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Between the Buttons: You Are What You Wear
Rock 'n' Roll's Badges of Honor(Creem magazine feature: May 1980)"What button you wear says a lot. People can immediately tell if they might have something in common with you. They may detect a...
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How To Get By at the Towson Book Sale on $3 a Day
A Tale of Horrid Hunters & Cloying CollectorsĀ I splurged this weekend on gas, Boston Market chicken, and car repairs, so by the time I realized that Sunday was the last day of the Friends of the...
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SASsy Regulars at the Pratt Library
(This is the original post I wrote about some of the more interesting people that frequent the library where I work. A much shorter, edited version will appear later on Pratt's blog site. - TW)Here at...
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Record Store Documentaries
Record Store DayApril 20, 2013www.recordstoreday.com"Here I am a record on a jukebox/A little piece of plastic with a hole - oh!/Play me - Play me and my plastic turns to gold"- 10cc, "Worst Band in...
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Reinventing the Wheel: Of Dirtballs & Dumbbells in Towson
Baltimore County Councilman Todd Huff (Photo, Baltimore County Police Department)Back in February of this year, Baltimore County councilman Todd Huff was arrested on suspicion of driving under the...
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SASsy Regular "Orpheum George" Figgs
(Following is a profile of local film luminary George Figgs that I wrote - in corporate-friendly "perky voice" - for my workplace's blog. Librarians love George! - Tom Warner)"Orpheum George" FiggsĀ How...
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Marble Bar Redux returns to SoWeBo 2013
Mark Harp returns in spirit to SoWeBo FestI'm really looking forward to this year's Memorial Weekend highlight, the 30th annual SoWeBohemian Arts & Music Festival (aka the SoWeBo Arts & Music...
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Remembering Memorial Day in Baltimore with crabs & beer
Local hero dreams of being back in Baltimore with hard-shelled crabs and beer.Today marks the 145th anniversary of Memorial Day, a day to honor those men and women, both nationally and right here in...
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SoWeBo 2013 Recap
Redux Stage celebrates music long gone but far from forgottenIt was the best of times, it was the Worz of times (yes, perpetually frenetic scenester Keith Worz was there!) at the 30th annual...
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Last Year at Marienbad
Ā Or: Defining the words "Art Film" for a generationPratt Library's typo edition of "Last Year at Marienbad" directed by "Alain Reanais" (sic) instead of Alain Resnais"Unforgettable in both its...
View ArticleMy Back Journals: "Gonzo" Screening, 2008 Maryland Film Festival
In the midst of life we are in death, and in in the midst of moving I am in near-death as I keep finding all sorts of scribblings, clippings, journals, zines, magazines and post-it notes that have - or...
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What Is and What Should Never Be
On June 19, 1987, Baltimore's City Paper celebrated its 10th anniversary of publishing with a giant special issue called "10 Years in Baltimore." One of the outstanding features, previously never...
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God's Angry Man
Dr. Gene Scott is mad as hell and (R.I.P.) he's not taking it any more!GOD'S ANGRY MAN (FERNSEPREDIGER)Directed by Werner Herzog(West Germany, 1981, 16mm, color, 45 minutes)This is an amazing one of a...
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Dylan's Baltimore Song Still Raising Cane 50 Years Later
by Tom Warner (October 23, 2013) - The northwest corner of Baltimore and Calvert streets, where the main office of the SunTrust Bank now stands, was the setting for one of Bob Dylan's best songs and...
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Kitty Kultists
My girlfriend Amy and I are still unpacking boxes from our September move into a new house. We packed a lot of junk, of course, that we are having second thoughts about holding onto in our new, smaller...
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Viva La Difference: French Football's Naked Ambition
A Nation is Happy To Sing Les BleusEven if you don't follow world soccer (the real "football"), you have to applaud the after-effects of the French national team's dramatic qualification for the 2014...
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A Hard Day's Blight
The Walking Dead now talk - and have library cards!It's been a hard day's night, and I've been been working like a dog dealing with a bizarro alternate universe of humans known as library patrons....
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"How Do I...Do Everything?"
Why, Just Follow These Easy-to-Follow Steps!If you ever have a question about how to do, well, anything, just ask a librarian. We're here to help the helpless.The answer to all your queries, all your...
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John Waters encounters a Rogue Librarian in "Carsick"
One who collects the lowest of the lowbrow in literatureĀ I was momentarily confused when I first read a City Paperexcerpt from John Waters's latest book, Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America...
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What Makes the World Cup (Still) Great
Mr Boh knows!I ran into a friend at Sunday's HonFest in Hampden - where thankfully there hardly any faux hons parading around to annoy me - who saw my Brazil jersey and said, "I can't get into soccer,...
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