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The First Annual End of the World Show (1973)

Posted on June 16, 2014 by almosthipguy

[After spotting a framed poster for this legendary Johns Hopkins University event hanging on Robyn Webb’s wall, I checked the Internets (all of them!) and found this review by the guy who organized it all, Tom D’Antoni. The former Baltimore … Continue reading →

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Tom D’Antoni: People seem dumber in Baltimore

Posted on January 9, 2014 by almosthipguy

Former Baltimore writer Tom D’Antoni (Harry, Baltimore City Paper, Evening Magazine, MPT, WFBR) looks back in anger at his native city in this excerpt from his book “Rabid Nun Infects Entire Convent: And Other Sensational Stories from a Tabloid Writer” … Continue reading →

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The New “Harry” (May 1991)

Posted on May 15, 2012 by atomictv

20 Years Later: Same Town, Same Needs By Tom Warner (Accelerated Decrepitude, 5/10/2012) “Going through the bottomless piles of papers, magazines, and assorted rubbish/detritus in the firetrap I like to call Tom’s Toxic Townhouse, I ran across the May 1991 … Continue reading →

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A Night At Sid’s of Pigtown

Posted on April 10, 2012 by atomictv

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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