S/Hitlist In a city as in love with its old and idiosyncratic history as Baltimore, it's often easy to scowl at any and all developmental gentrification. So, yes, let's all sneer a collective frown at the late arrivals of corporate coffee shops and those "hip," "urban" (and, perhaps, "unoccupied") lofts that have sprung up in various places over the past decade and, well, Harbor East as a general idea, much less a geographical destination. But, then again, we live here. We see how economic development dis ... [MORE]
The News Hole Serial criminal Jose Joaquin Morales was supposed to be in Howard County Circuit Court yesterday, answering to charges that he wrote a bad check for nearly $4,000 in construction materials from a Jessup supply store last fall. Instead, Morales was facing much more serious charges in U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Texas, in McAllen, where he was accused on Aug. 18 of crimes associated with his alleged attempt to transport $180,000 worth of cocaine to Baltimore using a chartered j ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist Compared to the loss of dozens of newsroom jobs, the dropping of a full page of comic strips is bupkis. But when one of those strips is Zippy the Pinhead, well, I can't just stand by and stay silent. To be honest, I go hot and cold on Zippy. Sometimes cartoonist Bill Griffith's anti-establishment vibe feels passively aggressive. But other times his gentle surrealism and sharp satire are exactly what put the cream in my morning coffee. In fact, it took reading Zippy in book form--its rhythms, bo ... [MORE]
The News Hole Elroy Long, a 20-year-old African-American man, was shot to death in his car in the 400 block of Long Island Avenue in Beechfield on July 8, 2006. Jerry Anderson, an African-American man who was 20 years old at the time, was arrested for Long's murder a month later. Anderson was found not guilty on all charges on July 17, 2007. In July 2006, three people were murdered in three days in the 500 block of Sheridan Avenue in Woodbourne-McCabe. The third, Gary Shipman, a 28-year-old African-American ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist What do you do when an institution passes away? Cry into the memory of your sweet potato soup or lift a glass of Beaujolais and remember the good times? We'll opt for the latter, as Sun columnist Dan Rodricks reports this morning that Martick's Restaurant Français, one of the last of Baltimore's old-guard restaurant institutions, has gone the way of Danny's, Haussner's, and, most recently, Marconi's, and closed its doors. At 86, Morris Martick says he's tired--of long days, of shopping for ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist I ride the portion of the Gwynns Falls Trail between Cherry Hill and downtown probably three times a week, not thinking much about safety for the simple reason that I rarely if ever see anyone else down there. Last night was a little different. Approaching the old BGE power station--the future site of the Westport development--a group of 10 to 15 teenagers (presumably) rushed me. I was able to swerve away for the most part but took a fist to the face and stayed, fortunately, on the bike. Accordi ... [MORE]
Noise Baltimore is taking over the world this fall, or at least a smattering of Midwestern and Eastern cities. With what's being billed as the Baltimore Round Robin tour, Dan Deacon has pretty much bested himself and really anyone who's ever rented a tour bus or three. Basically, Deacon is renting said three buses--veggie fuel-powered, natch--and taking some 60 Baltimore musicians on the road for three weeks. The idea behind the shows is, well, revolutionary. Each tour stop is a two-night affair with ... [MORE]
Noise By design, the Virgin Mobile Festival aims to present two days of music of roughly equal value; otherwise, they wouldn't charge the same steep fee for a one-day pass either day. But even with big names and small on both days of the festival, there's no accounting for personal taste. And in my personal taste, Day 2 had a far superior bill to Day 1 this year. So I took it easy on Saturday, showing up late to see just a handful of headliners and conserving my energy for a full Sunday. And after a f ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist Gov. Martin O'Malley and the Maryland State Arts Council wants your help in supporting the arts in Maryland. According to an Aug. 7 press release, O'Malley and MSAC have launched Imagine Maryland, a "community collaboration and cultural planning initiative to identify opportunities and ideas that will enhance the role of the arts in Maryland." According to the web site: Welcome to Imagine MARYLAND, the Maryland Arts Council's statewide planning initiative to strengthen and support the arts in ou ... [MORE]
The News Hole Got a call today from Brandy Baker, formerly of the Charm City Greens, a Baltimore City chapter of the Green Party. Party activist Ed Boyd, who ran for governor on the Green ticket in 2006, has died. Boyd, a veteran, died of lung cancer. Boyd was the first Green Party candidate to run for governor in a general election Maryland. He was also the first African-American to run for the state's governorship. Services to honor Boyd are pending. ... [MORE]
Noise The Talking Head may have moved to some nicer, more stable digs recently when it picked up and left its old Davis Street location to settle in the same building that houses Sonar. But the Head still feels very much like its own club and retains much of its backstreet charm and then some, with its own entrance on the side of the building. Walking down the long, dark alley to the door, and hearing the muffled sound of the first band rocking out through the walls, is an almost perfect way to arrive ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist According to this Aug. 7 Zap2it news brief, David Simon's latest HBO project, the New Orleans-based Treme about the city's musicians post-Katrina, will co-star some familiar face from The Wire: Clarke Peters, who played the Det. Lester Freamon and New Orleans native Wendell Pierce, who played the beloved Det. "Bunk" Moreland. (It will also co-star former C.S.I.: Miami star Khandi Alexander.) Simon's current HBO mini-series Generation Kill is only half-way through its seven episode run, an ... [MORE]
Noise The death of Khia "DJ K-Swift" Edgerton sent shock waves through the Baltimore club music community and beyond, which will continue to be felt for years. In the immediate aftermath, countless friends, family members, fans, and 92Q co-workers held vigils, dedicated on-air programming to her, and spoke to the press about her. But one part of her inner circle that had been relatively quiet the week of K-Swift's death was the staff of her company, Club Queen Entertainment. Many of them were busy wit ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist For the past two years, Maryland Institute College of Art graduate Elena Johnston, 23, has been collecting concert posters made and designed by local artists. It's an interest that turned into her second book, Paper Kingdom, spotlighting the work of Johnston and Alex Fine, Ana Benaroya, Beth Varden, Exit 10, Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals of Post Typography, Caleb Stine, Dan Deacon, Jimmy Joe Roche, Dina Kelberman, James Sarsgaard, Jordan Bernier, Justin Lucas, Justin Levy, Kali Ciesemier, Kathy ... [MORE]
The News Hole The former proprietor of Charm City Motors, Harrington Campbell, was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison today for his role in a five-year cocaine trafficking conspiracy and for concealing the assets of his Reisterstown Road used-car dealership through the structuring of bank deposits. As the hearing neared to a close, Campbell apologized to Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Romano for refusing to help in the prosecution of his fellow co-conspirators, claimed that a key witness against him ... [MORE]
Noise Baltimore's revered post-hardcore trio Double Dagger floored even its most enthusiastic fans with last year's explosive Ragged Rubble. This week, DD releases two 7-inch EPs that pair new versions of the band's best-loved songs with previously unreleased material. Sophisticated Urban Living (Terra Firma Limited) features an extended version of "Luxury Condos for the Poor," City Paper's Best Song of 2007, and live favorite "No Allies." Bored Meeting (Toxic Pop) includes a mind-melting remix of "I ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist The Creative Alliance at the Patterson recently announced its seventh annual Art to Dine For series, for which the Southeast Baltimore community arts center sponsors casual morning, afternoon, and evening get-togethers, sometimes at the homes of members and friends of the local arts community, where people can convivially chat about just any old thing. In full disclosure, I was an invited guest to one of these events a few years back, so I'm admittedly biased, but it was a delightful way to spen ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist This week, the Baltimore Museum of Art hosts the last screening in its free First Thursdays film series. Curated by erstwhile City Paper contributor Eric Allen Hatch, the nearly 2-year-old series has consistently brought rarely seen and hard-to-find movies to Baltimore--from overlooked 1960s and '70s fare such as Hal Ashby's first directorial turn, The Landlord, a darkly comedic riff on race relations and gentrification, to contemporary international standouts like Thai director Apichatpong Weer ... [MORE]
The News Hole The police-involved shooting at the AFSCME union hall on July 5 that left two young men dead still has union boss Glen Middleton refusing to answer a key question: Who rented the hall from AFSCME Local 67 and allowed a party promoter nicknamed "Mike Love" to throw an illicit bash there billed as "Extreme Intoxication 3"? According to Baltimore Police Department spokesman Sterling Clifford, there are several aspects to the ongoing homicide investigation, and the hall rental is but one of them. H ... [MORE]
S/Hitlist The second annual Baltimore Women's Film Festival is close to announcing its upcoming schedule. Festival creators Deanna Shapiro and Marisa Cohen are once again using an advance screening to promote the festival a few weeks prior to the official event in an effort to drum up word of mouth for the festival itself, which runs Oct. 23-26, with 50 percent of all ticket sales going to the Avon Foundation Breast Center at Johns Hopkins. This year's advance screening coincides with the "Crafty Docs and ... [MORE]
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