Baltimore City Paper

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Philip L. Nix

NEWS

Tragic Mountains: Local Filmmaker Catherine Pancake Hopes To Bring the Devastation of Mountaintop Removal Mining To a Theater Near You | Feature by Bret McCabe

Powering Up for a Fight: Seton Hill Association Fighting With BGE and the City Over A Proposal To Build Substation and Switching Station in Historic Area | Mobtown Beat by Christina Royster-Hemby

Time Out: Change To Patriot Act Could Shorten Death-Row Inmates’ Time To Appeal Cases | Mobtown Beat by Lawrence Hurley

Rhymes With ‘P,’ Which Stands for Pool: Benjamin Blye, 76 years old, hobbled forth to address the Maryland House of Delegates’ Ways and Means Committee on March 14. | Quick and Dirty by Edward Ericson Jr.

Port Whine: Amid the Sturm und Drang of the fading Dubai Ports World deal, the state legislature has been considering an exemption of normal procurement rules for the Port of Baltimore. | Quick and Dirty by Edward Ericson Jr.

Quick Release: Gilbert Sapperstein, the 74-year-old former city contractor who last August pled guilty to stealing more than $3.3 million from the city school system in a bribery scheme, was paroled Feb. | Quick and Dirty by Van Smith

Charitable Coverage: Baltimore’s top elected African-American official is being investigated by the state prosecutor amid mounting evidence of possible corruption. | Media Circus by Gadi Dechter

Councilmania | Murder Ink | The Mail | The News Hole

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COLUMNS

No Sex, Please: As usual, the abortion battle begins in an intolerant Midwestern state with a strong fundamentalist streak | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Foul Ball: Show me a 9-year-old who throws 65 miles an hour. | Right Field by Russ Smith

Let’s Break a Deal: I’m gonna wear this out, seriously, this Deal or No Deal thing. | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod

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COMICS

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

Shabby Tabby: by Valerie Crosswhite

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ARTS

Criss Cross Cultural: Writer Kim Jensen Fuses the Personal With the Political and Confronts Literary and Cultural Dogma In the Process | Books by Joab Jackson

The Squid and the Tale: How Two Friends Turned an Idea And Some Cash Into a Burgeoning Design and Manufacturing Company | Style by Jason Torres

In a Jar: Peggy Diggs’ Witty, Obsessive Installation Is Best In Show | Art by J. Bowers

Out of Beach: Five Characters Look For Something In the Emptiness In This Inventive Production | Stage by John Barry

Jeff Cohen: Take it on faith: Playwrights who want to write about Baltimore are few and far between. | Q+A by John Barry

The Poem That Changed America: Howl Fifty Years Later by Jason Shinder, editor | Review by Geoffrey Himes

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