At around 1:50 a.m. on Aug. 8, just two days after Baltimore’s first 72-hour Ceasefire, Dejuane Beverly was shot near a house on Liberty and Tulsa roads. He died. Police found no motive. No suspect was arrested. Naturally, Dejuane’s mother Dedrah Johnson was caught completely off guard. It was the last thing she expected to […]
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The government’s case against J20 defendants sets low bar for conspiracy charges
A year ago, after the election of Donald Trump, Dylan Petrohilos hung an Antifa flag out in front of his house. “I had [the flag] flying outside my home because Trump was elected and there was a belief he was a fascist, and so we had this idea that we needed to bring back the […]
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LabBodies’ third annual performance art review channels pain into resistance
At the Friday night opening for LabBodies’ third annual performance art survey, I smell at different moments burning incense and the strange, hot aroma of bricks colliding and shattering—the latter I haven’t recognized before but likely encountered passing demolition sites. In each case, the sources of these scents are threatening bodily harm to the artists […]
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The Room’s Andre Mazelin makes the jump to The Motor House
Andre Mazelin’s laid-back Mount Vernon lounge The Room didn’t seem to doing badly. The place, which he opened in 2016, quickly became a spot where people in the area knew they could get light bites like sandwiches and bagels, or hang out with a laptop and a beer or a glass of wine. So people […]
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Organizer Erricka Bridgeford talks about how the ceasefire has changed her and changed Baltimore
Just a few days after the second 72-hour Baltimore Ceasefire weekend, which ran from Nov. 3-5, Erricka Bridgeford and I are sitting in her car in her old Rosemont neighborhood escaping the cold and rain. She has a bit of a cough and she’s just off a speaking engagement at the Community College of Baltimore […]
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Land Of Kush gives Baltimore an education in healthier eating
Sitting in the Land of Kush (840 N. Eutaw St., [410] 225-5874, landofkush.com) one morning just before the Seton Hill vegan restaurant opens for the day, husband and wife owners Naijha Wright-Brown and Gregory Brown reflect on how people are clamoring for information about vegetarian and vegan eating. Their restaurant, which has been in business […]
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300 Gangstas give away turkeys and counter the non-profit industrial complex
Last year, 300 Gangstas, a radically pragmatic collective of organizers and reformed gang members, gave out about 100 donated turkeys to families in need on Monument Street, all the while also hosting a block party, dropping plenty of knowledge, and clothing and feeding the homeless, and this year they’ll do it again. “Our goal is […]
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Writers In Baltimore Schools students interview Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Back in September, three high school students involved in Writers in Baltimore Schools—Anastasia Farley, Maia Washington, and Cin’Shea Williams—were tasked with delivering remarks on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2003 novel, “The Purple Hibiscus,” which Maryland Humanities had chosen as the One Maryland One Book read for 2017. The students are writers; they perform their work for […]
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Blue Frost, a menthol-like strain that’ll make you think too much
Right after swallowing a big, unforgiving bong hit of Blue Frost, an indica dominant strain that crosses Blue Monster and Jack Frost that—although it’s 40 percent sativa—feels almost entirely like a lumbering indica, all kinds of confusion set in. About the baffling ’90s at first and eventually about everything else, but then an elusive body […]
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“Planes, Trains and Automobiles” screening at the Parkway conjures solidarity, skewers rich dicks
Like 1987’s dystopian satire “Robocop,” John Hughes’ 1987 romp “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” is a late, Reagan-era comedy about what happens when machines that were built to make society run smoother (especially for people with money) start breaking down. Not only do these inventions fail to inoculate the upper class from general disrepair, they propel […]