AltWeeklies Wire
Baltimore Gets The Mayor's Race It Deservesnew
Incumbent Sheila Dixon has quietly coasted along on a sea of money, avoiding confrontations with her opponents, and ignoring questions about her past ethical lapses.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
09-11-2007 |
Politics
Alberto Gonzales: Toady No Morenew
Gonzales took a nation that used to wave its banner as a beacon of freedom, truth, and democracy and in a short time made it stand for torture, extraordinary rendition, Abu Ghraib, indefinite detentions, and the gulag of "black" CIA sites.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
09-04-2007 |
Commentary
Merle Haggard has Served His Time Making Musicnew
Haggard turned 70 in April, but he hasn't slowed down a whit: Over the past year and a half he has released five albums of new music in addition to a flood of reissues.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Merle Haggard
Adam Goldberg is the New Woody Allen?new
2 Days in Paris is a casually heady, observationally nuanced peek inside one couple's romantic foibles -- for good and, most humorously, ill.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: 2 Days in Paris, Julie Delpy
'The 11th Hour' Directors Hope to Deliver a Global Warningnew
The film distinguishes itself from other talking-head documentaries not only by the sheer emotional fervor, but also by demonstrating that our species can engineer its survival.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
The Calvert Institute's George Liebmann Preaches Thinking Locallynew
The Trimmer's Almanac is a history of Baltimore's conservative think tank and includes articles that hash out policy problems and often move toward solutions.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
09-04-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Baltimore Campaign Beat: Pounding the Pavementnew
Candidates for 13th District battle for visibility with voters.
Baltimore City Paper |
Chris Landers |
09-04-2007 |
Politics
Giving It Away: One Woman's Dispossession Obsessionnew
On June 26, I began giving all of our excess stuff away, hoping to give away an item a day for 365 days.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michelle Gienow |
09-04-2007 |
Shopping
Baltimore Campaign Beat: Multiple Personalitiesnew
A large crop of candidates fight for right to represent the city's 11th District.
Baltimore City Paper |
Randy Leonard |
08-28-2007 |
Politics
'September Dawn' Just Feels Made-upnew
The story of the Fancher party's massacre at the hands of the Utah Mormon militia, with help from manipulated local Indians, needs nothing more than a deft telling of fear and discrimination in an innocent field -- unfortunately, here it receives unnecessary melodrama.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
08-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Cain, September Dawn
The New Flesh: Evolutionary Warnew
The band celebrates a half decade of half-decayed, weird punk rock.
Baltimore City Paper |
Al Shipley |
08-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The New Flesh
'The Inheritance of Exile': Remade in Americanew
Susan Muaddi Darraj's short story collection explores the adult lives of immigrants' children.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joab Jackson |
08-28-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
America's Foreign Policy Fallacynew
For half a century, U.S. foreign policy has largely been like a large ship that makes few and slight course corrections -- in just six years, we've been thrown way off course, and the compass is spinning as a result.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
08-21-2007 |
Commentary
'Fear of Clowns 2': Blow Up Real Goodnew
Kevin Kangas' horror sequel debuts at a Baltimore theater before heading direct to DVD.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
08-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fear of Clowns 2, Kevin Kangas
'Seeing Beyond' Goes Inside a Photog's Worst Nightmarenew
A profession that relies on vision would, in theory, be severely crippled by blindness, and it is with this deep-rooted fear in mind that photographer Tony Deifell approached Governor Morehead School for the Blind in 1992 to start an after-school photography club.
Baltimore City Paper |
Katherine M. Hill |
08-21-2007 |
Nonfiction
