Baltimore City Paper

Mr. Wrong: A Super Bowl® of Stimulusnew

I can't fucking stay on top of all these events that are current, in a columnar fashion, see?

Baltimore City Paper | Joe MacLeod | 02-05-2008 | Commentary

Family Valuesnew

I have a confession to make: I was raised by Republicans.

Baltimore City Paper | Anna Ditkoff | 02-05-2008 | Commentary

She's the Mannew

In this year's Democratic race, it's the generation gap, stupid.

Baltimore City Paper | Vincent Williams | 02-05-2008 | Commentary

They've Got Issuesnew

But for some reason the presidential candidates aren't that eager to talk about what they've actually gotten done.

Baltimore City Paper | Edward Ericson Jr. | 02-05-2008 | Commentary

Barbara, Phone Homenew

Got your cell phone handy? Good. Here, try something.

Baltimore City Paper | Brian Morton | 02-05-2008 | Commentary

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

Tags: Daniil Kharms, Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, Fiction Reviews

In seeking out her long-lost brother, Mona, the central character of twin time: or, how death befell me, seeks to understand the reasoning behind her mother's decision to abandon her and her father.

Baltimore City Paper | Zak M. Salih | 01-29-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: Twin Time: Or, How Death Befell Me, Veronica Gonzalez, Nonfiction Reviews

Dress Me Up in Your Fuzznew

Stephin Merritt's newest love songs are all for The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Baltimore City Paper | Jess Harvell | 01-29-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Distortion, Magnetic Fields

Susan Alcorn Charms Stories Out of Her Pedal Steel Guitarnew

She moved to Baltimore at the end of last summer looking for a more inviting and active experimental-music community, leaving Houston after 26 years of working as a touring pedal-steel guitarist in country and western and western swing bands.

Baltimore City Paper | Bret McCabe | 01-29-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: And I Await the Resurrection of the Pedal Steel Guitar, Susan Alcorn

The Meat of the Matternew

The quality and nature of food should not be parsed and bogged down in semantics and technicalities.

Baltimore City Paper | Vincent Williams | 01-29-2008 | Food+Drink

Tags: cloning

Maryland Takes Another Look At Video-Interrogations Billnew

A bill sponsored by Del. Curt Anderson that would require police to videotape confessions of violent-crime suspects is getting a third shot in the house of delegates this session.

Baltimore City Paper | Van Smith | 01-29-2008 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

Can Anything Be Done to Bring Baltimore's Homicide Rate Down?new

Ray Alston, Michael Simms, and John Morris were just three of 282 people murdered in Baltimore in 2007, making it the most murderous year the city has seen since 1999. How does a city get to the point where mothers lose multiple sons to street crime, and how can it change?

Baltimore City Paper | Anna Ditkoff | 01-29-2008 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice