In This Week's City Paper

In the cover feature, Terrie Snyder continues her chat with former Baltimore police commissioner Edward Norris. No specific links this time, but check out the Baltimore Crime blog for all your, well, Baltimore crime needs.

In Mobtown Beat, Stephen Janis goes on strike with local ACORN activists, who are protesting Baltimore rent court’s high rate of evictions. Links worth clicking: Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc.’s Rent Court and Evictions FAQ, and the Abell Foundation’s March 2003 report on evictions "A System in Collapse". In Quick and Dirty, Van Smith adds up Robert Rohrbaugh’s early going as the state’s new special prosecutor. For further details on Rohrbaugh’s litigation, check out this S.A. Miller Washington Times piece.

In Arts & Entertainment, Violet Glaze catches up with author/lawyer/former Baltimorean/former City Paper serialized novelist Michael Kun, who’s fashioned a new book, You Poor Monster, out of that 36-installment 1993 serial, then-titled Our Poor Napolean. For more on the author, now in Los Angeles, from the CP archives, see Michael Yockel’s story on Kun’s 2003 book The Locklear Letters.

Music City USA

We Read It for the Articles: Ryan Kennedy, writing for artsy-fartsy porn site Nerve, gets dirty digging up Baltimore club music.

Juicy: After reading this Brownsville, Texas, Herald article by Kathleen Gwynn, we know one thing: Oranges Band (playing in Austin) frontman Roman Kuebler = big X-Files nerd.