Baltimore City Paper

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Frank Klein

NEWS

Game Sharks: A Raid on a Local Poker Tournament is Latest In City’s Attempt to Stamp Out Illegal Gambling Events | Mobtown Beat by John Barry

De-Centered: Longtime Fells Point Senior Center To Close | Mobtown Beat by Jill Yesko

Unhealthy Contract?: A consultant hired by the state of Maryland to write the parameters for a new prison health-care contract is a co-founder of Prison Health Services Inc., the Brentwood, Tenn.-based company that has the contract now. | Quick and Dirty by Edward Ericson Jr.

Naming Names: While recently surveying the little metal plaques in City Hall that honor dead politicians by naming various rooms after them, the Nose sniffed out a minor scandal. | The Nose

Full of Lead: Experts Say There’s a Direct Connection Between Lead Poisoning and Violent Crime, But Will Public Policy Ever Catch Up With the Research? | Feature by Stephen Janis

The Mail | Murder Ink

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COLUMNS

An Allegory: “Is that all? Just $750 billion over 10 years? And this is supposed to fix my current plan?” | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Teachings of Old: When a man or woman reaches a certain age, there’s little fear of speaking frankly. | Right Field by Russ Smith

Stage Play: OK, so that’s mildly overblown, but hey, if we actors can’t indulge in a teensy bit of melodrama on occasion, who can? | Think Mink by Mink Stole

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COMICS

Lulu Eightball: by Emily Flake

Sheet Comics: by The Hussey Bros.

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ARTS

Manic Succession: In His New Book, Johns Hopkins Psychologist John D. Gartner Delivers a Surprising Diagnosis to the Whole Country: The American Spirit is Actually a Mental Disorder | Books by Violet LeVoit

Pier Pressure: Vagabond Players Master Arthur Miller’s Tale of Troubled Love Down by the Docks | Stage by Gadi Dechter

Milk by Darcy Steinke | Review by Scott Carlson

God Lives in St. Petersburg and Other Stories by Tom Bissell | Review by Angie Drobnic Holan

No Place to Hide by Robert O'Harrow | Review by Joab Jackson

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