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John Bruce Johnson: 1931-2008new
Johnson founded the Baltimore Playwrights Festival and rescued the Vagabond Players in the 60s.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
08-12-2008 |
Theater
Bob Beaumont Recalls His Past Creating and Selling Electric Carsnew
In 1974 the CitiCar -- an electric car modeled on an golf cart -- began rolling out of the factory, and Beaumont's Sebring Vanguard Motors became the sixth-largest car manufacturer in the country.
Baltimore City Paper |
Chris Landers |
08-12-2008 |
Transportation
On Waiting For Ariel Pink's Warped Pop Songs to Catch Up to The Now Adult Artistnew
Between 2004 and '06, the imprint promoted the bejesus Pink's work then the full-court media press stopped dead. Information about his activities became much harder to come by, and recordings--now tougher to track down--began flowing through no-name labels.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
08-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
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Charles Stross Brings Robert Heinlein's Robot Sexy Backnew
For those uninitiated to speculative fiction's history and tropes, Stross' Saturn's Children (Ace) is a simple tale about a sex robot who is out of work because the humans she was built to service are extinct.
Baltimore City Paper |
Adrienne Martini |
08-05-2008 |
Fiction
Jenny Block Refuses to Let Monogamy Ruin Her Marriagenew
In her new book, Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage, Block traces her path from monogamy to infidelity to polyamory, being in an intimate relationship with more than one person.
Baltimore City Paper |
Heather Harris |
08-05-2008 |
Nonfiction
Ronald Hinton May Have Confessed to Rape and Murder, but Did He Really Do It?new
The confession of Hinton, who was convicted of raping a murdering a child, outweighed indications that he might not have done it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Van Smith |
08-05-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Human Desire Becomes Almost Kinky In 'The Duchess of Langeais'new
If you've been feasting on a steady cinematic diet of superhero blockbusters this summer, this adaptation of Honore de Balzac's novel, directed by lesser known (in this country) French New Wave alumnus Jacques Rivette, is like switching to Melba toast after too many banana splits.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
07-29-2008 |
Reviews
'Nim's Island' Stays Focused on Its Girl Heronew
Living out many a young person's fantasy, preteen Nim Rusoe occupies a tropic island with her scientist father, Jack, and assorted domesticated beach/forest/sea animals such as lizards, pelicans, and seals, but no monkeys--nor anyone else, since her beloved mother died at sea.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
07-29-2008 |
Reviews
How Does Wham City Get Away with Whartscape?new
Now in its third year, the anti-festival turned oddball indie magnet covers four nights, two full days, and four venues, is backed by a list of sponsors, and brings in headliners whose individual payment guarantees could probably cover a month's rent for everyone involved in organizing the fest combined.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
07-29-2008 |
Concerts
'Life' Photographer Bill Eppridge Remembers the Bobby Kennedy Campaignnew
"My job was to see, not to hear," writes Eppridge in his recently released coffee-table book A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties, a crisp, informative collection of magnificent color and black-and-white photographs of perhaps one of the most exciting presidential campaigns in American history, up to this most recent season.
Baltimore City Paper |
Blaine Taylor |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Lily Koppel's Quest to Return a Diarynew
While reading the diary, Koppel discovered a vivacious, curious young woman growing up in New York during the tail end of the 1920s who was constantly searching for an identity and questioning her thoughts and emotions.
Baltimore City Paper |
Josh Marx |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Michael Chabon Examines the Marginsnew
Chabon chose the dynamic, in-between spaces as the subject of his first nonfiction essay collection, Maps and Legends.
Baltimore City Paper |
Heather Harris |
07-29-2008 |
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
Police Sociologist and Criminal Justice Prof Writes About His Experience as a Baltimore Copnew
As a critic of the justice system, Peter Moskos decided to engage this dysfunction from a very local level, from the perspective of an officer on the street. As an officer, he became a cog in the machine, patrolling Broadway, from Orleans Street to North Avenue, on the night beat.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Why It's Easy for Jesse Jackson's Critics to Mock Himnew
Literally, in a matter of months, he's gone from the It guy in black America to a supporting player.
Baltimore City Paper |
Vincent Williams |
07-22-2008 |
Commentary
