Nov. 17, 1999

By Van Smith | 11/17/2009

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"—sets an appropriate tone. Suggested gifts include East German guard hats, items being auctioned from the recently closed Haussner's Restaurant (such as a giant ball of string), shrunken heads from the American Dime Museum, boxes of Millenios cereal, mistletoe belt-buckles, bookbinding classes, and ... [MORE]

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Nov. 10, 1999

By Van Smith | 11/11/2009

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 With Jerry: Getting down to fundamentals with Soulforce and Falwell" by Natalie Davis ("You could call it a miracle that this summit ever took place."). St. Frances Academy basketball star Tim Payne makes news in Michael Anft's Mobtown Beat article. The whiff of uncertainty hangs over development p ... [MORE]

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Nov. 3, 1999

By Van Smith | 11/3/2009

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 chronic and nagging than acute and short-lived, and more likely to result in economic than civil upheaval.") and Lee Gardner's "Station Break: Will low-power FM change the face of radio? Not if the broadcasting industry can help it" ("Corporate radio has gotten bigger while small, locally focused radio ... [MORE]

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Oct. 27, 1999

By Van Smith | 10/27/2009

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 (R); Orioles owner/super-lawyer/developer/political kingmaker Peter Angelos; U.S. Senator-for-life Barbara Mikulski; Orioles player Albert Belle; WJZ anchorwoman Denise Koch; superhero Kweisi Mfume; and the ubiquitous John Waters. The Nose gets a "pre-premiere peek" at the since-closed American Di ... [MORE]

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Oct. 20, 1999

By Van Smith | 10/20/2009

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 Maryland's Eastern Shore. In Charmed Life Tom Chalkley recounts the early-1800s adventures in Baltimore of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, who didn't last long in Mobtown, and in Books, he explains cartoonist Ben Katchor, creator of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. Ballot Stuffi ... [MORE]

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Oct. 6, 1999

By Van Smith | 10/6/2009

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 had an impact on my life – and yet he has no idea. Maybe I should tell him.” Frank Diller reviews Joyce Carol Oates two latest books. Lee Gardner reports back from the High Zero Festival at the Fells Point Creative Alliance’s Lodge and from Fletchers, where Freakwater and Sally T ... [MORE]

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Sept. 29, 1999

By Van Smith | 9/29/2009

Eileen Murphy's feature, "Artists in Residence", describes how some artists, done with squatting, get help legitimizing their home-studio living arrangements. "Business and community leaders aren't involving themselves in such projects for the love of art or because of sympathy for its creators," Murphy writes. "As video animator Steve Estes, who's lived illegally in a number of studios, puts it, %u2018Baltimore thinks of artists as shock troops.'" The Nose criticizes The Sun's coverage of Wi ... [MORE]

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Sept. 22, 1999

By Van Smith | 9/22/2009

Martin O’Malley, now Maryland’s governor, had just been elected Baltimore’s mayor 10 years ago, and CP’s scribes wrote at length about it. Editor Any Markowitz ‘fessed up to voting for the white guy, while Eileen Murphy’s Media Circus column tore up TV’s vacuous election-night coverage, Michael Anft gauged the lame-duck City Council’s reaction, and The Nose waxed about The Times of London’s coverage of Mobtown politics. In other coverage, ... [MORE]

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Week 52, 1998

12/12/2008

The impending departure of two important Baltimoreans—Kurt L. Schmoke as the city's mayor, and Steven Bunker as the Fells Point fixture who owned the China Sea Trader shop on Thames Street—consumed City Paper's news efforts a decade ago this week. In arts and music, Mike Giuliano reviewed an abstract show at Maryland Art Place, and Geoffrey Himes discussed the millennial state of George Clinton and P-Funk. Mr. Wrong was all about hand-washing, while Media Circus announced that Anthony McCart ... [MORE]