Illustrations By Tom Chalkley
Three-quarters or more of Baltimore City voters actually voting on the coming year’s election days.
A New Year’s Eve without a hail of bullets fired into and falling from the sky.
A place in Baltimore City for The Wire to shoot.
Fifty fewer murders (we’re not asking for anything crazy here).
Housing and health inspections for “recovery houses.” It’s all about getting healthier and safer, right?
Hutzler’s department store open again, so we don’t have to go out to the county to buy underwear or a frying pan.
Five hundred new drug treatment beds.
Conventioneers lining up to book rooms in advance at the convention hotel.
Dollar houses--but not for flippers.
OK, so we promised we weren’t gonna write about it again, but maybe just a teeny little act of God to blast the “Man/Woman” sculpture at Penn Station into unusable scrap so that it’s hauled off and forgotten. Now we’re done.
Holiday Guide 2005
O Holy Crap City Paper’s Annual Holiday Guide
Gobble Gobble Hey The Idyllic But Brief Life of a Domestic Turkey is Nothing If Not Mundane | By Erin Sullivan
The Santa Clause Memories of a Family's Annual Search for a Black Santa | By Vincent Williams
Makin' Tracks A Local Company Creates Model Train Layouts for Grownups | By Michelle Gienow
A Holiday Fixer-Upper Amateur, Unlicensed Contracting Adds to the Authenticity of Baltimore-Style Gingerbread Row House | By Edward Ericson Jr.
Dear Santa Our Christmas Wish List For the City
Oil We Want for Christmas City Paper’s Guide to Spending Money You Don’t Have
Members Only A Guide to the Privileges that Come with Membership to Local Cultural Institutions
The Holiday Guide City Paper's 2005 Guide to Seasonal Events and Places.