Category Archives: Decades

Awl-Mighty Mobs

By Brennen Jensen (Baltimore City Paper, 10/28/1998) On Nov. 3, Baltimoreans (well, about half of them anyway) will march to the polls to vote. Public schools will be closed and the evening’s sitcoms will be interrupted as the results trickle … Continue reading

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Baltimore Blogs on Crack

Baltimore Crime has links to two great Baltimore blogs we didn’t know about: The Relapse Diary and Not All Baltimore Chicks are Stupid. Visit baltimorecrime.blogspot.com for the links.

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A Night At Sid’s of Pigtown

Linnea Anderson hosts this TV story from 1978 which started out as a piece on shufflebowl but ended up as a slice of the kind of Baltimore strangeness that John Waters has been presenting to the world as fiction, but … Continue reading

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CNN: Savage beating, robbery caught on tape

(CNN, 4/9/2012) A man in Baltimore is beaten and stripped and the whole incident is caught on tape. CNN’s Lisa Sylvester reports. Related: “Video shows man beaten, stripped and robbed by Baltimore crowd” — The Raw Story Baltimore crime books … Continue reading

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