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with equal amounts of utter indifference. In this respect, the free market is like natural selection, which a callous, merciless Mother Nature uses to scythe through the natural world. As humanity’s mastery over nature increases and we improve our collective ability to blunt, to defeat, and even to subjugate the pitiless dictates of the environment and our genetics through interventions like law and technology, the quality of human existence improves. The most recent economic downturn should conclusively demonstrate to all that appropriate economic policies should not meekly submit to the unaware, truly senseless vagaries of the free market, while praying to the deity of one’s choice that we prosper. We should, instead, through proper regulation, stringent law and regulatory enforcement, and other interventions properly cage the destructive tendencies of the free market, while harvesting its benefits.
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Market Wise With the impending demise of the Baltimore Examiner at the pinnacle of its editorial and reporting quality (“Final Examiner,” Mobtown Beat, Jan. 29), perhaps now the right-wing supporters of social-Darwinian-grounded laissez-faire economics will come to understand that the “free market” is not some omnipotent panacea that perpetually, if sometimes painfully and in ripsaw fashion, drives the quality of human life upward, but that the free market is a blind, pitiless process which annihilates the unlucky good and the truly awful THIS MODERN WORLD
Done With Butler I usually like reading the letters in City Paper (and in The Sun for that matter), because I like knowing what other fellow Baltimoreans think, and can often be made to rethink my own opinions on whatever matters are discussed in that forum. But sometimes, or in City Paper’s case, too goddamn often, there are certain voices printed that are just so plainly inflammatory, so inane, and so witless as to make me question the motives for even taking the time to read let alone print their letters. As an Irishcentric-postmodernisticalmusicalcoholic-masculinist—or, in Larnell Custis Butler’s world apparently, just a plain ol’ niggerBY TOM TOMORROW
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hatin’ cracka-assed devil white boy—I’m really starting to get sick and tired of this lady’s letters, as I’m quite sure most people with a brain in this city are (“Dixon a Victim,” The Mail, Jan. 28). Ms. Butler loves to go up on her high-horse and tell us what evil, racist, paranoid, and undermining people whites are, always ranting about some injustice or another she’s dreamed up (fuck, even Al Sharpton relies on SOME basis for his arguments, no matter how shaky his ground may be) where white folks are again just trying to keep the black man down. Would City Paper dare print a letter or story with the opposite view, maybe containing “as an Aryan, I think that monkey Dixon should be lynched!”? The truth is, Ms. Butler, though there are truly racist people in this world, when a black person of standing gets locked up it is very, very, extremely rare, if at all, the result of some big, ugly, lily-white, racist conspiracy. No, the people who actually are like that LOVE people like you, who do more damage to equality of race than any Ku Klux Klan, crossburning redneck could ever dream of doing. While you go ranting about how evil whites are (which is exactly what you are doing, which is racist— have you heard of irony?), you are a) confirming some peoples’ fear that black folks, if given power, are going to take out the 400 years of inequality, brutality, degradation, etc., out on tha’ white folks for no other reason than spite, and b) give those very people real cause to worry because they may think you actually speak for the majority, instead of just being one crack-brained racist woman with too much time on her hands who blames any ill in her life not on her own hateful ideology, but whatever white person is handy to be the scapegoat. You know who does that type of shit, Larnell? Nazis, KKK, skinheads, anti-Semites, bigots, and the catchall category, idiot fuckin’ jackasses. If you haven’t noticed, a black man is in the White House! I voted for him, as did every white person I know. Quit being so paranoid and realize that your life would be a whole lot more enjoyable if you’d stop with the racist babble, because what it really makes you is the “Afro-Centric” Rush Limbaugh. And both of you make my skin crawl with disgust. CP, would you please stop giving forum to this type of drivel?
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH SO, YOU KNOW WHAT I REALIZED? I don’t remember the last time I celebrated or even acknowledged Black History Month. Oh, we recognize the 14th day of Black History Month, because my wife has sworn not to be manipulated by the greeting card companies into buying stuff for a made-up holiday but, y’know, she still wants the chocolate. But, besides that, Black History Month hasn’t been a part of my life in years. And it’s not because I don’t acknowledge the various aspects of black history—just the opposite. I spend a great deal of time studying and taking part in my history and culture. Hell, the only reason I’m even thinking about it is because of my daughter. We realized we haven’t been doing anything specifically to do
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as a kid, what I remember the most about the various programs that we attended was the propensity of old members of SNCC or the SCLC relaying their experiences and playing a version of Six Degrees of Martin Luther King Jr. And I have to say, I’ve always been uncomfortable with the manner in which this would happen. It’s like they would wheel out the civil rights guys like the presidential automations at Disney World, along with the official corporate sponsors of Black History Month, McDonalds and Anheuser-Busch, and they’d do their spiel and then go right back into storage until the same time next year. And I’ve always thought it was wrong to compartmentalize this vital part of American history. But that has always been the nature of Black History Month. Of course, in past years, the annual February revisiting of the civil rights epoch was the full measure of black history that many of us received all year long. But, again, just yesterday,
WHAT I REMEMBER WAS OLD MEMBERS OF SNCC OR THE SCLC RELAYING THEIR EXPERIENCES AND PLAYING A VERSION OF SIX DEGREES OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. with the month and, unlike Kwanzaa, there is my daughter watched an episode of Ni Hao, no ritualized activity to let you know you’re Kai-Lan, a children’s show focusing on the addoing what you’re supposed to. The thing is, I ventures of a little Chinese girl, where one of just don’t know what we could do differently in her little talking animal friends was trying February that we don’t do the rest of the year. to figure out how to rhyme words because he We have dozens of story books and children’s wanted to be an MC. This has always been one history books. We support the various Africanof the potential side effects of truly living in American exhibits that come to museums a multicultural society though. As we teach throughout the year. Plays, television specials, our children that there is only one history, and speakers, you name it, all year long our family find many facets of our culture becoming more supports black culture. inclusive, it’s becoming more and more difficult And it’s not just my family. I’d wager that the to see a reason to have a separate month for vast majority of people reading this participate just black history. It has been an exciting, yet in activities that have been traditionally seen a bit sobering, process for me to realize that as the province of Black History Month. We all many of the books that I was first exposed to in listen to music that could be called “black mu- African-American literature classes in college— sic.” Between TV One, BET (!), and, incidentally, The Bluest Eye, Their Eyes Were Watching God, PBS, CNN, and MSNBC, there’s non-fiction proA Gathering of Old Men, etc.—my niece and gramming broadcast about aspects nephew have already been introof black history regardless of the calduced to in their high-school English endar. Mayors, doctors, lawyers, uh, classes. GOT AN OPINION the president—there’s no shortage So, am I advocating the dissolution ABOUT SOCIAL of successful African-Americans in of Black History Month? I don’t know. STUDIES? LEAVE the public sphere. When you factor in Regardless of what I’ve been thinkA COMMENT AT children’s programming like Sesame ing, after generations of clawing and CITYPAPER.COM. Street and Yo Gabba Gabba! and the scratching out a space for our story, plethora of multicultural shows on it seems counterintuitive to suggest Nickelodeon and the like, on any givthat we give it back. And, certainly, if en day, footage of the Roots, Miriam Makeba, Biz there are schools that are still censoring Catcher Markie, Jill Scott, and Wynton Marsalis graces my in the Rye and Harry Potter books, I know kids television screen, and in the past few weeks, I’ve aren’t being exposed across the board to the watched documentaries on post-Katrina New work of African-American writers. Still, I have Orleans, the reality of life for four married black to think that all those years ago when Carter G. gay couples, and the manner in which integra- Woodson envisioned Black History Month’s pretion influenced a small town in Arkansas. Many cursor, Negro History Week, it would have done of us do more Black History Month activity in his heart good to know that a time could come any given day than you could fit into a month when, even for the sake of argument, someone of trying. could say that the only thing that needs to be Yes, there is more history of the civil rights commemorated by such a month was that there movement-centered activities during this even had to be one in the first place. ■ month. Right now, I’m focusing on contemporary Black History Month awareness, but even socialstudies@citypaper.com
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GUILTY AS CHARGED NASA scientist pleads guilty, gets probation for child porn IN EARLY JANUARY, after he was charged with viewing child pornography on his National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) computer, Alfred B. Schultz told City Paper that he didn’t know what happened. (“Dirty Look?” Mobtown Beat, Jan. 8, 2009) “I may have done some of it, but I don’t remember,” he said at the time. The planetary scientist at NASA’s G odda rd Space Fl ight Center sounded genuinely in the dark about what prompted the charge, which accused him of breaking a NASA regulation—not a sex crime. Days later, on Jan. 10, Schultz signed an agreement to plead guilty, thereby admitting that facts in the case are true. The plea agreement (posted online at citypaper. com) states that Schultz’s illegal
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case made it less egregious than most of our other cases involving child pornography,” spokeswoman Marcia Murphy says. “He viewed images of child pornography for a one-month period, but there was no allegation that he downloaded, traded, paid for, or distributed child pornography. Also, as was stated in court, he had no prior criminal record.” NASA spokesman Ed Campion explained Schultz’s employment, saying he is “currently in what we would call paid administrative-
DEFENSE ATTORNEY ALAN BAUM SAYS THE CHARGING DECISION AND SENTENCE IN SCHULTZ’S CASE ARE “REMARKABLE. HE GOT VERY LUCKY.” behavior was observed last August by agents of the NASA Office of the Inspector General who were monitoring Schultz’s computer as he visited “dozens of web sites containing images depicting nude children, children posed in sexually explicit poses, and children engaged in sexual activity.” Two of the images Schultz accessed “belonged to photographic series of known child victims,” the plea agreement states. On Feb. 4, Schultz’s agreement was brought before U.S. District Court magistrate Judge Jillyn K. Schulze, who accepted it on Feb. 6 and sentenced Schultz to five years probation. Schulze declined to explain her decision to City Paper. The NASA inspector general’s office referred questions about the case to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland. “In this case, federal prosecution was necessary because the crime occurred on federal property, but the prosecutors and agents determined that the unique facts of the
cessed via government computer that resulted in charges for regulatory violations rather than sex crimes. By way of comparison, Baum represented a former NASA employee who pleaded guilty last year in federal court in California to sex crimes involving a similar set of facts. The defendant, Christopher Burt Wiltsee, received a five-year prison sentence followed by seven years of supervised release, plus a $25,000 fine. “It would have been nice if my client’s case had gone in the direction” of Schultz’s, Baum observes, “but it didn’t. Your guy caught a real break, and he and his lawyer must be extremely relieved.”
leave status. He’s not at work, but is still on the books while this matter is still under review” by the agency. Rema i n i ng i n h is job is not what Schultz anticipated when he spoke to City Paper in early January. “Well, my career’s over,” he said at the time. A message left on Schultz’s office phone was not returned by press time, and neither was a message to his attorney, Bruce Johnson. The case raises two questions, one having to do with how Schultz was charged—not w ith a sex crime, but instead for violating NASA regulations—and the other with his sentence. To California defense attorney Alan Baum, who says he has represented clients in dozens of similar cases, the charging decision and the sentence in Schultz’s case—as well as the fact that Schultz still has his job—are “remarkable. He got very lucky.” Baum added that he has never before seen a case in which child pornography allegedly was ac-
IDENTITY TRANSPLANT Patient ID-theft alleged at Hopkins BILL WALL is a large man with close-cropped hair and the bearing of a military man, which he is—a major in the Army’s 729th Brigade Support Battalion. His wife Deborah is tiny, blond, and full of an energy that belies the fact that for more than 10 years she has been suffering from a disease that attacks her kidneys. In 2004, her illness became bad enough that her husband was sent home early from deployment in Afghanistan, and in October 2005, when she was hospitalized at Johns Hopkins for a kidney transplant, he spent a month by her hospital bed, letting the mail pile up at their Perryville home. Upon her release, the Wa l ls found that one of the things in their stack of mail was a notice from Chase, the credit-card bank, congratulating them on moving to a new house—something they hadn’t done. The Walls’ response to that notice eventually led to a three year, multi-agency law-enforcement operation, which uncovered half a million dollars in fraud, and the indictment, last month, of a Hopkins employee and another Baltimore woman. Prosecutors claim the two worked together to steal information from patients and used it to open fake credit-card accounts. Deborah Wall was reasonably sure that the credit theft was connected to her stay at Hopkins, especially after her kidney donor, a
friend from out of state, reported a similar theft. Wall says the three days both of the women were in the hospital was the only time they were together, and it was too much of a coincidence. The Chase card was used to purchase new wood floors for a house on Dudley Avenue in Belair-Edison, but the Walls say they had trouble getting law enforcement to act, due to the multiple jurisdictions involved—they were in Perryville, the house was in Baltimore City, and the flooring store was in Anne Arundel County. They took it upon themselves in November 2005 to check out the house. The first time, they say, they sat in their car outside the house and called city police, but no one was home. A few days later, they tried again at night. Bill Wall says he had to argue with the city officer who responded to get him to check it out, and when they knocked, the occupant gave a false name. “But they had nice f looring,” Deborah Wall recalls. “They sure did,” her husband affirms. “They had some beautiful hardwood floors. And the biggestscreen TV I’ve ever seen.” At the city officer’s direction, they went themselves to swear out an arrest warrant at the courthouse. A few days later, armed with the warrant, they returned to the house and called 911 again. This time, Bill Wall says, six or eight police cars swarmed the place. Shanell Bowser, of Dudley Avenue, was charged with identity theft, and found guilty in Baltimore District Court in April 2006. She was sentenced to two years’ probation, an outcome that the Walls consider a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile, the couple began talking with John Bergbower, a former major with the Baltimore Police, who heads the security investigations unit for Hopkins’ East Baltimore campus. Bergbower declined to speak for this article, referring questions to the Secret Service agent who investigated the case. Calls to the Secret Service were unreturned as of this writing. The Walls credit Bergbower with getting the ball rolling on a threeyear investigation that led to the recent charges against Michelle Johnson, a patient-services clerk at the hospital and a high school friend of Bowser’s, according to the federal indictment, which says Johnson continued working at Hopkins until May 2007. Hopkins CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
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BILL 09-0284 SANITATION—“ONE PLUS ONE” COLLECTION PROGRAM. This proposes several changes to the current trash-and-recycling pickup system. THE READ: The 14-page bill contains a few details that might raise eyebrows. For example, the present refusecollection limit per residence is eight 20-gallon containers—160 gallons—per week. The new limit would be 64 gallons. Also, the current twice-weekly trash pickup schedule would be reduced to once weekly (though the current twice-monthly recycling collection would be increased to once weekly). The fine for open “mixed refuse” container violations for residents would be reduced from $60 to $50. There is also a provision for city-provided receptacles—that is, you’d get a free regulation trash can. City Councilman Jim Kraft (1st District) spoke enthusiastically about the bill: “This is, I think, step one in the mayor’s proverbial ‘putting your money where your mouth is.’” RESOLUTION 09-0107R PERFORMANCE MEASURES—“BLUE LIGHT CAMERAS”—CRIME PREVENTION. Requests that Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld report to the council on the status of one type of police camera, and on a decline in clearance rates for robberies and aggravated assaults. THE READ: The department has 480 closed-circuit television cameras plus 100 moveable PODSS, a kind of camera that requires a police officer to be nearby to see the picture it produces—or a crew to remove the videotape. The closed-circuit cameras are easier to monitor and provide a better picture, according to the resolution, and Council President Stephanie RawlingsBlake wants a report on progress replacing the old PODSS cameras with closed-circuit units. RawlingsBlake points to budget cuts last November, which slashed police overtime. Since then, the homicide rate has increased by 21 percent, she says: “Killings have increased and our progress has been threatened.” RESOLUTION 09-0108R LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT— BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT. Requests that the police commissioner report on the effects of budget cutbacks on crime prevention, and the efficacy of restructuring the police districts. THE READ: “We are fighting crime as if we were back in the ’50s, and this is not an efficient way to use our officers,” Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake declared. The police department’s nine district boundaries were established several generations ago, when the city’s crime patterns were much different. Back then, said Councilman Robert Curran (3rd District), “the Northeast District was considered [a] country club.” The idea is to redeploy the cops we have to better cover the crime. The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Feb. 23 at 5 p.m.
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SATURDAY, FEB. 14 1:43 A . M . On Valentine’s Day, Michael Davis, a 30-year-old African-American man, was in Whitten’s, a bar located at 4502 Erdman Ave. He became involved in a dispute and was shot in the head and died. This is the ninth murder in the Northeastern District this year, making it the most murderous police district.
UPDATES: Kennard Pratt, a 27-year-old African-American man, was arrested on Feb. 5 for a triple shooting that left one person dead. Antron Betts, a 35-yearold African-American man, was with two other men in the 1000 block of North Bond Street on Jan. 7, when someone came up and shot at them. Betts died; the other two, one of whom was shot in the face, survived. Pratt is being charged with murder and attempted murder. On Feb. 11, a Baltimore City Grand Jury indicted Leroy Taylor, a 19-year-old African-American man, for the March 11, 2008, m u r d e r o f Tavo n B u r k s , a 16-year-old African-American WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11 male. Burks and a 19-year-old 12:07 P. M . Tracy Kinchen, a were in a parking lot in the 2500 34-year-old African-American block of North Edgecombe Circle man, and another when they were man were in an alshot. The 19-yearWANT THE LATEST ley behind the 1700 old survived. ON HOMICIDE block of East 32nd Maurice Crosby, a ARRESTS AND Street. Someone 20-year-old AfricanCONVICTIONS? a p p r o a c h e d a n d READ THE MURDER A m e r i c a n m a n , started shooting at was sentenced to INK UPDATES AT them. The other man 10 year s in pris CITYPAPER.COM/ was hit, but man on for stabbing GO/MURDERINK. aged to run inside a Michael Simms, an house and survived. 18-year-old AfricanKinchen was shot numerous American Marine Reservist, to times, collapsed in the alley, death. Crosby and a couple of and was dead by the time police other people got into a fight arrived. This is the third murder with some of Simms’ friends, in the Coldstream-Homestead- on June 10, 2007. Simms tried Montebello neighborhood this to help his friends, and was year; only Oldtown has had as stabbed by Crosby. Crosby was many homicides in 2009. found not guilty of first-degree murder, but was convicted of THURSDAY, FEB. 12 involuntary manslaughter on 12:22 P. M . Twenty-four hours Nov. 1, 2008.
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but it charges the two women with obtaining fake credit cards with a combined limit of more than $500,000 and using the cards to buy $169,390 in merchandise. In addition to hardwood floors, the indictment lists computer equipment, televisions, utility and cellphone bills, and goods from Victoria’s Secret among the items purchased with the fake cards. The indictment
STEPHENSON SAYS WHILE HOPKINS GUARDS AGAINST THE THEFT OF PATIENT INFORMATION FROM THE OUTSIDE, EMPLOYEE THEFT PRESENTS A DIFFICULT CHALLENGE. Bowser’s attorney could not be reached by phone or e-mail as of this writing. Stephenson says Hopkins makes efforts to perform background checks on employees, but while it guards against the theft of patient information from the outside, employee theft presents a difficult challenge. “ The tr uth of the mat ter is you can’t screen out all the bad apples,” Stephenson says. “No organization can, try as they might. It’s an unfortunate fact of modern life.” Marcia Murphy, spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein’s office, declined to discuss the case beyond the information contained in the indictment. She confirmed that, in addition to Hopkins and the Secret Service, the U.S. Postal Service and the Department of Housing and Urban Development were involved in the investigation. The indictment is short on detail,
lists five victims, identified only by their initials. Murphy declined to say whether there were more. Despite the speed with which the credit theft was uncovered, the Walls still face credit difficulties. Deborah Wall says the black marks on their credit have a snowball effect—once one credit-card company reports them, others raise their rates. Her health remains poor. The transplanted kidney started to fail within days, and a few months af ter the operation she was back on dialysis treatments. “That’s really tough,” Bill Wall says. “All the prep work for a transplant, which takes about a year to make it happen. Then to have the disappointment of losing it. And then it just compounds it to come home and find all this credit mess.” CHRIS LANDERS
BIG TARGET Feds in New York dub indicted defense attorney simels a “danger,” aim to see his fees in Baltimore ON THURSDAY, FEB. 5, the Justice Department took two shots at Robert M. Simels, the self-described “Rolls Royce” of criminal-defense attorneys. In New York, where Simels is charged with witness intimidation in connection with his defense of former Marylander Shaheed “Roger” Khan (“Team Player,” Mobtown Beat, Sept. 24, 2008), who is accused of running a violent Guyanese cocaine conspiracy, prosecutors called Simels a “palpable danger” to public safety and convinced a judge to keep Simels’ bond, which is secured with his $2.5 million Westchester, N.Y., home, at $3.5 million. Meanwhile, in a Baltimore case that appea rs u n related to K ha n, another Justice Department attor-
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7 A . M . Someone spotted a body floating in the Patapsco River near the Hanover Street bridge and called police. Eric Pendergrass, a 26 -year- old African-American man, was pulled out of the water. His death has been ruled a homicide by asphyxiation. According to a U.S. District Court criminal complaint, Pendergrass’ girlfriend reported his abduction on Feb. 1 (“What’s That Floating in the Water,” The News Hole, CityPaper.com, Feb. 12). She told police that she received a call from Pendergrass at 1:30 A . M . that day. He told her to get a bag of money out of the closet and bring it to his mother’s house, where she would hand it off to someone named “Darlene.” Pendergrass was “abrupt and appeared under duress” on the phone, according to the complaint. His girlfriend followed the instructions, but Pendergrass never returned. 8:57 P . M . That night Faruq Barakaat, a 20-year-old AfricanAmerican man, was sitting in front of a house in the 2100 block of Presbury Street near Matthew A. Henson Elementary School when he was shot in the head. He died at an area hospital a half hour later.
later, Daniel Hoeck, a 62-yearold Caucasian man, was found stabbed to death in his home in the 6100 block of Glenoak Avenue. Hoeck lived in Westfield, a residential neighborhood in Northeast Baltimore.
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spokesman Gary Stephenson would not discuss the investigation, but the Walls say they received updates from Bergbower and other investigators during that time, and that Johnson was under surveillance at work. Contacted by telephone, a woman who identified herself as Michelle Johnson says she had nothing to say about the charges.
ROBERT M. SIMELS ney asked a judge to order Simels to cough up detailed information to a grand jury about how he’s getting paid to represent accused drug traf-
ficker and money launderer Shawn Michael Green (“Flight Connections,” Mobtown Beat, Mar. 12, 2008). Ju st a not her d ay i n t he decades-long war between Justice and Simels. In the mid-1980s, shortly after Simels had entered private practice on the heels of a career as a young federal prosecutor, Rudy Giuliani, then New York’s U.S. attorney, tried and failed to get information about Simels’ fee arrangements with clients. But today in Maryland, according to local attorneys, the law is clear that grand juries are entitled to look at attorneys’ fee arrangements, though they rarely do so. ”It’s rare but not unheard of,” says former federal prosecutor and longtime defense attorney David Irwin, when asked about how frequently the grand jury goes after attorneys’ fees. He predicts that “the government is going to win the motion and Simels is at best filing a delaying action.” Simels is famous in New York for representing highprofile clients such as Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff (“New York Boys,” Mobtown Beat, June 4, 2003) and Henry Hill, whose gangster stories have entered popular culture. But Simels’ Baltimore clientele over the years, such as Green, tend not to be household names— though they are accused of being high up in the game and are often well-connected. Two of them—Eric Clash of the Rice Organization (“Wired,” Mobtown Beat, Mar. 2, 2005) and Kenneth Antonio “Bird” Jac k son (“ The H ig h L i fe,” Mobtown Beat, Jan. 3, 1995), who ow ns the Eldorado G e nt le me n’s C lub — h ave k no w n t ie s to B a l t i mor e politics. The motion filed against Simels in the Shawn Green case, by assistant U.S. attorney Kwame Manley, is stunning for its disclosures about a secret grand-jury investigation. Green was captured after nearly two years on the run, and at his first court appearance in December 2008, Simels was at his side. In light of what the Justice Department reveals in Manley’s motion, the grand jury is interested in whether or not Simels was getting paid to represent Green during his lengthy stretch on the lam.
What’s known about Green so far is based largely on court records in Baltimore and in connection with a sprawling federal prosecution in Ph i l adelph i a aga i n s t t he Phillips Cocaine Organization (PCO), in which Green is not a defendant. Real-estate lawyer Rachel Donegan, mortgage broker David Lincoln, and Green’s mother, Yolanda Crawley, pleaded guilty last year to their parts in Green’s allegedly illicit assets and activities, with interests spann i ng t he Ea s t Coa s t f rom Florida to New Jersey. Yet the Justice Department, according to the motion to compel Simels to open up his books, thinks Green kept up the conspiracy while on the run, after his co-conspirators were arrested. It expects to
Simels did not respond to messages lef t at his of fice for this article. The Justice Depa r tment decl ined to comment. The government’s strong language came in reaction to a Feb. 2 bond-modification request by Simels’ attorney, Gerard Shargel, who sought to remove the secured money bond as a condition of Simels’ release pending trial. In it, Shargel points out that the bond set on Sept. 10 “was not based on any judicial finding that Mr. Simels poses a risk of flight or a danger to the community,” and thus asserts that the prosecutors cannot show that Simels poses such risks. The prosecutors, Steven D’A lessa nd ro a nd Mor r i s Fodeman, went ahead and called Simels dangerous any-
ATTORNEY DAVID IRWIN PREDICTS THAT “THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO WIN THE MOTION AND SIMELS IS AT BEST FILING A DELAYING ACTION.”
file more charges. The grand jury, the motion continues, “is continuing its investigation of Green and other individuals,” and “the Government believes that during Green’s nearly two-year period as a fugitive, he continued to launder proceeds of illegal activity through known coconspirators in this case.” The specific information sought by the grand jury from Simels concerns “attorney fees and retainers received for the representation of Green, the amount of funds received, the identity of the individuals who provided such funds, and the dates and manner in which such funds were provided (i.e., cash, check, wire, etc.).” Last March, with Green still a fugitive, Simels told City Paper in a telephone interview that he was not Green’s attorney. The question was raised because court records show that Simels had been sent mail from U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein in connection with the federal forfeiture of Green’s Reservoir Hill apartment building and recording studio.
how, while arguing that they are not required to prove that he is. In doing so, they restated the allegations—that Simels sought to bribe and threaten witnesses, including with violence—and note that Simels is wealthy, that the evidence against him is strong, and that his behavior was conducted in his role as an attorney. ”The Court can have little confidence,” the prosecutors continued, that Simels will not further obstruct justice “now that Simels, as opposed simply to a client, would benefit” from such crimes. Thus, they concluded, “there exists a palpable danger were the defendant released without significant pre-trial conditions,” such as the high bail set when he was first arrested. The New York round went to the government when the judge agreed last Friday to keep Simels’ bond set high. Green’s judge in Baltimore, J. Frederick Motz, set a Feb. 23 deadline for Simels to submit his opposition to Manley’s attempt to open up his books on the Shawn Green account. ■ VA N S M I T H
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producer/MC Labtekwon is through repeating the past. For years, he has been calling out wack MCs, shoddy local club practices, and incompetent radio programming. But those days are over. A new year and new hope for the future demands a change. And Lab knows he has something much more constructive to offer Baltimore hip-hop: himself and his peers. “My experience in Baltimore is one that I feel is unique and reflects the vision of change that so many people are invigorated by in 2009,” he says. “In the ’80s, I grew up in Whitelock City in West Baltimore. I was a black kid on a skateboard that liked to rap. I would go to the Harborplace, Club Cignel, and Club Fantasy and meet up with
kids from all over Baltimore City and Baltimore County. It was always an adventure.” Media portraits of the man born Omar Akbar tend to paint him as a guy with something to prove: Here’s an artist with a primarily selfreleased discography that stretches back over 15 years, recognized around the globe, but barely in his own backyard. What such profiles, including those run in this very paper by this very writer, often fail to mention is how thoughtful and introspective he can be. “There were yo boys, punk rockers, new wavers, skate punks, preps, and anybody that might be considered a social misfit,” he continues. “We were bound by elements of hip-hop culture like graffiti and rap, house music, counterculture from the punk movement, weed and alcohol, and a desire to be young and free. I was exposed
to the true diversity of people and culture in Baltimore, and it shaped me to think outside the box of my block in West Baltimore. But I never forgot who I was. I was a part of a youth movement that valued creativity and a healthy sense of local competition in the arts, yet we still partied together and had a good time, before the money was the only reason to do it. “As an MC I feel that Baltimore has fallen behind in the art of emceeing and too many ‘rappers’ lack the proper understanding of the art,” he says. “These guys are too consumed with TV and radio, hoping to be ‘stars’ instead of masters of the art. This is why Baltimore as a whole has no proper representation of hip-hop culture globally. Many of the folks that are local gatekeepers and celebrities now have benefited from the efforts of people such as myself and the folks
I grew up with. Yet there is no rite of passage to insure the next generation of Robin Franks, Jeff Vespas, Jada Pinketts, Nicole Ari Parkers, or Kevin Liles. I feel sorry for the Baltimore youth that no longer have this cultural paradigm to nurture their own vision of art.” If you follow hip-hop journalism, you’ve heard this story before: There once was this golden age when everybody was into the creative culture of hip-hop, and the 1990s came along and an influx of mainstream pop celebrity, money, and superficiality ruined it. Once there was a grassroots movement that established criteria for what made the art matter and measured its quality. Now it’s just people repeating the same old nonsense about big-screen TVs, money, and bitches. “When I was younger, I looked to Z3 MC, We
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Rock Crew, Numarx with Kevin Liles. I looked up to them and I studied what they did and wanted to be better than them,” Lab says.“And I took what they did seriously. They were already doing what I wanted to do, and we don’t have that anymore. We have people trying to hit the lottery, and I’ve been saying this same thing for years.” Oh yes he has. He said it to then-City Paper Music Editor Lee Gardner in 2000 for a cover story (“On the Down Low,” Feature, July 12, 2000) that examined Baltimore’s perennial hip-hop underground. He said it to this writer in a later profile (“Taking it Back,” No Cover, March 16, 2005) in which Lab called out what he felt was the general decline of Baltimore hip-hop across the board. And he’s done his best to champion Baltimore’s 1980s hip-hop evolution, plugging under-documented groups and artists from back in the days before MySpace pages or mixtape downloads in the pages of The Fader and to for12 | city paper
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mer Baltimorean and City Paper contributor Tom Breihan’s Status Ain’t Hood Village Voice blog. He’s even started taking his thoughts to the airwaves, addressing what he views as hiphop’s crises in an October 2008 WEAA-FM program called The Audio Infusion, and posted a précis of his argument at an accompanying blog (theaudioinfusion.com/laboratory/). This time, though, Lab doesn’t want to retread history—he wants to share it. For the past year, Lab has been pointing his peers toward City Paper’s offices, having them stop in and talk about coming up as part of the first generation to grow up with hip-hop in Baltimore City. Their collected stories—at least what fits into this space (see citypaper.com/go/labtekwon for extended interview excerpts)—aren’t intended to present the whole of Baltimore’s hip-hop history. They merely hope to convey a sense of the community of artists that existed in
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Baltimore at one point in time, and how that creative cauldron helped shaped them into the adults they are today. Today, they—Lab, MC/spoken-word artist Eric Muhammad, MC Chinchilla, graf artists Adam Stab and Alco, graf/tattoo artist Boodamonk, DJs Scottie B and Booman, hook-master Jimmy Jones—are some of the preeminent local artists in their fields, even if they aren’t always recognized for that fact. Yes, the past six years have witnessed a number of local hip-hop artists trying to get their sound outside of the 410 area code through the usual way—major-label deals. But they haven’t been tested, they haven’t studied their craft, and they haven’t learned from the artists who laid the groundwork for it here. Is it any wonder nothing has come of those contracts? “The rest of the world recognizes hip-hop now,” Lab says. “And it’s the same thing that happened
with jazz, the same thing that happened with rock ‘n’ roll, it’s always this thing in America where things become such pop cultural phenomena that nobody remembers what it was that was so important about the people who started it. And that’s the problem with Baltimore. Everybody else in the world knows what it is that makes an MC dope—except you. You think if you imitate T.I., you’re going to be dope. Nope.”
A PERFECT EXAMPLE of how an indigenous local sound can make it outside the community that birthed it is something all of these guys grew up with: club music. Over the course of 2004 and 2005, Baltimore’s homegrown dance music emerged as the hottest sound hitting discerning dance floors. It was everywhere. Writers, critics, labels, and producers were cashing in on its explosive popularity, and misinformation was pimped
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“AND THAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH BALTIMORE,” LABTEKWON SAYS. “EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD KNOWS THAT MAKES AN MC DOPE—EXCEPT YOU.” and propagated. Truth or fiction, Baltimore now has a musical face, and its beats and producers travel the world in DJ crates. “Baltimore club is not my legacy,” Lab says. “That’s only something that I’ve experienced. I don’t claim Baltimore club as my child, I’m an uncle that helped nurture it. Boo, I look at as one of the parents—Scottie [B] is one of the parents.” Lab teamed up with two of its parents, Booman and Jimmy Jones—two-thirds of the pioneering club production group the Doo Dew Kidz with K.W. Griff—in 2006 to start work on the 410
Pharaohs project, which released the irrepressibly hook-filled treat 410 Funk last September. On that album, Lab does what many rappers have tried to do and failed—rap over club’s maniacal tempo—and does it by suavely floating over the ruckus, opting for flowing smoothly over the hectic beats, rather than trying to keep up with them. It’s an unexpected approach, and it works so disarmingly well with club’s frenetic motion that you can’t imagine why any MC would try to rhyme at its sprinting pace. “He called me and was, like, ‘Yo, I found a style to make me sound like I’m not really rhyming
fast,’” Booman says about Lab getting in touch with him to start up the 410 Pharaohs, a project they had long talked about. “So I was like, ‘Alright, let’s go.’ And I got with Jimmy, ‘cause Jimmy’s the master of party hooks. And it just came together after that.” When talking to Booman—an instantly friendly big guy who never appears to lose his smile—he comes across as too modest to claim to be club’s daddy, but he freely admits he was around in the beginning. And in the beginning, everybody was dancing to a little bit of everything at clubs such as Godfrey’s, Fantasy,
Gatsby’s, Oak Tree, and Cignel, but house music was the main pulse. “It was all house,” Booman says of Fantasy during a January 2008 interview. Born Grant Burley III, Booman is a native Baltimorean, graduating from the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in the late 1980s and eventually Morgan State University in the 1990s. He knew very early on that he wanted to be a DJ. “When I first heard about it [Fantasy], they were having DJ auditions,” he says of the club, which closed in 1990. “And I wanted to go and do the audition, but I couldn’t get a ride. And it turned out the audition I wanted to go to, [Unruly Records head] Shawn Caesar actually got the job for the Friday nights. And when I heard about that, I just stared going. And it was crazy. It was cool. DJs wanted to come listen to it, because they were playing stuff that was so progressive and stuff you’ve never heard before.
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that [one], how they use a singer—basi“I GET A LITTLE UPS FROM EVERYBODY WHEN I GET THERE, with cally what we do now.” WHAT THEY DO NOW, AND THAT’S ALL I EVER WANTED,” SCOTTIE B SAYS. of course, is club. “It was a mix of hip-hop, house, and street music,” Jones says. “A lot of people “I WANTED TO BE PLAYED AT THE PARTY.” wanted to call it ‘club crack’ and things like that. “That club was incredible, actually,” he continues. “We were all going, and it was the meeting point for so many people. Shawn Caesar, Rod Braxton, Lab, Ultra Naté.” Jones and Booman go back even further. They started doing neighborhood basement parties and making four-track recordings together as teenagers. “We were so close we called each other cousins,” Jones says during another January 2008 interview. “He used to do parties, 14 | city paper
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and I used to go down there and grab the mic and get the party started, so we started doing clubs. And we made a bond with one another where if one of us makes it, all of us is going to make it. We said that at the age of 13.” They started hanging out at Morgan State parties—“when we had no business being there,” Burley says—before discovering the clubs and other DJs, such as Caesar and Wayne Davis at Fantasy. “You can feel that beat,” Jones
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says of house’s thump. “You were basically hypnotized. And then going to the club at the age of 15, just having the opportunity to experience something that you would never ever experience in your life. It made me who I am today, it made me appreciate music, it made me understand the structure of music—understanding the different types of music coming from different types of experiences and countries. You got a chance to hear how they put this beat
To us, it was simply just called club music. And it became real popular in early ’92. And from ’92 all the way down to ’95-’96, then it started to be branching off to something different. The elements of it started to be taken away.” This observation isn’t the overlooked and bitter hater speaking, simply an observation of an artist who lived through it. Before it took over dance floors everywhere, club was merely another style that DJs learned and mastered.
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but that’s why Rice takes such sincere pride in witnessing how the sound has spread. “I think I appreciate it more than most people,” Rice says. “A lot of guys, they’re flying overseas and they’re doing it, but it didn’t take them 15 years, it didn’t take them 20 years. And I’m not saying they don’t appreciate it—I know they appreciate it. But they can’t appreciate it as much as I can, because I took the lumps.”
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pioneers earned that respect: Nobody got famous with club overnight. They played in the clubs to find out what worked and what didn’t. They listened to each other. And they learned how to work a room as a DJ, distribute product as a label, and work with other artists by watching and learning from the people they admired. With local hip-hop, that isn’t happening anymore. “With a lot of guys now, there’s no respect for the quality,” Burley says. “There’s no respect for their predecessors. We were always—the guys that came before us, even locally, we could name DJ Spen and the Numarx and the Shawn Caesar crew and vibe like that, guys we look up to. But if you ask somebody now about a Labtekwon, they wouldn’t know. That’s a disconnect.” That disconnect is a product of both the speed at which the dominant mainstream culture can absorb subcultures and the speed at which information moves now. “I don’t want to be one of those guys saying, ‘gangsta rap ruined hiphop,’ but you started to see other strains developing when Dr. Dre put out The Chronic,” says Eric Muhammad. Better known in Baltimore’s spoken-word community as E the poet-emcee, ERIC MUHAMMAD Muhammad grew up in West Baltimore, attended Frederick Douglass High School, and first got into hip-hop as an MC in the group Mind’s Eye Tribe. He migrated into spoken word in the mid-’90s, he says, when he realized Baltimore’s so-called rap fans “People all over are making great club weren’t really interested in what EXTENDED music now,” Rice says. “It’s a fact. Philly MCs actually said. and New Jersey are Baltimore 10 years INTERVIEWS FOR “What I see in Baltimore now, evago. Everywhere you go—every car, everybody wants to be a big star, everyTHIS ARTICLE ery store, every radio commercial—club body wants to be a rapper, and a lot music. You got guys overseas, they make CAN BE FOUND AT of these guys can’t really rap,” he conshit you’d think they were from CITYPAPER.COM/ tinues. “They have no interest in rapBaltimore. You got Sinden and Switch, GO/LABTEKWON. ping to people outside of their [own that whole crew—all that is Baltimore circle]. And one of the politics of house, and they tell you that. And you Baltimore City is to go with the flow. got, shit, I don’t want to forget anybody. You got So when money becomes the dominant thing, [Germany’s] Man Recordings, they really a baile that’s when everything gets watered down.” funk thing, which is Baltimore-oriented. We It’s a trend graf artist Adam Stab is noticing been doing stuff for him. A lot of the M.I.A. stuff in younger generations, too. “Underground culis Baltimore, because of Diplo. In Sweden, you ture is sold, and we, right now, live at a time with got a kid over there, you got Sweet Fred, he’s in the immediacy of technological information Malmö, his parties are so fucking off the hook. exchange that I think that has become an inher“And that shit’s good,” Rice says. “All over the ent part of the process,” he says. Self-taught and world they’re doing it. And that shit’s good. I educated, Stab moved to Baltimore in 1983 and get a little ups from everybody when I get there, got into graffiti writing. And like Rice, Booman, and that’s all I ever wanted—to be in somebody’s Jones, and Lab, he learned his skill by following crates. I wanted to be played at the party.” the older experts around him. Yes, now Scottie B—and many of the early Now, “you have kids not having to hold onto Baltimore house and club progenitors, such as a thing for quite as long or wield it quite as long Shawn Caesar, the late Miss Tony, Booman, K.W. such that they realize the power of what they’re Griff, the Basement Boys, Ultra Naté—are known wielding,” Stab says. “Because eventually you’re to fans worldwide. It took a while to get there, going to gain understanding from all the time
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And they learned from the people who were in the clubs doing it. “Watching,” Scottie B says of how he learned to DJ. “Watching and listening. I always wanted to be the guy who played the records. That’s just what I wanted to do, so when I heard that, I wanted to do that.” Born Scott Rice, Scottie B grew up in the Park Heights area of Northwest Baltimore and, like almost every person who got into hip-hop in Baltimore during the 1980s, he first heard it listening to radio station WEBB (1360 AM). “With the DJ shit, it was WEBB,” Rice says during a March 2008 interview. “After school they used to have Say It and Play It live, and first, it was Randy Dennis, and then he moved out of town for a while and then it was Chuck Maxx, and they would have mixes—edit mixes, the first time in Baltimore they had that stuff. There was AP Crew and the New Boss. And they had DJ Spen, and Vicious V, who is still around, and Terry T. There was 1400, Mack James.” Rice isn’t just flexing his memory, he’s paying respect to the artists who taught him how to spin—as respectfully as he acknowledges the artists making club around the world today who have shown love to him. citypaper.com
ists can turn to for inspiration. “What keeps me going is that I remember when none of this shit existed,” Muhammad says. “I consider myself one of the blessed people because growing up with hip-hop, it kept me out of the box. I kept my youthful spirit and my dreams alive. I’m carrying it with me, and by doing that, it filters down. “It’s about carrying on the legacy,” he continues. “And me, I don’t care what the young cats are doing right now because they’re doing only what they see because we’re not showing them another thing. And we’re at that age now that we are what we hated from our parents. If we didn’t grow up hearing about the struggles of the ’60s and had to read about Malcolm X from books when our parents were there, we were mad at them for that. Now, we’re the elders of the situations. And whatever the kids don’t
know of the culture, that’s on us.” “That’s where the relevance is—Baltimore is already part of a musical heritage, and a lot of Baltimore artists don’t always connect to their own legacy,” Lab says. “And when people make dysfunctional art, it propagates misconceptions. . . . Hip-hop has nothing to do with your ability to hustle on the streets. Hip-hop is a solution, not a problem.” ■ LABTEKWON’S DI NA KO DEGG: SOUL POWER, A SPECIAL ONLINE EDITION OF HIS 2008 ALBUM, COMES OUT ON ITUNES MARCH 20, TWO NEW ALBUMS—GHETTOCLECTIC: NEW AGE AND ANCIENT SOUL AND GODFREY VS FANTASY—ARE DUE THIS SUMMER, AND THE NILE WATER: VISIONS OF TEHUTI LIFESTYLE AND MUSIC DOCUMENTARY DVD IS DUE LATER THIS YEAR. HE PERFORMS AT 5 SEASONS APRIL 1. E THE POET-EMCEE’S WEEKLY EVENT THE ART OF CONVERSATION WELCOMES ROD-ZILLA TO THE YABBA POT FEB. 21. SCOTTIE B SPINS AT LONDON’S FABRIC FEB. 20 AND EVERY SATURDAY AT CLUB INTERNATIONAL. ADAM STAB PLANS TO OPEN A STREETWEAR AND ORIGINAL ART BOUTIQUE, END TIMES TRADING POST, THIS SPRING IN FELLS POINT.
“A LOT OF PEOPLE AREN’T GETTING THE TIME TO PUT INTO IT—DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, UNTIL THEY’RE DOING IT DAMN WELL,” ADAM STAB SAYS.
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an album on a major—but that all the creative labor that countless men and women have put into creating a Baltimore hip-hop community is being completely overlooked as local hip-hop becomes little more than what’s popular on the radio here and nowhere else. Hip-hop in the 1980s and even the early 1990s was underdocumented by the press across the country. If people today want to learn about what Baltimore gave hip-hop then, they’re going to have to deal with the people who were there. “It’s very much the model of the griot in West Africa,” Labtekwon says. “The history is documented in the hearts and minds of the people who lived through it. If you pay attention to what I do—not just what I say in interviews but listen to what I’m doing in my music—there’s elements that are specific to Baltimore. Elements of my style—speedy delivery, melodic delivery— these were Baltimore things that I learned from listening to Chuck Maxx on 1360 [AM]. So when you hear me, or E the poet-emcee, you literally hear the evolution of the Baltimore MC.” Booman, Jimmy Jones, Muhammad, Scottie B, Stab, and Lab himself continue to be involved with their aspects of local hip-hop culture, and some have even expanded their reach to include community service and outreach, holding workshops and working with students. The message here is respect the art form enough to respect yourself and where you come from. Repping your ’hood means much, much more than having your boys think you’re the shit. And right now is the ideal time to remember that. The music industry’s failing business models have forced artists to take a more holistic approach to their careers, and the return to a grassroots movement is already starting to take seed in Baltimore. Perhaps these stories and these artists are the people aspiring young art-
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that you’ve participated in it and holding it on high and honing your skills. It’s one of these things that becomes meaningful. It becomes the way they communicate their life’s poetry. And a lot of people aren’t getting the time to put into it—they do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, until they’re doing it damn well—so that they come to realizing the innocence and importance of what to hold on about it. Why it’s an everyman art, why it’s a folk art, why it came from there in the first place. You will never be bigger than it, it is bigger than you. And that sort of embrace of the commonality is getting lost from it as it becomes a total commodity.” That’s the real danger facing Baltimore hiphop right now. Not that nobody has been able to break big—Comp, Bossman, Young Leek, Los, D.O.G., A-maz-on, and Heavy Gold have all signed major-label deals, though none has yet to release
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DO FLYING MONKEYS give you the willies? How about the promise, “I’ll get you, my pretty—and your little dog, too.” Did you see Wicked on Broadway? The Wiz back in the ’70s? Have you ever wondered whether Pink Floyd intended for The Dark Side of the Moon to serve as a soundtrack of sorts? If so, UMBC visiting assistant philosophy professor Phil Seng has a book for you. One of Seng’s main areas of interest is film and philosophy, so last year he jumped at the chance to collaborate with his former professor, Randall E. Auxier of Southern Illinois University, on a book about the philosophical ideas present in The Wizard of Oz. The result is the latest addition to Open Court Press’ Popular Culture and Philosophy series, The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy: Wicked Wisdom of the West, edited by Auxier and Seng and featuring essays by 20 different philosophers. The point of the book, according to Seng, is to encourage people to watch the movie—for the first or 50th time—give them some ideas about what they saw, and then let them go to discuss it amongst themselves. “What makes the movie interesting is then talking about it with someone else,” he says over a cup of coffee at the UMBC Commons.“You enjoy movies better talking about them because you get more out of them.” Don’t expect Seng or any of the contributing philosophers to bully you with “correct” interpretations. “So this is how philosophers look at The Wizard of Oz,” he says. “But you yourself, as viewers of the movie and readers of the book, might get something different out of it, and that would be interesting to talk about, too.” The particular joy of a movie like The Wizard of Oz is that so many people grew up with it, and those who have watched it multiple times retain some mix of childhood and adult impressions. Seng would like you to take everything you already think and feel about the movie and reconsider it through the lens of philosophy. “Re-watch it and think about slavery, about feminism,” he says.“Salman Rushdie comes at the story from a completely different perspective because he thinks it’s a story about an immigrant. It’s not a Western point of view. Americans see it as, ‘I want to get home.’ He sees it as, ‘I want to get away from this situation.’ Those are different ways of looking at it, and he’s not wrong.” In keeping with their mistrust of orthodoxy, Seng and Auxier did not put out a traditional call for abstracts and curate the book ahead of time. Instead, they contacted the philosophers they wanted to write for the
project and gave them the freedom to write any essay inspired by the movie. The result is an eclectic collection of riffs on topics ranging from matriarchy to Pink Floyd to something like quantum theory. Contributors consider whether the story could have been written today, since our intimate knowledge of our earth has made it increasingly difficult to set a fairy tale “once upon a time in a land far, far away.� (Seng points out, though, that the 2006 movie Pan’s Labyrinth deals with many of the same themes in the same
bands probably has nothing to do with it.) Seng’s conclusion springs from his philosophical position as a contexualist. For Seng, the particular coincidences that a viewer notices or does not notice are more interesting and provide more fodder for discussion than the objectivist question, Did Pink Floyd do it on purpose? “If we are objectivists we ask if my understanding of the movie is what it’s really about, which would be right or wrong,� he says. “If I’m a relativist, I would be right all the time. As a contexualist, there could be a 20
story. But Auxier makes the more interesting comment on women in “In the Merry Old Matriarchy of Oz.� Auxier tracks 150 years of academic work to legitimize the idea that such a thing as matriarchy ever existed in human history, echoing Leonard Shlain’s idea that matriarchy went out with mythology at the advent of writing. Auxier ties these ideas to Oz through Maguire, who seems to give a nod to this history in the history he writes of Oz in Wicked. Seng looks slightly confused if you ask him what the response
“RE-WATCH IT AND THINK ABOUT SLAVERY, ABOUT FEMINISM,� SENG SAYS. “SALMAN RUSHDIE COMES AT THE STORY FROM A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE HE THINKS IT’S A STORY ABOUT AN IMMIGRANT.� way as Oz. So maybe L. Frank Baum could have written his story in 2009.) Contributors explore whether Oz is anti-organized religion, since, according to George A. Dunn’s essay “The Wonderful Smallness of Evil in Oz,� Baum is “clearly rejecting a notion dear to many religions when he lampoons those who turn to a higher power to satisfy their deepest desires.� It’s Seng himself who tackles whether or not Pink Floyd intended to write a soundtrack to the movie with its 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. His essay, “Dude, When Did Pink Floyd Write a Soundtrack for The Wizard of Oz?� looks at the phenomenon believers call “Dark Side of the Rainbow� or DSOTR. Supposedly, if you cue the movie and the CD up just right, Toto wags in time to “On the Run,� the cash register rings in “Money� just as Dorothy steps into color in Munchkinland, and the Wicked Witch raises and lowers her broom to the lyrics of “Us and Them,� among other coincidences. Roger Waters has long denied any deliberate pairing, but it’s always fun when academics take on urban legends. (Seng also notes that synchronicities seem to link The Fellowship of the Ring and Led Zeppelin IV, The Matrix and Metallica’s Black Album, and Memento and Nirvana’s Nevermind. An uncommon interest in hallucinogens among fans of these
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percent disparity between how has been to his book. “I rememI see the movie and how you see ber going to Barnes and Noble the movie. Can both positions around Thanksgiving and seebe right? A contexualist says, ing it on the shelf,� he says. “It ‘Yeah.’ The interesting question was kind of weird. I was like, becomes what it is about me ‘Oh. There’s my book.’� that caused me to see the movie Uh huh. But what has the rethis way.� sponse been? “I haven’t heard Among the strongest chapany feedback,� he says matterters in the book are “Freeing of-factly, like a philosopher the Slaves in Oz,� “The Possible might. “I don’t really expect any. World of Oz,� and “In the Merry I just know that my family went Old Matr iarchy of Oz.� In to buy it. And when my sister “Freeing the Slaves,� Jason and goes to bookstores, she turns Jessica Bell explore a comment the cover out.� made by the Wicked Witch Sisters rock. So what did she about Dorothy: “I can still make think of the book? “My sister her my slave, for she does not read some of my essays out know how to use her power.� loud to me while we were sitThey effectively incorporate ting around playing cards over Socrates’ abolitionist statement Thanksgiving. In between in Plato’s Republic and the abo- hands, she would read a section.� litionist history of Kansas—it And? “It was excruciating.� wasn’t always the Kansas we But don’t let his aw-shucks know and ignore today—into way fool you. He’s got another an interesting exploration of project in mind, another colsubjugation in Oz. lection of essays that he would “The Possible World of Oz� is edit. He wants to bring phiAuxier’s dive into the theory losophy to bear on an iconic that every logical possibility— actor, one who is “very good e.g. Oz itself—is an about playing with actuality someh i s ow n my t h i c MORE ARTS where. And while persona,� Seng {AND POSSIBLY it is a dense essay, says. “He knows ENTERTAINMENT} Auxier leavens it AT CITYPAPER.COM/ what he symbolwith some very izes on the screen, GO/ARTSMINDS funny shots at the what audiences exphilosophical compect. In a lot of the munity (“so many people, so few roles that he takes, he’s trying social skills�). to play on that image, to do Pam R. Sailors specifically adsomething unexpected.� Keep dresses feminism and Oz in an an eye out next year for The essay called “Wicked Feminism,� Philosophy of Clint Eastwood. which explores author Gregory The cover may be turned out Maguire’s 1995 spin on Baum’s so you don’t miss it. ■citypaper.com
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EVERY SLUMDOG HAS ITS DAY Our seventh annual kinda sorta salute to the Oscars BY L E E G A R D N E R , V I O L E T G L A Z E , M A RT I N L . J O H N S O N , J O E M AC L E O D, A N D B R E T M CCA B E
THE DARK KNIGHT MASSIVELY RAKED IN MORE than $530 million at the box office last year. Thus far, Slumdog Millionaire has emerged as the 2008 awards season’s most loved movie. In the former, a billionaire vigilante gives citizens and moviegoers the hero/villain it wants and needs. In the latter, an adorable young man’s hard-scrabble existence provides him with the life experience necessary to win cash and a girl’s love. Welcome to recession moviegoing, where we passively permit the ultra-rich to protect us and, during a time when far too many of us feel lucky to have whatever job that is barely paying the bills, hope that a period of having not now might eventually lead to a better tomorrow. Perhaps that’s why Slumdog has emerged the odds-on favorite to continue its awards good fortune this Sunday night at the 81st annual Academy Awards—it’s the best picture nominee offering this past election year’s most coveted commodity: hope. Yes, a hope stimulus package is proving hard to come by, but at least it looks forward instead of backward, as do the cast-in-cinematic-amber The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the shadows of a different plagued administration in Frost/Nixon, the horrible tragedy of Milk, and the something-about-collaboration-with-Nazis of The Reader. Yes, we may all have to fight to survive, but at least Slumdog offers a glimmer of something optimistic in that struggle—all in bright, Bollywood colors with a peppy soundtrack to boot. City Paper’s seventh-annual Alties try to split the difference, recognizing the 2008 movies that didn’t try to sell moviegoers stylized versions of the past or an idealized promise. These movies aimed much lower or at different targets, looking to inform or merely to entertain. Some, of course, were absolute stinkers, but as Slumdog has taught us, sometimes even the most dire out there end up on top.
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WALTZ WITH BASHIR Directed by Ari Folman OPENS FEB. 20 AT LANDMARK HARBOR EAST
FILMMAKER ARI FOLMAN’S FRIEND has nightmares about dogs. As an Israeli soldier in the 1982 Lebanon War, Folman’s friend couldn’t be trusted to pull the trigger on another human being, so he was instead commanded to kill the dogs in a village to prevent them from making noise during an attack. More than 20 years later, the now middle-aged man claims to recall the face of every single canine he executed, and he begs Folman to make a movie about the experience, figuring a filmed confession might be therapeutic. Folman’s animated documentary Waltz With Bashir uses that pitiful story as an introduction to a largerscope but still highly personalized treatment of the war as a whole. The friend’s story invites Folman’s own unwelcome war flashback, an ambiguous and surreal scene of the war’s Sabra and Shatila massacres, which leads Folman to worry that he’s repressed memories of his involvement in the killings. Desperate for information about his role, Folman begins tracking down and interviewing old friends from his time with Israeli Defense Forces. These other vets, naturally, have their own stories to tell, their own guilt to relieve, and their recollections of the war reveal common themes. As insecure and inexperienced young men given weapons and ordered to kill, they became paralyzed with panic or completely detached. Former soldiers recall driving tanks loaded with bullet-riddled corpses and mopping up the blood afterward, and confess to machine-gunning civilian cars out of fright— the sort of horrors American filmgoers have been desensitized to for decades.
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Best Awesomeness: Iron Man. Glaze: “He listens to Suicidal Tendencies, dude.” Best Dance Movie: Planet B-Boy. Best Kids Movie: WALL-E. Best Documentary: Up the Yangtze. Best Documentary People Actually Saw: Standard Operating Procedure. Best Prescient Comedy: Tina Fey stars as a successful woman with baby issues in Baby Mama mere months before doing a different version of the same as Sarah Palin. Best Zipless Suck: Twilight. Best Unbearable Whimsy: Be Kind Rewind. Best Affluent People Suffering: Rachel Getting Married. Best Law & Order Episode: The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Best It’s the Economy, Stupid: Chop Shop. B e s t F u c k t h e E c o n o my : B e v e r ly H i l l s Chihuahua. Please, Don’t Do That Again: Righteous Kill. Best Actor Forced to Do Crap in a Hollywood Movie: Don Cheadle, Traitor. Best Actress Forced to Do Crap in a Hollywood Movie: Joan Allen, Death Race. Glaze:“Who knows, maybe she’s always felt she could do something special with the line ‘OK, cocksucker. Fuck with me, and we’ll see who shits on the sidewalk.’” Best Ensemble Forced to do Crap in a Hollywood Movie: W. McCabe: “Ellen Burstyn’s Barbara Bush at least had some pithy life, but Elizabeth Banks looked like she was dying for a crude joke as Laura Bush, Richard Dreyfuss looked like he was only asked to eat to be Dick Cheney, and poor Thandie Newton was forced to play Condoleezza Rice with her face puckered and slightly twitching, as if she chased a pound of limes with a fistful of Adderall.” Best Cameos: The Dark Knight (Cillian Murphy, Nicky Katt, Michael Jai White, William Fichtner, Tiny Lister). Best Dan Hedaya: Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon.
usual sad puppy/James Dean-lite routine.” Best I Just Wanted to Destroy Something Beautiful: Jared Leto needlessly packing on the method-acting pounds to become a bloated, dough-faced Mark Chapman for the completely forgettable Chapter 27. Best Technology Porn: Body of Lies. Best Product Placement: Pornography, Zack and Miri Make a Porno. McCabe: “Yes, porn is exploitative and sinful, but it can also bring two very loving people together.” Best Hair: Danny McBride’s afro-mullet hybrid, Pineapple Express. McCabe: “So hot, Kanye West rocked it at the Grammys.” Best Ice-Cold Blonde: Samuel L. Jackson, Jumper. Best Male Pattern Baldness: Jason Statham, The Bank Job. Best Candy-colored Tangerine Flake Streamline Babies: Speed Racer. Best Sex Scene: the montage of Russell Brand and a poodle-channeling Kristen Bell going at it, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Best Gratuitous Nudity: Matthew Goode and Ben Whishaw’s we’re-not-gay-we’re-merelyheirs-to-the-staggeringly-oblivious-homoerotic-traditions-of-British-aristocracy poolside and bathtub frolicking, Brideshead Revisited.
Best Performance by Someone Who’s Not Taken Seriously as an Actor: Jean-Claude Van Damme as washed-up action hero Jean-Claude Van Damme, JCVD. Best Performance by Someone Who’s Not Taken Seriously as an Actress: Asia Argento, The Last Mistress. Best Performance by an Artificial Life Form: Jennifer Connelly trying to be human, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Best Graceful Aging On-Screen: Kim Cattrall, Sex And The City. Glaze: “Not only for her bulletproof MILFitude but because any actress that can weather Porky’s, Mannequin, and Police Academy and yet come out even classier toward the ‘end’ of her career must be doing something right.” Best Ungraceful Aging On-Screen: Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan thrashing their jiggly butts through one ‘musical’ number after another, Mamma Mia! Best What-He-Never-Does: James Franco as a blissed-out stoner goofball, Pineapple Express. Glaze: “Somehow the scraggly moustache, Guatemala hippie pants, greasy hair, and 4:20 grin makes him a billion times sexier than his
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Best Bush: James Adomian, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Best Gotcha: Kate Winslet’s sex scenes, The Reader. Johnson: “Before we know she was a Nazi prison guard, it’s the best guilty pleasure since the sex scenes in Schindler’s List.” Best Ass-Kicking Jews: Defiance. Best Vanity Fair Article: Savage Grace Best CCD Class for Dummies: Seven Pounds. McCabe: “What happens when penitence object lessons take steroids.” Best Cat Attack: The CGI-feline swarm destroying an elderly Swedish vampire’s face, Let the Right One In. Best Death: A marauding plant thing dies and turns an urban street into a verdant forest, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Best BFG: The eight-gauge shotgun Viggo Mortensen’s character totes, Appaloosa. Best Unconscionable Violence: Rambo. McCabe: “Gorier than most slasher flicks.” The Crispin Hellion Glover What Is It? Award for Passing Off Onscreen Personal Obsessions as Art: Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York. ■
War’s hellish dynamic—long periods of purposeless boredom punctuated by violent moments of mortal terror—has been illustrated ad nauseam by virtually every Vietnam movie released after The Green Berets. Bashir’s striking visual style—Flash-animated forms drawn with thick comic-strip ink lines—does, however, force you to re-evaluate senseless human brutality in an unfamiliar form, and allows Folman to shift seamlessly between heavily stylized dream sequences and fact-based battle scenes and insert flashbacks inside of present-day scenes, both of which the movie does effectively several times. Folman and his fellow IDF vets are haunted by the uncertainty of their own responsibility for the mass killings at Sabra and Shatila. Two days after Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel’s assassination, supervising IDF troops allowed Bashir’s Phalangist followers to scour the Palestinian refugee camps for terrorist troops. Israeli forces established a perimeter outside the camps and, according to the movie, waited anxiously for further orders while rumors of the mass executions within the camps began to spread. For obvious reasons, these soldiers raised by Israel’s first immigrants—many of them Holocaust survivors—are particularly sickened by the idea that they’ve allowed or even facilitated genocide. Waltz With Bashir— nominated for Best Foreign Film but robbed in the animation category as Israel’s official Oscar entry— does a suspiciously tidy bit of buck-passing toward its conclusion, and many Lebanese and Palestinians will be understandably offended. The stark, unfiltered scene of heartbreaking carnage at the movie’s end, however, indicts all of humanity. (Jeremy Martin)
MUSIC CLASS IS IN SESSION A Baltimore club vet storms the mainstream with an unexpected comeback single BY A L S H I P L E Y
says, “until it started takin’ on a life of its own, and we realized we didn’t have the resources to keep up with the record.” Now with the Universal machine behind him, DJ Class already has the song on sale through iTunes, and is gearing up to shoot a video soon, while a flurry of mainstream stars have already jumped on official and unofficial remixes of the song. The first remix of “I’m the Ish,” which features R&B singer Trey Songz and star producer Jermaine Dupri, happened so spontaneously that Caesar only heard about it when the singer’s
ONE DAY IN EARLY NOVEMBER of last year, Shawn Caesar, co-owner of stalwart Baltimore club label Unruly Records, got a call from an old friend. “DJ Class calls me like, ‘Check your e-mail, I sent you a song,’” Caesar remembers. “I open it up, and it’s hot.” Class, one of Unruly’s first artists in the mid-’90s, had spent the last few years in Atlanta, and hadn’t released a club single since 2001. But his new track, “I’m the Ish,” with its naggingly catchy vocal hooks and a drum pattern that put a fresh twist on club’s familiar breakbeats, proved that Class hadn’t missed a step in his absence. And the subtle use of Auto-Tune, the pitch-shifting vocal effect popularized in recent years by R&B star T-Pain, made the record sound firmly of the moment. As it happened, Jay Claxton, 92Q’s drivetime DJ, was in Caesar’s office when the e-mail came over. Claxton immediately saw the song’s potential and wanted to put it on the air. “So I hit Class back and we get everything updated, took care of publishing and copyright [paperwork], and the next day it’s on,” Caesar says. Whereas Baltimore club is generally cordoned off to its own 9 P.M. segment on the station, Claxton took “I’m the Ish” straight to his daytime mix, alongside the newest hip-hop hits from national stars. “Be it Baltimore club, be it hip-hop, whatever, it’s a dope record that happens to [be] 130 beats per minute,” Caesar adds. “I think one of the key components was the way that Jay went into it with the 5 o’clock mix, as opposed to necessarily playin’ it late night.” Once “I’m the Ish” was set apart from the usual club hit, it quickly started ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES FOR CLUB VET DJ CLASS. blowing open doors that Baltimore club
“I HAVE BEEN KNOWN FOR TAKING A LITTLE BREAK IN BETWEEN RECORDS,” WOODIS SAYS. music has rarely, if ever, gone through. Less than three months after the song’s first radio spin, Class signed a deal with Universal Republic, through Unruly Productions, to work the single and release an album, Alameda and ColdSpring, due out in June. “It’s a whole different feel for Baltimore music, and anybody else can pop it in, says DJ Class, born Daniel Woodis, on the phone from Atlanta. “The record’s gonna cross over to Top 40.” And while he realizes that the trendy Auto-Tune sound has helped the song become more
radio-friendly across formats, he doesn’t plan on adopting it as his gimmick for every song, or use it as a substitute for songwriting. “I still try to make it a good song, because of its words, because of the vocals, and not just because I used Auto-Tune,” he says. Though Unruly Records signed a distribution deal with the independent giant E1 Music (formerly Koch Records) last year, Caesar ultimately supported DJ Class taking his hit to a major label to capitalize on the momentum. “Up ‘til then the whole plan was to put him [out] through [Unruly Records],” Caesar
manager called from the studio session one Saturday night. “By the time we got back up Sunday morning, they had already blasted it out there to YouTube,” Caesar says. “That was one of the biggest things they could’ve [done] for us and for the record, I definitely appreciate it.” But, more recently, Woodis went into
the studio with Lil Jon for an official remix, which also features Miami rapper Pitbull. When Woodis met Lil Jon at the recording session, he was shocked to learn that the Atlanta producer was himself a DJ Class fan. “Come to find out he knows ‘Next To You,’ he knows ‘Na Na Na,’” Woodis marvels. “He’s a genius dude, he knows a lot about a lot of different areas of dance music, Baltimore club, Miami bass.” Still, he had to clue Lil Jon in about just how much the iconic crunk artist himself had been sampled by Baltimore producers, who’ve looped his signature shouts a thousand times over. “We talked about it, he thought it was one or two records,” Woodis says. “I was like ‘Oh, no, man.’ So it’s only right that Lil Jon get on [‘I’m the Ish’].” Woodis, 37, has been one of Baltimore club music’s leading lights since releasing his first record in 1991, respected by his peers for a distinctive voice and catchy choruses in a genre that often relies on samples for hooks. “I have been known for taking a little break in between records,” Woodis says, and though he’s not one of club’s most prolific producers, his discography is still full of dance-floor staples such as “Tear the Club Up” and “What’s Up Baby.” Since 2001’s Temptations-sampling “Next to You,” however, Woodis had been on a break from club music, filling up his resume with gigs like contributing to the soundtrack to the John Waters’ film Cecil B. Demented. He even forged a career as a hip-hop gospel artist under the name D. Class, releasing the 2006 album The Book of Daniel. Whether he’s rapping about his faith or shouting the hooks on salacious club anthems like “Bombin’ Cock,” Woodis hopes to reflect the diversity of his music on Alameda and ColdSpring, named after the East Baltimore intersection where he grew up. And while the album will be primarily comprised of new tracks, he hopes to include some tracks familiar to Baltimore club fans such as “Back Dat Ass Up” and “Stop Snitchin” that he’d never released on an album. “I always joke and kid and say that I’m four different people wrapped in one,” he says. “I’ve got records where life is good and I wanna thank God, and I wanna do it over club beats that somebody’s gonna dance to.”
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SPEAKING IN DJ TERMS ONLY, Londoner Sinden is sort of a house version of Diplo, a restless, traveler’s DJ with an ear for primedfor-export dance music genres. Baile funk, Baltimore club, grime, South African house—it’s all probably made its way onto Sinden’s radio show, Fabric party, or into a Sinden remix, though his hit, the Kid Sister rhyming track “Beeper,” felt pretty damn American. His DJ/production style is known in dance music circles as fidgethouse, a quick- cut style that “fidgets” between genres, making it a sort of combo between proper house and more severely ADD mash-up styles. His Fabriclive mix—though it’s “presented” with Switch, it is very much Sinden’s mix—isn’t terribly house-y, instead dancing around genres with more of an interest in showcasing hits or hits-in-training than a unified style. Sinden introduces the mix with a pair of tracks that, unfairly, paint the thing as a hip-kid playground—a number from spastic novelty rapper Juiceboxxx and a bombastic party-rap track from Yo Majesty. The gems appear later on—Scottie B and King Tutt get a quick number in, the self-explanatory club track “African Chant,” which Sinden follows up with two of his own remixes. “Township Funk,” a jaw-dropping house track from South African DJ Mujava, gets made over in Baltimore club style, and he reworks a track from bhangra hybrid duo Tigerstyle. Past the halfway mark, the mix segues nicely into a dubstepthemed section with solid tracks from steppers Skream, Zomby, and Caper before closing on an eerie, somnolent dubstep creep from UK dub-punk outfit Salem. It feels more like an epitaph to the mix than a proper part of it, but it’s a satisfying close nonetheless. (Michael Byrne)
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BEAT FIRST A little bit of everything shapes Mahjongg’s rhythmic alchemy BY M I C H A E L BY R N E
MAHJONGG’S EARLY 2008 K RECORDS DEBUT, Kontpab, begins with two-and-a-half minutes of drum-circle drone—like you’re being welcomed to the Chicago outfit’s fireside party. In that time, about half the total song, patterns repeat, stack themselves on other patterns, the rhythms become busier, and it all becomes a tight interlocking series of tribal polyrhythms. The track, “Pontiac,” doesn’t have much to do with art-punk or computer funk or any of the other trappings of a good underground buzz band. Eventually, a loping bass line enters the song; wordless voices insert themselves into the background and slowly overtake it, ending in a whiff of primordial postpunk. The track serves as a proper introduction to the wondrous little world of genre anarchy in which Mahjongg operates. Coupled with an off-therails, semi-improvised live show that’s already reached lore status in the underground, this band has mastered everything-and-the-kitchen-sink dance-punk music, bridging lockstep postpunk revivalism and the cathartic release of a sweaty and loose basement party band—and does it with a record collector-cum-fetishists ear. “What brought us together was more our taste than our talent,” says Mahjongg’s Hunter Husar via phone, relaxing on a rare day off from tour in Greensboro, N.C. “We learned how to play music after we decided [to start the band]. Everyone [in the band] has a really open mind about what
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THE WORD “MYSTERY,” as applied to fiction books, often conjures visions of guys in trench coats rooting through seedy alleys, or whodunit scenarios involving wealthy industrialists with sultry mistresses, or even modern-day detectives solving grisly urban crimes involving drugs and gangsters. But novelist, producer, and screenwriter George Pelecanos, guest editor of The Best American Mystery Stories of 2008 (Mariner Books), has stretched the genre to include a rich blend of contemporary stories that get under your skin without resorting to traditional crime fiction or genre conventions. Pelecanos’ introduction sort of prepares you for this, but he leaves room for surprise. After being asked by series editor Otto Penzler to guest-edit this edition, Pelecanos—the author of more than a dozen crime novels who nonetheless has branched out in recent years to explore broader social and historical themes in and around Washington, D.C.—combed through hundreds of crime/mystery stories to come up with 50 candidates “deemed to be
despair that is thoroughly contemporary and painfully real. A junkie named Lisa has lost her man to the war in Iraq and a child to the hurricane. She is barely staving off addiction and the machinations of her slithery pimp Herman Stanga, who is “full of rebop and snap-crackle-and-pop and knows how to put some boom-boom in your bam-bam.” Such descriptions might jar you at first, but this is Louisiana, and Burke’s wordplay is sort of noirish, even though the story could hardly be described as mystery. Sure, you wonder what will happen to Lisa when Herman sends her over to a catering gig in Lafayette, and you cringe at the thought of her going back on PELECANOS LEAVES the pipe or ending up violently raped, but in ROOM FOR SURPRISE. the end, Lisa’s struggle is too engaging, too psychological to end with a cliché. Chuck Hogan’s “One Good One,” from Ellery of the highest quality.” From there, he winQueen’s Mystery Magazine, is about a South nowed the group down to 20, based on his Boston loser named Eddie Milk who is figown eye for realism and what he promises ured for a snitch, and this one has a quasito be “good, thoughtful writing.” The Departed feel that puts it squarely in The resulting collection of stories delivers. the mystery genre. As is Michael Connolly’s And with established authors such as Michael “Mulholland Drive,” from Los Angeles Noir— Connolly, Alice Munro, James Lee Burke, and say no more. But Peter LaSalle’s “Tunis and Joyce Carol Oates, how could it not? Yet the inTime,” from the Antioch Review, follows a tro doesn’t exactly tip Pelecanos’ hand. In fact, wistful and washed-up CIA agent to what he devotes much of it to a discussion of what was once ancient Carthage along with a pair you would expect from a mystery compilaof clueless, hot French girls. By the time the tion: the legacy of Raymond Chandler, with agent is left standing on the edge of an esa nod to the heritage of other crime fiction planade looking out over the ruins and the juggernauts such as James M. Cain Gulf of Tunis pondering his own and Ross Macdonald and more conmiserable failures and envisioning MORE WORDS temporary writers such as Elmore Flaubert’s celebrated journey to the AND PICTURES Leonard. In doing so, he notes, at least same spot more than 150 years ago, ABOUT BOOKS in passing, the old “literary-versushis mission, and the “mystery” of AT CITYPAPER. genre can of worms,” but declines to the fate of the ostensible target of COM/ crack it open. Instead, he obliterates GO/ARTSMINDS his assignment, are pretty much academic discussion by stating simbeside the point. ply, “It’s my opinion that any kind To an even greater degree Kyle of reading is good for you.” Then, so as not Minor’s “A Day Meant to Do Less” explores the to offend mystery or crime traditionalists, imprisoned memory of a speechless, demented he continues: “I simply chose these authors old woman who is re-living her Christian upbecause of their original, unique voices.” bringing and seemingly banal family life— The very first story, James Lee Burke’s “Mist,” complicated by a central childhood trauma—as which originally appeared in the Southern her pastor son prepares to give her a bath. No Review, sucks you into a post-Katrina zone of mystery here, just good, thoughtful writing. ■
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FICTION The Siege BY ISMAIL KADARE CANONGATE U.S., HARDCOVER
IT’S SOMEWHAT DEPRESSING that Ismail Kadare’s work still holds up. After all, his writing has been shaped by the decades that his native Albania spent under grindingly repressive Communist rule, and novels such as The Palace of Dreams and The Pyramid present allegories of the paranoia of totalitarian society and the brutal mechanics of mass dominance. It’s unnerving, then, to open the first U.S. issue of his 1970 novel, The Siege, and find elements of current international predicaments staring back. The title assault involves the horizon-spanning army of the Ottoman sultan marching up to a medieval Albanian citadel and preparing either to intimidate the Albanians into surrendering or smash the castle to bloody rubble. The Muslim Ottomans have legions of soldiers ready to die at Ugurlu Tursun Pasha’s command, seemingly unlimited resources, and the technology to construct monstrous stone-pulverizing artillery and undermine the fortress. The Christian Albanians, heard from in third-person-plural interstitial chapters, have only their walls, their resolve, and the example of their never-glimpsed leader/hero Skanderbeg (a historical Albanian national hero). But the Ottoman cause, seen largely through the eyes of its tremulous official chronicler Mevla Çelebi, is fraught with politics as the Pasha tries to fight a war while juggling the fervor of his generals, the caution of his support staff, and the conniving of those more concerned with advancing their agendas than advancing soldiers, not to mention his own doubts. Everyone, right up to the Pasha, lives in mortal fear of failure, disgrace, or simply saying the wrong thing. Even as Kadare limns the gruesome battle on the parapets— flaming pitch here, diseased rats there—the real conflict swirls amid the Ottoman tents. And even if the walls fall, Kadare intimates, the Albanian cause will ultimately be beyond any destructive power the Sultan’s forces can muster.
Although translated into English from a French translation of the original Albanian, The Siege’s compact prose is remarkably lucid (a clam about an Ottoman religious leader being “in the doghouse” is a glaring exception). Likewise, the novel transcends its allegorical base. Kadare was addressing Albanian identity and the threats to it, Communism perhaps included, but he wrote a novel, not a straight parable; many of his quickly sketched character ensemble, from the wily Quartermaster down to the bored women of the Pasha’s harem, acquire enough presence that their often abrupt fates resonate. And it might be difficult for contemporary readers not to find other resonances in the story of an indomitable superpower beating itself to pieces on the irreducible core of a provincial foe. (Lee Gardner)
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The l ights f i rst come up on Undine (Natalie Venetia Belcon) as she prowls her Manhattan office, handsomely appointed in gray brick with a teak desk, jabbering into her Bluetooth phone about her publicity for an upcoming highsociety charity affair. Dressed in a white jacket over a brown dress with her hair severely pulled back into a bulbous ponytail, she looks as fabulous as her clients. When she berates her assistant for not finding a sufficiently high-wattage celebrity for the event, Undine acts as if she owns the world and expects it to do her bidding. In the middle of Undineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s temper tantrum, her accountant barges in to the office. He has bad news: Her husband Herve has emptied their joint bank account and has disappeared. Her credit cards have been cancelled, and she has $47.50 to her name. Moreover, the FBI is investigating her for fraud. When Undine collapses from the shock, she is rushed to the hospital where she learns that she is pregnant. Soon, she is back in her office where a repo company is hauling away every stick of furniture and equipment. Her best friend gives the suddenly impoverished Undine the brush-off, and the now homeless, unemployed woman has no choice but to take the subway to the Brooklyn housing projects where her parents, brother, and grandmother still live. Grandma, it turns out, has a heroin habit, and when Undine agrees to go out and buy a bag, she is arrested and hauled before a judge. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dizzying fall from grace, and its fabulated hyperbole is what makes it so fun to watch. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chaucerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story of Constance the shipwrecked princess combined with the Bibleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story of Job and Voltaireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tale of Candide. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
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audience to be smart enough to get the implications of back-and-forth conversation, for she is constantly spelling out the message. Far too often, Undine speaks directly to the audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sometimes while sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talking to another characterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to explain what sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feeling and thinking. At times it feels as if the other characters are there just to illustrate points in her autobiographical monologue and not to engage her in a real drama. This direct-address approach might have worked better if Undine had been played by a larger-thanlife charismatic actress such as Kelly Taffe, who salvaged Nottageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Theatre presents it third Baltimore premiere this season with Tracy Lettsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1998 debut, Killer Joe. Lettsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a member of Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble and a former member of the Bang Bang Spontaneous Theater, which also spit out emerging contemporary talents such as actor Reggie Hayes, playwright Greg Kotis (Urinetown: The Musical), and the Oscarnominated actor Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;won a Tony and Pulitzer last year for his August: Osage County, but may be better known to popular audiences as the scribe behind the play and movie adaptation of his engrossingly paranoid Bug. Killer Joe spotlights a volatile family living in a trailer park outside Dallas that gets involved with a planned murder for a big payoff. The play opens Feb. 19 and runs through March 15. OPENING The Mobtown Players open German playwright Frank Wedekindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spring Awakening Feb. 20 at the Mobtown Theatre at Meadow Mill in a production conceptualized by the late Terry Long; the play runs through March 14. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The
CRYSTAL ANNE DICKINSON (LEFT) KICKS FOR JOY AS MARIA-CHRISTINA OLIVERAS LOOKS ON. something inherently dramatic in watching the powerful become powerless, the comfortable become uncomfortable, all their assumptions shattered. To watch Belcon trade in her designer dresses for a purple sweatshirt as Undine sits in a molded plastic chair at a drugcounseling session or stands in line at a social-services agency is to understand how easily one way of life can become another. Nottage does a good job at registering Undineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shock and readjustment. The playwright has a flair for language, whether giving snippets from the epic poem about Brâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;er Rabbit being written by Undineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother, the incantation of a Harvard-educated Yoruba priest, or the group-therapy confession of a crackhead. Nottage has a knack for poking affectionate fun at these characters even as she respects their poetic aspirations. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less successful, however, at constructing dramatic dialogue. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if Nottage doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trust her
Crumbs from the Table of Joy at Center Stage in 2006. Accomplished at naturalism, Belcon is always believable as Undine, but believability is not what this exaggerated fable needs. In fact, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the supporting performers who get past naturalism to turn their charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; such as Crystal Dickinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former double-dutch jump-rope champion or Roberto Montanoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seductive Argentinean socialiteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;into the kind of fantastic personages you remember from a fairy tale. When the big climactic moment arrives, as her family asks the heroine why she changed her name from Sharona Watkins to Undine Calles and why she told a reporter that her family had all died in a fire, the questions seem more intellectually intriguing than emotionally charged. Nottage has spent so much time on Undineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior monologues that the pain she caused her family hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t registered on us anymore than on her. â&#x2013;
Fall of the House of Usher,â&#x20AC;? a one-act experimental performance piece directed by David Drake, runs Feb. 20 and 21 in free production at the MICA Gateway buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s BBOX theater. And Shattered Wig Night invades the 14-Karat Cabaret Feb. 20 with performances from John M. Bennett, Jack Wright, and Ben Bennett as Rotty What, Susan Mele with pianist Daniel Meyer; Kristen Anchor and CP contributor Rahne Alexander, and readings from Francis Poole and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blasterâ&#x20AC;? Al Ackerman. LAST CHANCE Local actor Bruce Nelson concludes his celebrated turn as some 34 characters in Everyman Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s I Am My Own Wife this week, with evening performance Feb. 18-22 and Saturday and Sunday matinees. And Run of the Mill Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s James McBride concludes its run at the Theatre Project Feb. 22, with evening performances ThursdaySaturday and a Sunday matinee.
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ART HER STORIES Group show presents and examines
QUICK SKETCHES TRANSMODERN BENEFIT The sixth annual Transmodern festival hits Baltimore April 2-5 at the H&H Building, and the fifth floor of the venerable artists’ space/multipurpose exhibition venue hosts a benefit for Charm City’s youngest off-the-map creativity celebration Feb. 21, featuring a smorgasbord of performance, music, and the ineffable—including Dan Breen’s burlesque flea circus. Visit transmodernfestival.org for more details.
women’s voice and identity BY A L E X E B S T E I N
IF I DIDN’T CARE: MULTIGENERATIONAL ARTISTS DISCUSS CULTURAL HISTORIES THROUGH MARCH 30 AT THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE
IN WHAT IS THE LARGEST PROJECT TO DATE undertaken by the Park School’s current curator, Rick Delaney, If I Didn’t Care: Multigenerational Artists Discuss Cultural Histories is an exhibition that adds up to more than the sum of its numerous and diverse parts. The show explores multicultural and multigenerational themes among female artists, and mindful of the Park School gallery’s primarily young, academic audience, Delaney has assembled a challenging and extensive show that simultaneously celebrates art, women, heritage, and history. “I was looking for work with a narrative,” Delaney explained at the opening, “even if that narrative is abstract.” If I Didn’t Care showcases 29 U.S.-based female artists of different ages and backgrounds seeking to communicate their individual narratives through art. Ranging in age from 30 to more than 90, the artists’ works illustrates a chronological struggle to give voice to artistic and cultural individuality,
A STILL FROM DEBRA EDGERTON’S “RETELLING TALES.”
Here for a Pimp” over a John Coltrane version of Duke Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood.” Three 6 Mafia’s 2006 Oscar victory was met with backlash, but Axtman lightheartedly points out that older, generational contributions to music were at one point considered risqué and invalid forms of art, asking that due consideration be given to current musical trends. The piece is oddly inane while remaining sincere, and meeting the generational and THROUGHOUT THE EXHIBITION, PIECES THAT WOULD ORDINARILY cultural protocol. Hitting harder on stereotypes and misconceptions, STAND ALONE BEGIN TO ADDRESS OTHER PIECES, FINDING Tamasha Williamson and Deborah Roberts present some of the more serious work within the group. COMMONALITY IN THE ARTISTS’ DESIRE TO COMMUNICATE Williamson’s iconic drawings of a comb and a pick, THROUGH THEIR WORK. each labeled “Nappy,” and unbalanced scale reading “-ism” confront racial inequalities and marginalizacalling attention to stereotypes, ritual, and parMigiwa Orimo’s “Obi-Palimpsest,” a ritually untion. Matter-of-fact and aggressive in their starkness, ticular cultural phenomena of the past century. raveled kimono, is arguably the most intimate and Williamson illustrates personal, blunt questions The included artists are at varying points in their cathartic piece in the exhibition, dealing with death about beauty and social inequalities. careers—relative unknowns hang alongside estab- and private ceremony. The cloth, displayed scrollRoberts’ reclamation of various pickaninny depiclished artists such as Laylah Ali, Siona Benjamin, and like vertically, has been dissected, one thread at a tions satirically recounts racial misassumptions, Joyce Scott—and within the broad theme, each artist time, leaving a ghost of the former material. The and at times, reference specific, historical events. is able to explore her own story, while becoming a gathered, removed threads sit precariously on the In “Easy Pickings,” Roberts depicts young, black part of the larger dialog. ends of wires and flow outward, perpendicular to girls—with aforementioned exaggeration of lips and Familiar esthetics meet fresh, new takes on alter- the side of the fabric. Even without knowing the hair—growing from plants that are being plucked nate issues of stigma and empowerment. Laylah work’s personal significance, paying homage to her and beheaded by white policemen. Somewhat less Ali, typically ambiguous and brutal in her imagery, Japanese heritage and the death of her mother, the friendly than Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We includes an unobjectionable series of three small piece has an almost metaphysical presence. All Live With,” Roberts’ imagery is still rooted in and portraits here. Without specific race or identificaHanging next to the kimono, Pamela Phatsimo reminiscent of 1960s social unrest. tion, they help to set the tone of the exhibition, while Sunstrum’s similarly introspective landscape, “If I Throughout the exhibition, pieces that would orremaining comparatively impersonal to the rest of Could I Would Go Down,” shares a deeply personal dinarily stand alone begin to address other pieces, the work. Saya Woolfalk, on the verge of art-world elusiveness. Collaged magazine images, drawings, finding commonality in the artists’ desire to comcelebrity, investigates the exoticized impression and beading are combined to create a fanmunicate through their work. Impressive of other cultures in her two gouache paintings. tastical setting for Sunstrum’s recurrent in its breadth, If I Didn’t Care offers a unique Frightening, Crayola-color figures offer “girls for geese-women. Addressing migration collection of voices that reveals a consisMORE WORDS sale” out of a street-vendor’s cart in “The Cleaners,” and the maintenance of self through tent search for the individual, female voice. while a woman, dressed in tropical fruits, is pursued geographic change, Sunstrum’s piece is Through a variety of media and technol{AND PICTURES} by a ravenous crowd of spiral-eyed white men in a unique view into the artist’s mind. ogy, each artist contributes their piece of ABOUT ART “Looking In.” Inviting a twisted tourist’s view into In her black and white video piece, the story from their generational and culthe foreign, Woolfalk’s exaggerated use of color and “Beef,” Elizabeth Axtman speaks for the MAY BE FOUND AT tural standpoint. Organized without refertropical imagery is both appealing and repulsive, kids and draws somewhat petulant comence to this chronology or geography, the CITYPAPER.COM/ rousing unavoidable guilt and curiosity. parisons between rap and jazz. Cropped exhibition reveals connections on a more GO/ARTSMINDS Negar Ahkami materially embraces femininity in closely around her glossed lips, Axtman personal level, exploring new dialogues her work, creating large, psychological landscapes flashes a gold tooth as she mouths the in the work and examining the way we using acrylic, glitter, and nail polish. Her work re- words to Three 6 Mafia’s “It’s Hard Out communicate personal narratives. ■ 28 | city paper
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flects Persian patterns and Western architecture; elaborate waterfalls cascade from the left side of the composition, meeting the edge of a modern cityscape to the right. A small female figure stands on a bridge that joins the two worlds, suggesting that Ahkami places herself, proudly and literally, between the two.
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STREET ART The Baltimore Skateboard Park sponsors a street-art show Feb. 20. Titled The Catz Pajamaz, it features art works from Billymode, Bret Burnham, Mike Lyne, Deka, Scott Russell, Stefan Ways, Jennie Penny, Joe Ride, Jazirock, Chris Smith, and more, with music provided by Minlus and McCracken, Bad Habit, and Smart Growth, and a “freakshow” from the Scarborough Sideshow. Visit skateforall.com for more details. OPENINGS Involving Violence—a group show featuring Baltimore and Chicago artists curated by Karin Patzke and Carrie Ruckel—opens Feb. 20 at School 33 with a 6-9 P.M. reception. Fantastical Imaginings —a traveling show Laylah Ali, Amy Cutler, Serena Perrone, Hiro Sakaguchi, among others—opens Feb. 19 at Maryland Art Place with a 6 P.M. reception Feb. 27. The Maryland Federation of Art’s Member Showcase II opens Feb. 22 with a 3-5 P.M. reception and features mixed-media works from 12 artists. Local artist Adam Estes’ Disjointed opens Feb. 18 with a 7 P.M. reception at Joe Squared. And A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger—a large-scale show devoted to circus-inspired works from the likes of Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Natalia Goncharova, and Otto Dix—opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art Feb. 22. LAST CHANCE Megan Hildebrandt and Christine Sajecki’s The Rumors Are True closes at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson Feb. 21.
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IF YOU’RE NOT LOOKING FOR SUSHI BAR GEISHA (201 N. Charles St., [410] 685-2099), you’ll never find it, which makes its discovery, in the basement of a commercial building just south of the intersection of Charles and Saratoga all the more rewarding. Reaching Geisha’s dining room involves descending through a lobby painted a dazzling orange, passing a cash machine on the landing, then an open area with a chrome buffet table and a soda case. The wood-paneled dining room, separated from a compact sushi bar by a low wall, is dark, mostly empty, and filled with an unusual mix of sensory distractions: the whimsical white airplane and matching sailing ship that glow as they hang from the ceiling; the space heater sitting on table in the dining room; the continuous, bubbling loop of K-pop and classic Brazilian bossa nova; the large screen television that plays muted. It’s a bundle of disparity that somehow doesn’t distract from the sweet service and very fresh fish. And if sushi is about surprising the senses, then perhaps this is the ideal setting for it.
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Geisha’s sushi menu offers what Baltimoreans have come to expect from the local sushi scene: a mix of the usual nigiri and sashimi suspects like tuna and yellowtail, salmon, eel, and octopus, along with creatively named special rolls, like the Baltimore Sun, a combination of tuna, salmon, flounder, avocado, crab meat, and masago rolled with cucumber, or the Bay Bridge, a roll made of crab, cucumber, avocado, masago, and steamed shrimp. The restaurant also surprised us with an intriguing Korean menu which includes galbi tang, described on the menu as a hearty soup of beef short ribs, clear noodles, egg drops, and scallion; haemul pajun, Korean-style seafood and scallion pancakes; and ojinguh bokeum, stir-fried squid and vegetables in a spicy sauce. There’s Korean and citypaper.com
kimchi, or pork, as something I might try along with my sushi. Our server looked puzzled and shook her head. “I shouldn’t get this?” I asked, “It’s not good? You don’t like it?” “I like it,” she said with hesitation, adding kindly, “but I’m more Asian than you.” (For the record, I’m not Asian at all.) It turns out that not only was she worried about my American palate, but she also thought the soup would be too much food with the sushi, which came with miso soup and salad. So I acquiesced. The Love Platter did not disappoint. Good sushi is fresh and beautiful, too, and this platter (actually a wooden boat) was nearly too pretty to eat. Sashimi decorated one end, with thin slices of creamy white tuna abutting shimmery red ones, and salmon, rockfish with the skin still attached, and pearly flounder placed further along the deck. Eel, red snapper, tuna, and mackerel nigiri rested on fat fingers of rice. Our server pointed out that the squid had been steamed, as had the yellow tail, so that they weren’t raw (which made the former too chewy and the latter, slightly, but not overwhelmingly, dry). She also explained that salmon looked better than tuna at the market that day, so the green tuna, a spicy tuna roll, was draped in salmon instead of tuna. This roll, like everything on the platter, was undeniably fresh, the fish coming through sweet, clean, and meltingly tender (although the mayonnaise in the spicy tuna mixture was somewhat heavy). Other rolls on the platter included a shrimp tempura and the Hawaiian sunset, a salmon/avocado combination topped with pineapple which tasted better than it sounded, though I probably wouldn’t order it next time. Three of us were satisfied after the platter, but I was still preoccupied by the Korean menu, so we asked to try a platter of bulgogi ($15), the classic thinly sliced Korean beef barbecue. Served with kimchi, shredded pickled radish, cold cubed potatoes, sautéed watercress, rice, and bean sprouts, the bulgogi was sweeter than I’ve had it. “Is it usually this sweet?” I asked our server. Yes, she told us, explaining that the restaurant makes it a little sweeter because “Americans like sweet.” Later I wondered if this was why some of our Love Boat was chosen (and cooked)—because of a perception of “what Americans like.” Regardless, I suggest being upfront to the staff about the kind of experience you want—be it authentic Japanese or Korean or “American-style.” I have a feeling they’d accommodate.
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As we were finishing, the sushi chef came by to make sure we were satisfied, explaining that he goes to the Jessup Fish Market early each morning to buy fish for the day. We asked his favorite. Eel, he said without hesitation. “It gives you stamina,” he grinned, pumping his muscles like an iron man. And who couldn’t use some of that? ■ Open daily for lunch and dinner. Don’t steam the squid: freerange@citypaper.com.
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LA SCALA Veal-lovers will adore this midlevel Little Italy restaurant, which unveils major renovations this spring involving courtside bocce-court seat-
LA TAVOLA An option in Little Italy for diners looking for innovation, skillful preparations, and a well-dressed but relaxed atmosphere. The fettucine paglia e fieno alla romana is recommended, as is the veal parmigiana. 248 Albemarle St., (410) 685-1859. MATTHEW’S PIZZA Much, but not all, depends, on how diners feel about Matthew’s legendary thick-crust pizza, which is crispy on the bot tom a nd doughy a l l the way up to the choice toppings. It fills you up real quick. The Highlandtown ambience couldn’t be better, from the fountain sodas to the cheerful service. 3131 Eastern Ave., (410) 276-8755. MONDO BONDO ITALIAN BISTRO Despite its Power Plant Live! setting and its bombastic name, Mondo Bondo turns out to be a casual, even modest, restaurant. Its menu of well-done pastas and entrées (ask about the Grilled Phat Ass Pork Chop, if you can) are a toothsome bargain. Power Plant Live!, 30 Market Place, (410) 244-8080. NEO VICCINO BAR AND GRILLE Neo Viccino is a pretty city bistro, but it’s a little soulless. The dining room could be anywhere, and the food isn’t that good. Here and there are the potential makings of a satisfactory meal, though. Sandwiches, add-on-your-meat salads, and one-person pizzas are reasonably priced. Instead of being an affordable dining option, it might be better if prices and culinary stakes were raised. 1317 N. Charles St., (410) 347-0349. OLIVE GROVE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE The plastic-grape and plaster-bust décor should tell you all you need to know: unsurprising but reasonably priced and enjoyably old-school Italian-American stalwarts. The lure is all-youcan-eat salad and breadsticks, the best bets crab cakes and sausage fettuccini. 705 N. Hammonds Ferry Road, Linthicum, (410) 636-1385. PAZZA LUNA TRATTORIA ITALIANA The second rebirth of this Locust Point townhouse restaurant is being attended to by the capable hands that run uptown’s Sotto Sopra. The Sinatra shrine has been dismantled, and the garlic frenzy has subsided, replaced by sophisticated new decor and a focused and streamlined menu of tratto-
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DELLA NOTTE Free, on-premises parking in Little Italy is but the first happy surprise. The risible exterior, imposing and faux, belies the goodness inside—a dramatic but intimate dining room, good bread, and a thoughtful mix of the traditional and the ambitious. 801 Eastern Ave., (410) 837-5500.
ing. Insist on sitting downstairs—upstairs is Elba—and if veal won’t fly, try seafood or, better yet, chicken, which gets the same loving treatment, post-mortem, as the baby cow. 1012 Eastern Ave., (410) 783-9209.
ORDINARILY, LUCY’S IRISH PUB, across the street from the Hippodrome, wouldn’t be what we would consider cheap eats. The wood paneled former bank building caters to a more upscale, theater-going crowd. (The sandwich it calls “the Killer” seems worth saving up for, though: American bacon, Irish bacon, bangers, American cheese and jalapenos topped with fried egg on a potato onion roll. Seriously, that’s worth 12 bucks and the resultant bypass surgery.) So, how to eat like an aficionado of legitimate theeay-ter on a traveling puppet show budget? Happy hour! In particular, Thursday’s 3 to 7 P.M. burger special, when $7 gets you a beer and a burger. It has some limitations on the beer part—16-ounce domestics only—but the burger turned out to be a 9-ounce slab of juicy goodness with cheese on a chewy soft roll. It’s probably for the best that it doesn’t put “the Killer” on special, anyway. If it were any cheaper, we’d be dead by now. (Chris Landers)
EATS & DRINKS ria classicsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;osso buco, vigorous pastas, and whip-smart specials. Uncomplicated pleasure. 1401 E. Clement St., (410) 962-1212.
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J A PA N E S E ASAHI SUSHI Freshness rules. The enormous Love Boat, sushi and sashimi for two, demonstrates the quality of the ingredients and the artistry of the chef. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also tempura, teriyakis, and tonkatsu. 629 S. Broadway, (410) 534-4255. CHIUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SUSHI With its kimono-clad servers, warm-cloth service and soothing decor, this friendly and competent Japanese restaurant almost overcomes the ambient restrictions of its storefront location. The sushi pleases but never surprises. 608 S. Exeter St., (410) 752-9666. EATS & DRINKS LISTS RESTAURANTS PREVIOUSLY REVIEWED BY CITY PAPER.
RECENTLY IN FREE RANGE BABAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MEDITERR ANEAN KITCHEN This small Locust Point storefront charms with its pretty interior, gracious service, and inexpensive, yet quality food from all parts of the Mediterranean. Sure, you can get Italian-style pizza, but why would you when spicy hummus, creamy and smoky baba ganouj, kefta burgers, and dolmas? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss pistachio and rosewater baklava. 745 E. Fort Ave., (410) 727-7482. CAFĂ&#x2030; GIA RISTORANTE A happy vibe and hearty Sicilian food without the fustiness (or prices) of most Little Italy restaurants. Nearly everything is made in-house, including traditional desserts like cannoli and tiramisu. Ravioli positano utilizes dried rigatoni with fine results; if homemade gnocchi is on the menu, try it. BYOB with a $5 corkage fee. 410 S. High St., (410) 685-6727 PARKSIDE RESTAURANT, FINE FOOD, AND SPIRITS Not just a bar/restaurant, the Parkside also hosts a bakery and a market under its roof, which may be why the space and the food seem unfocused. Homey, comfort food is the order of the day here, and the bar boasts a well-chosen beer selection. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a play area for youngsters. 4709 Harford Road, (410) 444-6004.
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FEB. 22-28 10:30 A.M.-1:30 P.M. and 3-6 P.M. Sunday, 6-7:30 P.M. Tuesday, 5:30-6:30 P.M. Thursday, the Conference Center at Sheppard Pratt, 6501 N. Charles St., (410) 938-3157, eatingdisorder.org, free but you must register by calling or e-mailing ifisher@sheppard pratt.org. Go directly to americathebeautifuldoc.com and watch the trailer for America the Beautiful, a documentary by Darryl Roberts that looks like the best of our favorite feminist web site Jezebel.com brought to the big screen. Roberts explores America’s obsession with looks through interviews with the media and celebrities who seemingly promote and propagate the unrealistic standards of size and beauty. The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt hosts a double screening of America the Beautiful on Sunday, each one followed by a chance to discuss the film with the director. Young women are especially vulnerable to the media’s constant barrage of skinny models, actresses, and Paris Hilton with their perfect noses and perky breasts. Consider bringing a younger person to the film as a way of opening up a discussion in which she may not even be aware she has something to say. The week’s other events include Tuesday’s Love Your Tree exhibit, recognition ceremony, and reception featuring posters made by local middle, high school, and college students focused on themes of body issues and a mindfulnessbased stress reduction workshop Thursday Feb. 26. (Wendy Ward)
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MARTHA MOOKE 8 P.M., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall, 1000 Hilltop Circle, (410) 455-1000, umbc. edu, $7, seniors $3, students free. Electric, five-string violin. Repeat: electric. Five-string. Violin. If that doesn’t pique the curiosity of fans of offbeat instruments and sounds, know this: Martha Mooke is considered a virtuoso of this peculiar instrument, combining her classical background and improvisation with extended techniques and the sorts of gear that makes Guitar Playerheads get hot and bothered when they see it in Derek Trucks’ rack. Mooke’s creative pursuits have created a unique sound that has caught the ear of artists from Moby to Lauryn Hill, Anthony Braxton to John Cale. Tonight she performs solo and previews a new work for multiple electric violas and electronics in a virtual reality context. Repeat. Multiple. Electric. Violas. (Bret McCabe)
THURSDAY 19
CHROMATIC MYSTERIES FEATURING MARSHALL ALLEN 8 P.M., The Windup Space, 1012 W. North Ave., (410) 2448855, windupspace.com, $10. Marshall Allen has likely forgotten more about music’s cosmic truths than anyone alive will ever know. Allen has played saxophone and other instruments in Sun Ra’s Arkestra, which he now leads, for more than 40 years, and he has remained a restless experimenter/collaborator on the side. (He blew his EVI—essentially a sax synthesizer—on Baltimore duo Matmos’s 2008 electronic opus Supreme Balloon.) Tonight he comes to Baltimore
with Chromatic Mysteries, a new band co-led by reeds player Elliot Levin and powered by a rhythm section featuring members of Philly avant-rock types Bardo Pond and Kohoutek. No idea where they’re heading with this, but “out” is a safe guess. (Lee Gardner)
FRIDAY 20
SHATTERED WIG NIGHT 9 P.M., 14 Karat Cabaret, 218 W. Saratoga St., (410) 9628565, normals.com/14K. html, $6. Tripping-balls performances in front of an audience leaning on the edge of WTF has never been the sole territory of the young, but while the old get older, youth filters in, and cabarets of late seem newborn. Not tonight’s “Valentine’s Day for People Without Calendars,” which features “old fucks and a young turk.” (Words courtesy Wig head and occasional City Paper contributor Rupert Wondolowski.) Old fucks John M. Bennett and Jack Wright join young turk Ben Bennett in the literal band Rotty What; Susan Mele, aka Roxy Starr, performs with pianist Daniel Meyer; Kristen Anchor and City Paper contributor Rahne Alexander show/perform “ Fa c t s A b o u t C a t s ” ; a n d Francis Poole and Blaster Al Ackerman read their own odd works. Pick a side. (WW)
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¡VIVA BRASIL! SAMBA DANCE PARTY! 7:30 P.M. Mama Geni’s Brazilian dinner, 8 P.M. lesson, dance 9 P.M., Creative Alliance at the Patterson, 3134 Eastern Ave., (410) 2761651, creativealliance.org, $16, students, members, and capoeiristas $13, dinner sold separately, cash bar. This annual dance/street party brings a bit of Brazil’s
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Dora the Explorer Live: Search for the City of Lost Toys famous Carnival in all it’s loud, colorful pageantry to Highlandtown with vocalist Rose Moraes and dancer Rita Nobre dressed in their finest regalia, Samba lessons follow a Brazilian meal for those that arrive early, and DJ Lobo spins to get you swirling. Caipirinhas, Brazil’s national drink made of cachaça (sugar cane liquor), lime, and sugar, are available at the cash bar for lubricating lips and hips. (WW)
SUNDAY 22
ANNETTE GORDON-REED 2 P.M., Enoch Pratt Free Library, central branch, Wheeler Auditorium, 400 Cathedral St., (410) 545-3115, prattlibrary. org, free. The first African-American winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction, Annette Gordon-Reed expands on the history she brought to life in her 1998 book Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy with her newest work, The Hemingses of Monticello. Uncovering the story of our third president and the affair and six children he shared with his enslaved servant Sally Hemings—the half sister of his wife—began in the early 19th-century, but it’s surely Gordon-Reed’s expertise as a legal and history scholar that made the controversial slice of American history human. Give her a warm Baltimore welcome at the Pratt this afternoon as she discusses and signs copies of her history of the Hemingses. (WW)
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AFRICANAMERICAN ARTS FESTIVAL Through Feb. 25, 8 P.M. Monday and Wednesday, 4 and 8 P.M. Tuesday, University of Baltimore Student Center Performing Arts Theater, fifth floor, 21 W. Mount Royal Ave., ubalt.edu/ studentcenter, free. The University of Baltimore is a great little city school attached to the UofM system, yet probably better known for it’s brewery-like UB neon sign and MICAcopycat glass-ish building than its status as a transfer s chool and it s g r ad school programs. Get to know it better—everyone needs a plan B, right?— this weekend when the school hosts a series of entertainments highlighting black culture, star ting with UB’s 2nd Rising Theatre and 11-piece band Monday night. Kid-friendly Abu the Flutemaker makes musical instruments from found objects Tuesday afternoon, and the Visions Band brings the AfroCuban funk later that night. A performance of Margaret Locklear-Peck’s The Belly of a Woman ends the festival Wednesday evening. City Paper is a media sponsor. (WW)
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SISTER TO SISTER WOMEN’S HEART HEALTH FAIR 8 A.M.-4 P.M., Baltimore Convention Center, Hall A, One W. Pratt St., (410) 649-7000, sistertosister. org/fairs/baltimore.php, free.
Heart disease—coronary artery disease, heart failure, arrhythmia—is the No. 1 killer of women in the United States, according to the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Women of color and Latina women should be especially mindful of their heart health, as they tend to have more heart-disease risk factors, and Sister to Sister wants to do something about it. The Chevy Chase-based non-profit is currently conducting a 15-city campaign providing free day-long seminars that includes education for women and their families about heart disease risk factors and how to lead heart-healthy lives, as well as providing complimentary heart health screenings. (BM)
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DORA THE EXPLORER LIVE: SEARCH FOR THE CITY OF LOST TOYS Through March 1, 7 P.M. Wednesday and Friday, 10:30 A.M. and 7 P.M. Thursday, 11 A.M., 2 and 5 P.M. Saturday, 11 A.M. and 2 P.M. Sunday, Hippodrome Theatre, 12 N. Eutaw St., (410) 837-7400, francemerrickpac.com, $15-$41. Is your kid bi-lingual yet? Ondele! Dora, the little Latina adventurer with moxie to spare, has lost her teddy and needs your kids’ help to get it back, but she’s not gonna baby anyone along the way. Yeah, there’ll be songs and Dora’s favorite friends Diego and Map helping out, but the girl with the backpack will also be barking out Spanish terms and phrases so get ready to interact. (WW) ■
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CHARM CITY ROLLER GIRLS The flat track of preteen years and John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Hurts So Good” playing during couples dance makes us cringe now just thinking about busting a kneecap, but the super athletic Charm City Roller Girls keep spinning on four wheels. This weekend’s bouts pit the Charm City All-Stars vs. the Dutchland Derby Rollers from Pennsylvania and the Charm City All-Stars vs. the Rhode Island Riveters. Represent Harm City and cheer on the girls from the stands. 7 P.M., Clarence "Du" Burns Arena, 1301 Ellwood Ave., charmcityrollergirls.com, $10, kids under 12 $5, VIP $20. (WW)
FEB. 24
DJS EPISODES 1-3 Locally made and undiscovered much like the titular jockey, the web-only "TV" show DJs is a very watchable insiderly romp through the worlds of those spinning for living. Join fans and friends at the Ottobar tonight for a viewing marathon. (Disclosure: John Ellsber r y of City Paper’s "Whose Responible?" worked on the series.) Doors open 8 P.M., Episode 1 8:30 P.M., Episode 2 9:15 P.M., and episode 3 10 and 11 P.M., the Ottobar, 2549 N. Howard St., (410) 662-0069, the ottobar.com, $5. (WW)
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ANGELS ROCK BAR, 10 Market Place, (410) 528-1999, angelsrockbarbaltimore.com THE BARN, 9527 Harford Road, Carney, (410) 882-6182, thebarnmd.com BLACK CAT, 1811 14th St. NW, Washington, (202) 667-7960, blackcatdc.com THE BLACK HOLE, 216 German Hill Road, (410) 285-7625, blackholerockclub.com BRASS MONKEY SALOON, 1601 Eastern Ave., (410) 276-4395, brassmonkeysaloon. com CANCUN CANTINA, 7501 Old Telegraph Road, Hanover, (410) 761-6188, cancuncantina. com CATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EYE PUB, 1730 Thames St., (410) 276-9866, catseyepub.com CHARM CITY ART SPACE, 1729 Maryland Ave., ccspace.org THE CLADDAGH PUB, 2918 Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell St., (410) 522-4220, claddaghonline.com CLUB ONE, 300 E. Saratoga St., (410) 2300049, onebaltimore.com CLUB ORPHEUS, 1003 E. Pratt St., (410) 276-5599 CLUB 347, 347 N. Calvert St., (410) 5470414, club347.com CLUB REALITY BAR AND GRILL, 2139 Jefferson St., (410) 675-7249 THE DEPOT, 1728 N. Charles St., (410) 528-0174, thedepot.us EDENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE, 15 W. Eager St., (410) 244-0405, edenslounge.com THE 8X10, 10 E. Cross St., (410) 625-2000, the8x10.com EXPLORERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE, Intercontinental Harbor Court Hotel, 550 Light St., (410) 234-0550, harborcourt.com/restaurants/explorers_ lounge.cfm FISH HEAD CANTINA, 4802 Benson Ave., Arbutus, (410) 247-2474, fishheadcantina. com FLETCHERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S, 701 S. Bond St., (410) 5581889, fletchersbar.com 49 WEST, 49 West St., Annapolis, (410) 626-9796, 49westcoffeehouse.com GOLDEN WEST CAFĂ&#x2030;, 1105 W. 36th St.,
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CLUBS/CONCERTS See LIVE MUSIC, page 38, for venue information.
WEDNESDAY 18 ANGELS ROCK BAR. L-80’s Night. THE BLACK HOLE. DJ Illah, Go Folk Yourself. CANCUN CANTINA. Vs. the Earth. CAT’S EYE PUB. Lower Case Blues. THE CLADDAGH PUB. Qi-Lo. CLUB ONE. Salsa Uno with guest DJs. CLUB 347. The Panama Band. EDEN’S LOUNGE. Singles Night with DJ Tanz. THE 8X10. The Cheaters, the Grilled Lincolns, Lower Case Blues. EXPLORER’S LOUNGE. Dick Smith. FLORISTREE. Mahjongg. 49 WEST. Starr’s Jazz Jam. JAY’S ON READ. Larry Buck. JOE SQUARED. Segway. LOONEY’S PUB NORTH. DJ Grode. THE OTTOBAR. Between the Shores, Isetta, Only Noise All We Are, Kiss the Sky Goodbye. RAMS HEAD TAVERN. The Dan Tyminski Band. RED MAPLE. Oasis. ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL. Not Dead Yet, the Rebirth with DJ Derek Keane. THE ROCKFISH. Kajun Kelley. SIDEBAR. Ghosts in the Valley, the Empire State. SILVER SHADOWS CLUB. Open mic. SONAR. Our Last Night, Before Their Eyes, I See Stars, the Kindness of Strangers, the Lost Tourists. TYSON’S TAVERN. Ed Lauer, Frank Florence, DGL Dave Miller, Mark Pettis, Jess McQuay.
CONCERTS BOOM TIC BOOM! With Myra Melford on piano, Todd Sickafoose on bass, Allison Milleron drums, and Jenny Scheinman on violin. 8 P.M., An die Musik, 409 N. Charles St., (410) 385-2638, andiemusik.com, $20. THE GIPSY KINGS. 8 P.M., Lyric Opera House, 140 W. Mount Royal Ave., (410) 685-5086, lyricoperahouse. com, $34.50-$74.50. MARTHA MOOKE. A performance by the electric, fivestring violinist. 8 P.M., Fine Arts Building, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Catonsville, (410) 455-2942, chesapeakephotogallery. com, $7, seniors $3, students free. RED ROOM SHOW. A Night at the Concert: Mattin with Stephanie Barber and Jenny Graf. 8:30 P.M., Red Room, Normals Books and Records, 425 E. 31st St., (410) 243-6888, redroom.org, $6.
THURSDAY 19 ANGELS ROCK BAR. Mayhem with DJs Supernik and Sean of the Dead. THE BARN. 86 the Effort. BLACK CAT. The Points, Cloak/Dagger. THE BLACK HOLE. Sky High Dance Party. CAT’S EYE PUB. Rude Dog’s Rhythm Revue. CHEESEBURGER IN PARADISE. Karaoke with Eric Dunn. THE CLADDAGH PUB. DJ John Anthony. CLUB ORPHEUS. Glow Factor with DJ Warring, Umbris, and guests. CLUB 347. Slagz. EXPLORER’S LOUNGE. Dick Smith. FLETCHER’S. Olympus Shall Burn, No Trace of Presence, Embers for Ashes, A Break in Chaos. HIPPO. DJ Kuhmeleon. HORSE YOU CAME IN ON. Angelique Henle. JAMES JOYCE IRISH PUB AND RESTAURANT. Angelique Henle. JOE SQUARED. Ellen Cherry, Dylan Conner, Uncle
John Sawbriar. LA PALAPA GRILL AND CANTINA. DJ Earl. LATIN PALACE. DC Latin Sound Band. METRO GALLERY. The Water, Arms and Sleepers. MICK O’SHEA’S. The Wayfarers. MOSAIC LOUNGE. DJ Xclusive. 9:30 CLUB. Fujiya and Miyagi. THE OTTOBAR. Dinny and Marie. PALMA NIGHTCLUB. DJ Chris Styles. RAMS HEAD TAVERN. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. RECHER THEATRE. Escape the Fate, Black Tide, Burn Halo, Action Action. RED MAPLE. Moog with DJ Patrick Turner, N’Dinga, Soulminer, and Brandon Riggs. ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL. Have a Heart, Save a Life: Culture Shock and Ocypher, DC Valentine. RYAN’S DAUGHTER. Uncle Dave. SHORTY’S MARTINI BAR AND LOUNGE. Breakout. SIDEBAR. Thee Lexington Arrows, the Howlies, the Dustys. SONAR. Dreko, Dirt Road, T.M.S., Hitman, Black Friday, King Bone, Mooked Out, Money Talks, Motty Dimez, Drex, DJ Tom Delay, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, Pyromorphous, Vahalla, Absolute Vengeance, A Sunlit Aperture. TYSON’S TAVERN. Tony Calato. WATERFRONT HOTEL. Loose Caboose. THE WINDUP SPACE. Chromatic Mysteries featuring Marshall Allen. ZODIAC. Trans Am Disco Social with Jim Lucio.
THE SHORT LIST BY MICHAEL BYRNE
WEDNESDAY: Ghosts In the Valley, a pop-drizzled hardcore outfit from Pennsylvania, haunt the Sidebar with the Empire State. Boom Tic Boom, the project of New York-based drumming polymorph Allison Miller, performs at An die Musik. Mattin, a Basque improv/noise artist with high ideas about blowing up the concept of performance, does some rewiring at the Red Room at Normals Books and Records with Stephanie Barber and Jenny Graf.
monthly dance party goes house tonight at the Hexagon with Deep Sugar residents Jerome Hicks and DJ Exclaime and Cooper Miley. Meg and Dia, Breathe Carolina, Every Avenue, Anarbor, and Cute Is What We Aim For steal your children at the Rams Head Live. Meshuggah, a wholly unfuckwithable death-cumprog metal band, chugs through Towson’s Recher Theatre with Cynic and the Faceless. House remixologist Treasure Fingers heads up tonight’s Tax Lo party with a live set from Blaq Starr, Juiceboxxx, Cullen Stalin, and Simon Phoenix. Travels, the project of now-Massachusettsbased Metal Heart Anar Badalov,
SUNDAY: Support your local
punk collective: the Charm City Art Space hosts a benefit show with pummelers Braindead, the Younger Years, Rough Sex, and Pala. Christopher Willits brings his sublime, muffled beat turbulence to the Hexagon with Ami Dang and WKC. Estelle, currently top woman in the UK hiphop scene, brings her sunshine-y rhymes to Rams Head Live with Solange.
CONCERTS DUO TRANSATL ANTIQUE. Maud Laforest and Benjamin Beirs. 8 P.M., An die Musik, 409 N. Charles St., (410) 385-2638, andiemusik.com, $15, students and seniors $12. MICRO-SHOW AND LISTENING PARTY. Beechfields CD release party for Red Sammy’s Dog Hang Low. 7:30 P.M., Mobtown Studios, 2603 N. Charles St., (410) 2350898, mobtownstudios.com, free. NE-YO. 8 P.M., Lyric Opera House, 140 W. Mount Royal Ave., (410) 685-5086, lyricoperahouse.com, $47.50$67.50. SINATRA AND STYNE: IT’S MAGIC! Performed by Joe Peck. 7:30 P.M., Germano’s Trattoria, 300 S. High St., (410) 752-4515, germanostrattoria.com, $10.
MONDAY: Canadian deathcore
brute Despised Icon peels the paint at Sonar with Beneath the Massacre, Neuraxis, Carnifex, Plasma Rifle, Shinakumah, and Poveglia.
TUESDAY: Lord Jeff—a crunchy,
BALTIMORE’S TREMONTS. Jazz night. THE BARN. None the Wiser. BLACK CAT. Sorted, DJ Stereo Faith. THE BLACK HOLE. D-Boy Fam, Tribalistic Crew. CAT’S EYE PUB. Old Man Brown. CHARM CITY ART SPACE. Energy, Mindset, Beartrap, Debaser, Brick. THE CLADDAGH PUB. DJ John Anthony. CLUB ORPHEUS. Ascension with DJs Kele-De, Steven Archer, Neska, and Liebchen. CLUB 347. DJ Biskit. CLUB REALITY BAR AND GRILL. Black Milk’s J Dilla tribute concert. EDEN’S LOUNGE. Flavor Fridays with DJ Titan. EXPLORER’S LOUNGE. Brent Hardesty. FLETCHER’S. The Mayan Factor, the Jack Starr Band. GOLDEN WEST CAFÉ. And the Money Notes, the Middle EAST, Pete Yorko, the One Man Band. GOOD LOVE BAR. Pure. JAMES JOYCE IRISH PUB AND RESTAURANT. Edd and Frank. JAY’S ON READ. Dave Kessler, Dick Smith. JOE SQUARED. Charm City Tribal’s Bloody Hearts Ball, John Rose, Steve Yankee. LOONEY’S PUB. Rob Fahey, Starcrush. LOONEY’S PUB NORTH. Starcrush.
lo-fi decomposed rock band signed to Ecstatic Peace—reigns over the Hexagon with Weekends.
THE HOWLIES
WEDNESDAY: Crooner Tom Jones THURSDAY: Country-rock
FRIDAY 20
Recher hosts a benefit for HopeWell Cancer Support with dad-friendly jam/classic-rock outfits Stone Deaf, Gypsy Dawg, and the Hippy Sheiks. Pianowire, a piano-pop ensemble that sounds something like a primordial Elvis Costello, tickles the keys at the Talking Head with Scary River, Deleted Scenes, and La Strada. Brit pop-cum-country rock outfit the Payola Reserve plays the Metro Gallery with Lazlo Lee and the Motherless Children, and Sik Sik Nation. Peruvian dancer/performance artist Luciana Proaño presents an odd collaboration with guitarist JB Butler involving improvised music and interpretive dance at An die Musik.
songstress Ellen Cherry plays Joe Squared with Dylan Conner. If you can’t imagine the music Rumpelstiltskin Grinder makes, its show probably isn’t gonna be your thing; the thrashing ensues at Sonar with Pyromorphous, Vahalla, Absolute Vengeance, and a Sunlit Aperture. The Howlies, a wicked impressive garage-pop band out of Georgia, play the Sidebar with Thee Lexington Arrows and the Dustys. Thickly layered instrumental rock duo the Water washes into the Metro Gallery with Arms and Sleepers. Comfy dance-pop trio Fujiya and Miyagi drops into Washington’s 9:30 Club with School of Seven Bells.
FRIDAY: A brutal night of hardcore—melodic, fast, punishingly heavy, any way you like it—is at the Charm City Art Space with Energy, Mindset, Beartrap, Debaser, and Brick. Southern rock guardians Drive By Truckers park it at the 9:30 Club for a two-night run with Bloodkin. More or Less’
brings its winsome, drifting folk miniatures to the Talking Head with Mr. Moccasin (a band that includes City Paper contributor Jared T. Fischer), Ari Schenck, and Owls Go. The Sidebar hosts a night of ’60s girl-group appreciation called “Doo Lang” with Matt Walter (a CP employee) spinning records and live music from the Motorettes. After g-d knows how long, Celebration returns to the stage, performing at the Windup Space with Ami Dang and Lone Wolf.
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IN THE WINGS:
Maryland doom i n s t i t u t i o n Pentagram makes another go at it at Sonar on March 7 with Priestess, Moonshine, the Devil’s Blood, and Serpent Throne. (For more information visit sonarbaltimore. com or call [410] 783-7888.) The Death Set, now a Philly resident, returns to town March 13 and hits the Ottobar with Team Robespierre, Totally Michael, and Cerebral Ballzy. (For more information visit theottobar.com or call [410] 662-0069.)
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Caustic Castle, an electronic artist of the purest sort (no inputs), performs at the Red Room at Normals Books and Records with Dan Conrad and Jorge Martins. Local beatsmith Mike Rambo heads up a dance throw-down at Joe Squared with DJ Mills and Abrock. Immortal funk godhead George Clinton and his Parliament Funkadelic get bleary at Rams Head Live. The citypaper.com
makes a “surprise” (says 930.com) appearance at the 9:30 Club. True Womanhood—a Washington band that does well with demure, melodic atmospherics a la a stripped-down Radiohead—performs at the Metro Gallery with Weekends and Bad Liquor Pond. The mighty Mos Def takes the mic at Rams Head Live. Pulling Teeth brings its Baltimorebred doom metal to the Talking Head with Magrudergrind, Amen Ra, Zororoaster, and Pala.
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MICK O’SHEA’S. Seamus Kennedy. NEW HAVEN LOUNGE. Albert Rivera Quartet. (NEW) TURNTABLE CLUB. Jay Dee “Forever Shining,” Black Milk, Sean Toure, E.T., Emajor, Jrock Project, A-Class, DJs Mills, Roddy Rod, and Ronnie Don. 9:30 CLUB. Drive-By Truckers. NOTTINGHAM’S. Full Effect. THE OTTOBAR. Stupid Hero, Clownpunch. PALMA NIGHTCLUB. DJ Soulstar. PHILLIPS HARBORPLACE. Randy Lotz. RAMS HEAD LIVE. Cute is What We Aim For. RAMS HEAD TAVERN. Fountains of Wayne. R E C H E R T H E AT R E . Meshuggah, Cynic, the Faceless. RED MAPLE. Rhythm! with DJ Alex Funk. ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL. DJ Doc Rok, Ludo, Sing it Loud, This Providence, the Morning Light, Never Better Tour, Plain Ole Bill, Mictlan + Lazerbreak = Hand Over Fist, Sims, Doomtree, P.O.S. RYAN’S DAUGHTER. Mike Patrick Band. SHORTY’S MARTINI BAR AND LOUNGE. RADAR. SIDEBAR. Doo-Lang ‘60s Girl Group Celebration with DJ Matt Walter and the Motorettes, and ‘60s girl group slideshow. SONAR. TaxLo Dance Party with Treasure Fingers, Blaqstarr, and Juiceboxxx, Mr. Moccasin, Travels, Ari Schenck, Owls Go. TALKING HEAD. Travels, Mr. Moccasin, Ari Schenk, Owls Go. WATERFRONT HOTEL. Joe Parsons, the Lucky Few. THE WINDUP SPACE. Celebration, Lone Wolf, Ami Dang.
CONCERTS ART, BEATS + LYRICS TOUR. Urban flavored live art show featuring musicians showcasing photography, graffiti murals, DJs, live music, and dance battles. 7 P.M.-midnight, Hippodrome Theatre, 12 N. Eutaw St., (410) 837-7400, france-merrickpac.com, free at jackdaniels.com/abl.
SATURDAY 21
BALTIMORE’S TREMONTS. Jazz night. THE BARN. Deadlock. BLACK CAT. Homo/Sonic, DJ Lil’e. THE BLACK HOLE. When Gotham Falls, Shakedown Street, Shakedown Underground. BRASS MONKEY SALOON. Media Darling, Quinn S and the Blackbirds. CAT’S EYE PUB. Tony Denikos Band, Jay Cleaver and the Loveleaders. THE CLADDAGH PUB. DJ John Anthony. CLUB ONE. Live Life Love. CLUB ORPHEUS. Rapture with host K and DJs Xy, Threshold, and VJ Umbris. T H E D E P O T. RAID with Opposite Sex and DJ Charlie. EDEN’S LOUNGE. Chic Saturdays. EXPLORER’S LOUNGE. Brent Hardesty and David Smith. FLETCHER’S. The Young Dubliners. GRAND CENTRAL. Dance Central. HIPPO. DJ Shawn Q. HOWL AT THE MOON. Piano show. JAY’S ON READ. Dave Kessler, Phil Vendemmia. JOE SQUARED. Mike Rambo with DJ Mills and Abrock, Sujay Pathak. METRO GALLERY. The Payola Reserve, Lazlo Lee and the Motherless Children, Sik Sik Nation. MICK O’SHEA’S. Seamus Kennedy. 9:30 CLUB. Drive-By Truckers. THE OTTOBAR. Funky Reggae Party,Afreudian Slip,Almost Kings, Uncrowned, Second Impulse, From Ruins.
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PALMA NIGHTCLUB. Damien Daniel. PAUL’S BAR. Karaoke with DJ DanDaMan. PHILLIPS HARBORPLACE. Brain Comotto. PICKLES PUB. Just A Thought. RAMS HEAD LIVE. George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic. RAMS HEAD TAVERN. Jonathan Coulton. ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL. Garutachi!, Ra Ra Rasputin, the Known Unknowns CD release, the Roosevelt. RYAN’S DAUGHTER. Rude Dog and Linwood Taylor Blues. SIDEBAR. Blinding Eye Dog, the Revelevens, the Nunchuck Bastards, the Side Affects. SONAR. The Condemned, Seventh Seal, Block Funksion, Girls Like Cigarettes, Odd Girl Out, Laredo, Rosy Likes Red, Rodgers/Sipe Project, Davisson Brothers Band, Piano Wire, Scary River, Deleted Scenes, La Strada. WATERFRONT HOTEL. NoLand Band. THE WINDUP SPACE. Riot, DJ Heartbreak Beat. ZODIAC. Food For Animals, AK Slaughter.
CONCERTS CONCERT FOR HOPE. Event featuring raffles, auctions and performances by Stone Deaf, Gypsy Dawd, and Hippy Sheiks to benefit HopeWell Cancer Support. 7 P.M., Recher Theatre, 512 York Road, Towson, (410) 3377178, rechertheatre.com, $35, $30 advance. RED ROOM SHOW. With Caustic Castle, solo project of Kenneth Yates, Dan Conrad on inventions, and Jorge Martins on guitar. 8:30 P.M., Red Room, Normals Books and Records, 425 E. 31st St., (410) 243-6888, redroom.org, $6.
SUNDAY 22 BLACK CAT. John Joseph. CAT’S EYE PUB. Steve Kraemer and the Blusicians, Timmy Fields and Paddy’s Mongrels. CHARM CITY ART SPACE. Braindead, the Younger Years, Rough Sex, Pala. THE CLADDAGH PUB. Premiere Karaoke. CLUB ONE. Sunday Steam with DJ Tanz. THE HEXAGON. Christopher Willits. HORSE YOU CAME IN ON. Rob Fahey. JOE SQUARED. Janelia Soul Afrique, Roy Crosse. MOSAIC LOUNGE. DJ Kristen. 9:30 CLUB. Cute is What We Aim For. THE OTTOBAR. Xrc Jams, Cataline, East of Eden, Beneath the Sovereign. PALMA NIGHTCLUB. DJ Chris “Bemba.” PHILLIPS HARBORPLACE. Dick Smith. RAMS HEAD LIVE. Estelle. RAMS HEAD TAVERN. Dick Morgan. RED MAPLE. Professional Soul Night. REDHOUSE TAVERN. Slumdaze. SONAR. Fallen From the Sky, Signature Escape, Octaves, Maddison. WATERFRONT HOTEL. Back Porch, Radio Dials.
CONCERTS MARYL AND STATE BOYCHOIR ANNUAL CELEBRATION. African-American Celebration Concert. 4 P.M., Douglas Memorial Community Church, 1325 Madison Ave., (410) 523-1700, free.
MONDAY 23 BLACK CAT. Pup Tent, the Formers. THE CLADDAGH PUB. Ed Lauer, Frank Florence. CLUB 347. Jazz Jam Session. THE DEPOT. Maximum Soul Mondaze with Selector Pablo Fiasco. EDEN’S LOUNGE. Lady D., Mully Man. HORSE YOU CAME IN ON. Rockin’ Karaoke. JOE SQUARED. Todd Simon Trio. LOONEY’S PUB. Jeff Coulson.
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LOONEY’S PUB NORTH. Barflies. 9:30 CLUB. Mos Def. RAMS HEAD TAVERN. Toad the Wet Sprocket. REDHOUSE TAVERN. Fools and Horses. ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL. Sam Roberts Band, Mother Mother. SHORTY’S MARTINI BAR AND LOUNGE. Noize in the Attic. SISTA’S PLACE. DJ Spontaneous. SONAR. Despised Icon, Beneath the Massacre, Neuraxis, Carnifex, Plasma Rifle, Fierce Allegiance, Shinakumah, Poveglia. WATERFRONT HOTEL. Bonnie Boswell.
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CONCERTS BLUES AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT THE TRUTH. Blues concert presented by Dr. Robert Cataliotti and Ann Cobb. 4 P.M., Enoch Pratt Free Library, Waverly branch, 400 E. 33rd St., (410) 396-6053, prattlibrary.org/locations/ waverly, free. PEABODY JAZZ STUDENTS. 7:30 P.M., An die Musik, 409 N. Charles St., (410) 385-2638, andiemusik.com, $8, students $5.
TUESDAY 24 BLACK CAT. Trophy Wife, Mirror Script, Equinox. CAT’S EYE PUB. Mardi Gras Party with Dave Chappell and friends. THE CLADDAGH PUB. Will Hill. CLUB 347. Dru and the Crew, Panama Band. EDEN’S LOUNGE. Open mic and spoken word with Fertile Ground and Olu Butterfly. EXPLORER’S LOUNGE. Dick Smith. HIPPO. Showtune Video Madness. HORSE YOU CAME IN ON. Open mic. JAY’S ON READ. Herb Merrick. JOE SQUARED. Dig with Landis Expandis and DJ Napspace. L A PAL APA GRILL AND CANTINA. College night with DJ. LOONEY’S PUB NORTH. Vs. the Earth. 9:30 CLUB. Jimmy Eat World. RAMS HEAD TAVERN. Doc Hochman. THE RED HOUSE TAVERN. Acoustic open mic. RED MAPLE. Live flamenco with guitarist Ricardo Marlow. SHORTY’S MARTINI BAR AND LOUNGE. Dirty Ralph and B-Side. SIDEBAR. The Schismatics. SONAR. Lights, Somewhere, Anywhere Else, Storm the Beaches. WATERFRONT HOTEL. Jettison.
CELEBRATION FEB. 20 Celebration has done a laudable job of keeping whatever it’s been up to since fall 2007’s The Modern Tribe a secret. Basically, all we’ve got to go on is that the beloved local indie-everything trio has been working with sitar player/drone craftswoman Ami Dang and has some very nontraditional releases in the pipe. No matter: We love a surprise, and it would take a catastrophe to knock Celebration from the pedestal of being one of Baltimore’s best live performers. 9 P.M., the Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave., myspace.com/thewind upspace, $10. (Michael Byrne) 9:30 CLUB. Tom Jones. THE OTTOBAR. Lovedrug, Rescue the Hero, Vince Sheuman, the Baby Grand. RED MAPLE. Oasis. ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL. Not Dead Yet, Carol Bui, Title Tracks. SILVER SHADOWS CLUB. Open mic. SONAR. Pulling Teeth, Magrudergrind, Amen Ra, Zoroaster, Pala. WATERFRONT HOTEL. Old School. THE WINDUP SPACE. LaBianca, Baby Aspirin, Overmedicated Society.
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THE DEVIN ARNE QUINTET. Special CD release concert. 8 P.M., An die Musik, 409 N. Charles St., (410) 385-2638, andiemusik.com, $8.
JAZZ AT GERMANO’S. With the Ashton Fletcher Trio. 7:30 P.M., Germano’s Trattoria, 300 S. High St., (410) 752-4515, germanostrattoria.com, $10.
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ANGELS ROCK BAR. L-80’s Night. BLACK CAT. Gestures, Capillary Action, Cannot be Stopped. THE BLACK HOLE. Go Folk Yourself. CAT’S EYE PUB. Dogs Among the Bushes. THE CLADDAGH PUB. Qi-Lo. CLUB 347. The Panama Band. CLUB ONE. Salsa Uno with guest DJs. EDEN’S LOUNGE. Singles Night with DJ Tanz. EXPLORER’S LOUNGE. Dick Smith. FLETCHER’S. East of Eden, Isetta. JAY’S ON READ. Larry Buck. JOE SQUARED. Aerport Rocking Chairs. METRO GALLERY. True Womanhood, Weekends, Bad Liquor Pond.
SAINT-SAENS ORGAN SYMPHONY. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and conductor Marin Alsop presents works from Ives, Mozart, and Saint-Saens. 8 P.M., Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, Bethesda, (301) 581-5100, strathmore.org, $20-$68.
FRIDAY 20 BIJOUX: SAXOPHONE AND PERCUSSION. Maureen Walsh performs pieces from Lei Liang, Iannis Xenakis, Alexandra Gardener, and Miguel Bolivar. 8 P.M., An die Musik, 409 N. Charles St., (410) 385-2638, andiemusik. com, $12, students $8. CONTINUED ON PAGE 44
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SUNDAY 22
SAINT-SAENS ORGAN SYMPHONY. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and conductor Marin Alsop presents works from Ives, Mozart, and Saint-Saens. 8 P.M., also Saturday, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St., (410) 783-8000, baltimoresymphony. org, $20-$68.
SATURDAY 21 OPERA POTPOURRI: OPERA IN ITALIAN. The opera features Francesco Cavalli, Vincenzo Bellini, Domenico Cimarosa, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and Gioachino Rossini. 7:30 P.M., Peabody Institute, 1 E. Mount Vernon Place, (410) 659-8100.
SUNDAY 22
CHAMBER MUSIC BY CANDLELIGHT. Features musicians from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 P.M., Second Presbyterian Church, 4200 St. Paul St., (443) 759-3309, secondpresby.org, free, donations accepted. A SNOWBALL’S CHANCE . . . IN RUSSIA. A worldpremiere from composer Nataliya Medvedovskya with Poulenc Trio, and wine and desserts. 7 P.M., An die Musik, 409 N. Charles St., (410) 385-2638, andiemusik.com.
TUESDAY 24
GREAT MUSIC FOR THE CATHEDRAL. The Washington Symphonic Brass presents a program featuring music by Gabrielli, Britten, Rutter, Widor, and others. Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, 1316 Park Ave., (866) 962-7277, MHGP.org, wsbrass.com, $25, seniors and students $14.
MILONGA “NUEVOS AIRES”. 6:30-9:30 P.M., Latin Palace, 509 S. Broadway St., (202) 744-8119, latinpalace. com, fontanatango.com, $15.
TUESDAY 24 FOUR WEEKS OF DANCE. Dance Baltimore is offering four weeks of line and hand dance classes to adults ages 16 and up. 6:30-8:30 P.M., Eubie Blake Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, 847 N. Howard St., (410) 225-3130, eubieblake.org, $2-$3, $5 a couple, seniors free.
WEDNESDAY 25 BALLROOM DANCING. 6-9:30 P.M., the Belvedere, 1 E. Chase St., (410) 332-1000, $17. CONTRADANCING. 8 P.M., Lovely Lane Methodist Church, 2200 St. Paul St., (410) 366-0808, $12, BFMS members and affiliates $8, full-time students receive a $3 discount.
DANCE CONCERTS FRIDAY 20 BELLY DANCING SHOW. Reservations recommended. 10 P.M., also Saturdays, Cazbar, 316 N. Charles St., (410) 528-1222, cazbarbaltimore.com. CHARM CITY TRIBAL’S BLOODY HEARTS BALL. With tribal fusion dancer Naimah; Yosha Radha, Lilam, and Scarlett; and a drum circle. 9:30 P.M., Joe Squared , 133 W. North Ave., (410) 545-0444, joesquared.com, charmcitytribal.com.
SATURDAY 21 PERUVIAN DANCER LUCIANA PROANO. A concert of music and dance featuring Luciana Proano, music by John Butler and Ronnie Burrage. 8 and 9:30 P.M., An die Musik, 409 N. Charles St., (410) 385-2638, andiemusik.com.
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BELLY DANCING. 7:30-8:30 P.M., Homewood Friends Meeting House, 3107 N. Charles St., (410) 627-9357, $10. CHARM CITY SWING LESSONS. 7:30-10:30 P.M., Vietnam Veterans of America, Baltimore Chapter 451, 6401 Beckley St., (443) 928-4797, charmcityswing. com.
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THURSDAY 19
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TANGO FUSION. 8:30-10 P.M., StudioDNA, 1301 Baylis St., suite # 228, (443) 794-1139, $12.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS. 8:30 P . M . Mondays and Thursdays, 6:30 P.M. Saturdays, Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore, 241 W. Chase St., (410) 837-5445, glccb.org, free. BEGINNER’S YOGA. 3:30 P . M . Sundays, 7:15 P . M . Wednesdays, Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore, 241 W. Chase St., (410) 837-5445, glccb. org, $9. BROTHERS OF BAR AZA . Fridays., the Portal, Baltimore’s African-American GLBT Community Center, 2419 Greenmount Ave., suite 4, (410) 962-8838, theportalbmoreonline.org. FREE HIV AND STD TESTING. 5-8 P.M. TuesdaysThursdays, Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore, 241 W. Chase St., (410) 837-5445, glccb.org, free. HEARTS AND EARS, INC. DROP-IN AND RESOURCE CENTER. 4-9 P.M. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, 1-6 P.M. Sundays, Hearts and Ears, Inc., 10 W. Biddle St., suite 1F, (410) 528-0444, heartsandears.org. J.U.M.P. SUPPORT GROUP. 7-8:30 P.M. Thursdays, the Portal, Baltimore’s African-American GLBT Community
FRIDAY 20
LIVE MUSIC AND SWING DANCING. One hour of swing lessons, free refreshments, and live music. 8 P.M.-midnight, American Legion Towson Post #22, 125 York Road, Towson, (410) 769-8220, $12. ZEN SALSA. Beginner/Intermediate lesson at 9:30 P.M., open dancing ‘til close. Zen West, 5916 York Road, (410) 271-8558, $7-$10.
SATURDAY 21
¡VIVA BRASIL! SAMBA DANCE PARTY! Samba Trovao, vocalist Rose Moraes and Rita Nobre. Samba lessons, Cool DJ Lobo, Caipirinhas at the cash bar. Dinner 7:30 P.M., lessons 8 P.M., dance 9 P.M. Creative Alliance at the Patterson, 3134 Eastern Ave., (410) 276-1651, creativealliance.org, $16, members and students $13.
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HAFLEH. Meridian Belly Dance hosts a traditional performance showcasing a variety of belly dancing styles. 5 P.M., Minas Gallery, 815 W. 36th St., (410) 7324258, minasgalleryandboutique.com, meridiandance. com, $5.
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Center, 2419 Greenmount Ave., suite 4, (443) 803-6909, theportalbmoreonline.org. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS. 11:30 A.M. Sundays, Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore, 241 W. Chase St., (410) 837-5445, glccb.org. SAIM - GLBT YOUTH GROUP. 12:30 P.M. Saturdays, Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore, 241 W. Chase St., (410) 837-5445, glccb.org, free. WOMEN OF COLOR - SUPPORT GROUP. 7:30 P.M. Thursdays, Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore, room 201, 241 W. Chase St., (410) 837-5445, glccb.org, free.
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STAGE ANCESTRAL VOICES. A.R. Gurney performs a staged reading of his book. 2 P . M . Feb. 21, Theatre Hopkins, Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus, Charles and 34th streets, (410) 516-7159, jhu.edu/~theatre, $10. CLOUD 9. Written by Caryl Churchill and directed by Brad J. Ranno. Through March 8. Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre, 817 St. Paul St., (410) 752-1225, spotlighters.org, $18, seniors and students $15. FABULATION OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE. Written by Lynn Nottage; directed by Jackson Gay. Through March 8. Centerstage, 700 N. Calvert St., (410) 332-0033, centerstage.org, $10-$60. THE FALL OF USHER. One-act experimental performance piece directed by David Drake in the Gateway building’s BBOX. 8 P.M. Feb. 20-21, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1300 W. Mount Royal Ave., (410) 2252300, mica.edu, free. I AM MY OWN WIFE. Drama written by Doug Wright. Bruce R Nelson stars. Through Feb. 22. Everyman Theatre, 1727 N. Charles St., (410) 752-2208, everymantheatre.org, $16-$38. JAMES MCBRIDE. David D. Mitchell directs; written by Mark Clayton. Presented by Run of the Mill Theater. Through Feb. 20. Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St., (410) 752-8558, theatreproject.org, missiontix.com, $20, seniors and subscribers $15, students $10. KILLER JOE. Baltimore premier of the play by Tracy Letts. Opens Feb. 20. Through March 15. Single Carrot Theatre, 120 W. North Ave., (443) 844-9253, singlecarrot. com, $15, students and seniors $10. SHATTERED WIG NIGHT. With John M. Bennett, Jack Wright, and Ben Bennet as Rotty What; Susan Mele, of Roxy Starr fame, performs with pianist Daniel Meyer; Kristen Anchor and Rahne Alexander show/ perform “Facts About Cats;” and Francis Poole and Blaster read their own works. 9 P.M. Feb. 20, 14 Karat Cabaret, 218 W. Saratoga St., (410) 962-8565, normals. com/14K, $6. SPRING AWAKENING. Written by Frank Wedekind, presented by the Mobtown Players, conceived by the late Terry Long, and directed by Matt Bowerman. Opens Feb. 20. Through March 14. the Mobtown Theater at Meadow Mill, 3600 Clipper Mill Road, (410) 367-3057, mobtownplayers.com, $15, students and seniors $12. WELL. The first production of Theatre Hopkins by Lisa Kron. Through March 1. Swirnow Theater, Mattin Center, (410) 516-4695, jhu.edu/news_info/news, $15, students $5.
COMEDY BALTIMORE COMEDY FACTORY, 36 Light St., (410) 547-7798, BaltimoreComedy.com. Ian Bagg, BIG Ben Kennedy, and MC Ryan Mcguire. 8 P.M. Feb. 19; 8 and 10 P.M., midnight Feb. 20, 7, 9, and 11 P.M. Feb. 21; $17. SIDEBAR, 218 E. Lexington St., (410) 659-4130, sidebartavern.com. Black and Blue Collar Comedy Night featuring Bill Monaghan, Matt Stovall, and more. 9 P.M. Feb. 25.
FOOD FOR ANIMALS, AK SLAUGHTER FEB. 21 Food for Animals (pictured), the Washington/Baltimore skitter-hop trio of Vulture Voltaire, Ricky Rabbit, and MC Hy, seems like it plays Japan more than it plays our fair burg, so, you know, get hyped. It’s not hip-hop in any kind of proper sense—imagine some speakerpunishing, hip-hopified/stoned version of happy hard-core, with a pair of MCs rhyming positive about weed and chillin’. Very digable stuff. On the flipside of that is Baltimore duo AK Slaughter, delivering a straight old-school, lo-fi party-rap vibe of the sort you just don’t get in hip-hop these days—cute as all hell, and megafun. 10 P.M., Zodiac, 1726 N. Charles St., whamcity.com, free. (Michael Byrne)
ART AMARANTHINE MUSEUM, 2010 Clipper Park Road, (410) 523-2574, amaranthinemuseum.com. Enigma Variations. An installation by Les Harris. New Views. Rotating Sistine Ceiling Cylinders. Both ongoing. AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM, 800 Key Highway, (410) 244-1900, avam.org. The Marriage of Art, Science, and Philosophy. Works by over 100 visionary artists/scientists/inventors and philosophers. Through Sept. 6. BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, 10 Art Museum Drive, (443) 573-1700, artbma.org. African Art Collection. Numbering more than 2,000 objects from ancient Egypt to contemporary Zimbabwean art. Ongoing. A Grand Legacy: Five Centuries of European Art. Features the monumental Rinaldo and Armida, one of the world’s finest paintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck, as well as masterpieces by Frans Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin. A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger. The circus- and bohemianthemed work of artists like Picasso and Léger, featuring more than 80 prints, drawings, paintings, and books. Opens Feb. 22. Through May 17. THE BRASS ELEPHANT, 924 N. Charles St., (410) 5478485, brasselephant.com. Opening of Diana Vizgirdaite art show in the Tusk Lounge on the second floor. 6 P.M. Feb. 22. C. GRIMALDIS GALLERY, 523 N. Charles St., (410) 5391080, cgrimaldisgallery.com. Neil Meyerhoff: New
BALTIMORE WEEKLY Photographs, Children. Photographs of children from Bhutan, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Vietnam, New York, and Maryland. Through Feb. 28. Hidenori Ishii: A little Earthshine. New paintings. Through Feb. 28. CHARLES THEATRE, 1711 N. Charles St., (410) 7273456, thecharles.com. Yo! The Power of Love in 3-D! Works by members of the Charles Theatre Workers Union. Through March 31. CREATIVE ALLIANCE AT THE PATTERSON, 3134 Eastern Ave., (410) 276-1651, creativealliance. org. The Rumors are True: Megan Hildebrandt and Christine Sajecki . The resident artists paint and perform. Through Feb. 21. Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: Soft Animal. Collage, beads, and animation. Through Feb. 21. To the Teeth. Creative Alliance Resident Artists and their colleagues present their art in a variety of different forms. Through Feb. 2. DEFINITION GALLERY, 1800 Fleet St., (410) 3420577, definitiongallery.com. 1st Annual Local Artist Group Exhibition. Featuring works by Sylvia Ortiz, Seth Matherine, Art Palmer, George Hagegeorge, Cheryl Fair, Jim Judeikis, Hunter Spanks, and more. Through Feb. 28. ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY, CENTRAL LIBRARY, 400 Cathedral St., (410) 396-5430, prattlibrary.org/locations. Edgar Allan Poe: More Than a Poet. An exhibition of letters, photographs, and other memorabilia belonging to Poe from the Pratt Library’s archives. Through April 25. EUBIE BLAKE JAZZ INSTITUTE AND CULTURAL CENTER, 847 N. Howard St., (410) 225-3130, eubieblake.org. Mammy’s, Watermelon and Coons. Explores the impact of stereotypes in a multi-racial society. Includes artifacts and print advertisements from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Through Feb. 28. The Golden Age of Black Broadway: 1890s to 1930s. Explores the construction and emancipation of a race in America. Through Feb. 28. EVERGREEN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY, 4545 N. Charles St., (410) 516-0341, museums.jhu.edu/ evergreen. It’s a Man’s World: The Collections of Male Garretts. This student-curated focus show on the male collectors of the philanthropic Garrett family. Through March 31. Evergreen as Muse. View unique photographic perspectives of Evergreen’s artistic and architectural riches created by 10 undergraduate students at the Johns Hopkins University. Through March 31. GALERIE FRANCOISE II, 3500 Parkdale Ave., suite 22, (443) 632-4785. Drawings by Reuben Kramer. From the Collection of Maryland Institute College of Art. Through March 2. HOMEWOOD MUSEUM, 3400 N. Charles St., (410) 516-5589, jhu.edu/historichouses. Next to Godliness: Cleanliness in Early Maryland. This student curated focus show explores aspects of clean and dirty in the early 19th century. Through March 29. JOE SQUARED, 133 W. North Ave., (410) 545-0444, joesquared.com. Disjointed. Work by Adam Estes. Opens Feb. 18 (opening reception 7 P.M.). Through March 4. LUCINDA GALLERY AND UNIQUE BOUTIQUE, 929 S. Charles St., (410) 727-2782. Looking Back/ Leaping Forward. Retrospective and new art by Kenlynn K. Schroeder. Through March 1. MARYLAND ART PLACE, 8 Market Place, suite 100, (410) 962-8565, MDartplace.org. Fantastical Imaginings. A traveling exhibition featuring 14 artists. Opens Feb. 19. Through March 28. MARYLAND FEDERATION OF ART, 330 N. Charles St., (410) 685-0300. Member Showcase II. Works of mixed media by 12 artists in the Main Gallery. Through March 1 (reception 3-5 P.M. Feb. 22). Mardi Gras Mask Festival. Fundraising event with silent citypaper.com
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bids through Feb. 21, auction party 5-7 P.M. Feb. 21 in the Holley Gallery. Through March 22. MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART, DECKER GALLERY, 1303 W. Mount Royal Ave., (410) 2252300, mica.edu. Follies, Predicaments, and Other Conundrums: The Works of Laure Drogoul. The first large-scale retrospective of the local interdisciplinary artist. Through March 15 (gallery talk 1-2 and informal discussion and interaction 2-3 P.M. Feb. 21 in the Decker and Meyerhoff Galleries). MARYLAND STATE ARTS COUNCIL, 175 W. Ostend St., (410) 767-6555, msac.org. Hand to Frame/Surface to Lens. Curated by Symmes Gardner; with work by Nino Leselidze, Hadieh Shafie, Karen Yasinsky, and Jeffrey Kent. Through April 30 (reception 5-7 P . M . Feb. 18 with music by Amadou Kouyate). MINAS GALLERY, 815 W. 36th St., (410) 732-4258, minasgalleryandboutique.com. Memoranda. Works by Ruth Pettus. Through Feb. 28. REGINALD F. LEWIS MUSEUM OF MARYL AND AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE, 830 E. Pratt St., (410) 767-0473, africanamericanculture. org. Courage: The Vision to End Segregation, the Guts to Fight for it. In 2004, the Levine Museum of the New South commemorated the 50th anniversary of the 1954 decision, Brown vs. Board of Education by creating this traveling exhibit. Sister Soldiers: Black Women and the Modern Military. Explores the role of black women in the military from the Civil War to the War on Terror. Opens Feb. 20. Through June 14. SCHOOL 33 ART CENTER, 1427 Light St., (410) 3964641, school33.org. Works by Maggie Gourlay. Through Feb. 28. Involving Violence. Curated by Karin Patzke and Carrie Ruckel. Opens Feb. 20 (opening reception 6-9 P.M.). Through April 11. SPORTS LEGENDS AT CAMDEN YARDS, 301 W. Camden St., (410) 727-1539. The Greatest Game Ever Played. Exhibit honoring Baltimore’s first football champions, the 1958 Baltimore Colts, and celebrating the 50th anniversary. Through June 30. WALTERS AR T MUSEUM, 600 N. Charles St., (410) 547-9000, thewalters.org. Art of the Ancient
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Americas. Exhibition featuring artwork from all of the major civilizations of Mesoamerica, with a focus on small sculpture. Ongoing. Mummified. Learn about the mummification process and see Egyptian artifacts. Through Nov. 8. Romance of the Rose: Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts. Dating from the 13th century, the poem was one of the most popular medieval literary texts. Through April 19. The Saint John’s Bible: A Modern Vision Through Medieval Methods. Exhibition features 44 pages from two volumes of the manuscript, the Wisdom Book and the Prophets, set alongside approximately 49 renowned manuscripts and rare books from the Walters permanent collection. Through May 24. THE WINDUP SPACE, 10-12 W. North Ave., (410) 244-8855, thewindupspace.com. Kitchen Sink: 1st Annual Salon Show. Including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, collage, and mixed media. Through Feb. 28.
WORDS WEDNESDAY 18 ADAM M. SMITH. The international lawyer will be discussing and signing his book, After Genocide Bringing the Devil to Justice. 7 P.M., Barnes and Noble, 601 E. Pratt St., (410) 662-5850, bn.com, free.
THURSDAY 19 OPEN MIC POETRY AND CONSCIOUS STUFF. 7 P.M., Great Blacks in Wax Museum, 1601 E. North Ave., (410) 563-3404, greatblacksinwax.org, $3. TEEN BOOK TALK: AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS. 5 P.M., Enoch Pratt Free Library, Govans branch, 5714 Bellona Ave., (410) 396-6098, prattlibrary.org/locations/govans, free.
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MONDAY 23 JAZZ AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT THE TRUTH. An audiovisual history of the blues and workshop presented by Robert Cataliotti and Ann Cobb. 4 P.M., Enoch Pratt Free Library, Waverly branch, 400 E. 33rd St., (410) 396-6053, prattlibrary.org/locations/waverly, free.
TUESDAY 24 FOLLOW THE BUFFALO WRITING WORKSHOP. A critique-style writing workshop for writers and any with a taste for critique. 8-11 P.M., El Rancho Grandé, 3608 Falls Road, (443) 977-8716, myspace.com/itsabigranch.
WEDNESDAY 25 PAUL MCHUGH. Author discusses and signs his book, Try to Remember: Psychiatry’s Clash Over Meaning, Memory, and Mind. 7 P.M., Barnes & Noble - Johns Hopkins, 3330 St. Paul St., (410) 400-4411, free. LESLIE SHERROD. Author discusses her book, Like Sheep Gone Astray. 6 P.M., Enoch Pratt Free Library, Northwood branch, 4420 Loch Raven Blvd., (410) 3966076, prattlibrary.org/locations/northwood, free.
BENEFITS THURSDAY 19 THE MAMMOJAM MUSIC FESTIVAL. Emmylou Harris and Patty Griffin with special guest Buddy Miller perform to raise local awareness for breast cancer. 7:30 P.M., Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St., (410) 783-8000, baltimoresymphony.org, $43-$78.
FRIDAY 20 FRIDAY 20 EVENING OF IRISH MUSIC AND POETRY. With author Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes, who will read and discuss his work followed by Irish music and stepdancing. 8 P . M ., Jim Rouse Theatre for the Performing Arts, 5460 Trumpeter Road, Columbia, (410) 997-1317, hocopolitso.org, $35.
GIMMIE SHELTER PRODUCTIONS BENEFIT. This benefit to raise awareness and funds to help homeless shelters features performances by various poets. 7:30 P.M., Hamilton Arts Collective, 2927 Hamilton Ave., Hamilton, (410) 669-4103, poetryinbaltimore.com, $5.
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CONCERT FOR HOPE. Featuring raffles, auctions and performances by Stone Deaf, Gypsy Dawd, and Hippy Sheiks to benefit HopeWell Cancer Support. 7 P.M., Recher Theatre, 512 York Road, Towson, (410) 3377178, rechertheatre.com, $35, $30 advance.
SUNDAY 22 IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT WAR. A concert featuring African and Western music, with reflections by peace activist Elizabeth McAlister. Proceeds benefit the Bolton Hill church’s mission work. 3 P.M., Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, 1316 Park Ave., (410) 523-1542, MHGP.org, $15, students $5. OSCAR NIGHT BALTIMORE. A fund raiser benefiting AIRS (AIDS Interfaith Residential Services) with a black tie sit-down, gourmet dinner and desserts, live auction, and fashion show. 5:30 P.M., Scottish Rite Temple, 3800 N. Charles St., airshome.org. $150.
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CHRISTOPHER WILLITS FEB. 22 So, it seems as though the Hexagon space, a Station North nook that’s become one of our favorite show spots in Baltimore, is on a mission to bring every ethereal electro-acoustic shaman on the Ghostly International roster to town. This week it’s San Francisco’s Christopher Willits, an artist known and loved for sweeping, ambient electronic passages with, lately, a decidedly rock bent. A lot of stuff in this category can come off as inaccessible to the non-excessively patient and/or notstoned, but you’ll find a pleasant immediacy to Willits’ music—cloying melodies, dramatic flair, at least a couple of toes across the line into pop music. 9 P . M ., Hexagon, 1825 N. Charles St., hexagon space.com, $6. (Michael Byrne) swim with swimming and socializing; no alcohol and no adult oriented activities. All ages welcome. Call for more details. 6:30 P.M., MARNA, P.O. Box 498, Linthicum, (410) 949-5391, marylandnudism.com, $10 advance.
TUESDAY 24 BECOME A CASA VOLUNTEER. An orientation session for those who want to become court-appointed special advocates and work with children. Must be at least 21 years old. 6:30-8 P.M., Iggies, 818 N. Calvert St., (410) 244-1465, iggiespizza.com, free.
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Online registration. 6 P.M., Corradetti Glass Studio, 2010 Clipper Park Road, (410) 243-2010, corradetti. com, $42. EDITH LOPEZ OVALLE. Discusses “Human rights and the Other Campaign: Political Organizing and Culture.” 7 P.M., Red Emma’s Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 800 St. Paul St., (410) 230-0450, redemmas.org.
WEDNESDAY 18 LIFE PLANNING SERIES WORKSHOP. Get tips on choosing a career path after graduation. Register online at ubalt.edu/alumni. 6-8:30 P.M., University of Baltimore, William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center, 11 W. Mount Royal Ave., free.
FRIDAY 20 CONTEMPORARY FRENCH CINEMA SERIES. La Môme (La Vie en Rose), (2007) in the Falvey Hall. 7:30 P.M., Maryland Institute College of Art, Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave., (410) 223-2300, mica.edu, facecouncil. org/tournees, $5, free for MICA students, faculty, and staff and Friends of the Maryland Film Festival.
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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP. 1-4 P.M., Great Soul Wellness Studio, 4711 Harford Road, (410) 254-2786, greatsoulwellness.com, $10 for the seminar, $1 a minute readings. BEGINNING CHINESE CLASS. 10:45 A.M.-12:15 P.M., the Village Learning Place, 2521 St. Paul St., (410) 2352210, register at the Village Learning Place, registration fee $10. “CROWNS OF GLORY: HOW TO WEAR YOUR AFRICAN HEAD WRAP.” Noon-2 P.M., Eubie Blake Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, 847 N. Howard St., (410) 225-3130, eubieblake.org. “FOOD OF POWER: THE HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE AMONG THE ANCIENT MAYA.” Curator Dorie Reents-Budet discusses chocolate drinking rituals of the Mayan civilization. 2 P . M ., Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., (410) 547-9000, thewalters.org, free. HOT GLASS FLOWERS: MINI WORKSHOP. Online registration. 11 A . M ., Corradetti Glass Studio, 2010 Clipper Park Road, (410) 243-2010, corradetti.com, $32 per flower. ONE-DAY MOSAIC WORKSHOP WITH RICK SHELLEY. One-Day class for beginners or continuing students with artist Rick Shelley. Bring a lunch; class size limited so you must register. 10 A.M.-4 P.M., American Visionary Art Museum, 800 Key Highway, (410) 244-1900, avam. org, $100, members $75. SHINY HAPPY THINGS WITH BOB BENSON. Join the creator of the Shiny Happy Tree and make your own sparkling, hanging mirrorages. 11 A . M .-2 P . M ., American Visionary Art Museum, 800 Key Highway, (410) 244-1900, avam.org, shinyhappythings.com, $50, members $35.
BL ACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION. The 100th Anniversary of the NAACP with the Baltimore President of the NAACP. 4 P.M., Trinity Presbyterian Church, 3200 Walbrook Ave., (410) 383-9633, $13, $10 students and seniors $10. “YOUR SPIRITS WALK BESIDE US: THE POLITICS OF BL ACK RELIGION.” Barbara Dianne Savage presents a historical examination of debates about the public responsibility of black churches. 2 P . M ., Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., (410) 547-9000, thewalters.org, $10, members free, students $5.
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SUNDAY 22 BROTHER TO BROTHER . A screening of the docudrama about an art student who befriends a homeless man. 3 P.M., Eubie Blake Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, 847 N. Howard St., (410) 225-3130, eubieblake.org, free. SCREENING OF AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL. After each screening, director Darryl Roberts will conduct an in-person question and answer session. Sheppard Pratt Conference Center, 6501 North Charles, (410) 938-3157, free, pre-registration required.
SUNDAY 22 FREE FAMILY SUNDAYS. Features a different activity each week designed just for families. 2 P.M., Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, (443) 573-1700, artbma.org, free.
TUESDAY 24 THE KALIMBA KING. Carl Winters plays gospel, jazz, rhythm and blues, pop and original songs on the kalimba, the African thumb piano. 10:30 A.M., Enoch Pratt Free Library, central library, 400 Cathedral St., (410) 396-5430, prattlibrary.org/locations, free. 3 P.M., Enoch Pratt Free Library, Pennsylvania Avenue branch, 1531 W. North Ave., (410) 396-0399, prattlibrary.org/locations/pennave, free. 5 P.M., Enoch Pratt Free Library, Cherry Hill branch, 606 Cherry Hill Road, Suite 100, (410) 396-1168, prattlibrary. org/locations/cherryhill, free.
WEDNESDAY 25 TUESDAY 24 CONTEMPORARY FRENCH CINEMA SERIES. Le Grand Silence (Into Great Silence), (2005) in the Falvey Hall. 7:30 P.M., Maryland Institute College of Art, Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave., (410) 223-2300, mica.edu, facecouncil.org/tournees, $5, free for MICA students, faculty, and staff and Friends of the Maryland Film Festival.
DORA THE EXPLORER LIVE: SEARCH FOR THE CITY OF LOST TOYS. Featuring familiar songs, a fun storyline, and all the favorite characters including special helper Backpack, best friend Boots, cousin Diego, Map, Swiper the Fox, Tico and Benny. 7 P.M., Hippodrome Theatre, 12 N. Eutaw St., (410) 837-7400, france-merrickpac.com, $15-$41.
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GROUP SUPPORT FOR JOB SEEKERS. 8:30-10:30 A.M., breathe books, 810 W. 36th St., (410) 467-0842, breathebooks.com.
TODDLER TIME AT THE B&O. Come listen to a classic railroad story, kiddie train rides, and craft activity. 10:30 A.M., B&O Railroad Museum, 901 W. Pratt St., (410) 752-2490, borail.org, free with admission.
PRE-NATAL YOGA. 5-6:15 P.M., Charm City Yoga Fells Point, 901 Fell St., (310) 276-9642, charmcityyoga.com, $15. TRADITIONAL JAPANESE SHOTOKAN KARATE-DO. Near Johns Hopkins Homewood campus in the church hall. 5:30-7 P.M., and Tuesdays, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3009 Greenmount Ave., (410) 560-2838.
SATURDAY 21 THE BALTIMORE ARTIST GROUP 3RD SATURDAYS. Promotion of the visual arts, poetry, and entertainment, as well as, business seminars 6-9 P.M., the Shops At North and Charles, 23-25 E. North Ave., (410) 4048026, free. TECHNOLOGY CAREER FAIR. 10 A.M.-4 P.M., Baltimore Convention Center, 1 W. Pratt St., (410) 244-7101, free.
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B E YA S T E M G L O B A L C O M P E T I T I V E N E S S CONFERENCE. Seminars and workshops thatoffer new information on a variety of topics affecting Black technology professionals. 9 A.M.-5 P.M., through Saturday, Baltimore Convention Center, 1 W. Pratt St., (410) 244-7101, beya.org. CONGRESS OF DIVERSITY EXECUTIVES (CODE). A thought leadership conference. 9 A.M.-5 P.M., Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards hotel, 110 Eutaw St., (410) 244-7101, hiphopviolence.com, tinyurl.com/CODEconf, registration costs vary, tickets are necessary. LEADERS AND LEGENDS. Deputy director of the National Security Agency, John C. Inglis, speaks in the lecture series presented by Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. 8-9 A.M., Renaissance Harborplace Hotel, 202 E. Pratt St., (410) 516-4674, renaissancehotels.com, $35.
ANIMATED DUO. A showing of Kung-Fu Panda at 1 P.M. followed by a 3 P.M. showing of Wall-E. Enoch Pratt Free Library, central library, 400 Cathedral St., (410) 396-5430, prattlibrary.org/locations, free.
SUMMER 2009 YOUNG PEOPLE’S STUDIOS CAMP OPEN HOUSE. Meet the faculty, see student work, and learn more about MICA’s summer camp program for kids in grades 1-8. 10:30 A.M.-2:30 P.M., Maryland Institute College of Art Fox Building Galleries, 1303 Mount Royal Ave., (410) 225-2300, mica.edu, free.
WEDNESDAY 18 CONTEMPORARY FRENCH CINEMA SERIES. L’avocat de la Terreur (Terror’s Advocate), (2007) in the Falvey Hall. 7:30 P.M., Maryland Institute College of Art, Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave., (410) 223-2300, mica. edu, facecouncil.org/tournees, $5, free for MICA students, faculty, and staff and Friends of the Maryland Film Festival.
THURSDAY 19 CONTEMPORARY FRENCH CINEMA SERIES. Vers le Sud (Heading South), (2005) in the Falvey Hall. 7:30 P.M., Maryland Institute College of Art, Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave., (410) 223-2300, mica.edu, facecouncil. org/tournees, $5, free for MICA students, faculty, and staff and Friends of the Maryland Film Festival. FREE FAMILY FILM SERIES. A series of films that feature African-American producers, writers, actors, story plots, musicians, and themes. 6 P.M., Eubie Blake Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, 847 N. Howard St., (410) 225-3130, eubieblake.org, free. VIVRE SA VIE. Part of the Charles’ Revival Series. Noon, Charles Theatre, 1711 N. Charles St., (410) 7273456, thecharles.com.
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THURSDAY 19 THRIFTY THURSDAY. Enjoy a discount admission of $6 from 1-4:30 P.M. Port Discovery, 35 Market Place, (410) 727-8120, portdiscovery.org.
FRIDAY 20 B E YA M I D D L E S C H O O L V E X R O B O T I C S CHAMPIONSHIPS. Watch the smartest young minds in Baltimore battle it out in the finals of the BEYA Middle School VEX Robotics Championships. 9:30 A.M.-3 P.M., also Saturday, Baltimore Convention Center, 1 W. Pratt St., (410) 244-7101, free.
SATURDAY 21 DROP-IN ART ACTIVITIES: THE LUCK OF THE DRAGON. Celebrate Chinese New Year with dragon sculptures, good luck gifts, and shadow puppets. 10 A.M.-3 P.M., also Sunday, Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., (410) 547-9000, thewalters.org. FINDING NEMO. A “Free Cinema” screening of the Pixar favorite. 10 A.M., Rotunda Cinematheque, 711 W. 40th St., free. OPEN MIC POETRY. For kids ages 6-14. 10 A.M.-1 P.M., Great Blacks in Wax Museum, 1601 E. North Ave., (410) 563-3404, greatblacksinwax.org, $2.
FRIDAY 20 HATHA YOGA BASICS. 10-11:30 A.M., Baltimore Yoga Village, 3000 Chestnut Ave. #15, (410) 662-8626, baltimoreyogavillage.com. SOARING CRANE QIGONG. Mindful Visual Movement Mediation for overall health and well-being. 6:30-7:30, the Living Well, 2122 St. Paul St., (410) 764-7322.
SATURDAY 21 “HOW TO NOT GET DEPRESSED IN A DEPRESSION AND LEARN TO RE-SEED IN A RECESSION.” Presented by Drew Leder, a professor of philosophy at Loyola College in Maryland. 2-4 P.M., breathe books, 810 W. 36th St., (410) 235-7323, breathebooks. com, $10.
SUNDAY 22 VINYASA FLOW YOGA CL ASS. 10-11:30 A . M ., the Healing Path, 37 E Cross St, (410) 637-3760, thehealingpath.com, $15. YOGA NIDRA. 5 P.M., breathe books, 810 W. 36th St., (443) 722-0189, breathebooks.com, donation.
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MONDAY 23 TAI CHI CLASSES. For health and relaxation. 7:45 P.M., St. Johns Church, 2640 St. Paul St., (410) 296-4944. TAI CHI FOR SENIOR CITIZENS. For health and relaxation. 12:30 P . M ., Senior Network of North Baltimore, 5828 York Road, (410) 323-7131.
TUESDAY 24 SISTER TO SISTER WOMEN’S HEART HEALTH FAIR. With free cardiac screenings and heart-healthy information. 8 A.M.-4 P.M., Baltimore Convention Center, 1 W. Pratt St., (410) 649-7000, sistertosister. org/fairs/baltimore.phpfree for all women. YOUNG WINDOWED PERSONS/LIFE PARTNER GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP. 6:30-8 P.M., Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care, 6601 N. Charles St., (443) 849-8200, free.
WEDNESDAY 25 CLUTTER-ERS ANONYMOUS 12 STEP MEETING. 7-8 P.M., Faith Community United Methodist Church of Hamilton, 5315 Harford Road, free.
SPORTS & RECREATION WEDNESDAY 18 TWILIGHT CANOE ESCAPE. Paddle Baltimore’s other harbor. View the downtown skyline and the Hanover Street Bridge. Pre-registration required. Call at least
24 hours in advance; recommended for ages 7 and up. 6 P.M., Middle Branch Park, 3301 Waterview Ave., (410) 396-0440, $5.
FRIDAY 20 SENIOR FRIENDLY FRIDAYS. With activities like water aerobics, line dancing, performers, art lessons, and more. 11 A.M.-4 P.M., Patterson Park Recreation Center, 2601 E.Baltimore Street, (410) 396-9156, pattersonpark.com/Activities/recreationcenter.html.
SATURDAY 21 BALTIMORE COLTS PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMER LENNY MOORE PROGRAM. In conjunction with the exhibit on the 1958 Baltimore Colts/New York Giants featuring over 50 photos. 3 P.M., Sports Legends at Camden Yards, 301 W. Camden St., (410) 727-1539, free, but limited tickets available. CHARM CITY ROLLER GIRLS. Flat track roller derby with the Charm City All-Stars vs. Dutchland Derby Rollers and the Charm City All-Stars vs.the Rhode Island Riveters. 7 P.M., Du Burns Arena, 1301 S Ellwood Ave., (410) 396-4202, duburnsarena.net, charmcityrollergirls.com, $10, VIP $20, ages 12 and under $5.
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FIRED UP Eric Christian Olsen and Heroes’ Nicholas D’Agosto star as high-school football players who decide to skip summer football camp in favor of hitting cheerleader camp in this lame-brained comedy. Not reviewed as of press time. Opens Feb. 20.
BEDTIME STORIES Disney’s latest live-action feature is a typically wide-eyed, PG-rated family flick about magic and imagination. Bedtime Stories charms with its inventive fantasy premise, as the stories Skeeter (Adam Sandler) tells his niece and nephew begin mysteriously coming true, and it’s to the movie’s credit that it expends no energy trying to explain or justify the fantasy device. At its best, not even cheap CGI or the most contrived speech impediment in child actor history can stall the flick, and Brit comic Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), though also accustomed to working blue, easily outshines Sandler in a small supporting role. (AS) At Beltway Movies 6.
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PIERROT LE FOU PIERROT LE FOU Every Godard fan has a favorite movie from his prolific 1960s first decade of filmmaking—some favor the intimate black and white pictures of the early 1960s, some the increasingly structuralist poisonous political allegories of the late 1960s in Made in USA, La Chinoise, and Week-End. Pierrot le fou, his 1965 outing and first color picture, straddles the two eras, emerging as the closest Godard ever came to making a purely Pop Art movie. Advertising imagery and its imperative aphoristic speak collide with an unabashed love for cinematic genres and a still giddy intellect as Jean-Paul Belmondo’s Pierrot leaves his wife, takes up with Anna Karina’s Marianne—who happens to have a dead body in her flat—and the pair hit the road on the lam. Cinematographer Raoul Coutard wryly frames Godard’s cinematic allusions, catches every hot primary color in the director’s glossy-magazine compositions, and indulges in the high-contrast tints used during certain sequences and disorienting close-ups. The U.S. escalation in Vietnam informs the movie’s elusive politics, but not even that shadow can tarnish the glee of Karina singing “Ma ligne de chance” or Samuel Fuller’s brief cameo. Arguably the last time Godard’s mind distilled cinematic pleasure purely for its own sake. (Bret McCabe) At the Charles Theatre at noon Feb. 21, at 7 P.M. Feb. 23, and 9 P.M. Feb. 26. WALTZ WITH BASHIR Reviewed in this issue. Opens Feb. 20 at the Landmark Harbor East.
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BRIDE WARS Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Ann Hathaway), friends since they were children, live and love in New York. When they each get engaged, first, they scream, and, second, they take a meeting with wedding planner queen bitch Marion St. Claire (Candice Bergen.) After dress shopping and buying every wedding magazine published, they discover their June weddings at the Plaza—which they have dreamed about, like, forever—erroneously got booked on the, gasp, same day. Their relationship suffers tension so thick you could cut it with a silver-plated knife wrapped with a colored silk bow and they break up. They fight dirty and mastermind sneak attacks on the other’s special day and take it all seriously so we don’t have to. (WW) At Beltway Movie 6. CONFES SIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) has run into a bit of bad luck. The home and garden magazine she writes for has just shut down, and she can’t afford to pay her rent. Instead of adopting a frugal lifestyle, however, she continues to frequent sample sales and a variety of designer-clothing boutiques. She simply can’t stop shopping, and her addiction to buying new clothes is so bad that the mannequins have even started talking to her. It’s ironic, then, when she gets a job working at a business magazine and launches a column about how to stay out of debt. It’s inevitable that her inability to control her own spending habits will be exposed and undo the celebrity status she attains through her column. Based on the Sophie Kinsella novel, P.J. Hogan’s movie has some good moments, mostly because Fisher is so adept at physical comedy, tripping and flinging herself around relentlessly. But it quickly fizzles as it takes on a more serious tone and develops the rather routine love story between Rebecca and her editor Luke (Hugh Dancy). (JN)
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC CORALINE Wonderfully dark and amazingly tactile, the animated Coraline, based on the Neil Gaiman children’s book, follows the titular little girl (voiced
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by Dakota Fanning) whose move with her parents into an old, pink Victorian in the forest of Ashland, Ore., spurs an adventure into another realm where she must use her wit and courage to save not just herself, but her parents and even the spirits of children that came before her. It’s not easy to decide at what age kids will delight in the real fabric of the figures, the amazing scenes of coordinated jumping mice, and the yipping snap dragons and not be completely frightened of the scary rats, dolls stuffed with sawdust, and webs of deception. The fact that Coraline is 3D makes it all the more “real.” (WW)
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON David Why doesn’t this movie click? Is it because director David Fincher excels at decrepitude, and Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) has the opposite problem? Born a geriatric bundle of wrinkles and abandoned at an oldfolks home, he’s adopted by the home’s resident caretaker (Taraji P. Henson) and reared among his pinochle-playing, afternoon-napping peers. Only he’s not their peer, since as he grows, he gains back the things they’ve lost, such as his hearing and hairline, and he becomes curious about things—especially the bewitching red-haired girl Daisy (Elle Fanning) who comes to visit her grandmother. These early scenes work, but as Daisy and Benjamin’s romance progresses, it dawns on you: This is Forrest Gump all over again. (VG) DEFIANCE The true story of a group of Jews who take refuge in the woods of Poland during World War II, Defiance pretty much comes down to Jews with guns. In 1941, after their families are killed by invading Nazis, the Bielskis—clearheaded Tuvia (Daniel Craig), hotheaded Zus (Liev Schreiber), Asael (Jamie Bell), the one who becomes a man in the woods, and Aron (George MacKay), the little one who doesn’t do much—hole up in a Belarus forest. They soon discover other Jews hiding there. But Defiance isn’t a meditative WWII piece. It’s an action flick with revenge on its mind and an explosion-packed survival story disguised as a triumph of the spirit—although it makes it all look so tidy and easy. (MG) DOUBT In 1964 Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep) is the nun of everyone’s nightmare. As a paranoid, rulerwielding principal, she’s snooping preemptively into the dark spaces of everyone around her. And the worst thing is that she’s usually right. Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a walking can of worms, a charismatic priest with many cute middle-school altar boys to distract him. Sister Aloysius is determined to open him up, even though there’s no evidence that he’s actually been doing anything untoward. It’s a rare opportunity to watch two alpha actors duke it out without having to get in bed with one another. So goes the movie itself: an extended, polished, and
creepy voyage into the Church’s moment of self-examination. (JB) FROST/NIXON Ron Howard directing a Peter Morgan script should be a home run. Morgan revels in the talky machinations of power brokering and Howard is at his best when dramatizing the behind-the-scenes wonk work of events’ public faces. Morgan adapted his own play for the screen, and this story about the 1977 series of interviews between British television host David Frost (Michael Sheen) and former U.S. President Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) should be the sort of background glimpse that floats right through Howard’s wheelhouse. The problem is that Howard forgets that these interviews are inescapably about the two men at the center of the spectacle. Fortunately, two performances power the movie, which maintains the play’s boxing match pacing. Frost/Nixon tries to build up an artificial tension out of this grafted-on pugilism, but it eventually settles into a familiar yarn about David slaying Goliath. (BM) At Landmark Harbor East. GRAN TORINO Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is an implacable Korean War veteran and retired autoworker mourning the recent death of his wife. He doesn’t really understand the modern American society that has, it seems, suddenly sprung up around his neighborhood in the guise of the Hmong families, who represent the new face of his block. When a straight-laced Hmong boy from next door, Thao (Bee Vang), is bullied by his gangbanger cousin into trying to steal Walt’s pristine ’72 Ford Gran Torino, it sets off a chain of events that leads Walt and Thao’s family into the arena of uneasy friendship. What these characters share is an ability to fill the voids left by absent— emotionally or physically—sons and fathers. Whatever else Gran Torino is or isn’t, it’s at least a master class in the irascibility that Eastwood has perfected over his 50-plus years in showbiz. (RB) HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29 In this documentary about the legendary 1968 Harvard vs. Yale football game, director Kevin Rafferty depicts the Harvard Crimson as hard-scrabble working-class underdogs and the Yale Bulldogs as a bunch of overconfident privileged legacies. Both entered the game undefeated, but Yale was favored. Rafferty mixes footage of the game with talking-head interviews with the players from both teams, and this format feels tired and uninspired. Made for Harvard and Yale alumni. (AD) At the Charles Theatre. HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU Director Ken Kwapis’ thoughtful take on the 2004 self-help book of the same name stars Drew Barrymore as Mary, an ad rep for Baltimore’s gay paper (get it? Mary?). Yeah, HJNTIY’s love, loss, and conversation takes place in Baltimore’s tony rowhouses, slick lofts, and cobblestones, although you might not recognize it much. The strong and handsome ensemble here never astounds through HJNTIY’s collection of dovetailing stories, and while its plunge into dating and mating isn’t world-shattering, it is entertaining and, although almost too good looking, not too far away from our own relationship backyard. (WW) HOTEL FOR DOGS An abandoned building that’s become home to a group of wayward canines, the “hotel” in director Thor Freudenthal’s feature-length debut is virtually a character in itself. That’s where Andi (Emma Roberts) and Bruce (Jake T. Austin), two young orphans, set up an assortment of contraptions that enable the dogs to entertain themselves in the absence of their surrogate own-
FILM CLIPS C O N T I N U E D ers. While it might seem like the perfect opportunity to use computer-generated graphics to show the dogs doing an amazing array of tricks, that’s not the case here, as a group of professional dog trainers trained the creatures to strut their stuff without imposing too many human qualities. As a result, the movie’s unabashed charm—as well as the fact that not a single dog dies— distinguishes it from the slew of recent dog flicks. (JN) INKHEART Nine years ago, Mo Folchart (Brendan Fraser) discovered that he could bring literary characters to life simply by reading aloud from books. The price: for anyone he brings into our world, someone from ours has to vanish into the book. That’s how he lost his wife, and he and his daughter, Meggie (Eliza Hope Bennett), have been searching for a way to bring her back ever since, while trying to stay two steps ahead of the villainous Capricorn (Andy Serkis)--the first character Mo summoned. A fascinating premise for a movie, but the execution is dull and lacks any sense of fun. (CH) At Muvico Egyptian 24. THE INTERNATIONAL This glibly plotted, elaborately staged thriller teams a Manhattan district attorney (Naomi Watts) with a British Interpol agent (Clive Owen) targeting a global bank with a frightening fiscal reach and political acumen, willing to kill and scheme to maintain profits and control. The International aims for that heady paranoia of American 1970s flicks, but only its posh settings— bouncing from Berlin to Lyon to Luxembourg to Milan and New York—and director Tom Tykwer’s compelling action staging, such as a taut shootout in the Guggenheim Museum, give it any life. (BM)
THE INTERNATIONAL MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA This sequel opens with a Lion King homage, and then quickly picks up where the other Madagascar left off. The four animals— lion Alex (voiced by Ben Stiller), zebra Marty (Chris Rock), giraffe Melman (David Schwimmer), and hippo Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith)—who were raised in captivity and pampered in a New York zoo are still stranded in the wild and want to go home. With the help of cross-dressing, egomaniacal lemur King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), a pair of uppity monkeys, and a bunch of straight-talking, take-charge penguins, the stars board a broken-down plane destined for New York, a trip doomed from the start. You can guess how things turn out. (MG) At Beltway Movies 6. MARLEY & ME The Marley & Me constructed by director David Frankel is conventional to the point of generic, a contemporary Norman Rockwell vision enlivened only by the eponymous dog and the chaos he leaves in his wake. John (Owen Wilson) and wife Jenny (Jennifer Aniston) are so bland, their challenges so commonplace, that they need the anarchy of the Labrador retriever who will not be tamed—or shamed—to shake them out of their
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“Come for the view stay for the music” comfort zone. But in adapting the best-selling 2005 memoir, screenwriters Scott Frank and Don Roos keep this exuberant dog on a very tight leash. (SD) At Beltway Movies 6. MILK The first half of director Gus Van Sant’s moving portrait of assassinated activist Harvey Milk (Sean Penn), the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, is a fascinating mix of archival footage, historical re-enactment, and bravura acting. It’s a disarmingly effective structure, juxtaposing the lead’s horrible fate against Van Sant’s irrepressibly lively picture of Milk moving from New York to San Francisco in 1970 with his partner (James Franco), opening a camera store, becoming a local activist for both gay and basic human rights, and his first few unsuccessful runs for public office. Once Milk enters public office it becomes a much more conventional movie; throughout, though, it’s anchored by Penn’s remarkably mimetic performance and Emile Hirsch’s even better Cleve Jones. Solid. (BM) MY BLOODY VALENTINE Praise the horror movie gods! My Bloody Valentine 3D makes murder and mayhem fun again, proving not all remakes have to suck. The script is a reasonably engaging “whodunit” that actually spends a little time on character development. Bloody also boasts a solid cast, including genre veteran Tom Atkins in a nice supporting role. It is unapologetically violent and includes a completely gratuitous nude scene, but unlike Saw and other recent so-called torture-porn horror, you won’t feel like you need to take a shower after you leave the theater. Horror fans should eat this one up like a box of chocolates. (RI) NEW IN TOWN Lucy Hill (Renee Zellweger) is on the fast track to a VP seat at her Miami-based corporation, but when she’s sent to New Ulm, Minn., to downsize and eventually shutter a union plant, she begins to question everything she believes about the value of the working man. En route, New in Town shamelessly plays to blue-collar families’ fears of corporate America’s seeming indifference to their survival. The filmmakers blatantly pander to slogans over substance, and as much as the movie argues that corporate America is evil, the solution it offers is that corporations are expected to be socialist, but the working men and women of America are not. (CH)
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NOTORIOUS Just who is this Notorious B.I.G. biopic for? Director George Tillman Jr. literally puts everything already known about the preternaturally gifted MC Christopher Wallace (Jamal Woolard, who has Biggie’s gentle grace, sense of humor, and goofy way with the ladies down) into a made-for-TV special: growing up a smart kid under the watchful eye of a single mother (Angela Bassett) in Brooklyn, turning to drug dealing early to make that cash, rapping on the side, doing a jail bid, honing his rhyme skills, and meeting up with Sean Combs in early ’90s New York to bring East Coast rap back to the top of the pops. And while Notorious is certainly faithful to how people remember this era, it never offers more insight into the MC than can’t be gleaned from close listenings to the two flawless albums he recorded before he was gunned down March 9, 1997. Pass. (BM) PAUL BLART: MALL COP The titular loser is played by sitcom star Kevin James, and for its first half the picture relies on the delusional security guard’s power trips for laughs. But behind the silly mustache and the Segway he wheels around the shopping center, James is constitutionally incapable of coming across unlikable.
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FILM CLIPS C O N T I N U E D So Blart’s inevitable transformation from underdog to hero, as he attempts to foil a robbery of the mall, feels more plausible than it should. And as James throws his rotund frame into action, Mall Cop transitions from mundane patrolling to exploding cop movie clichés almost as entertainingly as Hot Fuzz. One of the more tolerable lowbrow laughers in recent memory. (AS) THE PINK PANTHER 2 A group of international investigators come together to catch a world-renowned treasure thief who has come out of hiding for the first time in decades to steal the Pink Panther, a huge pink diamond. Steve Martin returns to his comedic roots of physical comedy, silly accents, and misunderstandings as Inspector Clouseau, and he’s teamed with some equally inept international detectives: Ponton (Jean Reno), Vicenzo (Andy Garcia), Pepperidge (Alfred Molina), Kenji (Yuki Matsuzaki), and the stunning Aishwarya Rai as Sonia. The movie’s colors are nice, but chasing after the bad guy while tripping up, falling down, flirting with your assistant, and disappointing your country feels a little too close for comfort. Much like the dream team, here’s a group of supposed talents pissing it all away. (WW) PUSH Looks great, utterly vacuous: Clairvoyants, telekinetics, and the like walk among us—such as young seer Cassie (Dakota Fanning), mind-controller Kira (Camilla Belle), and, well, object mover Nick (Chris Evans), and they’re hunted by similarly gifted shady government agents in Hong Kong for reasons too labyrinthine and banal to get into here. This pedestrian premise receives a plush visualization thanks to director Paul McGuigan and cinematographer Peter Sova, but there’s only so much this turd of a script can be polished. (BM)
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THE READER The Reader begins as a riddle, as an emotionally shut-off German attorney, Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes), kicks a beautiful woman out of his apartment before the sight of a tram inexplicably takes him back to 1958. As a teenager Michael (David Kross) begins an illicit affair with a conductor named Hanna (Kate Winslet), a dominatrix who forces her young lover to read to her before she lets him touch her. Now, you assume that Hanna is responsible for the miserable adult Michael, but that’s part of the increasingly complex riddle that director Stephen Daldry weaves out of Bernhard Schlink’s best seller. The movie clunks across four decades as a meditation on Germany’s post-war conscience, but Daldry’s self-important direction turns The Reader turns into a smugly intellectual exercise. (CH) SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE The Muslim Jamal (Dev Patel) has defied his violent youth and grown into a soft-spoken, gentle 18-year-old who, in the opening sequence, has just answered the penultimate question on India’s version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? His seemingly triumphant moment is juxtaposed
against his torture that night by the local police, who presume an uneducated “slumdog” could not have survived the show without cheating, and they want to know how. Jamal’s response is the movie’s story, as he explains each of his answers and how his tragic life experiences provided him with them. Director Danny Boyle has always opted for protagonists who have placed more value on their life experiences than books and Slumdog is no different, but compared to his earlier works, it just doesn’t measure up. (CH)
TAKEN TAKEN Liam Neeson shoots, beats, maims, stabs, cons, tortures, and otherwise kills a seemingly endless stream of bad guys on his way through Paris’ sex-trafficking underground to save his daughter in this Luc Bessonproduced action thriller directed by Pierre Morel. As an action flick, it’s a decidedly reactionary and rote exercise in the sort of moral superiority in a foreign land more indicative of a previous presidential administration. As saucily overcooked melodrama, though, Taken’s expressing a father’s undying love for his daughter as a homicidal rampage is a real hoot. (BM) TWILIGHT Director Catherine Hardwicke and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg ruin the perfectly beautiful magic of Stephenie Meyers’ book, and even the most aflutter young nerdlette who swoons into the theater to see Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) lustily, but chastely, work his vampire magic on distraught young Bella (Kristen Stewart) will be sorely disappointed in this astonishingly horrible movie. Twilight is so leaden with angsty melodrama that by its midpoint,Bella’s incessant sighing, Edward’s awkward stoicism, and their utter lack of onscreen chemistry has become so ridiculous that you have to laugh. Unfortunately, the midpoint is an hour in. Oh, did I neglect to mention the whole vampire thing? So did the filmmakers. (JF) At Beltway Movies 6. THE UNBORN In The Unborn, writer/director David S. Goyer delivers something like the Jewish version of The Exorcist. He isn’t above stealing random scenes from just about every other horror movie he can think of either. The basic plot concerns college student Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman), who discovers that a nasty spirit called a dybbuk is trying to take possession of her. For some unexplained reason, this is hard for the demon to do, even though it has no problem possessing other cast members, some of whom have their heads spin around just like Linda Blair. You’ll feel like your head is about to spin around, too, as you try to make sense of this mess. (RI) At Muvico Egyptian 24. UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS Director Patrick Tatopolous makes this prequel to the previous two Underworld movies seem like some kind of Holocaust drama. Not that a movie about werewolves rising up against their cruel vampire masters can’t or shouldn’t play it straight,but it requires a deft touch that Tatopolous lacks. So when the movie awkwardly becomes an allegory for real-life race relations, it’s hard to know
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THE MOVIE: In this non-violent thriller set in upstate New York, the talented and Oscar-nominated Melissa Leo plays Ray, a worn-out woman raising her two sons in a fruitless environment that is gray and stark and covered in ice and dirty snow. Her gambling husband has run off with the money she saved for the balloon payment on a doublewide trailer and she can’t get full-time hours at Yankee Dollar where she works. She feeds her kids popcorn and Tang when the money runs out and maintains a prickly relationship with her 15-year-old son T.J. (Charlie McDermott), whose responsibility for young brother Ricky (James Reilly) has matured him, sharpened his sarcasm, and brewed a resentment and fear that simmers just under the surface.
WENDY AND LUCY If you’ve seen the poster, you’ve seen the premise: a lost young woman named Wendy (Michelle Williams) is accompanied by her beloved mutt, Lucy, who goes missing after a cash-strapped Wendy misadventure. What follows is much like a flawless short story, anchored by the unnerving spectacle of Williams mutely sucking the air out of a scene and then gasping on what isn’t left. We’ll say little of Wendy’s quest except that she receives the black joke of encouragement that, if she endures long enough, she might even get a job doing nothing in double shifts. An essential, even inspiring movie. (IG) At the Charles Theatre. THE WRESTLER Director Darren Aronofsky’s bleak, strangely inspiring tale of a lonely man struggling with age and a desperate dedication to the brutal grind of professional wrestling: Mickey Rourke plays Randy “The Ram” Robinson, a hulking, good-natured (outside the ring) jock who has—surprise—alienated his daughter Stephanie ( Evan Rachel Wood), and the pathos of an absentee dad trying to salvage a relationship with a neglected child is compelling. Smokin’hot (and talented) Marisa Tomei plays world-weary single-mom exotic dancer Cassidy, whose scenes with the Ram coalesce into a picture of an awkward, unsure courtship. Aronofsky’s unvarnished strip-joint scenes and graphically violent wrasslin’ action ain’t very pretty, but Rourke finds a way to connect to a man enduring humiliation and mortification of the flesh to remain part of the thing that gives him purpose: performance. (JM) YES MAN Ostensibly an adaptation of Danny Wallace’s memoir of the same name, director Peyton Reed appears only to be interested in the book’s basic premise, that a man says yes to everything for a year—from credit card offers to invitations to people on the street— and spun that idea into a sometimes funny, generally soulless Jim Carrey broad comedy. Spoiler alert: apparently saying yes to everything isn’t the answer. (CH) At Beltway Movies 6. ■ —The City Paper Clippers: John Barry, J. Bowers, Michael Byrne, G. Brian Davis, Anna Ditkoff, Serena Donadoni, Edward Ericson Jr., Steve Erickson, Jason Ferguson, R. Darryl Foxworth, Lee Gardner, Violet Glaze, Ian Grey, Evan Guilfoyle, Brooke Hall, Corey Hall, Jess Harvell, Cole Haddon, Eric Allen Hatch, Geoffrey Himes, Robert Ignizio, Martin L. Johnson, Joe MacLeod, Marc Masters, Bret McCabe, Al Shipley, Lauren Svrjcek, Wendy Ward.
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I DROPPED BY FOUR L ARGE UNIVERSITIES last
week—University of Lethbridge, State University of New York–Albany, University of Maryland, and University of Alaska-Anchorage—to do “Savage Love Live,” the college-speaking-gig version of my sexadvice column. I enjoyed visiting all four campuses and, as ever, learned a few things out on the road. (Brinking? Who knew?) People submit questions—the ones they don’t want to be seen asking—on three-by-five-inch cards at the events. Sadly, I couldn’t get to everyone’s questions at the U’s of L, NY-A, M, and A-A. Here are answers to some of the questions I missed.
At what point in a relationship is it “safe” to have an open relationship? There’s no standard gestation period for an open relationship, no set period of time that you have to spend in the exclusivity pod. In my experience, however, the most successful open relationships I’ve witnessed— with “success” here defined as “long-lasting,” which is kind of arbitrary (can we all get behind the idea that a relationship can be short-lived and still be a success?)—were sexually exclusive for at least a year, sometimes longer, at the outset.
When asked, “How do you make anal sex more comfortable for women?” by Marie Claire magazine, Dr. Drew Pinsky said, “Don’t do it. Your butt will leak when you’re old.” (I am paraphrasing.) My question: Is Dr. Drew homophobic? Dr. Drew isn’t a homophobe. He’s an asshole-ophobe—and a BDSM-o-phobe, a premarital-sex-ophobe, a three-way-o-phobe, etc. Basically, when it comes to human sexuality, there’s not a lot of daylight between Dr. Drew and Pope Benedict XVI. And I’ll let you in on a little secret: Odds are good that your ass is going to leak when you’re old, anyway—I’ll betcha the pope’s ass is leaking all over the throne of St. Peter’s right now—so you might as well enjoy it while you can.
I’m a 24-year-old male who has been out for 11 years. I’ve been into this guy “Joe” for several years, but I always assumed he was out of my league. We recently started hooking up. I’m totally into him, and it’s amazing. But for some reason, I can’t stay hard. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Do I have ED? I have no health insurance and am not sure what to do. If you’re not having trouble keeping it up when you’re alone, and you didn’t have trouble keeping it up with other guys, you’re probably just nervous. You like this guy, he’s way hot, the stakes are high, and a little routine performance anxiety is chasing away your boners. If Joe is continuing to hook up with you despite your inability to keep it up for him, well, then he’s not only a hot dude, but a patient one as well—and a dude who’s into you, too. So take a deep breath, try to relax, and enjoy.
When Sue Johanson was here, she spoke against trying anal sex, due to damages, etc. What would you tell people? I would tell people to refrain from fucking Sue Johanson in the ass—and please don’t fuck Dr. Drew’s ass, either. They both seem as terrified of anal sex as they are ignorant about it—and tense, inept people
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We are a couple in a long-term committed relationship and have casually considered the possibility of a three-way. It would have to be with someone neither of us knew (or saw) to reduce any chance of an emotional attachment. Good idea? Three-ways with complete strangers are kind of difficult to arrange—unless you’re willing to go the rent-a-third route. But if you want to have a three-way with someone trustworthy and safe, you’re better off doing it with an acquaintance or an ex.
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When did you first realize you were LGBTQ, and how did people react to that? Did you struggle to find support? I didn’t realize I was L, B, T, and Q until I arrived in Albany. And I’m not sure how friends and family are going to react to my recently discovered lesbianism, bisexuality, impending transition, and questioning status—Question: Now that I’m LGB and T what outstanding Qs could there be?—but I expect they will be supportive. Just as confused as I am, but nevertheless supportive.
Did Sarah Palin ever get back to you about your offer to be her gay friend? No, she didn’t—but the offer is still on the table. I’m here for you, Sarah.
Please assign new salacious definitions to the following terms, which are near and dear to the hearts of UM students: “Cornerstone,” “Fear the Turtle,” and “Diamondbacking.” Cornerstone: When you get high in order to break through a sexual inhibition—like when pot helps you “turn a corner” sexually. “Sue wanted to peg her boyfriend Drew, but he just couldn’t do it until he got cornerstoned.” Fear the Turtle: What a woman experiences when she realizes halfway through vaginal intercourse that her bowels are full and her enjoyment of the sex has been superseded by her fear of crapping the bed. “Sue had to ask Drew to stop fucking her because she feared the turtle. She got on the can for a minute, then hopped back in bed, and no longer feared the turtle.” Diamondbacking: Consenting to anal sex in the hopes that doing so will inspire a boyfriend to propose. “Sue knew that Drew was totally into anal sex, so she let him diamondback her. Now they’re engaged.”
I’m a lesbian, and my girlfriend is bisexual and wants to have a three-way with a man. This makes me nervous. What should I do? Get yourself a refillable Xanax prescription, or get yourself an actual lesbian girlfriend.
If she hasn’t orgasmed yet, will she ever? Yes, but probably with someone else. How do you become a nationally syndicated sexadvice columnist? I’m not telling. Because one sure way to stop being a nationally syndicated sex-advice columnist is to create a lot of competitors.
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DIRECTOR For non-profit Community Center. Must be personable, creative, organized & professional. Must be able to dev. services, programs, events & grants. Exp. preferred. Contact 410-628-1207 EOE
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POST OFFICE HIRING NATIONALLY! Avg. pay $20/hr, $57K/yr. Incl. Fed Ben, OT. Optional fee-based test prep materials, not affiliated with the US Postal Service. 1-866-417-9792
LIFEGUARDS Lifeguards for indoor pools. FT/PT. Downtown Baltimore, Parkville, Timonium. Must be certified. 301-210-4200 x114
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Est. local Real Estate Company is seeking an Exp Maint. Tech. Skills in Plumbing, electric & HVAC trades. Drivers lic. req. Call 410-358-8889 or Fax resume to 410-578-0076
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Readers / Evaluators Needed
Retail/ Dining establishments need undercover clients to judge quality/ customer service. Earn up to $150 a day. Call 800-601-5516
For scoring of essays and standardized tests. Bachelors Degree required. Available Day Hours 8:15am-4pm Project to begin late April.
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Ask about our available non-degree positions. All scoring will be done at the Catonsville Scoring Center.
ALL CREW Positions Needed. Singing Req'd. College Students & Young adults encouraged to Apply. Must be 16+. Background checks req'd. www.coldstonecreamery.com to apply for Hanover, MD store.
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BAKERY-CAFÉ ASSOCIATES Panera Bread, your neighborhood bakery-café in Canton, is currently seeking Cashiers, Sandwich/Salad Makers, Prep Associates, Dishwashers and Dining Room Crew. Qualified candidates will have lots of enthusiastic energy, be articulate, customer-service focused and capable of multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment. Knowledge of meal preparation and presentation is helpful. We have flexible full and part-time positions available for shifts ranging from early mornings and mid-days to evenings and weekends. We offer a competitive hourly wage and a comprehensive benefits package available for all full-time associates. To apply, please stop by our location at 3600 Boston Street in Baltimore. We are located in Brewer's Hill at Conkling across from the 1st Mariner Bldg. Or call 410-522-2940 to speak with the hiring manager. EOE
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To place your ad for clinical trials, employment or health care opportunities, call Leslie at 443-452-1534.
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Your CHILD may be eligible for mental health research if he or she: â&#x20AC;˘ Is between the ages of 10 and 17 â&#x20AC;˘ Is medically healthy â&#x20AC;˘ Has had problems in school (disruptiveness, anger, or aggression) â&#x20AC;˘ Doesn't feel guilty when doing something wrong Researchers at the NIMH are seeking children and adolescent volunteers with behavioral problems to participate in research studies. No treatment will be offered. Participation may include behavioral observation, brain imaging, and psychological interviews. The studies are conducted at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Financial compensation and transportation assistance will be provided
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H;I;7H9> M;BBD;II The Research Unit Unitlocated locatedatatHarbor HarborHospital Hospital The PAREXEL PAREXEL Clinical Clinical Pharmacology Research is now seeking volunteers to participate in clinical research trials that evaluate is now volunteers to participate in clinical research trials that evaluate experimental medications. We are looking to enroll individuals who are:
â&#x20AC;˘ Healthy â&#x20AC;˘ Male or Female â&#x20AC;˘ 18 to 75 years of age
Length of participation and number of unit visits vary by the study. Some require overnight stays and others are strictly outpatient visits. Depending on the study, participants could receive compensation ranging from $1,200 to $6,000 upon completion.
Please contact us toll free at 1-877-61-STUDY or 1-877-617-8839 You may also contact us by email at study.Baltimore@parexel.com Or visit www.baltimoretrials.com The PAREXEL Clinical Pharmacology Unit, located at Harbor Hospital in Baltimore is currently seeking Volunteers to participate in a clinical research study to evaluate a new Investigational medication for Psoriasis, a disorder which affects the skin and joints.
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The study involves one screening visit, one in-house stay of 1 night and 14 outpatient visits. If you qualify and complete that study you may receive up to $3760.00 in compensation. For more information, please visit our website www.baltimoretrials.com, or contact us toll free at 1-800-797-2448 (Monday to Friday between 9AM and 5PM). citypaper.com
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H;I;7H9> M;BBD;II <H;; H;I;7H9> JH;7JC;DJ <EH 9E97?D; 7D: EF?7J; 78KI; Healthy men and women who are between ages of 18-55 are needed to participate in an outpatient research study at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The study will last up to 31 weeks and will provide standard methadone maintenance treatment.
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Have you considered volunteering for a research study to advance medicine? Right now, SNBL Clinical Pharmacology Center in downtown Baltimore is enrolling healthy volunteers 18 to 65 into a research study to evaluate an investigational medication.
Eligible participants may receive up to $1, 535 or $2,300 for time and effort Call now to see if you qualify, toll-free
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Hypertension: The Silence is Deafening
A third of people with hypertension donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know they have it, according to the American Heart Association. Although it is called the silent killer, consequences of untreated hypertension ring loud and clear - stroke, heart attack and kidney or heart failure, to name a few. Right now, a clinical trial is under way for men and women age 18 or older with moderate to severe hypertension. If eligible, your participation will last 9 to 12 weeks. Sound the alarm on hypertension. For more information, call Mid Atlantic Research Center for Health
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Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center is recruiting healthy, heterosexual couples for a research study investigating markers of sexual activity. Qualified couples may receive up to $500 in compensation for time and travel. Call 410-550-3060 or email whrap@jhmi.edu for more information.. Contraceptive Research and Programs Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center 4940 Eastern Avenue Baltimore, MD 21224 Principal Investigator: Roxanne Jamshidi, MD, MPH Johns Hopkins University IRB NA_00016471
Participate in a study at Johns Hopkins Center for Immunization Research and help develop vaccines to prevent deadly diseases found all over the world. Without ever leaving Baltimore, you can help save lives. Today, diseases such as Traveler’s Diarrhea, Malaria, West Nile, Dengue Fever and Avian Flu are hurting people all over the world. If you are 18 to 50 years old, you could help develop new vaccines. The Center offers both inpatient and outpatient vaccine studies. You will be paid for your time.
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Do you get depressed during the fall and winter months? Do you have problems with low energy and increased appetite during this time of year? If so, you may be experiencing seasonal depression. Investigators at University of Maryland are conducting a 6 week study of a non-medication light therapy for individuals with seasonal depression who are not currently being treated with antidepressants. Participants will receive a free evaluation of seasonal mood problems, and will be compensated for their time.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
BY R O B B R E Z N Y
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) For a limited time only, you’re in a position to consciously choose your next problems.
This is a tremendous opportunity that I hope you won’t allow to go to waste. By being proactive, you can ensure the arrival of fun and interesting dilemmas, thereby avoiding the frustrating and draining kind. In other words, if you go looking for provocative new challenges, the same old tired and trivial trouble won’t come looking for you. I suggest you begin the quest as soon as possible. TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) I know where actor Sean Penn lives. It’s a few miles from where I am right now. An
out-of-town friend of mine, who’s an aspiring screenwriter, is pleading with me to drive by Sean’s house and hurl a hard copy of her latest script over the high wall that affords him and his family privacy. My friend imagines that Sean will find it, read it excitedly, and call her up to begin negotiating for rights to use it in a future film. I may do what she asks. It’s my policy not to discourage people’s fantasies about making the connections they need, even if they’re far-fetched. In that spirit, I urge you to pursue any hunches you might have about forging alliances that could further your dreams. GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) “Opportunities multiply as they are seized,” wrote Sun Tzu in The Art of War, an
ancient Chinese book about success strategies to pursue in tough times. Now, I’m conveying this idea to you as you enter one of the most opportunistic phases of your astrological cycle. What else can you do to get yourself in the right groove? First, adopt a perceptive, receptive attitude that attunes you to budding possibilities. Next, respond expeditiously to every little invitation that appeals to you. Finally, keep in mind that luck tends to happen to those who have done the hard work to generate it. CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) If you ask young men what experiences have afforded them the most adventurous
fun of their lives, a majority will talk about indoor activities. Some will say video games and others their sexual escapades. Only a minority will describe far-flung events in the great outdoors or exotic locales. What about you? Under what circumstances have your most amazing forays into the unknown unfolded? Where have you been transformed in ways that helped you stretch to meet your destiny? I’d like to suggest that it’s time to go beyond those previous benchmarks. You’re ready to transcend your personal limits as you wander into the frontier. LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) Dear Rob: In my dream last night, I was playing with a lion in my garden. Suddenly it jumped up, put its paws on my shoulders, and got face-to-face with me. I realized it could either swallow my head or kiss me. I was excited by the possibility of the kiss and also scared because I sensed it wanted something from me, but I didn’t know what. Can you offer any insight? —Leo in Limbo.
A lot of Leos are dealing with themes like this right now. Here’s how I’d sum them up: The thing that’s most appealing to you happens to be wild. You need to exercise caution even as you go forward to engage with it more intimately. Just as you want something from it, it’s asking for something in return. You’ll have to know exactly what that is in order to protect yourself from its wildness. VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) In the course description for a fiction-writing class at Sarah Lawrence College, professor Mary LaChapelle encourages her students to practice the art of enchantment. “How do we avoid succumbing to safe and unoriginal decisions,” she asks, “and learn to recognize and trust our more mysterious and promising impulses?” This happens to be an excellent question for you to keep in mind right now, whether you’re about to create something or are starting a new chapter in the epic story that is your life.
P.S. “If you cannot be a poet, be the poem,” advises actor David Carradine. LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Evolution has given the human body a profound capacity to cure itself with its own
resources, writes Roger Jahnke in his book The Healer Within. And yet most of us neglect to call on this inner reserve of natural medicine, looking mostly to drugs and doctors for the miracles we long for. Whether or not you read Jahnke’s book, I hope you will deepen your relationship with your inner healer in the coming weeks. It’s prime time to take a more active role in shaping your well-being. SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) Founding Father Benjamin Franklin said that the U.S. Constitution “only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” That’s a good reminder for you as you enter a phase when you’ll probably have more success than usual if you hunt for pleasure, joy, and bliss. I suggest that you draw up an appropriate strategy to employ during the coming weeks. Start by creating a list of at least three sources of delight with which you want to commune. Then write descriptions of how you’re going to increase and expand their presence in your life. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) At the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, the value of petroleum rose
40 percent. But by mid-January it had plummeted precipitously, even losing 12 percent in one day. As a result, suppliers started withholding large reserves from the market. For weeks, supertankers full of civilization’s most important fuel circled aimlessly offshore, refusing to unload their precious cargo until prices rebounded. I suggest you consider imitating their behavior. Don’t make your best stuff fully available until your target audience is ready to reward you appropriately for its true worth. It’s OK to tease, though—or do anything ethical that will increase the demand for your services. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) Even when you are not feeling your best, you try hard. You’re strong when things
are broken. Where there is hurt, you rise up with surprising resilience to provide help and inspiration. If there are people who don’t know where they are or where they’re going, you are often a beacon of calm. Thank you, my beautiful friend. I applaud your urge to fight for justice not only in service to yourself, but also on behalf of others who can’t be as composed as you are when things are broken. And I’m happy to inform you that the favors you’re doling out now will ultimately be returned in kind when you least expect it.
PUBLIC NOTICE TO ANTOINE TERRELL FLOOD IN RE: ADOPTION OF JOCELYN ROSE FLOOD, A minor – No. 2008-134 AND IN RE: ADOPTION OF JAMAL TERRELL FLOOD – A minor – No. 2008-135 A Petition has been filed asking the Court to put an end to all rights you have as a parent to your children, Jocelyn Rose Flood and Jamal Terrell Flood. An involuntary Termination of Parental Rights Hearing has been scheduled for March 16, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. in Hearing Room No. 6 of the York County Judicial Center, 45 North George Street, York , Pennsylvania, to terminate your parental rights to Jocelyn Rose Flood and Jamal Terrell Flood, whose Step-Father is Gemino Rafael Cortez and whose Mother is Jennifer Rose Cortez. You are warned that even if you fail to appear at the scheduled hearing, the hearing will go on without you and your rights to your child may be ended by the Court without you being present. You have a right to be represented at the hearing by a lawyer. You should take this paper to your lawyer at once. If you do not have a lawyer or cannot afford one, go to or telephone the office set forth below to find out where you can get legal help. TERRY R. BAKER Family Court Administrator York County Court of Common Pleas York County Judicial Center 45 North George Street York, Pennsylvania 17401 Telephone No. (717)771-9360 Petitioner's Attorney: Thomas M. Clark, Esquire 130 West Church Street, Ste. 100 Dillsburg, PA 17019
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AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) I feel much better. Today, I underwent plastic surgery for the first time. An inter-
vention specialist over at the Consumer Counseling Center removed 40 percent of my credit cards from my wallet. She then cut them in half and burned them, releasing fumes that sent me spiraling into an altered state of consciousness that revealed to me the steps I must take to upgrade my approach to money. In that state, I was also able to have psychic visions about the nature of your financial karma. What I saw is that you, too, would benefit right now from expanding your mind and changing your habits in all matters related to earning, spending, and saving money. PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) If a cow is given a name by her owner, she generates more milk than a cow
that’s treated as an anonymous member of the herd. That’s the conclusion of a study done by researchers at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. “Placing more importance on knowing the individual animals and calling them by name,” said Catherine Douglas, “can significantly increase milk production.” Building on that principle, I suggest that you give everything in your world names, including (but not limited to) houseplants, insects, cars, appliances, and trees. Of course, this is always a good idea because it enhances your connection with all of creation. But it’s an especially smart approach now, when getting more up-close and personal should be your specialty. ■ HOMEWORK: WHAT’S YOUR SECRET BEAUTY—THE GREAT THING ABOUT YOU THAT NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT? TESTIFY AT FREEWILLASTROLOGY.COM.
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A CASH BUYER Coins, US gold & silver, antiques, gold jewelry, sterling silver & pocket watches. Top dollar paid by collector. Will travel. 410-647-8253
GOT RECORDS? I pay $ CASH $ for your LP's, 45's & 78's. R & B, jazz, rock, blues, world, reggae, punk, new wave, metal, rap, folk, gospel, lounge exotica, soul funk, country, club, dance, etc. I also buy TURN TABLES & GUITARS Call 443-226-9628
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Med & lrg pcs. $35. 410-783-5411
5 spots avail. Starting at $2000 each. Great location at Meadow Ridge Memorial Park. 443-452-1521
UNIQUE JEWELRY 10 pcs. Beads, gemstones, wirewrapping. From $7.99 to $29.99. 410-783-5411
4 SALE Household items & furniture: lvg rm set, dinette set, twin beds, queen beds. Baby items: crib, chg table, games, toys & movies. TVs: 19" & 13" color. Misc: 2 walkers, bath spa, silverware, cookware, towels & hand cloths, metal cabinet, bike carrier, dishwasher, window fans, fridge, electric stove, women's clothes size 16/18 & 14/12. Washer/dryer electric, sheet sets, queen & twin comforters & other misc items. Before 10am @ 410-265-6793. Leave msg after 10am
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CHIHUAHUA PUPPIES 4 Sale: 1 female, white, $875 & 1 male, buff w/ white marking, $825 firm. Both with America's Pet Registry Paper & Vet Checked. Available for delivery October 18, 2008. Contact Ms. Nancy @ 410-265-6793
COCKAPOOS
Brand Name Laptops & Desktops Bad or NO Credit – No Problem Smallest weekly payments available. It's yours NOW – Call 800-803-8819 (AAN CAN)
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BED $240 BRAND NEW KING PILLOWTOP SET in plastic w/ warranty. Can deliver. 410-982-2003
BEDS Quilted tops. New, still in plastic. Queen sz. retailed $598, sell $199. King sz. retailed $798, sell $299. 10yr/warr. Can Deliver. Financing Available. 410-598-2460
Yorkipoos, Maltipoos, Puggles, Labs, Boxers, Chihuahuas, Shepherds, Mini Pins & cute mixed puppies. $175 & up. 717-548-4291 lic. knl
PLACE YOUR PET AD FOR FREE FOR 2 WEEKS! Email rfarley@citypaper.com for more information
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X-THICK PILLOW TOP New in plastic. Queen Size: retailed $798, sell $279. King: retailed $998, sell $379. 10 yr warr. Can deliver. Financing avail. 410-687-5313
BRAND NEW ANTIQUES TOP CASH PAID for Antiques & Collectible. Glassware, toys, trains, furniture, pottery, silver, military items, jewelry, etc. Buying 7 days a week. Call 410-391-4405
QUEEN PILLOWTOP BED in plastic w/ warranty. $170. Can deliver. 410-982-2003
LEATHER SOFA & LOVESEAT. BRAND NEW matched set. $895 443-992-2757
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GET A NEW COMPUTER! Brand name laptops & desktops. Bad or NO credit – no problem. Smallest weekly payments avail. CALL NOW 1-800-816-2232 (AAN CAN)
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ELECTRICAL & MECH LICENSE PREPARATION Tutoring and Customized Training for Electrical & Mechanical License Preparation by Licensed Master Electrician, 1st Grade Engineer George Maloney 410-635-2584
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA! Fast, Affordable & Accredited. FREE Brochure. Call NOW! 1-800-532-6546 ext. 97 http://www.continentalacademy.com (AAN CAN)
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WINTER SPECIAL $500 OFF OF Complete Bathroom Remodel (Contract must be signed by 3/1/09) 9639 Aldo Dr, Carney, MD 21234
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Free Estimates. Basements, Garages, Yard Work, Complete House Clean-up, Appliances, Furniture, & Hauling. 410-984-7032
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HOME IMPROVEMENT SPECIALISTS Kitchen & Bath renovations, Decks, Drywall, Tile. Lic & Bonded. No job too big or too small! 410-814-7293
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T'S HAULING/MOVING Will clean basements, yards, etc. Will move your possessions or haul them away. Very reliable & reasonable. 410-889-3795 or 443-690-6525
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DRS PLUMBING & HEATING Master plumber, I do my own work., Courteous & reliable. Snr citizen dsc. Pete 410-905-0386 Lic 9012
LEAKING ROOF? Most leaks on homes - $299. Done same day. Row home Rubber roofs $1495. 10 yr guarantee. GAF Materials. Corporation Gutter repair. Free Estimates. 443-528-3867
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DRUMMER WANTED For the U.S. Army's Premier Touring Show Band (Active Army Position). Annual salary $49,029 - $55,275 + full Army benefits. See: www.armyfieldband.com/pages/va cancy/vols_drum.html
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WHAT IS REQUIRED TO RENT A CAR FOR CASH? According to Nick, General Manager of G&N Car Rental located at 701 W. 34th Street,”All you need for a cash car rental is you need to be 21 years or older, the deposit (they vary from the type of vehicle you choose to rent), the rental fee (again varies depending on the type of vehicle you select), drivers license and proof of address - THAT’S IT!” Nik continues, “We are a family run car rental company like no other car rental company out there. We are friendly and do our best to help you get into a vehicle, no matter what your circumstance is. Whether your car is broken and insurance will not cover the cost of a rental, you need a ride over the weekend, or you just want to take family or friends on a local trip, we are the place you can turn to for the best vehicles, the best value and the best customer service!” WHAT TYPE OF VEHICLES DO YOU RENT? According to Katie, “Our vehicle selections range from late model Chevrolet Impalas, Ford Focus, Ford Taurus, Mini Vans and Station Wagons. We not only routinely provide maintenance for our vehicles to ensure they are in tip top shape but we also provide an emergency number for you when you rent, just in case you run into any problems. In addition, we really work with individuals to provide several payment options that fit into their budget.” So, the next time you need to rent a car, who you gonna call? G&N CAR RENTAL! Two convenient locations to choose from: 6660 Security Blvd. Suite 5 (Across from Fox Chevy inside the Meadows Shopping Center) 443-429-5089 or downtown at 701 W. 34th St.
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LAUREL M ISO neat, reliable, stable NS RM to shr SFH. No drama. 2 rms avail w/ priv Ba. Quiet golf course area. Long-term please. Off-st pkg. Backs to woods. $1000/mo. lemontecristo@gmail.com
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ANNAPOLIS ISO NS prof F to shr clean new 3 BR condo. Great location. Email Wayne for info at wayne.acosta @ronbortnickinc.com CLASSIFIEDS UPDATED DAILY AT WWW.CITYPAPER.COM
ARBUTUS M ISO quiet M to shr hm. Private living qtrs. $490/mo, utils incl. $200 sec dep req'd. 21227. Call Jack @ 410-242-5916
ARBUTUS Near UMBC. ISO NS RM to shr hm w/ 2 Fs & 2 Ms, not big partiers, aged 21-25. Must like animals. $450/mo, split utils. W/D, d/w, 'net, CAC, cable. 410-404-6492 fullmoon123joy@yahoo.com
BEL AIR ROAD Rm avail on #15 busline. ISO NS prof to shr hm w/ 3 F. You must work 35-40 hrs/wk. CAC, W/D, cable ready. No pets. Avail 3/01. $275/mo + sec dep, split utils. 410-274-0729
BOWLEY'S QTRS Furnished waterfront loft to shr. In ground pool, boat slip avail. Utils incl. Must be gay / gay-friendly. Smoking & drinking ok but not excessive. 410-335-3913 after 5 pm
DUNDALK GWM ISO RM to shr 3 BR, 1.5 Ba hm. AC, W/D, d/w, yd, Directv. Refs req'd. $450/mo utils incl. Serious inquiries only. 21222. 410-477-0311
Married couple ISO RM(s). Must be employed w/ refs. Gender/sex pref of no concern. Must like pets. NS indoors. Hot tub, pool, AC, W/D. Currently renovating. $175/wk. 21222. 443-980-9300 nzdw@comcast.net
ESSEX ISO M to shr house, use of Ba & kitch. Must have job. No drugs, no pets. Background check req'd. 21221. 410-682-3054
ISO easy-going RM for furn rm. AC, W/D, yd. Owner is smoker, has cats. Must be under 26. $150/wk, incls gas, elect, cable, 'net, H2O. 21220. cuzimdaboss420@aol.com
PIKESVILLE 25 y.o. prof M ISO RM to shr grnd flr condo unit. Pool use, priv Ba, W/D, fpl. Near beltway & pub trans. $700/ mo + $350 dep. Utils, 'net, cable, bimonthly cleaning service all incl. 443-768-4812
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BEL AIR-EDISON 33 y.o. prof/grad student ISO RM for lrg renovated TH. W/D, 'net, d/w, cable, hdwd, sec sys. $450500/mo + 1/3 utils. 21213. lastubbs@verizon.net
BOLTON HILL ISO NS RM to shr condo. AC, W/D, fpl, 'net, d/w, cable, gym, sec sys. 1 yr lse + 1 mo's dep req'd. $600/mo + ½ elec. Near pub trans. 21217. 410-669-7901 kfi10@msn.com
BROOKLYN GWM ISO NS RM. 2 rms avail: $450/mo for lrg rm, $400/mo for smaller rm. AC, 'net, W/D, yd. Utils incl except heating oil. Near pub trans. 21225. 443-756-3535 tmccloud1@juno.com
CANTON Lrg furnished BR avail in nice & safe area. Utils, cable, W/D all incl. $400/mo. 21224. 443-938-6466
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Friendly, clean prof NS ISO same to shr 3 BR, 3 Ba hm in quiet area. AC, W/D, storage, fin bsmt, pool, prking. Must be responsible. Avail now. $500/mo + utils. Zip: 21286. 410-296-0296
BR avail in luxury TH. Shr w/ 2 late20s profs who are fun, respectful, generally very quiet. Heat, AC, W/D, ss appls, d/w, cable, 'net, more. $750/mo + 1/3 utils. 21230. 301-4040764 jeremytunis@gmail.com
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FEDERAL HILL ISO RM to shr 2 BR, 1.5 Ba RH. 1 yr lse req'd. I have a medium sz dog. CAC, sec sys, W/D, fncd bkyd. Near pub trans. Credit chk, employ & rent history req'd. $600/mo + ½ utils. 21230. lbatty@ymail.com
FEDERAL HILL Priv BR & Ba avail in luxury condo. AC, d/w, W/D, 'net, fitness center, rooftop deck, more. $800/ mo, utils & cable & bi-monthly cleanings all incl. 21230. 443-224-5142 sipping_water@yahoo.com
HAMILTON 58 y.o. SM ISO 1 RM for 2 rms on 2nd flr. Some furn avail. W/D, 'net, cable, CAC. Near pub trans. Ample st pkg. $575/mo, utils incl. 2 mo.'s rent req'd to move in. 21214. 410-591-1099 billr52@comcast.net
HAMILTON ISO F RM to shr 3 BR, 1.5 Ba home w/ prof F & dog. Fncd yd, dogs welcome. Off-st pkg, bsmt storage. $600/mo + utils; 1 mo. sec dep req'd. 21206. 443-280-4315
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MOUNT VERNON ISO prof straight M to shr apt. Utils & 'net incl. Avail now. AC, W/D. $550/mo. 443-615-5007 adrianhessen@gmail.com
MT VERNON-21201 ISO non smk male room for rent $165wk +sec dep, cable, w/d, yard Call Amanda 443-682-9804
NW BALTIMORE ISO mature single RM. W/D. No pets. Near subway. Utils, cable incl. $500/mo + $100 sec dep. 21215. 443-739-8363
PIMLICO AREA ISO RM to shr expenses near Sinai Hospital. Full use of hm, utils incl. 21215. Call Ashley at 410-400-2913 or email lgipson33@hotmail.com
CITY PAPER = RESULTS! Call Gemma at 443-452-1523 to place your ad today!
RESERVOIR HILL ISO mature M for furn rm in priv hm. Shr kitch. Cable incl. No drugs, smoking ok. $400/mo. 21217. 410-523-1966 after 4pm
ROLAND PARK 4311 Roland Spring Dr, 21210. Looking to share very spacious 3 Br TH. One person $600/mo, all utils incld. Quiet street with good parking â&#x20AC;&#x201C; safe place. Call Tim 410-967-3444
ROLAND PARK ISO cat-friendly NS. Near Rotunda & JHU Homewood. W/D, d/w, cable, 'net, hdwd flrs. $525/mo + 1 mo sec dep. 21210. 443-473-5300 ilibowitz@yahoo.com
S. BALTIMORE ISO senior citizen RM or mature, responsible person. $95/wk. 21225. Call between noon & 5 pm 410-350-0284
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Need Rmmte for spacious apt. W/ Heat, A/C, H20, W/D. 443-799-8321
West Cold Spring & Reisterstown area. Furn rm avail, would prefer F RM. Must be NS w/ job. No drugs, no kids, no couples, no pets. $125/wk + $250 sec dep. 21215. edwinpitt8@aol.com
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ISO quiet respectful RM w/ healthy lifestyle for creative environment. SFH w/ art studio in bsmt. AC, deck, d/w, W/D, in-ground pool. Near pub trans. $725/mo + utils. elisabeth.gambino@gmail.com
ISO responsible F to shr SFH. Drugfree, smokers ok. Req'd: 4 most recent paystubs, contact info, MD ID, 2 personal refs, $30 app fee. $600/mo. 21229. 443-759-5535 lambertshawnese@yahoo.com
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ISO lesbian or bi F to shr 3 BR hm. You'll have use of common areas, laundry rm, off-st pkg. $675/mo, all utils incl. 21206 443-677-5549
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ROOMS FOR RENT Newly renov'd, drug-free only. Mgrs needed. $90-125/wk. 443-248-6661 CLASSIFIEDS UPDATED DAILY AT WWW.CITYPAPER.COM
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ROOMS FOR RENT Baltimore's historic Federal Hill & Fells Point areas. Utils inc. Dep req. Single occ only. $400-475/mo 1-888-506-2624 FULTON & BARCLAY - 21223
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1 Br, 1 Ba, in-law apt, on 2 acre lot. Private entrance on 2nd flr. A/C, w/w carpet. Small deck overlooking quiet woods & well-kept yard. $575/mo. Call 410-823-5730 Ask for Mrs. Fisher
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2 Br ,1 Ba, apt, CAC $850 - $875 Call 410-977-2065 / 443-392-7351 BOLTON HILL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 21217
1 BLK FROM PARK 2 Br, 1 Ba, DW, CAC, W/D, hd flrs, exp brick in LR, bk yd. w/w cpt in Br. $990/mo 410-377-9455
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REAL DEAL 1702 Bolton. Classy 1 BR + Den on big whole flr, DR + eat in K, mod bath, deck, W/D on prem, $1050 INCL HEAT + HW 410-323-1300
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BUTCHERS HILL - 21231
CLOSE TO PARK! Bright Br apt in historic Butchers Hill community. One block from Patterson Park; close to Hopkins Medical bus route. Hdwd flrs, AC, W/D. $850/mo. Call 410-276-5480
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STUDIO, 1 & 2 BR Maryland Ave. $650 - $998/mo, some include utilities. Available now. Call 410-837-2430
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2231 St. Paul opp Old Goucher/ Lovely Lane Church. 1900sf whole-floor, big rooms, 12' ceilings, HW, expose brick, 2 FP, mod Kitch & Bath, 120 yrs refurb CHARACTER , $1200 + Utils. 410-323-1300
1 Br, new crpt, fresh paint, lg balc. Good value at $640/mo + utils. 410-255-2826
CHARLES VILLAGE - 21218
SECURED 2 BR Top floor close to Safeway, MICA and Penn Station. Parking included. $795/month. Call 703-340-6064 or e-mail : nap012004@yahoo.com "I found City Paper very effectiveâ&#x20AC;Ś I received many phone calls and rented my place in 2 days!" â&#x20AC;&#x201C; J.O., Apartment Advertiser, Federal Hill
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HAMPDEN/WYMAN PARK - 21211
LARGE 1 BR W/W carpet, near bus stop. $710/mo. 800-518-9806
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729 S. BOND ST. LARGE 1 BR w/ DEN. 2 lvls Hdwd flrs, W/D, dishwasher, CAC, $1195/mo. 410-977-5540
CHARLES VILLAGE
CLOSE TO JHU
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Large 1 Br, 1 Ba, 1st flr. W/D, CAC, access to yd, 2 blks to JHU. $750/mo. 240-899-5777
FEDERAL HILL - 21230
CHARLES VILLAGE
1207 S. Hanover St. CAC, Dishwasher, W/D, w/w carpet, off street parking available. $950/mo + Utils + SD. 410-685-6464
CLOSE TO JHU Sunny 2 Br apt in quiet building. 4 blocks to JHU. Hdwd flrs, French doors, balcony. $999/mo, inclds heat. 410-889-1339
CHARLES VILLAGE/ NEAR JHU - 21218
CHARLES VILL. APARTMENT Very Large 2 BR, 1st Flr. Hdwd, Dining Rm, W/D. $975/mo incl. Heat & Water. 410-321-0335 CHARLES VILLAGE
NEAR UNION MEMORIAL Large 1 Br with balcony. $925/mo, inclds heat. 410-889-1339
2 STORY, 2 BR
INNER HARBOR No cred chk! Utils pd, W/D, $600s. Locators 410-814-7222 sm fee
FELLS POINT - 21231
VALENTINES SPECIAL 1 Weekend in Ocean City FREE. The best view in Baltimore! 2 Br, w/ deck, CAC, W/D, bsmt for storage. 1830 East Pratt, between Wolfe & Ann. $1195/mo + utils Call Robert 443-277-6510 FOREST PARK - 21216
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307 COLLINS AVE 4 BR,2 BA w/ in-law suite -$1395 3 BR, 1 BA - $950 Hdwd Flrs, On-site W/D. SD req'd. M-F 12-5. 410-781-6069
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Wyman Court & Hickory Heights Apartments 2 Br, Upper Levels with Balcony. From $725 - $825/mo plus utilities; 1 Br, Wood Floors. $685/mo plus utilities. Call 410-764-7776 BrooksManagementCompany.com
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RENOVATED 1 BR New Carpet & Paint. CAC, W/D. Updated Kitch & Bath. $850/mo + Utils & SD. 443-604-4758
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2 Br, BIG closets, new Kit, new CAC/gas heat, hdwd flr. W/D prem., quiet bldg, great area, #3 & 36 bus line. $780 + utils, Appt. 410-323-1300
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Furnished Studios starting at $785 Short and Long term leases. www.baltimoreanapartments.com For More Information Call 410-889-4157
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CURTIS BAY - 21226
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FOR RENT LOCHRAVEN/ COLDSPRING 21218
A Downtown location with Restaurants,
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Theater, Shopping, Businesses and
1435 TAYLOR AVE
Galleries all around. Columns and
2nd floor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Apt in Great Location. Hardwood Floors in Living Room, New wallto-wall Carpet in Bedroom, Bright Eat-in-Kitchen with New Cabinets and New Ceramic Floor.
arches to thrill your eye and ceiling fans to create indoor summer breezes.
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$600 Off 1 year lease! U 36 Manhattan style loft apartments â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 different ďŹ&#x201A;oor plans U Hardwood Floors U 14' to 16' Ceilings U 9' to 12' Windows U Decorative columns and arches in every unit
U Washer and Dryer in unit U Ceiling Fans U Pets allowed U Private Lobby and Gallery space U State-of-the-art Security U Concierge Available
Laundry room in Basement/Ample Storage Room. Plenty of Off Street Parking. $700 per month + $700 sec dep req. No Pets Allowed. Call Christine 410-207-4502
"Please cancel my ad! You (City Paper) did it again! I rented my apartment in just one week!" â&#x20AC;&#x201C; J.D., Apartment Advertiser
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HAVE IT ALL AT MARBLE HALL!! Spacious Newly Renovated 1 & 2 Br Available. Convenient to Shopping, Public Transportation, Major Highways and Schools. Starting at $630 with Security Deposits as little as $99 Ask for details! Come By and See Why Marble Hall Gardens should be YOUR Next Home! Please Call 410-323-6124
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706 PARK AVENUE 1st floor. Spacious 2 Br, 2 Ba. Hdwd flrs, lots of closets, private yard. $1100/mo + utils. Available March 1st. 410-547-8396 MOUNT VERNON
ATTRACTIVE Affordable Victorian-style 1 Br apt. Many nice amenities. Heat, hot water & W/D incld. Avail immed. $775/mo. Call 410-440-6976
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ROLAND PARK - 21210
804 ST. PAUL ST.
TUDOR STYLE APT
1 Br, 1 Ba. 2nd Fl, Front apt. $650/mo + SD . 443-739-2769
2 Br, 1 Ba. LR with Fireplace, DR, Kitchen, Sun porch, W/D on premises, Hot air heat & CAC. Street Parking. $1400/mo. 443-465-2906
NORTHWEST BALT - 21215
1, 2 & 4 BR 3801 Oakford & 5032 Denmore. CAC, lead free. 1 blk from Callaway School. $675/mo. 410-800-5005 iemh43@hotmail.com
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LARGE 1 BR W/W, near bus stop. Vouchers OK. $585/mo. 800-518-9806
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MOUNT WASHINGTON PARK APTS Very spacious 2 Br, 1 ½ Ba. Refinished wood floors. Mid-level, secured building. Central air, dishwasher. $850/mo + utilities. 410-764-7776 BrooksManagementCompany.com
ROLAND PARK/ JHU - 21210
RESERVOIR HILL Studio's & 1 Br's: $450-$650/mo. 21217 443-904-9309
4th floor walk-up Studio apt with Ba, Kitchen, AC, hot air heat w/w carpeting, permit pkg, & W/D on premises $900/mo. 443-465-2906 Ground level Apt Studio Ba, Kitch area LR/Br combines, Full cpt permit pkg, W/D on premises. $850/mo. 443-465-2906
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2 BR APTS 907 St Paul -$1300/mo(incl utils) 922 St Paul- $850/mo + Utils Renov't Kitchen, Updated Bath, Fire Place, Hdwd Floors, W/D. Call 410-547-6623
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RENT TO OWN! Prime locations in S.E. Balt. For W-2 employed buyers, mortgage prequalifications avail. 240-274-1061 BALTIMORE CITY - 21223
2513 W. LOMBARD Gorgeous, Newly Renovated 3 Br, 1 Ba. All New Ceramic Kitch with New Cabinets & Appls. All New Bathroom. $30 app fee. Section 8 Welcome! Call 410-963-5570
APARTMENTS FOR RENT IN ALL AREAS 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4 BR Houses/Apartments. Section 8 Welcome. $600 & up Bluestar Property Management 410-267-0188 BALTIMORE CITY
3 Br townhome close to North Ave. Newly remodeled with fin bsmt & deck. $1050/mo. Call 703-340-6064 or email nap012004@yahoo.com BALTIMORE CITY
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CANTON - 21224
Exp Brick, Hdwd Flrs, All Appl. Close to Square. No Pets! $1200/mo. 410-808- 3103 mdavis@mris.com
CLOSE TO SQUARE WITH PARKING 2 BR, 2 ½ BA Townhouse. Hdwd floors, W/W Carpet in the bedrooms. Updated appliances, W/D, Dishwasher, Finished den with Second kitchen/full bath/separate entrance. Parking pad in rear, Rooftop Deck. Within walking distance to Merritt Athletic club, Safeway, Marina, Restaurants etc. $1300/mo w/ 1 year lease. 1st & Last month's rent + SD upon signing. Pet Deposit Req'd for pets. Utilities not included. No Sec 8! Call Anne Marie at 813-892-0038
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CHARLES VILL 2+ BR, fncd yd, W/D, pets ok $850 Locators 410-814-7222 sm fee
CANTON 1, 2, & 3 bedroom town homes and apartments available in desired locations in and around Baltimore. Rents begin at $700/mo to $3000/mo. Seasonal Specials Available & Pets ok'd w/add'l fee. Call 410-342-2205 or visit www.cantonmanagement.com
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CANTON - 21224
BELVEDERE SQ: 3 Br, 3 Ba, 2 story hse, lrg kitch, fee pd! Fpl! CANTON: Single house, newly renovated! W/D, air, Pets OK $900's BUTCHERS HILL: 4 Br, 4 Ba sng Hse, Garden! Pond! No credit chk! CHARLES VILLAGE: 2 + Br, 2 story house, fncd, W/D, Pets OK $850 FEDERAL HILL: 3Br, 2Ba 2 sty hse, bsmt W/D hdwd fkrs Pets OK $1300 INNER HARBOR: 4 Br 2 Ba single Hse! Yd, air, Pets OK, patio $1250
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FELLS POINT – 21231
HOUSE/THS RENTAL (CITY) 865 EAST BALTIMORE- 21205
AVAIL NOW! 3 Br, 1 Ba w/w cpt, hdwd flrs, all appls, W/D, clean unfinished bsmt. $800/mo No Pets, All programs accepted. 443-839-3642
EAST/WEST BALTIMORE
SEVERAL HOMES AVAILABLE 2-4 Br apts/townhouses available immediately. $900 -$2200/mo + utils, MBQ & Section 8 OK. Trust Realty, Bernard 240-460-3247 "I got a fast rental with the demographic we wanted: professional, responsible tenants," Maurice Bates
CLOSE TO PARK
FEDERAL HILL - 21230
PRICE REDUCED!! 3 BR, 1.5 BA Rowhouse at Fort Ave & Henry. CAC, Dishwasher, W/D, Hdwd Flrs throughout, Grass in private fenced in yard, close to I-95 & Riverside park. Ample Free parking. Available NOW! Pets OK! $1300/mo + SD. Call 410-627-0669
FEDERAL HILL 3 BR 2 Ba, bsmt, pets ok, $1300. Locators 410-814-7222 sm fee FEDERAL HILL AREA - 21230
JACKSON STREET Newly renovated 2 Br, 1 Ba, CAC, deck with Harbor view. $1095/mo. Call 410-685-2266
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2222 Bank St. Very nice 2 BR, 1 ½ BA. W/D, DW, CAC, Hdwd Flrs, Exposed Brick. Rooftop deck, Fenced Backyard, Pets OK. $1100/mo + Utils. No Sec 8. Avail NOW! Call Mark 410-893-5145
HIGHLANDTOWN
300 BLOCK CONKLING ST 2 Br, 1 Ba, w/w carpet, CAC, W/D, d/w. $820/mo + utils. Available now. Call 443-803-4800 Pics at eamre.com
HUD HOMES!
FELLS POINT
RENT TO OWN BILLIE HOLIDAY'S CHILDHOOD HOME–HISTORICAL LANDMARK Newly renovated 3 Br, 1 ½ Ba. Gourmet kitch, bamboo flrs, video intercom, energy efficient. Walk to Harbor, Whole Foods, Patt Park, JHH & I-95. 202-607-4377 or visit http://www.fellspoint.us/
CITY PAPER RENTALS "Here's nothing but the truth: I don't use anybody else for my apartment rentals," Bo Forrest
JOHNS HOPKINS AREA – 21205
2602 E MONUMENT
INNER HARBOR/UMAB - 21202
Fully rehabbed townhse. 4 Br, 1 ½ Ba, fin bsmt. $1200/mo. Sec 8 OK. Call 410-812-7282
LUXURY TH 3 Br, 2 Ba. Newly Rnvtd. Dramatic Interior, CAC, W/D, d/w, hdwd flrs, FP, yard, 3rd flr deck with city view. Close to Harbor. Pets negotiable. $1350/mo. Call 410-560-2838
FROM $199/MO 4 Br, 2 Ba. Only $238/mo. More 1-4 Br's avail! For listings, call 1-800-585-3617 ext. B046
INNER HARBOR 4 BR 2 Ba, yd, air, patio, $1250. Locators 410-814-7222 sm fee
REACH CURRENT RENTERS! 33.7% of City Paper's readers currently rent an apartment. Call Emily at 443-452-1521, place your ad today!
PARK HEIGHTS - 21215
YOU CAN BUY! New 3 Br & 1 Ba; $0 Down. Open House: Sun. 2/22,12-2pm. 3802 Cottage Ave 21215 443-527-1850 Cheaper than Rent!
JHH AREA - 21205 PATTERSON - 21224 JHH AREA - 21205
3 BEDROOM, 1 BATH RENTALS!
COMPLETELY NEW & RENOV!
3 Br, 1 Ba recently redone TH clean, fresh paint! 818 N Montford $895/mo 721 N. Streeper $850/mo Accepting Section 8 Vouchers. 410-971-6733 OR 410-971-7323
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Located 6 Miles From The Inner Harbor And Less Than 1 Mile To I-695. Close To UMBC & Patapsco State Park.
The Lowest Priced New Condominiums And 3-Level Townhomes In Baltimore City! An Urban Lifestyle In A Picturesque Setting. From The $170’s. You’ll truly enjoy the best of both worlds at Wyndholme Woods, a new community of 3-level townhomes and condominiums in Baltimore City. Perched on a hilltop with picturesque views of the city, this metropolitan oasis combines the convenience of an urban lifestyle with the charm of suburban living. Passing by the entrance’s gracious stone walls, you’ll experience a sense of arrival marked by low-maintenance living, abundant parking and a serene, wooded setting. Yet the Beltway is less than a mile away, putting every downtown destination within easy reach. Head to Fells Point for a night out with friends, enjoy a short commute to the financial district or cheer on your team at Camden Yards. Neighboring Catonsville provides everyday conveniences, quaint shopping and dining, and plentiful outdoor recreation. So don’t compromise! Own a stunning new home in a beautiful location with every urban amenity at your fingertips.
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HOUSE/THS RENTAL (CITY) 865
COMMERCIAL SPACE RENTAL 875 REMINGTON – 21211
PATTERSON PARK – 21224
GRANDE Avail 3/1. Newly renov, 3 Br, 1.5 Ba, ceil fans, bsmt, W/D, new cpt & paint. $1100/mo. 2432 Fayette Call 301-526-2288 Habla Espanol ? - 443-570-7439
WAVERLY - 21218
RECENT REHAB
AVAILABLE NOW
1926 HARLEM AVE
2635 Miles Ave. 2 BR, 1 BA. D/W, garbage disposal, fridge & micro. Sec 8 OK. Call Gary 410-879-2212
3 BR, 1 BA VICTORIAN HOUSE Hardwood Floors, $925/mo + $925 SD + $125 Water Bill SD. 3 BR TOWNHOUSE Kitchen, W/W Carpet, CAC, Rear deck & Parking Pad. $925/mo + SD & Water Bill SD. No Pets, No Section 8. Call 410-235-1736 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. ONLY
4 Br, 1.5 Ba, Updated, W/D, refrig & range. Wooden flrs. Avail Now!!. $1500/mo.
WASHINGTON VILLAGE - 21230
631 WYETH ST 2 Br 1 Ba, Renovated hse. Excellent location. $750/mo Call Sydney 410-925-3450
PATTERSON PARK - 21224
1131 POPLAR GROVE ST 3 Br, 1 Ba, Updated and Clean. W/D, range, refrigerator. $900/mo Vouchers Accepted. No Pets Call 410-592-6002
GREAT BLOCK 3 Br. $1495 + utils/sec. Inc Water! Charming & spacious, steps to the park! Newly renov, w/d. No sec 8, pets ok 443-691-9601 Windsor@cablespeed.com
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HIGHLANDTOWN – 21224
DEEP CREEK, MD
COMMERCIAL FRONT FOR RENT 1500 sq ft. Pratt & Eaton St corner location. Multiple usage. Avail imm. Suitable for Daycare/retail/food outlet/ small church etc. $975/mo. Call 410-808-6660 or citylivingprop@aol.com
21520 - Adorable cedar-sided cabin provides front row seats for your mountain entertainment. This 3 Br, 3 Ba home has all the country charm that you will need for your getaway. For more information, visit www.deepcreek.com or call 1-800-846-RENT and ask about LANDMARK VILLAGE #1
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Esplanade At Red Run Directions: Take I-695 to I-795 to Exit 4 S. (Owings Mills Blvd. S.). Turn right on Red Run Blvd. Information Center on left.
Phone: (866) 492-2656 Hours: Mon. 2-7, Tues.- Fri. 10-6, Sat. & Sun. 11-6 Prices, offers and financing are subject to change without notice. See sales representative for details. Sales in Maryland by NVR Services, Inc. (410) 750-9050. Broker #66698. MHBR No. 56.
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The Most Sought-After Anne Arundel County Location Within Walking Distance Of Shopping, Dining And Entertainment. From The $250’s. There’s so much to love about Stoney Run. This meticulously planned community welcomes you with majestic stone entry monuments, stately gazebos, upscale landscaping, acres of open space and hiking/biking trails that connect to the neighboring retail center. Imagine a leisurely walk through the neighborhood to get a cup of coffee at Starbucks, pick up some groceries for dinner, or meet a friend for dinner and a drink. Choose from stunning condominiums and townhome condominiums, all of which feature open, airy designs, spacious bedrooms and an enviable, low-maintenance lifestyle. Although nestled in a peaceful enclave, major commuter routes are nearby, putting Columbia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. within easy reach. This desirable location is easily the best in Anne Arundel County – at an exceptionally affordable price.
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Phone: (877) 402-4668 Hours: Mon. 2-7, Tues.- Fri. 10-6, Sat. & Sun. 11-6 *Limited time offer. Must use NVR Mortgage to receive either incentive. Certain restrictions may apply. Prior sales excluded. Prices, financing, and other offers subject to change without notice. Prior sales excluded. See a sales representative for details. Sales in Maryland by NVR Services, Inc. (410) 750-9050. Broker #66698. MHBR No. 56
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412 S. WASHINGTON This 14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; wide 2 Br, 2 full Ba is the perfect starter house. Functional basement (possibly a 3rd Br), w/full Ba & Laundry. Renovated in 2006 with/ rear addition adding a separate dining room & larger 2nd Br. Hardwood ďŹ&#x201A;oors throughout, open kitchen, perfect for entertaining. Option to sublease parking.
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Listing agent: Julie Gochar
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$250,000 3700 REISTERSTOWN ROAD Immaculately clean and deceptively large home. 7 Brâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 4 Baâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s - Currently offers 4 apartments. Separately metered and zoned. Currently leased, with good paying tenants. Enjoy the fenced lovely lawn, on the large porch front. Own, or own and operate this investment property. Shows very well. Buyer to provide ďŹ nancials.
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$629,000 2140 E. BALTIMORE STREET *TAX CREDIT UNTIL 2016â&#x20AC;&#x201D;$1126 Beautiful 4 Br, 2 full Ba, 2 half Ba in Historic Butcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hill home. Possible rear parking. 12+ foot ceilings on every level. Finished LL / living room w/gas ďŹ re-place. Fire place (gas), dining room, ½ bath on main level, large chef kitchen w/Granite counter tops and all stainless steel appliances. TREX deck w/360 views of city and water.
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(Y21211W35) 834 35TH ST. - Reduced! 3 BR 1/1 Ba THS! Updates & custom built-ins galore! CAC! 9 ft ceilings! # BA6789371 TEMPLE PEIRCE 410-823-2323 / 410-960-8035
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People Encouraging People, Inc. 2002 Clipper Park Drive, Suite 105 Baltimore, Maryland, 21211 Management Agent for the Ascension Homes Contact: Patricia Sapp, 410-366-4299
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