Baltimore City Paper

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Holden Warren

NEWS

Leaving the Past Behind: Despite Being Named In Scathing Investigative Report In Delaware, Renata Henry Was Appointed To Position In Maryland State Government | Mobtown Beat by Jeffrey Anderson

Anti Hero: Anna Sowers Tried to Speak Out Against Violence in Baltimore But Ended Up Tuned Out | Feature by Jeffrey Anderson

Cash For Trash: City Enforcement of Sanitation Code Takes Some City Residents by Surprise | Mobtown Beat by Erin Sullivan

Murder Ink | The Mail

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COLUMNS

Are You Ready For The Holidays?: People ask me if I am ready for The Holidays, all up in my grille like "So, are you ready for The Holidays?" and I get a teensy bit irritated, as in, like, what the fuck kinda question is that, "Am I ready for The Holidays?" What if I am not ready for The Holidays? What if I am Unprepared, what are you gonna say, what are you gonna do to me, for my state of non Holiday Readiness? Am I in some kinda Big Holiday Trouble? And by the way, what fucking business is it of yours if I am ready for The Holidays or not? You don't even know my The Holidays, you know? Maybe The Holidays I am not ready for are Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, or Saturnalia, or something along those lines of The Holidays, so why you gotta go and bug me with your projected concerns over your version of The Holidays, hah? Maybe my The Holidays involves some kinda Human Sacrifice action where I gotta go and find somebody who is a Pest and Human Sacrifice their ass at the Festival of Eliminating Annoying Questioners, see? How about this: You fucking go right ahead and get all ready for your The Holidays, and report back to me when you are ready, umkay? How annoying is that, "Are you ready for The Holidays?" You know, even if all I do is sit on my ass (which is pretty much all I do), there will still be a The Holidays, right? Looka me, man, me and my lazy ass are totally all getting ready for The Holidays, see? I don't have to spend any money or risk my life Out There and my The Holidays will still happen, yes? Yes. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod

The Fourth Plantation: Originally the term, "The Fourth Estate" referred to "the mob" or "the rabble," as it was used in 19th-century England and France, with the other "estates" being the king, the clergy, and the commons, or the legislature. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

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COMICS

Dirt Farm: by Ben Claassen III

Important Comics: by Dina Kelberman

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

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ARTS

The NEA's report on Nonprofit Theatre: Baltimore affects?: When the money gets tight, operas, with huge production costs, and relatively brief runs, can be the canaries in the coal mine for the performing arts. | Stage by John Barry

Tree Musketeer: Abstract Formalist Kate MacKinnon Liberates Herself by Riffing On Traditional Plein Air | Art by Bret McCabe

The American Dream: Walking in the Shoes of Carnies, Arms Dealers, Immigrant Dreamers, Pot Farmers, and Christian Believers by Harmon Leon | Review by Heather Harris

Death With Interruptions by Jose Saramago | Review by Raymond Cummings

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