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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
Tags: TV
Confessions of a Neocon TV Fannew
Or, how I learned how to stop worrying if watching torture condones torture and enjoy prime time American television.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
12-18-2007 |
Movies
Excusesnew
Come 2009, we may find out all sorts of things about what our government has been up to for the past seven years. But by that time, all the actors in the process will be gone, and the only thing left will be excuses.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
12-18-2007 |
Commentary
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
God in The Cabinetnew
Mitt Romney says that he wouldn't put a Muslim in the cabinet because there just aren't enough of them in the United States to warrant it. I guess that means that right off the bat, Romney's using a quota system to decide who does deserve cabinet posts under a President Mitt.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
12-11-2007 |
Commentary
The Runsnew
I would like to say, in this, the run-up to The Holidays, that I am sick of all this stuff that gets run-up to, seriously. All this "The Runup" to The Elections and "The Runup" to The War, or the Next War, or the Continuing War, if you will, right? Quit saying "the Runup to," stuff, OK?
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
12-11-2007 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Yes, Something Can Shine Brighter Than M.I.A.new
In Baltimore, a low-energy M.I.A. struggled to wow the crowd.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
12-11-2007 |
Concerts
Re-Examining the Relationship Between Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklasnew
Two Lives continually calls attention to the pitfalls and pratfalls of literary biography; in this regard, whatever the veracity of the episodes uncovered, Malcolm's work can be considered an honest enterprise.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
12-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Young Stalin': Georgia Rulenew
New biography shows the wild west underground education of a future dictator.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
12-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
Baltimore OKs Feral Cat Trap-Neuter-Release Programsnew
A bill passed by the City Council last week will decriminalize several aspects of the practice, notably the "return" part, which was previously considered animal abandonment.
Baltimore City Paper |
Chris Landers |
12-11-2007 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Reading Between the Ancient Linesnew
William Noel oversees a collection of thousands of books, including some 850 medieval manuscripts and 1,500 of the earliest printed books, but one in particular has been monopolizing his time since its arrival in 1999 -- a one-of-a-kind copy of the work of Archimedes.
Baltimore City Paper |
Chris Landers |
11-27-2007 |
Books
Bob Dylan's Legendary Grinnew
There's a reason he's pegged his concerts as the "Never Ending Tour": The only way he's been able to stay out in front has been to convince us -- and himself -- that he's still an active, modern artist, whose career is far from ending. It's hard, though, because the past keeps getting reinforcements.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
11-27-2007 |
Concerts
Todd Haynes on 'I'm Not There'new
"I really think of Dylan as the consummate performer, even more than being this amazing singer and songwriter and wordsmith," Haynes explains.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
11-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: I'm Not There, Todd Haynes
(Re)Making the Bandnew
Marin Alsop conducts the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra into the 21st century.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
11-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
