http://www.citypaper.com/ Recent Baltimore City Paper Content. en-us Copyright 2008 Baltimore City Paper http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=17093 Noise by Michael Byrne. Details are still thin, but Rye Rye, a.k.a. the small dancing/rapping nuclear reactor that's quickly turned into the national face of Baltimore's young (read: youth) urban club culture, announced this morning via a MySpace blog, beginning "I BEEN BUSY. MADD BUSY," that her debut record will be arriv... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=17092 Feedbag by Mary Zajac. As our elders always told us, a bargain isn't a bargain unless it's something you need or want. After reading the Chameleon Café's menu for their new Tuesday and Thursday three- ($30) and four-course ($35) prix-fixe dinners, we know that we both need and want to go to Lauraville for supper. Ch... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=17091 The News Hole by Edward Ericson Jr.. An audit of the state agency that doles out loans and grants to corporations on the theory that they'll create lots of jobs has (again) found no confirmation of the jobs created. As it did in 2001 and 2005, the state Department of Legislative Audits reports that the Department of Business and Econ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=17090 Mobtown Beat by Van Smith. Purveyors of psilocybin mushrooms--the kind that send users into psychedelic, sometimes hallucinogenic states--tend to share the peaceful, feel-good reputation of the hippy drug they sell. Still, they are illegal drug dealers, since the magic mushroom is a controlled dangerous substance under federa... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=17089 UliBlog by Uli Loskot. I get up before sunrise, and am out on the streets taking photos by 6:00am. I encounter a world I would never see, if I got up a couple hours later. At this time of the day there are mostly only men out on the streets. The sidewalk dormitories have turned into bustling street markets, chai stands, r... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=17088 Noise by Michael Byrne. Yes, it's been a while since we've heard a show at the old Falls Road mill building know as the G-Spot. Was it Beach House? That long? In any case, plan on trundling over this Friday for Phosphorescent, a.k.a. Matthew Houck, a Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans songwriter that makes lovely, drowsy beardo folk m... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=17087 Holiday Guide Feature by Katherine Hill. The jingle that jangles the oncoming holiday season may be but a faint whisper before Thanksgiving, growing louder as November comes to an end and December arrives, hopefully as bright as it is chilly. We have the jingle tingle already, and it's because working on this chock-full-of Nutcrackers seas... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=17086 Holiday Guide Feature. As we head into an exciting new year--with a president we can actually get excited about, and let's be honest, it was going to be an improvement either way--one teeny-tiny unrelenting fact keeps popping up to spoil our Yule: We're still broke. We know we can't expect Obama to magically fix the econo... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=17085 Holiday Guide Feature by Emily Flake. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=17084 Holiday Guide Feature by Michael Byrne. The personalized music mix should be dead. Digital music, starting with CDs, shoved a splintery spear through its chest and, a couple decades later, music on the interwebs stepped on its throat. Hate to get all "back in the day" but, well, back in the day, the mix was how many of us found and collec... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=17083 Holiday Guide Feature by Charles Cohen. Linda Lynwander sat in a New Jersey country club one fall afternoon in 1983 with her tennis partner, plotting. Lynwander, who would one day become my mother-in-law, wanted to create a new holiday craze--the Chanukah ornament.Lynwander had always been on the lookout for the next big thing. Over the d... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=17082 Holiday Guide Feature by Anna Ditkoff. The earthily sweet smell of baked goods hangs in the air outside Tamara Gabai's house this autumn evening. You can smell the spices before you even step in the door. Inside a table practically bends under the weight of desserts: sweet potato, pecan, and pumpkin pies, pumpkin bread, rum cake, fruitca... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=17081 Holiday Guide Feature by Wendy Ward. "Since we were the only two people who could spell in the class, we got stuck with doing all of the little tiny stuff, because we knew which way apostrophes went," laughs Mary Mashburn as she describes the letterpress class she and her journalist husband Steve St. Angelo took in New York four years... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=17080 Holiday Guide Feature by Martin L. Johnson. Started just two years ago, the Charm City Craft Mafia, a 15-member collective of entrepreneurial artists, is Baltimore's anchor in what has become a sea of craft artists. Gathering online on the storefront site Etsy, and in craft fairs across the country, this new generation of screen printers, kn... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=17079 Holiday Guide Intro. This gift-giving season is looking kinda bleak. It doesn't seem like the economy is going to perk up anytime soon, and with everyone's retirement plans evaporating, every dollar we spend feels like giving blood. Still, if there was ever a time we needed to make merry, it's now. So this year, we deci... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=17078 Mobtown Beat by Jeffrey Anderson. Baltimore's underground economy took a hit Nov. 18 when Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty announced plans to shutter 23 used-car dealerships that serve as illegal storage for vehicles destined to be sold outside the District of Columbia. Entire lots had been emptied of used cars the day after the... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=17076 Music by Michael Byrne. WEDNESDAY: Electric Six--a rowdy, charged Detroit rawk confection--runs a current through Washington's Black Cat with Local H and Fall on Your Sword. Oregonian indie-Americana outfit Horse Feathers drifts into the Metro Gallery with Small Sur and Cool Sounds of the Continuous Revelation. The Grail... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=17075 Stage by Bret McCabe. Barely 15 minutes into the third and final act of this brazenly DIY production of Eugène Ionesco's Rhinoceros, one of the cast members has shed his shirt, stepped off the stage, climbed over the first few rows of seats, handed me an ordinary beverage bottle turned into a bell-like noisemaker t... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=17074 News+Features by Anna Ditkoff. Murders Nov 10-14: 4 Murders This Year: 192 Due to early deadlines for this week's Holiday Guide issue, this installment of Murder Ink only covers homicides between Nov. 10 and 14. Two deaths that occurred earlier this year were added to the homicide rolls this week. On April 14, 1996, Valando Good... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=17073 Mobtown Beat by Edward Ericson Jr.. A local "restructuring" of a refugee-resettlement contractor, plus a seasonal influx of refugees, may have contributed to the troubles Iraqi refugees have recently complained about in Baltimore. Their case managers have also faced longer processes for getting them things such as food stamps and I.... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=17072 The Mail. Sorry to hear about the freelancer who had to spend the night in jail ("Epic Cop Fail," Mobtown Beat, Nov. 12), but I am 100 percent behind the Baltimore City Police in this circumstance. He obviously does not live in Charles Village by Johns Hopkins. This happens every night--the Giants win, there... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=17071 Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod. Xmas is coming, but don't fall for it, man, it's a Trap. The Economies are in the fucking toilet and there's no credit for houses, and/or there's too many houses, also/and/or there's too many people crapping out on their house payments, and/also/plus the Financial Institutions are all being Institut... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/eat/story.asp?id=17070 Eat Me by Steve Gdula. When I decided earlier this yearto attempt to become a vegan, the whys informing my decision were easy. The inhumane treatment of animals in many aspects of the food industry was reason enough for me to try to give up eating meat. In addition to being good for my body, and maybe my soul, eschewing... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=17069 Political Animal by Brian Morton. It was a few weeks after the presidential election of 1992 when I emerged from the drafty escalators rising up from the Capitol South Metro station at First and C. Across the street was the GOP national headquarters, and right next to it was the Republican-friendly Capitol Hill Club. They probably... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=17068 Books by Chris Landers. The Baltimore Trust Company Building, at 10 Light St. downtown, was conceived as a temple to commerce--an Art Deco monument to all things capitalist and great. In the banking area, four murals depicting pivotal moments in Maryland and Baltimore history--from the landing of the Ark and Dove at St. Cl... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=17067 Art by Bret McCabe. The McDonald's storefront occupies an entire side of the Gormley Gallery on the second floor of Fourier Hall on the campus of the College Notre Dame of Maryland. And "occupies" is the operative word: the 18-by-42 foot large-form Xerox print covers the wall like a Mongol horde overrunning a tiny vil... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=17066 Books by Michael Pursley. The movies of cinematic occultist Alejandro Jodorowosky are ripe with mind-bending theology and volcanic beauty. Early '70s works such as 1970's El Topo and 1973's The Holy Mountain brought heavy doses of mysticism and the surreal to hosts of acid-bombed flower children, and the Chilean-born directo... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com//story.asp?id=17065 Cover Story by John Ellsberry. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/comics/story.asp?id=17064 Comics by Emily Flake. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=17063 Noise by Al Shipley. The Oranges Band's new album is all about revisiting the Baltimore rock scene's past, so it's appropriate that it was unveiled in a somewhat anachronistic way on Friday night--a local release party at the Ottobar several months ahead of the album's national release date. It's something that even the... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST