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Christian Siriano Talks About Success, Style, the Industry, and Ferocitynew
Prior to evolving into the gravity-defying-coif-sporting, catchphrase-spouting enfant terrible who walked away with Project Runway's fourth season title, Christian Siriano was a self-described "little fairy white kid walking around in giant FUBU jerseys" in Annapolis.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
01-12-2010 |
Nonfiction
'Somebody Scream!' Revisits the Stakes of Early Rapnew
In Reeves' reckoning, rap began to fill the void left by a shrinking black-power movement in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
'After Hours at the Almost Home' Captures Wait-staff Dynamicsnew
From the crisscrossing, interconnected perspectives of haggard wage slaves, After Hours at the Almost Home documents a single late shift at a fictitious Denver bar.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
07-08-2008 |
Fiction
Daniil Kharms: Aburdish and Brutenew
Today I Wrote Nothing is a generally knuckleheaded collection, so rife with undeveloped ideas and nonendings that you suspect that Kharms took great pleasure in tweaking his reader.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
01-29-2008 |
Fiction
Like 'The Devil Wears Prada' For Lawyersnew
Chambermaid delivers post-law school ennui without the frayed nerves and student-loan debts endured by lawyers. Better yet, it makes us root for them.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
10-23-2007 |
Fiction
'Naked on the Internet' Looks at Risks and Restrictions of the Internet's Pornographic Gazenew
Though the title implies some To Catch a Predator moralizing, what's found inside is just the opposite: a guide for women considering breaking into sex blogging or other online sex specialties.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
10-09-2007 |
Nonfiction
Freebird!new
Mitch Myers might have done better to split The Boy Who Cried Freebird into two separate halves: one devoted to straightforward rock journalism and another for fiction-oriented CD reviews and tall tales best told over tallboys.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
09-11-2007 |
Fiction
Let's Pray Each Presidential Candidate is Perusing 'Second Chance'new
Brzezinski soberly explains how the United States has cumulatively squandered its top-banana world's policeman status since the Cold War ended -- with increasingly dire results.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
07-03-2007 |
Nonfiction
A Fine Novelnew
Horses is ultimately a testament to just how easily mellows can be harshed -- to life's hidden tripwires, strung everywhere and capable of catapulting anyone back down the bittersweet rabbit hole of stinging memory.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
05-08-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
One Man's Warnew
Tale is told so plainly, forthrightly, and with such unveiled disclosure that it carries an indisputable moral authority that most of the political and media discourse surrounding this war lacks.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
04-02-2007 |
Nonfiction
Authenticity's Impossibilitiesnew
Faking It doesn't answer all the questions it raises but it's certain to inspire some awesome conversations among readers.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
04-02-2007 |
Nonfiction
