AltWeeklies Wire
It Won't Be Long Before We Have Another Mass Shootingnew
And the same things will happen again: The pro-gun people will say "don't politicize a tragedy," there will be memorials and the president will fly in and say nice things without ever mentioning the word "guns," and things will continue the same way they always have.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
05-01-2007 |
Commentary
Winning Vote$new
Now that it's clear that campaign finance reform has done nothing to decrease the amount of money infiltrating the country's electoral apparatus except create loopholes that politicians and special-interest groups exploit, isn't it time to put this issue to rest?
Baltimore City Paper |
Russ Smith |
05-01-2007 |
Commentary
What is an Anarchist Parent, Anyway?new
China Martens created her new book the way she raised her daughter -- one day at a time.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
05-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Should Hip Parents Worry Less About Being Hip and More About Being Parents?new
Are my only postnatal choices really either shoulder the yoke of maternal servitude and middlebrow stagnation, or cling embarrassingly to a narcissistic delusion that no runny-nosed kid's going to cramp my oh-so-downtown style?
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
05-01-2007 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Not a Post-WWII Coming of Age Storynew
The plot to The Fury of the Entire World sounds more clumsily convoluted than it's told on-screen, as Pieters' plays this evenly paced mystery close to his chest, cagily dealing out his plot points.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-24-2007 |
Reviews
Questions of Politics, Love, Sanity and Envynew
Theodore Gericault's 1818 painting "The Raft of the Medusa," a beautifully colored and affecting tableau that depicts survivors of a shipwreck off the African coast, is the subject of this novel.
Baltimore City Paper |
Stephen Peterson |
04-24-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Arabella Edge, The God of Spring
Misleading Title, but an Apt Metaphornew
The memoir isn't so much about driving with dead people, although the author does describe joyriding in an empty hearse with her high-school friend, the local mortician's daughter.
Baltimore City Paper |
Nicole Leistikow |
04-24-2007 |
Nonfiction
A Faded Kodak Fantasy of 1960s Popnew
Animal Collective member Noah Lennox has made a record best listened to while falling asleep, just waking up, or any other time you're groggy enough to mistake a passing garbage truck for a Bach cantata.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jess Harvell |
04-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Panda Bear, Person Pitch
She's All Thatnew
Or, how I learned to stop worrying about liking young R&B strumpets and love my passive sexism and racism.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-24-2007 |
Music
Why Did Gov. Ehrlich Change His Mind on Maryland's Voting Machines?new
Perhaps it's easier to claim "voter fraud" when nobody has confidence in the system in the first place.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
04-24-2007 |
Commentary
Pull Up to My Bumpernew
I wish somebody would PLEASE do something about all these lazy people who don't put back their shopping carts.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
04-24-2007 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
One Baltimore Family's Life on the Streetnew
Nowhere to go but out, nowhere to come but back.
Baltimore City Paper |
Erin Sullivan |
04-24-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Aging New Yorker Critic Fusty, Film at 11new
Culture vulture Clive James riffs on and off 20th century intellectual pugilists and bete noires.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
04-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Publisher 23new
Curiosity and more than a little obsession drove Doug Mowbray to start putting out books with his imprint twentythreebooks.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brooke Hall |
04-17-2007 |
Books
Red Rocket of Lovenew
The Dirty Marmaduke Flute Squad is for the children.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jess Harvell |
04-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
