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Steroid Scandals Can't Erase Fine Moments in Baseballnew
One-time Yankees superstar Jason Giambi’s disgrace -- and the photos of his sickly body -- provides more of a deterrent to impressionable kids than any new rules about steroid use that the Major League Baseball’s management and players union can agree upon.
Baltimore City Paper |
Russ Smith |
12-08-2004 |
Commentary
Tags: Baltimore Orioles, drug testing
Weight-Loss Surgery Can Be a Lose-Lose Situationnew
The mortality rate for obese patients who have bariatric surgery may be much greater than thought.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
12-01-2004 |
Science
Study Puts Iraqi Civilian Death Toll at 100,000new
The Brookings Institute calls the tally "preposterous." But according to the researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who performed the study, the estimate is conservative.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
11-17-2004 |
International
Tags: international
GOP Is Winning the War of Wordsnew
Have you suddenly noticed conservatives referring to the Democratic Party as the "Democrat Party"? It's all part of the ongoing effort by the Right to transform American political thought with the calculated use of language.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
11-17-2004 |
Commentary
Rhys' Piecenew
Enduring Love builds up enormous good will with its lapel-grabbing opening, its canny set-up scenes, and Rhys Ifans’ unnerving performance as a stalker in love. But in focusing on the psychological aspects of the psychological thriller, director Roger Michell asks a great many questions about love and obsession and then has trouble answering them.
Baltimore City Paper |
Lee Gardner |
11-16-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Roger Michell, Enduring Love
Bitter Bingonew
Tired of getting hit on in bars? We have no solution for you. But we do have a game that might make you happy when The Guy Who Compliments Weird Things or The Musician/Waiter shows up.
Baltimore City Paper |
Anna Ditkoff |
11-03-2004 |
Recreation
Who's Got Game in the World of Madden NFL?new
The lives of Madden NFL "ballers" mirror the football players they spend so much time studying, and via the game, being. They tour other cities to play each other, they trash talk, they note their opponents' strengths and weaknesses, they intimidate and psych out the competition, and they often bring home big money.
Baltimore City Paper |
Christina Royster-Hemby |
11-03-2004 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
'Buffalo's Biggest Slumlord' Comes to Baltimorenew
Houston-based real estate speculator Scott Wizig is quietly buying up decrepit properties in Baltimore. Considering he was effectively run out of Buffalo with indictments for predatory lending and other violations, that could be bad news for Baltimore's housing authorities and his local tenants.
Baltimore City Paper |
Gadi Dechter |
10-06-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Pros and Consnew
This film offers actor John C. Reilly the chance to reveal more of his onion depths, with a reptilian character that showcases his beguiling, subtle strengths.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
09-08-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Criminal, Gregory Jacobs
Story of the First Death Row Inmate Cleared by DNAnew
This story has all the elements of a classic American tale: a gruesome murder and a simple man, falsely accused, who fights the system and wins. The controversial issues of the death penalty and the abuses of the criminal-justice system form its core.
Baltimore City Paper |
Scott Carlson |
09-08-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bloodsworth, Tim Junkin
Mystery Novel Talks About Oysters, War Brides and Fusion Cuisinenew
The notions of change, adaptability, and cross-cultural fusion are central to Sujata Massey's stunning seventh novel, where the unlikely story lines of Asian oysters repopulating the Chesapeake, a buzzing new fusion restaurant in Washington, D.C., and the grim consequences of the Vietnam War meld into a seamless whole.
Baltimore City Paper |
Lizzie Skurnick |
08-24-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Watching the Olympics: Let the Mind Games Beginnew
The swimming guy was supposed to win eight medals? Jesus H. Christ, don’t fucking saddle this guy with unrealistic expectations, right?
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
08-24-2004 |
Commentary
What Some Black Women Don't Know About Their Mennew
Black men who have sex with men but still identify as straight instead of gay or bisexual are known as "down low." By definition, these men do not tell their wives and girlfriends that they are sleeping around, a health risk because, studies suggest, 30 percent of such men are carriers of HIV.
Baltimore City Paper |
Christina Royster-Hemby |
08-11-2004 |
Sex
Ghosts in the Machines: Online Selves Don't Dienew
Few people make it known how their online presence should be handled after death, nor how their virtual friends should be notified. On the Web, oceans of data are being left behind by the dead.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ryan Boddy |
08-11-2004 |
Science
"Baltimore" Exhibit Comes to Baltimorenew
Isaac Julien's "Baltimore" installation brings great blacks to the Walters Museum and "Sweet Sweetback's" Melvin Van Peebles back to the streets.
Baltimore City Paper |
Eric Allen Hatch |
08-07-2004 |
Art
