http://www.citypaper.com/ Recent Baltimore City Paper Content. en-us Copyright 2008 Baltimore City Paper http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16267 Noise by Michael Byrne. Here we go again. As announced in a MySpace bulletin yesterday by Dave Tat, scheduled to play tomorrow night at the Hexagon, the recently opened nonprofit/cooperative club was confronted this week by a representative from ASCAP. The rep wanted money for a license which, naturally, the bare bones spa... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16266 Noise by Michael Byrne. With Hurricane Hanna on the way, we'd really just planned on buying a bunch of water, putting a diaper on the dog, and hunkering down, but if we get a break, there's plenty of more entertaining places to stay dry in Baltimore. Friday: Adam Gonzo and Mark Brown's newish dance party Sorted has avant-... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16263 Noise by Michael Byrne. The full mixtape, Material Girls, will be out later this fall on Darkroom Productions via free download from the Mamis' MySpace page, but its first two singles landed in our in box this morning. And, yeah, it's damn hot. Like, two fire-breathing MCs spitting over Madonna tracks hot. About the tracks... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16262 Noise by Al Shipley. We've been to Noise in the Basement, the weekly showcase at Fletcher's presented by 98 Rock's local music program of the same name, a few times before. But it wasn't until this past Monday, as we walked up the stairs to the club, that we realized that the name doesn't quite work. Shouldn't it be "No... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16261 UliBlog by Uli Loskot. After a couple of days at the Ashram things start to become more natural. The rain, which has not stopped since we arrived, accompanies us through the day like an unobtrusive, but attentive companion. At first I feel aversion towards chanting strange Sanskrit verses first thing in the morning (as we... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16260 S/Hitlist by Bret McCabe. Boston's Alloy Orchestra is familiar to any Maryland Film Festival moviegoer who has caught any of the trio's scores to classic silent films during the festival's run. Tonight, the Alloy Orchestra presents the East Coast premiere of its new score to Josef von Sternberg's 1928 The Last Command, being... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16259 S/Hitlist by Bret McCabe. Los Tenedores--the local troupe of Theresa Columbus, Andy Hershberger, Freda Mohr, and Elisa Urtiaga--perform at Minás Sept. 5 at 7:30 p.m. August Wilson's 1982 play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom opens the Vagabond Players' 93rd consecutive season Sept. 5 and runs through Sept. 28. New theater compa... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16258 S/Hitlist by Bret McCabe. You know the fall arts season is hitting stride when there are almost more openings than hours in the day. Just try keeping tabs on this weekend's lineup. Chul-Hyun Ahn's "Infinity - Patter" at C. Grimaldis Gallery Thursday, Sept. 4 Snatch It Back and Hold It: New works by Che' Smith and Rick San... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16257 Feedbag by Mary Zajac. Irena Stein's delightful Azafran (3700 San Martin Drive, [410] 338-4757), the café-not-cafeteria in the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, is joining the growing ranks of other Baltimore eateries embracing the locavore movement. The most recent Azafran newsl... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16256 The News Hole by Jeffrey Anderson. Los Angeles-based filmmaker LaVern Whitt, producer of the Women in Power documentary about Baltimore's top elected officials reacted to the recent federal drug trafficking indictment of her business partner Lawrence Schaffner "Lorenzo" Reeves by taking down websites devoted to her various endeavors.... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16255 S/Hitlist by Bret McCabe. Being an on-again/off-again YouTube junkie, sometimes I don't always catch new material when it's posted. But while trolling for some local out-music info, I ran across the trailer for the Chiara Giovando and Jenny Graf Sheppard movie Proud Flesh that Sheppard posted about two months back. (See belo... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=16254 Feature. This 10th anniversary of High Zero expands to five nights, opening with a free performance at the Baltimore Museum of Art, before settling into its familiar format of four nights of group improvisation introduced by a solo set. For information about individual tickets or a festival pass--and parti... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=16252 Feature by Lee Gardner. Ask Dan Conrad about his recent work with the Chromaccord, the nearly indescribable sui generis light device he's been thinking about, tinkering with, and playing for decades, and he cracks a wry smile and characterizes it as "a failure." "Whenever I tell somebody that, they say, `No, no, no,'" h... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=16251 Feature by Raven Baker. The only thing that is certain about the performance local artist Jenny Graf Sheppard is curating for this year's High Zero Festival is that she has little interest in traditional boundaries, especially distinctions between performer and audience. Her loose compositions, which include a piece ca... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=16250 Feature by Martin L. Johnson. In a few weeks, the Philadelphia-based filmmaker Peter Rose will come to Baltimore. Guided by local improviser and High Zero co-organizer John Berndt, Rose will visit several desolate landscapes in the city and take video of them using a process he calls "transfalumination." "I've just been study... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=16249 Feature by Marc Masters. "History is like music . . . completely in the present,"musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad wrote in 1997. In the 11 years since, Conrad's main concerns--art, sound, image, and history--have been radically altered by technology, making his dictum even more accurate. "The present has rolled along,... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=16248 Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod. I'm a positive person, you know? I really don't like to complain much, so look, I'm just stating a fact here: My Column only runs Every Other Week in a Newspaper that comes out Every Week, and in two weeks, this here paper and the enormo-gigantical Web Site it has propagated will be jammed full, c... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=16247 Feature by Bret McCabe. The cat is out of the bag, and now everybody knows what we spoiled locals have known for what feels like forever: The freaks run amok in Baltimore making all kinds of art racket, and--gasp--not only is it compelling, but people pay attention. We like it. And, yes, sometimes it's young guys in unir... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/comics/story.asp?id=16246 Comics by Ben Claassen III. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16244 Feedbag by Mary Zajac. For the last five years, The Chameleon Café (4341 Harford Road, [410] 254-2376) has been offering a Maryland-themed menu in late summer. This year is no different, except that each Tuesday through mid-October (or whenever the tomatoes give up the ghost), the restaurant is offering a four-course... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16243 S/Hitlist by Bret McCabe. After debuting in the spring of 2002 with an ad campaign that made it look like just another cop show, The Shield begins its final season tonight on FX, and I have to admit I'm a little saddened knowing that Michael Chiklis' Vic Mackey only has 13 more episodes to commit absolutely immoral acts in t... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16242 Noise by Bret McCabe. Over the long weekend, local house diva Ultra Naté e-mailed out a link to the Karl Giant-directed new video of her current single, "Twisted," and it's a scorcher. (See video, below.) It's a single from Ms. Ultra's most recent release, Alchemy: G.S.T. Reloaded, a two-disc hit parade of her No. 1... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16241 The Mail. The most telling point of your excellent investigation into the retooling of The Baltimore Sun was the e-mail from Lee Abrams implying that news and information is the new rock 'n' roll ("Press Release," Feature, Aug. 20). Apparently this mastermind never read Marshall McLuhan, the "media ecology"... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=16239 Music by Michael Byrne. WEDNESDAY: Lo-fi, mellow out-folk trio Microwave Background headlines the Ottobar with quirk-pop outfit Art Department and the Extraordinaires. Baltimore grindcore quartet Oedipus lets out a mighty roar at the Sidebar with charging, riff-metal outfit the Somber Tones, the Pen, the Feather, the Plag... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=16238 Music by Michael Byrne. Messy isn't necessarily sloppy; it can still be calculated. The mess-as-aesthetic is something Daedelus does best. Broadly electronic and leaning heavily toward left-field hip-hop, reducing what the Victorian-costumed--why not?--gentleman named Alfred Darlington (né Weisberg-Roberts) is, exact... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16237 News+Features by Anna Ditkoff. Murders This Week: 3 Murders This Year: 145 Due to the Labor Day holiday, this week's column only covers homicides between Aug. 25 and 29. As of Friday, Aug. 29, there were 61 fewer homicides this year than at the same time last year. The man found shot to death near Forest Park High School on Aug... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16236 Mobtown Beat by Amanda Magnus. Community/p> The Y.O.U.R.S. store in Hampden is located in a small, but bright and sunny, space. The walls are painted light green, the curtains are yellow, and the items in the store--mostly T-shirts--are neatly organized on shelves and racks. The first thing visitors see when they walk in the d... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16235 Media Circus by Martin L. Johnson. The redesigned Baltimore Sun is more than just a pretty face. Even casual readers of the paper can't help but notice that sections have been cut and some of the paper's familiar bylines no longer appear. But behind the scenes, journalists at the Sun and other papers owned by the Tribune Co. have... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/film/story.asp?id=16233 Film by Aaron Mesh. Kelley Baker doesn't look angry. The man who calls himself the "Angry Filmmaker" is soaking in a rare afternoon of sunshine in his hometown of Portland, Ore., sipping a glass of PBR at a picnic table. With his small glasses, stringy gray hair, and powder-white beard, the 52-year-old looks like a c... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16232 Concrete Jungle by Jay Sandler. On a hot, sunny Aug. 7, in a shiny white party tent pitched up on a big lot between Fallsway and Hillen Street, a group of Maryland politicians gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new homeless facility. Jeff Singer, president and chief executive officer of Health Care for the Homeless (w... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST