Baltimore City Paper

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Andy Cook

NEWS

Judgement Day: Judge rules in favor of City Paper in Piscatelli lawsuit | Mobtown Beat by Laura Laing

Fear the Turtle: A federal raid in Maryland shows how common snapping turtles can have an uncommon bite | Feature by Van Smith

The Mail | Murder Ink

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COLUMNS

Poker in the Front: I've never asked you readers for anything, right? I mean, The paper or web site you are looking at right now is provided free of charge, and you can read my column gratis, or skip it and move your eyeballs on to the astrology, or the sex stuff, or any of the items between here and the last page of the paper/end of the Internet, yes? Look, I take my money from The Man, who has now got my action squeezed down to once every three weeks, with the excuse that it's The Economies, stupid, but I'm not stupid, see, I'm smart, I can handle things, not like everyone says, not dumb, and I want respect. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod

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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

Making It Bigger: Baltimore burlesque grows up, with the help of a little girl and her monkey | Art by Chris Landers

The Masters: Timothy App turns to art history for his latest series of paintings | Art by Kate Noonan

Quick Sketches: URBAN LIFE The Maryland Institute College of Art's Shaping the City free lunchtime lecture series has focused on cities and the "human and environmental forces that change them," a broad subject that nicely compliments the upcoming, and what looks to be essential, City From Below conference that runs March 27-29.

Bard Target: Marc Horwitz sets his sights on Shakepeare's greatest hits | Stage by Geoffrey Himes

Curtain Time: THE HOTTEST SEAT IN TOWN With the recent announcement that the Baltimore Opera Company is filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy, effectively ending a company that started in 1950, this week's sold-out debut performance of the Baltimore Concert Opera is fabulous news.

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