Satisfying newsprint, inky, virtual

Baltimore street corners offer a bonanza of free publications, some better than others. There’s the wryly edited City Paper, in its trademark yellow bin, next to shock-orange containers housing B, a kind of downmarket pitch to young and supposedly vacuous 20-somethings, a 2008 brainstorm of the now-bankrupt Baltimore Sun publishers.
Then, on really good corners, you’ve [...]

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Obama win in the news

On Wednesday, we scrounged every news vendor in Mount Vernon but to no avail–everyone wanted a copy of the day’s papers declaring the Obama victory. Even the free quasi-newspaper B was snatched up.
So I did the new school thing and saved home page screenshots from November 5. (this also prevents my apartment from becoming stacked with yellowed [...]

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Express paper features Baltimore

I got on the Metro in DC morning to find that they had featured our gross lovely city of Baltimore in the Lifestyles section! Check it out.

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