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Marlow Bates' stint in prison, where he's been detained since his April arrest for aiding an alleged drug-dealing conspiracy by the Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) prison gang ("Black-Booked"), appears t...[MORE]
The introduction to the 1999 edition of City Paper's Holiday Guide advises readers to "exercise your freedom of choice to do what we tell you." The cover art—Shepard Fairey's "Obey Santa"—...[MORE]
The feature hole offers a two-fer: Ian Grey's "The Sixth Sensibility: Why horror movies are back with a vengeance" ("Horror films are all about locating our psychic pressure points.") and "My Dinner W...[MORE]
On Aug. 3, Ira Jimmy Martin was arrested for armed drug dealing in Baltimore City. "Lots of cash [was] recovered in this case," Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office spokeswoman Margaret Burns says...[MORE]
The Washington Post's coverage of Western Maryland's Darvin Moon, who's made it to the final table of the World Series of Poker, has been great entertainment. The writer, J. Freedom du Lac, has a blog...[MORE]
Lynae Chapman, a 21-year-old correctional officer for the Baltimore City Detention Center (BCDC), is obviously pregnant as she stands before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge John Prevas on Oct. 27....[MORE]
Two tech-minded stories fill the feature hole this week: Steve Perry's "Y2K: Endgames and Entropy Curves: Notes on the shape of things to come" ("Y2K problems, on the whole, are far likelier to be chr...[MORE]
Electracash, the California payment processor whose bank accounts were targeted in July by federal investigators probing illegal on-line gambling, is out nearly $800,000, according to court documents ...[MORE]
As the Maryland-based federal probe of on-line gambling continues, the latest move to show up in court records in Baltimore is the seizure of $365,366.69 from two bank accounts in the name of Atrium F...[MORE]
On the cover, it's the inaugural offering of "Ooh, Scary!"—City Paper's since-institutionalized Halloween masks. Frightfully depicted are: mayoral candidates Martin O'Malley (D) and David Turafo...[MORE]
As federal authorities continue their Maryland-based investigation into online gambling, the lawyer for one of the two people charged in the probe—Edward Courdy, accused last year of laundering ...[MORE]
Update: Accused Money-Launderer's Lawyer Says His Client No Longer Owns Payment-Processor Electracash Electracash, Inc., the California payment-processor whose bank accounts were seized in July by fe...[MORE]
On the morning of Oct. 6, the same day a federal racketeering indictment in West Virginia against 55 alleged members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club named a Maryland man, David Keith Barbeito, as the cl...[MORE]
In 2008, 31-year-old prison inmate Tashma McFadden filed suit against 23-year-old correctional officer Antonia Allison. On Oct. 9, that suit survived Allison's attempt to have it dismissed. McFadden,...[MORE]
Andrew Reiner's cover feature, "Wooden Ships," is a first-person account of learning about wooden boat-building by helping to construct a replica of the schooner Sultana at a boatyard in Cambridge, on...[MORE]
After prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, roll call, and a presentation by firefighter/paramedic Michael Hineline of the Baltimore City Fire Department's special-events team, the Baltimore City Council...[MORE]
The Washington City Paper today published a lengthy investigative piece about Peaceoholics, an anti-violence, gang-intervention group that has been funded by the Washington, D.C., government to the tu...[MORE]
In the feature, Rob Goldberg, a CP graphic designer at the time, writes about sharing his name with Rob Goldberg, professional wrestler: “This big guy with muscles and no hair has inadvertently ...[MORE]
"He's not a criminal," Shazia Maqbool says of her husband, Mohammad Ashfaq, after she opens her apartment door to a reporter on Sept 30. On Sept. 4, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ag...[MORE]
Trenell Murphy, who pleaded guilty in July to having 41 kilograms of cocaine that he intended to distribute, today received his sentence from U.S. District Court judge Benson Legg: 20 years in prison,...[MORE]
It's Tuesday, and Geppi's Entertainment Museum needs you. Though the Maryland Stadium Authority slashed GEM's rent by a third early this year, it still has money troubles, as evidenced by lawsuits bro...[MORE]
"We're all screwed," is artist Sam Christian Holmes personal motto. While that may be a safe bet for the future, it doesn't stop Holmes' artistry--sculpture, print-making, and multi-media works--from ...[MORE]
Maybe they'll tell the one about Hermey the dentist, who made friends when he pulled out the Bumble's teeth. Or the one about how girls go to the dentist more than boys--so, boys, you better catch up....[MORE]
Think of what you may find in your grandmother's attic: quilts, toys, knick-knacks, paintings, purses, figurines, all of them unique "folk art," since someone made them. Now think of myriad Maryland g...[MORE]
Today, you can go to the Preakness and stuff your pie hole with mystery meats, high-fructose corn syrup, and processed grains. Or you can go to the library, where writer Michael Pollan will talk about...[MORE]
Perhaps the only thing worse than entering a pre-Communist Bulgarian prison to serve a long sentence for a murder you didn’t commit is getting released in the 1960s, with the Soviets firmly in place. ...[MORE]
Mondays suck already, but smokers can make them even worse by following the health-conscious advice of the Healthy Monday campaign, which promotes Monday as a good day to start quitting smoking. The g...[MORE]
Gotta love those marinated, grilled lamb chops. Mmm. Yes, chili is delicious, too--especially using beef and pork, plus a little cinnamon mixed in with all the normal spices. Mmm. Who doesn't like bou...[MORE]
Nero fiddled as Rome burned, but in Baltimore we throw a fashion show. The Original Paper Dolls Fashion Co. says there's an environmental crisis going on, threatening all of society, and that raising ...[MORE]
The annual Foodscape exhibition at the Mount Royal Tavern embodies that dive's slogan that art is bullshit and good bullshit is art. Staged as a critique of the abundance of food and lack of art at Ar...[MORE]
Arguably the best permanent public exhibit of A. Aubrey Bodine photographs is on the walls at Chewy's on Charles, the barbeque joint in the 1200 block of North Charles Street. That said, the Bodine pr...[MORE]
Magician Mike Hughes is a Block veteran. Green Day saved Niki Lee from a dangerously drab Catonsville existence. Enigmatic Shelly Blake has mastered time travel, but he's not saying how. A lady astron...[MORE]
In the 1980s and '90s, the bucket boys were out in force in American cities, gathering together on street corners to bang rhythmically on upside-down plastic buckets. The impromptu phenomenon reflecte...[MORE]
Enlightenment comes free every day at Enoch Pratt Free Library, but today's hour-and-a-half introductory session to Suhaja yoga (translation: "spontaneous union with the self") is especially free and ...[MORE]
People see things that they're used to seeing differently than things they're seeing for the first time. That's why when cameras are put in the hands of nonphotographers with deep roots in their immed...[MORE]
Through Aug. 27, Maryland, tax-free sales on clothing and footwear priced at less than $100 per item. Politicians and retailers love Maryland's five-day holiday from the 5 percent sales tax for back-...[MORE]
"The man-friendly environment of our conferences recharges men," promises Tom Fortson, president and CEO of Promise Keepers, the hug-and-weep movement that seeks to enhance Christian male power. "Imag...[MORE]
The 21st annual Sowebohemian Arts Festival promises to be much like the 18th, or the 16th, or the 11th. The Motor Morons are playing. T.T. Tucker, too, and Mongoloidian Glow, and dozens of other bands...[MORE]
Siddhartha Guatama, the prince who stopped living large and founded Buddhism, knows everything, a helpful trait. Miss Norway, for instance, probably got to be Miss Norway because of all he knows, so s...[MORE]
The cover photo of Baltimore Noir, a new crime-fiction collection of Baltimore stories written by local writers, is of boarded-up rowhouses. “Reverse-gentrification of the literary world” is the motto...[MORE]
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