Search
Post Categories
- Art
- Atomic Books
- Atomic TV
- Baltimore Babylon
- Baltimore Films
- Baltimorons
- Bikini
- Celebrities
- Crime
- Deaths
- Decades
- Dining
- Dreamlanders
- Entertainment
- Events
- Festivals
- Films
- Gallery
- Holidays
- Kitsch
- Media
- Museums
- Music
- Neighborhoods
- Nightlife
- Nightspots
- Obituaries
- Pets
- Politics
- Pranks
- Religion
- Roadside Attractions
- Shopping
- Sports
- Uncategorized
- Urban Legends
- Vices
- Weather
Archives
Recent Comments
- Mike Emig on Abe Sherman’s Newsstand/Bookstore
- atomictv on Roger Anderson: In Memoriam
- Joe DeFilippo on Marble Bar Poster Art
- Pessimisissimo on Roger Anderson: In Memoriam
- Joe Welnack on Burlesque and the Girl on the Sign at the Gayety Theater
- Brice J Butler Jr on Chris Jensen, Rest in Peace
- The Negro Leagues, Women’s Sports, and The Cycle of Oppression – Title IX Hockey on Babe Ruth Injected Sheep’s Testicles and Shilled for Tobacco
- Micheal Burke on The Block (Baltimore) on Wikipedia
- Dawn Ruminski on R.I.P., Edith Massey (May 28, 1918 – October 24, 1984)
- Duke Zimmerman on Globe Poster
Tag Archives: city squeeze
“Alternatively Yours”: City Paper founder Russ Smith profiled in Johns Hopkins Magazine
While reading Rafael Alvarez’s Crabtown, USA, I came across the chapter on his early days at City Squeeze, the self-published tabloid founded in 1977 by Johns Hopkins grads Russ Smith and Alan Hirsch, which became the City Paper in 1978. As Alvarez observed, the … Continue reading
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, Baltimorons, Media, Uncategorized
Tagged baltimore sun, city paper, city squeeze, johns hopkins university, rafael alvarez, russ smith
Leave a comment
What is an Alt-Weekly?
“…these covers not only provide a survey of the history of City Paper, they also scan as a thumbnail history of Baltimore, at least through the alt-weekly lens. ” Continue reading
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Decades, Entertainment, Media, Music
Tagged alt weeklies, baltimore city paper, city squeeze, covers, lee gardner
Leave a comment
