X-Content: 10 years ago in City Paper: July 16, 2003

City Paper's 2003 Big Music Issue features an

and: Bret McCabe on near-silent electronic artist

; Geoffrey Himes on yodeler

; Jaye Hunnie on club music's

; and Tom Breihan on proto-DIY promoter

. In Mobtown Beat, Tori Woods reports on how the

The Nose fumes over the firings of Baltimore police spokesperson

and police majors

In Campaign Beat, David Morley unpacks the complexities of the race to represent the

. Ballot Stuffing pats Baltimore City Council candidate

on the back for removing her illegally posted campaign signs from vacant houses and reports on the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the city's

. Charles Cohen's Charmed Life checks in with the manual-typewriter repairmen at

.

has letters from Alexander E. Hooke, C.D. Watkins, Bill Resh, Mark McGrath, Kent Bye, James Aguirre, Michael Brice, Ben Valis, Scott Loughrey, Chuck Duncan, Mark Scharf, and Robert Bardoff. The columns are: Brian Morton's Political Animal, on

; Eddie Matz' Shirts and Skins, on

; Joe MacLeod's Mr. Wrong, on

; Afefe Tyehimba's Third Eye, on

; and Mink Stole's Think Mink, on

. Scocca & MacLeod's proto-blog,

, reads the comics so you don't have to. Emily Flake's

flirts. In Imprints: Patrick Sullivan on Paul Findley's Sept. 11-less

Silent No More

; Tom Siebert enjoys the guilty pleasure of Toby Young's

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

; Blake de Pastino punches out Benjamin Cavell's

Rumble, Young Man, Rumble

; and Anjali Gupta on how against-the-grain Kimberly Blaker's

The Fundamentals of Extremism

is. Stage is: an introduction to the 2003

, with Blake de Pastino on

10 Reasons Big Betty is Stuck on the Side of the Road in a Little Pink Dress

, Brennen Jensen on

Hell Inc.

, and Gadi Dechter on

View Thru Quarter Pane

; and Anna Ditkoff on Baltimore Shakespeare Festival's production of William Shakespear's

As You Like It

. In Film: Richard Gorelick takes a dive into

Swimming Pool

and Joe MacLeod's head explodes over

Bad Boys II

. Richard Gorelick's Omnivore has major problems with

. In Cheap Eats, Tim Hill meats up at

.