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Watch "E.T." this weekend with musical accompaniment from the BSO
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"Boone," now screening at the Parkway, an un-showy elegy for local farming
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Sidebar to host Brendan Foster Fieldhouse memorial party tonight
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Before watching the horses, enjoy a race between crabs in the Crab Derby
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Democracy In Crisis Episode 16: Trump gives secrets to the Russians; Chelsea Manning freed
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"Fraud," at the Parkway starting Friday, is a fake documentary about the very real highs and lows of spending
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Kurds and other anti-Erdoğan protesters detail attack by Turkish forces at D.C. embassy and demand justice
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Premiere: Listen to Pale Spring's new single 'Suffer Soft'
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Democracy in Crisis: Brutal attack on protesters outside Turkish ambassador's residence
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The Preakness party starts tonight at Mt. Washington Tavern with America's Best Racing
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DJs and friends gathered to remember DJ Vicious V on Monday night
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Judge banned note-taking for non-credentialed media during Keith Davis Jr. trial
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Slow and Steady: Snail Mail is making moves
At Maryland's music mega-fortress, Merriweather Post Pavilion, 17-year-old Lindsey Jordan yells at concert rabble-rousers in a heavy, stern voice: "Sir, don't stand on that chair! . . . Sir, put that out!" She has been laying down the law and holding doors for bands backstage as a Merriweather...
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Ice To Meet You: Charm City gets you ice, the old-fashioned way
She calls them "the ding-a-lings." Not her funny relatives or the nosy neighbor lady down the street. It's industry endearment for the guys who drive the snowball and ice cream trucks that cruise summertime Baltimore to bring icy treats and—instead of the tinkling bells of once upon a time—incessant,...
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Good BBQ Is Not Hard to Find: At Wieland's in Catonsville you're part of a secret sauce and meat club
Alright, so head up Frederick Road from Old Ellicott City, past that one house with the homemade Bud Light bottle wind chimes and drive maybe a mile total and stop just before you hit the big sign for Dmitiri's (with its massive Wikipedia-esque photo of the platonic ideal of a Greek salad), then...
Recent Features
MoreBrick by Brick: Inside the first home game of the Baltimore Brigade, the city's new arena football team
A few days before the team's inaugural game at the Royal Farms Arena, the Baltimore Brigade, the city's new Arena Football League franchise, held an open house at their new home. Fans were invited to meet players, check out season ticket plans, walk the field, meet the Baltimore Brigade Dancers,...
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The 2017 Maryland Film Fest Guide
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The Travel Issue
City Paper's Travel Issue
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Travel To Toke: How to indulge out-of-state and overseas
In 2011, the great writer John Jeremiah Sullivan wrote an essay for the New York Times Magazine about, among other things, sneaking away with his old buddy to smoke a joint while shepherding their families through Disney World. His friend had found a forum with a "fiend's guide to Disney World....
Mobtown Beat
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Murder Ink 5/17/17: 9 murders this week, 127 murders this year
One of this week's victims was a 17-year-old girl who was shot when someone fired into a crowd. Baltimore had 32 fewer murders by this date last year, and 32 fewer in 2015 as well, a year that ended with a record 344 homicides. Baltimore has never had a year with 400 murders. If nothing changes,...
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Baltimore City Power Rankings: An up for Marc Steiner, a down for the rest of local radio, more
⬆︎ "The Marc Steiner Show" "The Marc Steiner Show," which has been on the air in some form for 24 years and is a friend to City Paper, will be going off the air at the end of July, according to Steiner and WEAA. The end of the Steiner Show is a bomb to Baltimore radio: Steiner has undoubtedly informed...
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Whose Autocracy Is It Anyway?: 13 authoritarian jokes on America
I. FBI Director James Comey was speaking to federal agents when news of his firing flashed across the television behind him. The regime blamed new Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and cited Comey's treatment of the Clinton email investigation—as if daring us to pretend they are telling the...
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Murder Ink 5/10/17: 10 murders this week, 118 murders this year
Five people were killed on Saturday, May 6 alone this week. There were 37 murders in the previous 30 days, pushing the city's rate to nearly one murder each day. Police made several arrests and seized some guns from men in cars and on the street, but the killing rate accelerates as the weather...
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Baltimore City Power Rankings: Adam Jones confronts baseball racists, Republicans ruin healthcare, more
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Murder Ink 5/3/17: 7 murders this week, 108 murders this year
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Death By Southwest: Kim Chase's death raises more questions about the Southwestern police precinct
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Democracy in Crisis: The complexities and hypocrisies of the March For Science
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Baltimore City Power Rankings: Juan Dixon, Elijah Cummings, Under Armour, MTA, more
⬆︎ Juan DixonIn an emotional press conference, Baltimore native, former University of Maryland standout, and seven-year NBA veteran Juan Dixon was introduced as the new men's basketball coach at Coppin State. Among the noteworthy attendees: two of Dixon's former coaches, Maryland coach Gary Williams...
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Baltimore City Power Rankings: Up for poet Mohamed Tall and the Tubman House, down for Pugh's confused Civilian Review Board, and more
⬆︎ Mohamed Tall City Paper has previously written about Mohamed Tall, the poet who is just one of several great young writers to come out of the city's burgeoning poetry scene. Last week, Tall won a competition to become the city's Youth Poet Laureate. His winning performance included a poem about...
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Murder Ink 4/25/17: 7 murders this week, 101 murder this year
Police made arrests in two homicides this week, including a man who detectives tracked to Vernon, Connecticut. Besides the seven homicides, Kim Doreen Chase, 52, who city police took into custody on April 9 on a Calvert County warrant, died on April 20 at St. Agnes Hospital. She suffered an illness...
Democracy in Crisis
MoreKurds and other anti-Erdoğan protesters detail attack by Turkish forces at D.C. embassy and demand justice
Shortly after Donald Trump tweeted “It was a great honor to welcome the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to the @WhiteHouse today!,” members of Erdoğan’s security staff, many of whom appear to have been armed, attacked a peaceful protest across from the Turkish ambassador’s residence...
Eats & Drinks
MoreCafé Andamiro offers up traditional Korean food, along with more unexpected fare
After about a year of construction, permit-acquisition, inspections, and menu-finessing, Ran Yun opened up Café Andamiro (241 W. Chase St., [443] 453-9314, facebook.com/CafeAndamiroBmore) in a sunny, cozy corner spot on Chase Street in Mount Vernon last September. It was the same week that her...More
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Fast Foodie: Wendy's goes Panera with the Fresh Mozzarella Chicken Sandwich
In a world of Baconators, Big Macs, and fried chicken taco shells, fast food seems to revel in its role as spectacular junk food. Until, well, it doesn't. While pushing menu items to new extremes by heaping on meat, condiments, or snack food won't go out of style anytime soon, every now and then...
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Uneven Dinner and a Movie: Scarfing down pan-seared salmon during "Fate Of The Furious" at the Rotunda's CinéBistro
A few years ago, Hampden's Rotunda was a nice divey way to spend an evening without breaking the bank. The underground mall resembled a kind of post-apocalyptic fallout bunker with a cozy cluttered comic book shop and a three-screen movie theater that offered cheap tickets on Tuesday nights. In...
Music
MoreCity Paper staff recommends some summer music
Kleenex/LiLiPUT, "First Songs" (Kill Rock Stars) The cover of Kleenex/Liliput's compilation album "First Songs," released last December as a double LP with their music from 1978-1982, features three of the band's female members in cardboard, vaguely crustacean-inspired costumes, a la Dada daddy...
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The Best Ever Country Radio Show Out of Worton: Next time you're on the Eastern Shore, check out Southern Star Country Club on 90.5
Southern Star Country Club is a radio show broadcasting out of the small town of Worton, Maryland on WKHS, a commercial-free station connected to Kent County High School on Monday nights at 8 p.m. It's hosted by Mike Martinez, a country and western savant who mixes contemporary country of all sorts...
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Merriweather Post Pavillon looks back at 50 years of music—and forward to some big changes
Summer means outdoor concerts, and for 50 years, people around Baltimore and Washington have been heading to Merriweather Post Pavilion for music in the woods. Originally designed by Frank Gehry as a home for the National Symphony Orchestra, the pavilion and lawn have played host to some of the...
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Scavenger’s Delight: DJ Booman and DJ Kool Breez are record-scouring duo Dust Addicts
"My gold mine is flea markets," Kool Breez tells me. "I love flea markets, man. As long as we have gas money, and money to get there, we are good. I don't even need a lot of money. We have been dealing with some of the same dealers for 20 years. And you can give these dealers a wish list, and they...
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Bongs Don't Cry, Except When They Do: Wildhoney release a weeded collection of solo tracks for Record Store Day
The Cure was kind of a great "stoner" band. No, it didn't have the guitar-noodling tropes of the '70s bong-rattling rock, nor a '90s grunge baked guitar fuzz and apathy. Robert Smith and the rest of the Cure focused more on Big Emotions: misanthropy, death, loneliness. His weren't just loves, they...
Screens
More"Alien: Covenant" sacrifices freak show theatrics for fan service, isn't as good as underrated "Prometheus"
Like Mary Shelley’s famous man-made monster, 2012’s “Prometheus” wasn’t so much bad as it was misunderstood. The greatest sin of Ridley Scott’s return to the “Alien” franchise after so many decades away was that its reach exceeded its grasp: A fairly bare bones script made all the more unique and...More
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John Waters' "Female Trouble," a pastel-hued piece of soul-searing sensationalism
A cradle to the grave absurdist character study of one rebel's ceaseless quest for fame and a pastel-hued piece of soul-searing sensationalism that's as hilarious as it is utterly terrifying, "Female Trouble" is perhaps best understood as the murder ballad of bad girl Dawn Davenport (played by...
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Documentary "All This Panic"—a portrait of life on the edge of the future
Teenagers—teen girls in particular—get a bad rap, and often the worst of it comes from grown women reflecting on the naïveté or recklessness of their youth. If you survive the raging hormones, double standards, and general confusion of your teens, it's easy (and in some cases perhaps necessary)...
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Fassbinder's "Fox And His Friends," a timely homoerotic, anti-capitalist tragicomedy
A timely tragedy about greed and the suckers capitalism makes out of everybody other than the super rich, "Fox and His Friends" stars director Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Franz (or Fox) Bieberkopf, an unemployed sideshow performer whose carnival barker boyfriend Klaus (Harry Baer) gets busted for...
Visual Art
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Devin N. Morris creates imaginative spaces and softens structure in solo show, 'In A Dignified Fashion' at Terrault Contemporary
In his essay 'Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood,' James Baldwin writes about how the "American ideal" of sexuality and masculinity "has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies" and other such archetypes, resulting in "an ideal so paralytically...
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Selfie Obliteration: On Yayoi Kusama's "Infinity Mirrors" and radical self-awareness
A line spirals out from the fountain and wraps around the interior perimeter of the "Brutalist donut" that is the Hirshhorn Museum, spilling out onto the plaza beside the National Mall. Several hundred visitors are here—foreign tour groups, art students, tourists with selfie sticks, families with...
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"The Ground" takes on origins, labor, commerce, and legacy at the Hutzler Brothers Palace
I. The river Amazon is a river. It is an extremely long and voluminous river. Passing through areas of bio-diversity, it is a good name for a company which sells books and diverse other products, this river. -Leontia Flynn, 'Jeff Bezos names Amazon,' from the collection "Relentless: Poems by Jeff...
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"The Ground" takes on origins, labor, commerce, and legacy at the Hutzler Brothers Palace
Visual Merchandising: "The Ground" takes on origins, labor, commerce, and legacy at the Hutzler Brothers Palace Visual Merchandising "The Ground" takes on origins, labor, commerce, and legacy at the Hutzler Brothers Palace by Rebekah Kirkman I.The river Amazon is a river. It is an extremely long...
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Mondawmin residents reflect on illumination and safety with light sculpture parade
Think about the light that illuminates your community and how it makes you feel. When you see red and blue flashing lights, do you feel calm or anxiety? Do the light poles in your neighborhood bear blue flashing surveillance cameras? Have you noticed these cameras as you drive through other communities?...
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Wickerham & Lomax remix and reimagine stories and styles from Odell's nightclub
Artist duo Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax were all of six years old when Odell's closed in 1992. The North Avenue dance club, opened in 1976 by Odell Brock, became Baltimore's legendary hot spot of the disco and house music eras. Brock hired DJ Wayne Davis to keep the dance floor moving, and...
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Group show at Gallery CA explores the many facets of identity
I put on the headphones that are part of Joyce Yu-Jean Lee's 'Red vs. Blue Polarity,' in the group show "Whatchamacallit" at Gallery CA, and a noisy barrage of cameras clicking and flashes flying is the only audio accompanying a video of Donald Trump at a press conference, gesticulating as he does...
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As photographer and curator, Mickalene Thomas redefines the artist's muse
She reclines on a low-rising sofa upholstered by a hodgepodge of vintage textiles: gingham, groovy waves, florals and leaf patterns that echo the ficuses and ferns and cheap fake flowers that surround her throne. On the coffee table, a basket of gold fruit; on the floor—a small, frenzied ocean...
Books
MoreThe City Paper staff's recommended summer reading
David Gessner, "Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth" (Riverhead Books) A sprawling memoir and charting of one semi-toxic male's evolution as viewed through the oft-derided, but very popular and high-impact sport of ultimate frisbee, "Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession, and My...
Heather Rounds' novella "She Named Him Michael" is a sharp rumination on spectacle, structure, and solitude
In "Until the Cows Come Home," Alain Ginsberg's poems navigate youth, trauma, and being trans
Booze, pathos, and passivity in 'Suite For Barbara Loden'
Thomas Dolby's 'The Speed Of Sound' is not like most rock memoirs
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Top Ten Non-Local Books of 2016
1. Heather Ann Thompson, “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Aftermath” (Pantheon Books) In September, Red Emma’s was packed the night Heather Ann Thompson came to talk about what happened at the Attica Correctional Facility in 1971, when a takeover of the prison by...
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Top Ten Baltimore Books of 2016
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Summer Of The Slam: How two fearless Baltimore poetry slam teams took over the nation
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Jane Jacobs tells us a lot about cities, but a new biography "Eyes on the Street" doesn't tell us much about her
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Mikita Brottman's "Maximum Security Book Club" offers a surprising look at the classics—and prison life
Stage
More"The Wiz" On Weed: Reflecting on brains, courage, and heart on a stoned trip to Emerald City by way of Spotlighters Theatre
"The Wiz" kept me from dropping out of college. My sophomore year of school, all of my friends had lost their minds and I was living with a really odd roommate who had a creepy boyfriend, but one day I sat down to watch TV and found Lena Horne singing 'Believe in Yourself.' I started sobbing and...