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11-1


This month!

A countdown! The top 5 things that have led me to a general boycott of the City Paper!

You may have wondered: “Who is this angry guy at the heart of this movement? What has poor old City Paper done to piss off this ‘Davey G’ character. I need SPECIFICS!!!”
Well here you go--for the next 5 Thursdays I will treat you to the top 5 things that the City Paper has done that has led me to this awful, dramatic breaking point. Enjoy.

Number 5: The handling of the closing of the Talking Head Club last winter.
I wrote about it here in my other blog, which contains a link to the article which you can read for yourself.

http://daveygandthekeyboard.blogspot.com/2007/01/talking-head-club-demise.html

It led to some good angry letters from City Paper Readers that pretty much explain it all. The Talking Head was a great little club that supported local music and was, dare I say, a cornerstone of the Baltimore scene. This article was a hatchet job of “journalism” that highlighted the owner’s criminal history in some sort of attempt to kick him when he was down. (luckily, the club has since reopened in the same space.) This alone was almost the moment I stopped reading forever because I was soooooooo pissed off.

Next week: Number 4 (duh!)



And here we go with the links…

Links to syndicated columns that appear in City Paper and other links to things that don’t appear in City Paper. So that you don’t have to read the City Paper.

Columns
Political Animal
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/10779
(sorry I linked to the same post twice--this really is the new P.A)

Savage Love
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove

Straight Dope.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/071102.html

Comics

This Modern World
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2007/10/29/tomo/index.html

The Maakies
http://www.maakies.com/

The Perry Bible Fellowship
http://www.pbfcomics.com/

Music/Events

Music happening this week!!!
http://www.bmoretunes.com/?p=53

Music sites.
http://www.bmorelive.com/

Clubs/Performance Spaces

http://www.talkingheadclub.com/
http://theottobar.com/
http://www.sidebartavern.com/
http://www.themetrogallery.net/
http://www.lofisocialclub.com/
http://www.redemmas.org/2640/
http://www.hamiltonarts.org/dhome/



Yin/Yang

Free Will Astrology!
http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/

Michael Shermer’s E-Skeptic Newsletter!
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-10-31.html


Thanks for Reading!

Ps--do you have a favorite movie review site? One that does the movies that are coming out that week? I’d like to link to something that isn’t as massive as IMDB that might be useful to readers. Leave a comment if you do!