AltWeeklies Wire
People Who Died: Our Annual Alt-Obitsnew
Death took its usual toll this year, and seemingly then some. Genocide, war, terrorist attacks, disease -- yikes. But for the purposes of City Paper's annual tribute to influential cultural notables whose deaths deserve a little extra note, it was a terrible harvest.
Baltimore City Paper |
Staff |
01-06-2009 |
Commentary
citypaper.comnew
AltWeeklies Award - Web Site
Baltimore City Paper |
Staff |
04-21-2008 |
Media
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Top Ten: The Year in Moviesnew
La Vie en Rose, Control, and I'm Not There didn't merely rescue the music biopic from Hollywood; they represent the best of what 2007 movies offered: an explosion of cinematic craft.
Baltimore City Paper |
Staff |
12-18-2007 |
Movies
Top Ten: The Year in Baltimore Musicnew
Our gritty little burg has a whole lot of something on any other city in this country. Opening the mail at City Paper every day, I simply can't risk not listening to everything that comes in.
Baltimore City Paper |
Staff |
12-18-2007 |
Music
Top Ten: The Year in Televisionnew
Fuck Tony Soprano: there, we said it. Not only does David Chase's massive soap opera for the male midlife crisis not appear on this Top 10 list, but only one voting viewer put it on a ballot.
Baltimore City Paper |
Staff |
12-18-2007 |
TV
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Top Ten: The Year in Booksnew
The best argument for the future survival of the book is that writers might want to see a physical manifestation of their work. Call it ego, call it reductive reasoning, call it misplaced Marxist ideals about seeing an actual product produced by their labors, but books-as-objects are just nice to have around. If that makes us Luddites, so be it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Staff |
12-18-2007 |
Books
