http://www.citypaper.com/ Recent Baltimore City Paper Content. en-us Copyright 2008 Baltimore City Paper http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16221 UliBlog by Uli Loskot. Yoga is Purification, emotionally, physically and energetically. A basic Sivananda Yoga class consists of the same 12 Asanas (postures). They are easy to remember and are repeated until the student is ready for the next level. By keeping to a routine we not only benefit the body, but also discipline... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16220 Quick and Dirty by Van Smith. Serial criminal Jose Joaquin Morales Jr. ("With Impunity," Feature, June 11) was supposed to be in Howard County Circuit Court on Aug. 18, answering to charges that he wrote a bad check for nearly $4,000 in construction materials from a Jessup supply store last fall. Instead, Morales was facing much... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16219 News Features by Anna Ditkoff. Murders This Week: 2 Murders This Year: 142 The man who died on June 22, some seven months after he was initially shot, was Eddie VanKirk, a 45-year-old Caucasian man. On Nov. 19, 2007, VanKirk was at home in the 300 block of South Parrish Street in Southwest Baltimore with two other people. Accor... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16217 Mobtown Beat by Van Smith. "I know of him, but I don't know him," Keiffer Mitchell Jr., former Baltimore city councilman and 2007 mayoral candidate, says when asked about Milton Tillman Jr., the Baltimore bondsman and real-estate investor whose business interests were targeted in Aug. 18 federal law-enforcement raids at seve... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16216 Mobtown Beat by Van Smith. Until recently, Xpress Bail Bonds was best known for its RV. It's the black one that's been parking for years along the Fallsway near the city jail complex, with the company's name painted brightly on all sides ("Going Mobile," Quick and Dirty, May 11, 2005). On Aug. 18, though, it was not the RV,... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16215 Mobtown Beat by Jeffrey Anderson. For more than a decade, Samuel A. Hinton has been a bailbondsman for Milton Tillman Jr. and his son Milton Tillman III, whose offices and other properties were raided on Aug. 18 by FBI and IRS agents in a criminal probe of one of the city's most powerful families. While Tillman Jr. is a well-known... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16214 Mobtown Beat by Jeffrey Anderson. To white-collar prosecutors he's a target. According to Drug Enforcement Agency documents and a deceased narcotics prosecutor, he's a violent drug trafficker. But to people he's done business with and public officials who know him, he's a plain, soft-spoken, and successful minority businessman. ... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16213 Feature by Julia Hall. Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, had been detained at Guantánamo Bay for six and a half years when his trial by military commission commenced on July 21. It would be the first military commission convened by the U.S. government since the Nuremberg trials of 1945-'49, and, as such, a hi... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16212 Feedbag by Mary Zajac. Calling all imbibers: Get thyselves to Harford Road. After five months of construction, Northeast Baltimore's latest watering hole, the Hamilton Tavern (5517 Hamilton Avenue), opened a little over a week ago. Newly renovated by Brewer's Art partner Tom Creegan, the joint boasts tin ceilings, wood fl... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16210 Noise by Al Shipley. In 2004, VH1 aired Bands Reunited, a series in which a host would ambush members of defunct bands on camera and try to convince them to reunite, for at least a one-off gig. Some of the bands balked, while most went along with it. It was always surprising that the members of Squeeze, the British new-... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=16209 Social Studies by Vincent Williams. According to news reports, actor Julius Carry died on Aug. 19 from pancreatic cancer, and I'm a little broke up about it. The actor had been a staple in Hollywood for 40 years, appearing in a plethora of TV shows, such as The Jeffersons, 227, Murphy Brown, and Caroline in the City, and co-starring... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=16207 Stage by John Barry. You know what the problem is with theater? That question gets asked at the opening of Helena Troy, Rich Espey's latest entry to the Baltimore Playwrights Festival. The answer, given at the end: "You may love the theater. But it doesn't love you back." Helena Troy is a big, fat bear hug of community... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=16206 Music by Michael Byrne. WEDNESDAY: Philly pop-rock outfit Valencia plays the Ottobar with a like-minded cast of openers including Sing It Loud, Single File, Cash Cash, and North Col. Reggae crooner Beres Hammond puts a spell on Rams Head Live with the Iternals. THURSDAY: College Park's Dance Party brings its over-the-top... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=16205 The Arts by Al Shipley. It's a Tuesday night at a recreation center in Reservoir Hill, and the Dream Nation Marching Unit is practicing for a parade that Saturday, one of three practices it holds this week. In one room, dozens of dancers, mostly teenage girls, run through their steps with a drum major, while two of the wo... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16204 The Mail. City Paper's Aug. 20 feature, "Press Release," is a generally well-written and thoughtful article regarding the reduction in Sun newsroom staff and the potential result of that decision: a poorer-quality product. Many of the current challenges at The Sun are germane to all American newspapers, bu... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=16202 Books by Joab Jackson. Whenever I invite some new lady friend back to Chez Joab for the first time, I invariably run into the same problem: Her arrival is preceded with about four hours of frantic house cleaning on my part. And about halfway through my tizzy of scrubbing and scraping and mopping, a sense of futility sets... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=16201 Art by Bret McCabe. Something is quietly foul in the bright paintings of Lori Larusso currently on view in the gallery space Jordan Faye Block curates inside the Case[werks] showroom at the Railway Express building, and it's not always the obvious. Take "Imminent Danger," one of the nine paintings included in Leisurel... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=16200 Political Animal by Brian Morton. In the spring of 1988, I was work-ing in radio news in Washington, D.C., and often the editor on the desk at the time would send reporters out into the street to get comment on the "issue of the morning." In the business, this pointless, time-filling and uninformative exercise is called the "man on... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/comics/story.asp?id=16199 Comics by Chris Minetree. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com//story.asp?id=16198 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/comics/story.asp?id=16197 Comics by Emily Flake. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/comics/story.asp?id=16196 Comics by Ben Claassen III. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16193 The News Hole by Anna Ditkoff. Teon White, a 25-year-old African-American man, was shot repeatedly in the 2100 block of Koko Lane in West Baltimore on July 28, 2006. Jonathan Everett, a then-20-year-old African-American man, was arrested several months later in St. Louis and was convicted of White's murder on Aug. 20, 2007. He wa... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16192 The News Hole by Chris Landers. IRS agents today returned search warrants executed on properties and business connected to one of Baltimore's largest bail bondsmen Milton Tillman, Jr. and his son, Milton Tillman III. According to court records, agents were looking for evidence of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, tax evasion, an... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16191 The News Hole by Van Smith. Ioannis "Crazy John" Kafouros has been a federal fugitive (see the "Wanted" poster here) since he skipped town nearly a decade ago, rather than face federal sentencing for his part in an interstate stolen-goods conspiracy based in Baltimore. When Kafouros disappeared, law-enforcement authorities tol... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16190 UliBlog by Uli Loskot. After 2 weeks body and mind work at the Bodytree Ana and I are signed up to study yoga at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwanthari Ashram in Nayyar Dam. The Ashram is only about a two hour drive from Kallar, a beautiful drive through small tropical villages and sits on the edge of a lake bordering a... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16189 Noise by Al Shipley. In the past six months, we've been noting more and more shows of interest going on at the Black Hole Rock Club, a recently rechristened Dundalk venue previously known as the Zu. We'd been procrastinating checking it out because we so rarely make it to that part of the Baltimore metro area for any ot... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16187 S/Hitlist by Bret McCabe. Sabbatical Exhibition Decker Gallery, Fox Building, 1303 Mount Royal Ave. Aug. 22-Sept. 7 Reception: Thursday, Sept. 5, 5-7 p.m. The Maryland Institute College of Art starts off its fall 2008 exhibition schedule with an annual trio of shows featuring the works of students, faculty, and faculty retur... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16186 S/Hitlist by Bret McCabe. The Maryland Institute College of Art unveiled its latest campus project and addition to the Baltimore City skyline at a press conference this morning: the Gateway, a mixed-used residential and studio space located at the supremely visible corner of North and Mount Royal avenues. The building, desig... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16185 Noise by Michael Byrne. Panther playing the Talking Head Tuesday night wasn't a bad show. It just felt like one of those somewhat perfunctory, minor-league touring indie band Baltimore stops that happens before a crowd of less than 20 people where you can just tell the band would really rather be dozing in its van at a res... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST