Photos by Michelle Gienow

Performance Anxiety

Backstage in the No-Pay, Low-Glory World of Community Theater

In Feature
By John Barry

Proper Epitaphs

The Mail: We are writing you concerning City Paper’s Murder Ink column. We feel as though the facts of a murder are enough to write about. If there can’t be any research done to find anything positive or any fa [1/26/2005]

Hot Contract

Mobtown Beat: City Bribery Scandal Tied to Influential Father and Son [1/26/2005] by Van Smith

Pedaling Influence

Quick and Dirty: Jodie Zisow knows the value of a wide road. [1/26/2005] by David Morley

Homing In

The Nose: A Jan. 17 Sun story, “For former addicts, a place to call home,” by staff writer Lynn Anderson, gave the Nose a cold. The piece, published shortly after three men were murdered in a Remington group ho [1/26/2005]

Comrade President

The Nose: The Nose knew security at the Jan. 20 Presidential Inauguration Parade was going to be tight. But little did we know when we traveled to Washington to witness the event that we were going to be treate [1/26/2005]

All the News That’s Fit to Copy?

The Nose: WYPR (88.1 FM) journalist Melody Simmons’ Jan 21 report of a low-income Baltimore family living in subsidized splendor in fancy-schmancy Mount Washington was diverting. It was also remarkably similar [1/26/2005]

Murder Ink

Murders This Week: 7 Murders This Year: 26 Beginning this week, Murder Ink will no longer include the arrest records of homicide victims appearing in the column. A more detailed explanation [1/26/2005] by Anna Ditkoff

Feel a Draft?

The Mail: The plight of American soldiers returning from and still in Iraq is truly disheartening. The Post Tr... [1/19/2005]

In the Line of Fire

Mobtown Beat: Injured Cops Told to Retire or Be Fired | By Terrie Snyder [1/19/2005]

Small Bills

Quick and Dirty: “I would just like to [go] to my own home, get warm, and go to sleep,” says 48-year-old Baltimore na... By Christina Royster-Hemby [1/19/2005]

Whiskey Wise

The Nose: The Nose learned to drink at our grandma’s knee, and she—ever the local loyalist—turned us on to two... [1/19/2005]

Police Work

The Nose: It’s 7:30 in the evening on Jan. 11, and the Nose is walking west on West Baltimore Street, across M... [1/19/2005]

Murder Ink

Murders This Week: 12 Murders This Year: 19 After a particularly bloody week, there have been mor... By Anna Ditkoff [1/19/2005]

The Toll

Feature: Young Men Struggle to Find Meaning in a Neighborhood Where Homicide is Routine | By Anna Ditkoff [1/19/2005]

Murder, He Wrote

The Mail: Congratulations to Tom Nugent for his excellent recap of the Sister Catherine Cesnik murder case (“W... [1/12/2005]

Sentenced for Life

Mobtown Beat: March on Annapolis Draws Parallels between Civil Rights and Criminal Justice Reform | By Christina Royster-Hemby [1/12/2005]

Insecurity Issue

Quick and Dirty: On Dec. 28, two Baltimore-based peace activists climbed to the roof of the Pentagon’s southeast entr... By Edward Ericson Jr. [1/12/2005]

Murder Ink

Murders This Week: 4 Murders This Year: 7 The two people that were shot and killed in... By Anna Ditkoff [1/12/2005]

Soldier’s Heart

Feature: Thousands Of Iraq War Veterans Will Come Home To Face Serious Psychological Problems And A System That May Not Be Ready To Help Them | By Dan Frosch [1/12/2005]