Baltimore City Paper

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

NEWS

Becalmed: Ships idle for days on end just south of Bay Bridge | Mobtown Beat by Lee Gardner

Scene Stealers: Vague language in City Council's live entertainment bill creates anxiety and confusion in arts community | Mobtown Beat by Michael Byrne

Vini Vidi Vito: Vito Simone came to Baltimore, saw opportunity, and conjured a real estate fantasy | Feature by Edward Ericson Jr.

Councilmania | Murder Ink | The Mail

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COLUMNS

Mr. Wrong

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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 Horror System: Cool, calculated, methodical bureaucracy the real monster in this mammoth, contentious novel | Books by Zak M. Salih

Pressures of the Flesh: Seeing the body through the piercing eyes of Raoul Middleman | Art by Bret McCabe

Quick Sketches: INVOLVING VIOLENCE As curated by the Chicago-based duo of Karin Patzke and Carrie Ruckel, who work under the name Lasso, this School 33 Art Center exhibition has offered a heady, if sometimes oblique and inchoate look at violence in contemporary American society through a creative lens.

Family Trees: More than an orchard is at stake in this production of a Russian classic | Stage by Geoffrey Himes

Curtain Time: She'll Get Some Lines, Or I'll Nail Your Kneecaps To The Floor Has it really been almost 15 years since Chazz Palminteri became the most unlikely rewrite man in Woody Allen's 1994 Bullets Over Broadway? He earned a supporting actor Oscar nomination for his turn as Cheech, and his Bullets success led to a string of small but impressionable roles in 1990s movies--Jade, Lee Tamahori's slept-on Mulholland Falls, Diabolique--but none of these movies played to Palminteri's strengths as a man who looks like a stereotypical Italian heavy who just so happens to possess a blithe touch for balancing humor and pathos.

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MUSIC

Golden Ticket: D.C./Nairobi outfit Extra Golden, and its fans, pitch in to fly in the band's second half from Kenya | Music by Michaelangelo Matos

Omar-S: Fabric 45 | Review by Michaelangelo Matos

Impossible Hair: What Is the Secret of Impossible Hair? | Review by Michael Byrne

The Wire Orchestra: MT6 Island | Review by Raymond Cummings

Lucky Dragons: "Easy Is Right"/"Take Turns" | Review by Michael Byrne

The Short List

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