Play Back

By Charles Cohen | Posted 5/9/2001

In a perfect after-sports life, Baltimore's remaining ex-Colts would be able to go to their monthly meeting at the deluxe pavilion out back of Buck Fowler's Tavern up on Belair Road, eat choice grilled meats, talk trash, and recall gridiron bloopers and golden moments.God knows that's what Art Donovan is trying to do at this early May meeting of the National Football League Players Association's (NFLPA) Baltimore chapter, spinning yarns of crazy antics from the Colts' glory days. But this is far from a perfect world for Baltimore's former football heroes; sometimes it's not even a fair one. "We would like to sit back with a cold one and tell old stories," says former defensive back Bruce Laird, who turned 50 earlier this year with an aching back, neck, and shoulders. [MORE]

No Great Shakes

By Brennen Jensen | Posted 7/19/2000

Baltimore is no stranger to disasters. Just look at the Orioles' bullpen. [MORE]

The Home Office

By Charles Cohen | Posted 4/3/2002

For more than four years now, this column has been used as an excuse to pry into other people's histories. And all this time, City Paper has been sitting on someone else's past.While CP maintains its forever-young image in these pages, it maintains its offices in a stately and aged brick house on Park Avenue in grand Mount Vernon. [MORE]

Polka Parlor

By Charles Cohen | Posted 11/17/1999

Oompah music drifts into the liquor store. A couple dances beside the dusty, half-empty shelves. [MORE]

Awl-Mighty Mobs

By Brennen Jensen | Posted 10/28/1998

On Nov. 3, Baltimoreans (well, about half of them anyway) will march to the polls to vote. [MORE]