 7/6/2011
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Barking Mad

Feature A group of former volunteers says the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter has gone to the dogs By Andrea Appleton | 6/29/2011
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Bocce Brawl

Feature A Little Italy bocce feud winds up in court By Van Smith | 6/22/2011
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Dynamic Duo

Art DUOX breaks out of the art-show same-old same-old By Alex Ebstein | 6/15/2011
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Bottle Rockers

Feature The secret is to stay on your feet with a bottle of water in your hand and get it gone. By Lee Gardner | 6/8/2011
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Hardly Working

Feature America’s disability-benefits system is exploding, complicated, ripe for exploitation, almost broke, and all some people have By Edward Ericson Jr. | 6/1/2011
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Unnatural Selections

Music Local metalheads pick the best of Maryland Deathfest By Michael Byrne | 5/25/2011
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Sizzlin' Summer

Sizzlin’ Summer Calendar Your guide to the best stuff to do all summer long | 5/18/2011
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Saint or Sinner?

Feature William Donald Schaefer’s unexamined legacy in Baltimore and beyond By Edward Ericson Jr. | 5/11/2011
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Film Fest Frenzy

Film Fest Frenzy Our guide to the 2011 Maryland Film Festival | 5/4/2011
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Transmodern Festival

Music Atypical equals typical at annual coloring outside the lines By Michael Byrne | 4/27/2011
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Growing Pains

Feature Baltimore makes slow progress as a cycling town By Michael Byrne | 4/20/2011
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Mighty

Music Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner talks touring, improving, and coming to terms By Lee Gardner | 4/13/2011
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Points of View

Art Sixty-six artists, 243 photos, and the innumerable stories suggested by the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960 By Bret McCabe | 4/6/2011
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Homes of Contention

Feature So where do the city’s elected officials live, again? By Edward Ericson Jr. and Van Smith | 3/30/2011
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A Sprawling Mess

Feature Baltimore residents want to dump the Environmental Control Board By Andrea Appleton | 3/23/2011
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According to Plan

Feature If Otis Rolley’s bright ideas are enough to get him elected mayor, are they enough to fix the city? By Edward Ericson Jr. | 3/16/2011
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Silent No More

Feature Baltimore Jewish Times Executive Editor Phil Jacobs and filmmaker Scott Rosenfelt expose sexual abuse in Baltimore’s Orthodox Jewish community By Andrea Appleton | 3/9/2011
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Moveable Feasts

Feature Food trucks roll out in Baltimore By Andrea Appleton | 3/2/2011
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Corner Cartel

Feature A federal trial shows how Mexican cartel drugs get to Baltimore street corners By Van Smith | 2/23/2011
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Right to Life

Feature Twenty years on, Maryland death-metal veteran Dying Fetus is still in it to win it By Lee Gardner | 2/16/2011
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Free Love

Feature Our annual reader valentines | 2/9/2011

The Lady Vanishes

Feature Meet Henrietta Vinton Davis-one of the most amazing women you've probably never heard of. By Lee Gardner | 8/4/2010

Natty Threads

The Arts Emily Li Mandri looks to continue expanding her start-up fashion label. By Rebecca Fishbein | 7/28/2010

Whartscape 2010

The Arts. By Michael Byrne, Lee Gardner, Bret McCabe, and Tim Kabara | 7/21/2010

Big Music Issue 2010

Big Music Feature. | 7/14/2010

Motorcycle Diary

Books Doug Barber captured old-school biker life through his camera's lens. By Christianna McCausland | 6/30/2010

Cleaning Up

Feature Federal money is expanding drug treatment in Baltimore--and causing providers headaches.. By Edward Ericson Jr. | 6/23/2010

The Black Box

Feature Baltimore's African-American indie filmmakers search for an audience. By Lee Gardner | 6/16/2010

Happy?

Feature Baltimore's latest tourism campaign rekindles the city's ongoing branding issues. By Martin L. Johnson | 6/9/2010

Cuts of Beef

Feature A single diss track catapults Keys into the local hip-hop discussion. By Jaye Hunnie | 6/2/2010

Role Model

Feature In his new book, John Waters writes about amateur pornographers, lesbian strippers, and Clarabell the Clown and reveals . . . himself. By Andrea Appleton | 5/26/2010

Sizzlin' Summer

Introduction Our annual comprehensive guide to surviving, thriving, and diverting yourself until September. | 5/19/2010

Inside Job

Feature Evidence of corruption in Maryland prisons has been mounting. Can current reform measures clean things up?. By Van Smith | 5/12/2010

Film Fest Frenzy

Frenzy Feature City Paper's annual guide to the Maryland Film Festival. | 5/5/2010

For Want of a Horse

Feature Will this generation of arabbers be Baltimore's last?. By Andrea Appleton | 4/28/2010

Peddling Faster

Feature City Paper's second annual Bike Issue. By Michael Byrne | 4/21/2010

Transmodern Festival 2010

Feature Introduction and Schedule of Events. | 4/14/2010

An Education?

Feature Two recent books take hard looks at the current state of America's public schools. By Michael Corbin | 4/7/2010

The New Now

Feature Contemporary composition in Baltimore goes DIY and leaves the concert hall behind. By Lee Gardner | 3/31/2010

The Ghost Hand

Feature Maryland law enforcers aim to take the pot by secretly sitting at the online gambling table. By Van Smith | 3/24/2010

Chopping Blocks

Feature Former <i>Sun</i> reporter Antero Pietila explores a century of Baltimore's racist real-estate deals and developments. By Edward Ericson Jr. | 3/17/2010

Homeless and Hungry

Feature Portraits by Michael Northrup. By Michael Northrup | 3/10/2010

Anatomy of a Murder Trial

Feature In Robert Long's death, "all the pieces fit together." A few are still missing.. By Edward Ericson Jr. | 2/24/2010

The Old Master

Feature The first black American boxing champion has been largely forgotten, especially in his native Baltimore. By Andrea Appleton | 2/17/2010

Free Love

Feature Our third annual batch of Reader Valentines. | 2/10/2010

Single-Payer-Minded

Feature Local health-care practitioners explain why they're willing to go to jail in the name of health-care reform. By Erin Sullivan | 2/3/2010

The Last Dirty Picture Show

Feature The heyday of the Apex Theatre has come and gone. Can it rise again?. By Van Smith | 1/27/2010

Rising Tide

Feature Baltimore's 2009 homicide toll goes against national trends by going up. By Anna Ditkoff | 1/20/2010

Oh Sheila

Feature A liberal's lament for what might have been. By Tom Chalkley | 1/13/2010

Wino

Feature Maryland's doom-metal godfather had a pretty good year--for once. By Michael Byrne | 1/6/2010

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Cleaning Up: Federal money is expanding drug treatment in Baltimore--and causing providers headaches.

Shadow Economy. Following the players in Baltimore's illegal economy.

Family Portraits. Portraits of Black Guerrilla Family members indicted in Maryland.