Property Co-Owned by Jada Pinkett-Smith Tied to Alleged Baltimore Drug Conspiracy
Web Exclusive: A Feb. 2 indictment of 13 men that federal prosecutors say are involved in a violent Baltimore drug conspiracy called the Rice Organization seeks forfeiture of co-conspirators’ assets—including an East Baltimore property that state records show is co-owned by movie actress Jada Pinkett-Smith. [read full article by Van Smith]
Friday, February 11, 2005
Rumorgate: Day 3
This story will reverberate for a while--through the 2006 governor's race probably--and it remains today's top story, but it seems to be winding down: only one story (Joe Steffen e-mails apology to mayor, Ehrlich and O'Malley move on, Dems call for investigations, Steffen less apologetic on continued FreeRepublic.com posts: by Laura Vozzella and Sumathi Reddy) and one column in The Sun today. The usually tepid Michael Olesker gets points for going hard after the bad guys rather than showing too much sympathy for Mr. and Mrs. O'Mayor, as his colleague Dan Rodricks did yesterday.
For all your Rumorgate needs, here's the Sun's mini-site. Best third-day story award goes to the Post, with this one, by Matthew Mosk, which look in to Steffen's efforts to purge Democrats employed within the state bureaucracy. The D.C. paper, however, is one day late with its blogger piece, by Mosk and David Snyder.
For all your Rumorgate needs, here's the Sun's mini-site. Best third-day story award goes to the Post, with this one, by Matthew Mosk, which look in to Steffen's efforts to purge Democrats employed within the state bureaucracy. The D.C. paper, however, is one day late with its blogger piece, by Mosk and David Snyder.
Life in Prison
The recent prison bus strangling death of Philip E. Parker Jr. is, of course, tragic. But for close readers, it offers nearly offhand details that provide a somewhat harrowing look into prison life and the justice system. Today's Sun story, by Greg Garland, reveals that one reason guards couldn't see what was happening was because the lights in the bus were broken!? Also, prosecutors are clearly relieved that the crime apparently took place in Baltimore County (near the I-70/Beltway interchange), where juries are much more likely to apply the death penalty than in the city (the bus was headed from Hagerstown to Supermax). Previous stories (no mini-site, but an archives search will bring up several pieces) reveal more details that will make you want to write your state representative, whether you're a strict law-and-order type or in favor of prison reform. Read them all.
News Hole
Bay Bridge reconstruction even further delayed, till 2007. And the Easton Star Democrat's take.
House Majority Leader Kumar Barve promises, to The Washington Times, that a slots bill will reach the House floor.
Too many flu sufferers in Maryland (especially Baltimore area) force restrictions at hospitals.
Intercounty Connector to cost even more than expected.
Missed it: North Charles Street death lane at Homewood closes.
Stretching out the Southern Maryland land-sale scandal as long as they can, legislative Democrats call for further state land preservation. Unrelated, but they also want a higher minimum wage. Nice graphic with that one.
Second Hopkins death in two weeks ruled not foul play. Also from the News-Letter, Collegetown bus service expands.
In College Park, campus prepares for inevitable riot.
In business news: Guitar Center buys Frederick-based Music and Arts Center 60-store chain. Old Beltway-visible brewery sells for $14 million. Mega health club coming to Columbia.
From North Baltimore's Messenger: Neighbors--shock!--against new Notre Dame entranceway.
Dundalk's first female post office employee retires. Also from the Eagle "What's Up With That" explains the North Point Library.
Annapolis apartment fire leaves 12 homeless.
From The Carroll County Times, what every small-town reporter dreads: the committee story.
From Salisbury Daily Times, nudists lobby for return to Assateague.
It is a beautiful downtown, really: Residents urge Cumberland leaders to build downtown apartments.
House Majority Leader Kumar Barve promises, to The Washington Times, that a slots bill will reach the House floor.
Too many flu sufferers in Maryland (especially Baltimore area) force restrictions at hospitals.
Intercounty Connector to cost even more than expected.
Missed it: North Charles Street death lane at Homewood closes.
Stretching out the Southern Maryland land-sale scandal as long as they can, legislative Democrats call for further state land preservation. Unrelated, but they also want a higher minimum wage. Nice graphic with that one.
Second Hopkins death in two weeks ruled not foul play. Also from the News-Letter, Collegetown bus service expands.
In College Park, campus prepares for inevitable riot.
In business news: Guitar Center buys Frederick-based Music and Arts Center 60-store chain. Old Beltway-visible brewery sells for $14 million. Mega health club coming to Columbia.
From North Baltimore's Messenger: Neighbors--shock!--against new Notre Dame entranceway.
Dundalk's first female post office employee retires. Also from the Eagle "What's Up With That" explains the North Point Library.
Annapolis apartment fire leaves 12 homeless.
From The Carroll County Times, what every small-town reporter dreads: the committee story.
From Salisbury Daily Times, nudists lobby for return to Assateague.
It is a beautiful downtown, really: Residents urge Cumberland leaders to build downtown apartments.
Feature Hole
The Jewish Times' Alan H. Feiler looks at what went wrong with the attempt to get downtown-living young Jews to go to the Orthodox synagogue on Lloyd Street.
Another interview, from the Dundalk Eagle's Joseph Giordano, with Sparrows Point steel-making historian Mark Reutter.
From the Post's Donna Peremes, Assatague in the winter.
The Sun's Jeff Zrebiec on UM vs. Duke riot prevention. And the Sun's David Kohn on early autism detection.
Another interview, from the Dundalk Eagle's Joseph Giordano, with Sparrows Point steel-making historian Mark Reutter.
From the Post's Donna Peremes, Assatague in the winter.
The Sun's Jeff Zrebiec on UM vs. Duke riot prevention. And the Sun's David Kohn on early autism detection.
From Elsewhere
From its news service, the Army honorably discharges its first black chaplain, a Civil War-era, Prince George's County-born man who had been court-martialed and dismissed due to alcohol consumption.
The Insurance Journal on state Insurance Commissioner Alfred Redmer's auto insurance task force.
From the Hudson Reporter, Jersey City wants its own Power Plant.
Missed it: Is John Waters too racy for NPR Saturday mornings? Yes.
The New Yorker slips when it writes about people younger than, say, 50, but not a bad story, by Rebecca Mead, from a few weeks back on the Timonium boys who made large dollars with CollegeHumor.com.
The Insurance Journal on state Insurance Commissioner Alfred Redmer's auto insurance task force.
From the Hudson Reporter, Jersey City wants its own Power Plant.
Missed it: Is John Waters too racy for NPR Saturday mornings? Yes.
The New Yorker slips when it writes about people younger than, say, 50, but not a bad story, by Rebecca Mead, from a few weeks back on the Timonium boys who made large dollars with CollegeHumor.com.
Around the Dial
On WYPR (88.1 FM)'s The Marc Steiner Show: "The Signal" Maryland cultural show at noon, and Anthony McCarthy leads the weekly news-roundup round table at 1.
On MPT, Sen. Lisa Gladden (D-Baltimore City) and Del. Herbert H. McMillan (R-Anne Arundel County) face off on State Circle at 7:30. On ArtWorks, on Saturday at 9 a.m., guests include Baltimore artist Edna K. Emmet and AVAM gift-shop "ringmaster" Ted Frankel.
On MPT, Sen. Lisa Gladden (D-Baltimore City) and Del. Herbert H. McMillan (R-Anne Arundel County) face off on State Circle at 7:30. On ArtWorks, on Saturday at 9 a.m., guests include Baltimore artist Edna K. Emmet and AVAM gift-shop "ringmaster" Ted Frankel.
Alt-Weeklies Elsewhere
Yesterday, movies and sex; today, just sex:
In Vancouver's Georgia Straight, Gail Johnson masturbates for about 2,100 words about, well masturbation.
And in Pittsburgh City Paper, Marty Levine gives it up for religious abstinence programs.
In Vancouver's Georgia Straight, Gail Johnson masturbates for about 2,100 words about, well masturbation.
And in Pittsburgh City Paper, Marty Levine gives it up for religious abstinence programs.
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Rumorgate: Day 2
What a weird thing this O'Malley marriage rumor debacle has turned out to be. While it's fascinating like a car wreck, I'm not sure it's actually means anything besides the obvious political implications. (If it does mean anything, find out what in this Sun story by Abigail Tucker and Stephen Kiehl about How the Internet Has Changed Everything. A good story for its type, but it could have been written two, five, maybe even seven years ago, with just the names changed.) As for the politics, it gives O'Malley a way to get on cameras, pout, act the aggrieved party, to be the victim, which hopefully gains him viewers'/listners'/readers' sympathy, aka votes; in a way the mayor's public denunciation of the rumors yesterday was much like Gov. Ehrlich's now infamous respect State of the State speech a couple of weeks back. O'Malley's the better performer, though.
Anyway, on to the links. The Sun, for sure, gave this thing the full court press, with no fewer than seven news stories and columns. Thankfully, like it often does, Calvert Street has put together a mini-site of all related stories. No fancy cable-news-network catch-all title, though; it's just O'Malley rumor controversy. Besides the aforementioned pieces, check out Jonathan D. Rockoff's profile of the rumormonger himself, Maryland Republican operative Joseph Steffen Jr. Sounds like a real prince, this guy: "Former colleagues said he preferred to wear dark clothing and work behind closed doors, with the lights off. Away from work, he writes horror and science fiction stories." Also interesting is the usually on-the-ball Dan Rodricks, who I think gives the Mr. and Mrs. O'Mayor a tad too much sympathy. Yes, "two people who have given many of their 40-something years to public service, standing in front of TV cameras, photographers and reporters to deny what some creeps said about them on the Internet and elsewhere." But it was also a political opportunity for those two people. However, he gets it dead right when he goes after the, ahem, bloggers: "You can go on the Web site Joe Steffen fed with rumors about O'Malley, read the entries and feel your eyes glaze with boredom and with the weight of sad reality that so much human time and energy goes into divisive and hateful rhetoric and not enough into public service."
Elsewhere: Washington Post stories here and here. Associated Press, via The Washington Times, here. New York Times story here.
Also, can't help but wonder if the O'Malleys are a bit thankful this came along when it did, as the mayor made some more of his trademark dumb comparing-Bush-budget-cuts-to-9/11 remarks just a few days ago?-which he "clarified" yesterday on The Al Franken Show(?!)--allowing both Ehrlich and Republicans and his probable Democratic gubernatorial foe, Mont. Co. Exec. Doug Duncan, to pile on. They couldn't have asked for a better distraction.
More on the W.R. Grace/Montana case: Turns out a Beltsville (P.G. County) shop got some of the asbestos-tainted vermiculite from Grace's Libby, Mont., facility.
Feds take over Harwood (that would be yours truly's neighborhood) firebombing case.
In other business news, Gap closes distribution facility in Harford County, lays off 170. Hopefully not a trend, as those huge warehouses just off 95 provide thousands of steady jobs up there. And in Hunt Valley, circuit board manufacturer Sanmina-SCI to close plant and lay off 75 (from same collection of briefs: Randallstown to get a Wal-Mart). But maybe jobs for Salisbury, thanks to a, ugh, call center.
Baltimore-born cardinal gets to be pope for a day.
Couple days old, from the Afro-American: City firehouse named for former chief Herman Williams.
Also a couple days old, but I'm still learning when these newspapers update their sites. Anyway, from the Jewish Times, breakaway group forms new Orthodox synagogue in Northwest Baltimore. Also from the JT, Detour Dave wants to build a stadium for Owings Mills High.
Yes, old: New Rotunda owner pledges no big-box stores.
Commuter bus line over the Bay Bridge? According to the Easton Star Democrat, maybe.
From The Jeffersonian, Perry Hall Fair searches for a new location.
Towson U. C- debate resolved.
From the Towson Times, Kenilworth Mall may have stolen the Bead from the Rotunda, but it's losing Herman's Bakery.
Dog Bites Man: Lifelong Catonsvillean, and new Balto Co Exec Jim Smith spokesman, loves Baltimore County.
Dog Bites Man 2: Drinkers more likely to "die from injury".
The Diamondback's Jared A. Favole finds that UMd police chief takes job very seriously.
An OK look at this year's oyster harvest from Pamela Wood in Annapolis Capitol.
East Baltimorean Mark Reutter writes history of Sparrows Point steel-making, and the Sun's Carl Schoettler does the interview. And Jonathan Pitts interviews Richard Hoff about the Dime Museum's new exhibit on morturary science.
The Carroll County Times' Robert Brodsky gets a ride-around with Manchester cop.
Go Look: Really tiny stuff at Johns Hopkins, from the Magazine.
MPT's Business Connection talks with entrepreneurs, including Elkridge-based Palisades Toys CEO Michael Horn. Also on MPT, a broadcast of the Strathmore's opening night, Saturday, Feb. 5, delayed due to "technical difficulties."
From the Hindu Business Line, Maryland happy to work with Indian IT and biotech folks.
Only tangenitally related to Maryland--the movie was screened at Camp David--but how can one not link to a story about Leonid Brezhnev watching True Grit? From the Chicago Tribune, via The Wichita Eagle.
More on Hubble defunding, from Nature.
To keep it on the movie tip, the San Francisco Bay Guardian's Lynn Rapoport finds the dark heart of date movies.
Anyway, on to the links. The Sun, for sure, gave this thing the full court press, with no fewer than seven news stories and columns. Thankfully, like it often does, Calvert Street has put together a mini-site of all related stories. No fancy cable-news-network catch-all title, though; it's just O'Malley rumor controversy. Besides the aforementioned pieces, check out Jonathan D. Rockoff's profile of the rumormonger himself, Maryland Republican operative Joseph Steffen Jr. Sounds like a real prince, this guy: "Former colleagues said he preferred to wear dark clothing and work behind closed doors, with the lights off. Away from work, he writes horror and science fiction stories." Also interesting is the usually on-the-ball Dan Rodricks, who I think gives the Mr. and Mrs. O'Mayor a tad too much sympathy. Yes, "two people who have given many of their 40-something years to public service, standing in front of TV cameras, photographers and reporters to deny what some creeps said about them on the Internet and elsewhere." But it was also a political opportunity for those two people. However, he gets it dead right when he goes after the, ahem, bloggers: "You can go on the Web site Joe Steffen fed with rumors about O'Malley, read the entries and feel your eyes glaze with boredom and with the weight of sad reality that so much human time and energy goes into divisive and hateful rhetoric and not enough into public service."
Elsewhere: Washington Post stories here and here. Associated Press, via The Washington Times, here. New York Times story here.
Also, can't help but wonder if the O'Malleys are a bit thankful this came along when it did, as the mayor made some more of his trademark dumb comparing-Bush-budget-cuts-to-9/11 remarks just a few days ago?-which he "clarified" yesterday on The Al Franken Show(?!)--allowing both Ehrlich and Republicans and his probable Democratic gubernatorial foe, Mont. Co. Exec. Doug Duncan, to pile on. They couldn't have asked for a better distraction.
Irredemption
While he has been more contrite in the past, even after getting shot, the Rev. Maurice Blackwell, charged with sexual abuse, now demonstrates that he's not going down without a fight. Like I said yesterday, this is a story that just gets more fascinating, since both men involved--Blackwell and the man he's accused of molesting and who later shot him three times, Dontee Stokes--are sympathetic, complicated human beings.Around the State
Round 3 on slots begins. Sun story here. Post story here. Washington Times story here. And a decent localized story--ties it into horse farms--from the Hagerstown Herald-Mail here.More on the W.R. Grace/Montana case: Turns out a Beltsville (P.G. County) shop got some of the asbestos-tainted vermiculite from Grace's Libby, Mont., facility.
Feds take over Harwood (that would be yours truly's neighborhood) firebombing case.
In other business news, Gap closes distribution facility in Harford County, lays off 170. Hopefully not a trend, as those huge warehouses just off 95 provide thousands of steady jobs up there. And in Hunt Valley, circuit board manufacturer Sanmina-SCI to close plant and lay off 75 (from same collection of briefs: Randallstown to get a Wal-Mart). But maybe jobs for Salisbury, thanks to a, ugh, call center.
Baltimore-born cardinal gets to be pope for a day.
Couple days old, from the Afro-American: City firehouse named for former chief Herman Williams.
Also a couple days old, but I'm still learning when these newspapers update their sites. Anyway, from the Jewish Times, breakaway group forms new Orthodox synagogue in Northwest Baltimore. Also from the JT, Detour Dave wants to build a stadium for Owings Mills High.
Yes, old: New Rotunda owner pledges no big-box stores.
Commuter bus line over the Bay Bridge? According to the Easton Star Democrat, maybe.
From The Jeffersonian, Perry Hall Fair searches for a new location.
Towson U. C- debate resolved.
From the Towson Times, Kenilworth Mall may have stolen the Bead from the Rotunda, but it's losing Herman's Bakery.
Dog Bites Man: Lifelong Catonsvillean, and new Balto Co Exec Jim Smith spokesman, loves Baltimore County.
Dog Bites Man 2: Drinkers more likely to "die from injury".
The Diamondback's Jared A. Favole finds that UMd police chief takes job very seriously.
Feature Hole
Sniff: Enchanted Forest characters move from dilapidated Ellicott City site to nearby farm.An OK look at this year's oyster harvest from Pamela Wood in Annapolis Capitol.
East Baltimorean Mark Reutter writes history of Sparrows Point steel-making, and the Sun's Carl Schoettler does the interview. And Jonathan Pitts interviews Richard Hoff about the Dime Museum's new exhibit on morturary science.
The Carroll County Times' Robert Brodsky gets a ride-around with Manchester cop.
Go Look: Really tiny stuff at Johns Hopkins, from the Magazine.
Around the Dial
On WYPR (88.1 FM)'s The Marc Steiner Show "Statehouse Watch" at noon, Afghanistan doc director Carmela Baranowska at 1.MPT's Business Connection talks with entrepreneurs, including Elkridge-based Palisades Toys CEO Michael Horn. Also on MPT, a broadcast of the Strathmore's opening night, Saturday, Feb. 5, delayed due to "technical difficulties."
Elsewhere
The LA Times' Stephen Braun harder on city officials than the NYT was yesterday.From the Hindu Business Line, Maryland happy to work with Indian IT and biotech folks.
Only tangenitally related to Maryland--the movie was screened at Camp David--but how can one not link to a story about Leonid Brezhnev watching True Grit? From the Chicago Tribune, via The Wichita Eagle.
More on Hubble defunding, from Nature.
In Other Alt-Weeklies
Brian Grazer, of all people, has produced a documentary on Deep Throat, Inside Deep Throat, so there's gonna be lots of navel-gazing porn pieces coming out. This one, from the Boston Phoenix's Peter Keough, will probably end up being one of the better ones.To keep it on the movie tip, the San Francisco Bay Guardian's Lynn Rapoport finds the dark heart of date movies.
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Source Found
For those who had been doubting the Mayor O'Malley marriage rumors—like us—but wondering what the source was, wonder no longer. It was Gov. Ehrlich associate Joseph Steffen, director of communications at the Maryland Insurance Administration, who posted the rumors on FreeRepublic.com. He resigned. Sun story; Post story. Money quote: Steffen says of the guv's knowledge of the Freepers, "I don't even think he knows where the Web site is."
Update: O'Malley responds
Christina Royster-Hemby wraps up her two-part series on West Baltimore's historic Pennsylvania Avenue. Here is the first part. Ever visited the Billie Holiday statue on the Avenue? Until you make it over there, take a look. While you're at it, BillieHoliday.com isn't a bad place to visit, either.
In Mobtown Beat, Gadi Dechter writes about a family's lawsuit against Johns Hopkins Hospital due to a possibly botched hemispherectomy surgery. We wondered what a hemispherectomy was, too. Go to Epilepsy.com to learn more.
Bunch of good interviews in the A&E section. Dechter talks to Dante James, creator of the PBS documentary Slavery and the Making of America. Check out the PBS site for the series. And Bret McCabe talks to Peabody Institute percussion instructor and renowned composer Jonathan Haas. Haas also has his own web site.
Priestly abuse victim Dontee Stokes' transformation into a folk hero of sorts is problematic—he did end up shooting that priest—but his story is fascinating. As the sexual child abuse trial of Rev. Maurice Blackwell approaches, The Sun catches up with Stokes.
GM's Broening Highway plant gets a closing date: May 13.
Prisoners getting smarter.
The Sun has a good suite of stories and columns on the developing Montana lawsuit against Columbia-based chemical giant W.R. Grace here, here, and here. The Post's second-day stories on same here.
In other business news, city seeks development proposals for the old Chesapeake Restaurant near the Charles and Everyman theaters.
Yesterday's federal budget reveal pretty much proclaimed the end of the Hubble Space Telescope. Tom Howell Jr. at UM's Diamondback has a good second day story. Also from the D-back, you can't go wrong with a story about bats dying due to huge turbines in West Virginia.
From the Capitol, Annapolis gets a BearCat, a huge armored vehicle that looks, according to one guy quoted, "like something out of Northern Ireland."
C- debate rages at Towson U.
Forty-five bucks, by plane, from BWI to Ocean City? Maybe, according to the Salisbury Daily Times.
Alleged underage drinking leads to SGA investigation at Loyola College.
Shock: In The Catholic Review, on the same day pro-stem cell research bill proposed in state legislature, Maryland Catholic Conference/Right to Life-sponsored poll finds about 70 percent of Marylanders against it.
Goucher College seems like such a pleasant place, but apparently not.
The New York Times: Baltimore City murderers and their victims? Same people.
Sounds tacky, but this you-are-the-slave (in Maryland) game from National Geographic is actually tasteful and educational.
Also from the Times: Good story on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's semi-move to North Bethesda's Strathmore Hall and its implications for Baltimore, symphony orchestras, etc.
Seattle Weekly's Brian Miller nearly died climbing in the North Cascades last summer. He tells his story here.
It's tough when you are the gentrifier (residents of Columbia Heights, in this Washington City Paper story). A similar story could probably be done about the messboard denizens of, say, Bolton Hill.
Pretty amazing story in the LA Weekly about a guy trying to take down murderous prison gang the Aryan Brotherhood.
City dog pounds suck everywhere, including, according to the Press, in Houston.
Trend worth tracking: Not only are the numbers of minorities declining at major state universities, but also rural white boys. Atlanta's Creative Loafing takes a look at the University of Georgia.
Update: O'Malley responds
In This Week's City Paper
Christina Royster-Hemby wraps up her two-part series on West Baltimore's historic Pennsylvania Avenue. Here is the first part. Ever visited the Billie Holiday statue on the Avenue? Until you make it over there, take a look. While you're at it, BillieHoliday.com isn't a bad place to visit, either.
In Mobtown Beat, Gadi Dechter writes about a family's lawsuit against Johns Hopkins Hospital due to a possibly botched hemispherectomy surgery. We wondered what a hemispherectomy was, too. Go to Epilepsy.com to learn more.
Bunch of good interviews in the A&E section. Dechter talks to Dante James, creator of the PBS documentary Slavery and the Making of America. Check out the PBS site for the series. And Bret McCabe talks to Peabody Institute percussion instructor and renowned composer Jonathan Haas. Haas also has his own web site.
Redemption
Priestly abuse victim Dontee Stokes' transformation into a folk hero of sorts is problematic—he did end up shooting that priest—but his story is fascinating. As the sexual child abuse trial of Rev. Maurice Blackwell approaches, The Sun catches up with Stokes.
Around the State
GM's Broening Highway plant gets a closing date: May 13.
Prisoners getting smarter.
The Sun has a good suite of stories and columns on the developing Montana lawsuit against Columbia-based chemical giant W.R. Grace here, here, and here. The Post's second-day stories on same here.
In other business news, city seeks development proposals for the old Chesapeake Restaurant near the Charles and Everyman theaters.
Yesterday's federal budget reveal pretty much proclaimed the end of the Hubble Space Telescope. Tom Howell Jr. at UM's Diamondback has a good second day story. Also from the D-back, you can't go wrong with a story about bats dying due to huge turbines in West Virginia.
From the Capitol, Annapolis gets a BearCat, a huge armored vehicle that looks, according to one guy quoted, "like something out of Northern Ireland."
C- debate rages at Towson U.
Forty-five bucks, by plane, from BWI to Ocean City? Maybe, according to the Salisbury Daily Times.
Alleged underage drinking leads to SGA investigation at Loyola College.
Shock: In The Catholic Review, on the same day pro-stem cell research bill proposed in state legislature, Maryland Catholic Conference/Right to Life-sponsored poll finds about 70 percent of Marylanders against it.
Goucher College seems like such a pleasant place, but apparently not.
Elsewhere
The New York Times: Baltimore City murderers and their victims? Same people.
Sounds tacky, but this you-are-the-slave (in Maryland) game from National Geographic is actually tasteful and educational.
Also from the Times: Good story on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's semi-move to North Bethesda's Strathmore Hall and its implications for Baltimore, symphony orchestras, etc.
In Other Alt-Weeklies
Seattle Weekly's Brian Miller nearly died climbing in the North Cascades last summer. He tells his story here.
It's tough when you are the gentrifier (residents of Columbia Heights, in this Washington City Paper story). A similar story could probably be done about the messboard denizens of, say, Bolton Hill.
Pretty amazing story in the LA Weekly about a guy trying to take down murderous prison gang the Aryan Brotherhood.
City dog pounds suck everywhere, including, according to the Press, in Houston.
Trend worth tracking: Not only are the numbers of minorities declining at major state universities, but also rural white boys. Atlanta's Creative Loafing takes a look at the University of Georgia.
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