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Woods: Don’t Mourn, Organize
When I first moved to Baltimore, my wife and I would walk up Park Avenue and I would point at the brownstone that hosted the old City Paper offices. “I’m going
Photos from City Paper photographer and reporter Reginald Thomas II.
City Paper reflections
City Paper photo editor J.M. Giordano shares four photos from his favorite stories he's worked on.
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Savage Love: Degrading Games
I am a pretty handsome gay (I have been told) and I am dating a gorgeous man. I am 34, and he is 31. I am bottom only, and he is top only—so it’s a good match.
Herrick: Commie pot orgy—don’t tell my parents
I started out at City Paper answering phones, a gig I got through the calendar editor at the time, with whom I worked at Video Americain. Once I made my
Giordano: Everything looks worse in black and white
J.M. Giordano reflects on how photography has helped define City Paper's legacy.
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Callahan: Joy, pain, and nausea
When I tell people who apparently do not read City Paper that I work for City Paper and mostly cover art, I often hear in response something like: “That’s
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Ericson: So long, City Paper, and thanks for all the fits
The woman who called to get the hose turned on sticks in my mind. That was one of my best days at work. But, really, even the bad days were pretty good.
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Kirkman: Everything happens so much
Whenever things have started to unravel, there has always been work to throw myself into. I’ve been lucky to always find an outlet.
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Soderberg: 14 digressions about the Baltimore City Paper, which is dead now
Tom Breihan and Ray Cummings, two former Baltimore City Paper interns and big deal music writers who liked my amateur music blog, got me a meeting about
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Towery: A long goodbye to City Paper
When I first moved to Baltimore in 1995, I met Jefferson Jackson Steele at the old punk bar Memory Lane before I was even unpacked. He was working at the City
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Weigel: This is the end, beautiful friend
“These used to be the servants’ quarters. The Irony is not lost on us.”
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Breckenridge: I found my voice, but Baltimore is losing one
“Do you have a favorite writer on the staff?” Rebekah Kirkman, the City Paper visual arts editor and intern coordinator, asked on the other end of the phone as
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'This isn’t tuna—I don’t want it': Alan Hirsch, a City Paper co-founder, looks back
If the nice Jewish boy from Upper Park Heights had gotten the teaching job at the historic Catholic high school for girls, the paper you are now reading might
Murder Ink: 8 murders this week, 293 murders this year
Murders This Week: 8
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Snoozing Through Fascism: A slow-motion academic protest of fascism emerges after conference
The great Russian-American writer Masha Gessen was standing on the stage at Bard College in New York in front of a sign that read "Crises of Democracy." It was
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Feds shut down another open-air drug shop; Baltimore abides
Two-hundred police and federal agents from as far away as Georgia raided 13 locations in and around Baltimore this morning searching for drugs, money and guns
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Saturday-Sunday: Doors Open Baltimore
There are lots of places that are rarely open to the public throughout the year, or where it would be a little rude to just show up and snoop. As the name...
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Thursday-Tuesday: Halloween Roundup
The City Paper staff will wrap our last ever issue, which comes out Nov. 1, the day before Halloween. Expect to see us drinking our grief away...
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Friday: Baltimore Youth Arts First Annual Art Auction Halloween Party Fundraiser
We named Baltimore Youth Arts this year's Best Artists in our Best of issue last month because we find their work compelling, radical, and urgent. Young...
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Sunday: Wing Dam, Den-Mate, Leggy, Sweepstakes
Sweepstakes’ songs tend to boil over when Allyson Little’s voice rises to a fever pitch, breaking free of the endless catchy hooks and piercing the air...
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Sunday: Music For Puerto Rico
Seeing so many people gathering supplies and donating money, time, and energy to helping Puerto Rico, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria, has been...
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Saturday: Great Halloween Lantern Parade & Festival
Baltimore celebrates Halloween with a family-friendly festival followed by a colorful parade of handcrafted illuminated lanterns and artist-made floats.
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Proud Boy lawyer demands alt-weeklies not call "western chauvinist fraternity" alt-right
After last week's column, we got a cease-and-desist letter from the Proud Boys' lawyer, complaining that we described the "Western chauvinist"™ "far-right"™
City Paper Halloween Masks: Scare your neighbors as a BPD Gun Trace Task Force Member, an ineffectual mayor of a mid-sized city, and more!
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Spookily Dookily: Eight haunty haunts in the DMV area to check out this season
We’re at least an hour outside of the city, regularly second-guessing our route as we make our way down winding, pitch black roads, nothing but fields of...
Spookily Dookily: Eight haunty haunts in the DMV area to check out this season
We’re at least an hour outside of the city, regularly second-guessing our route as we make our way down winding, pitch black roads, nothing but fields of...