AltWeeklies Wire
Conference Brings Together People Working Toward Redefining the Urban Spacenew
For activists who long struggled to fight developers and speculators, the recent halt in economic activity has been an opportunity to rethink what the city means and can become, and this weekend's radical conference in Baltimore, The City From Below, addresses those concerns.
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
03-31-2009 |
Housing & Development
Philadelphia's Peter Rose Remaps Urban Topography in His Experimental Filmsnew
He started making films in 1965, an era when experimental filmmakers sought to escape the confines of narrative and expectations of aesthetic beauty through making work that returned ceaselessly to the basic questions of the medium.
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
09-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: experimental film, Peter Rose
Blogs Tell the Story Behind Baltimore Sun Buyouts and Changesnew
Behind the scenes, journalists at the Sun and other papers owned by the Tribune Co. have launched an angry (if only online) revolt against staff layoffs, management decisions, and what they see as a wholesale dismantling of the Chicago-based company's newspapers.
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
09-09-2008 |
Media
Two Media Companies Bet on Niche Papers as Print Journalism's Futurenew

In spite of the uncertain economy and the more certain decline in newspaper readership, two new publications, the monthly Exhibit A and the weekday daily b launched in Baltimore.
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
08-26-2008 |
Media
Young Novelists Navigate Ambition and Their 20s in Coming-of-Age Flick, 'Reprise'new

Although it has its moments, for the most part it is a shopworn story of young, well-off people who confuse celebrity with greatness and suffering with an unsatisfactory job.
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
07-01-2008 |
Reviews
Digital Video Has Become as Unreliable a Narrator as Celluloidnew
Hollywood has finally started to respond to the success of YouTube and other online video sites. Cloverfield, Redacted, and Diary of the Dead purported to be "found" videos, made by someone who didn't plan for their footage to wind up in a movie theater. But video looks too good to be "real."
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
06-24-2008 |
Movies