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fashion
Otakon 2011
Once again Baltimore’s annual Otakon Convention summoned a bevy of of eager practitioners of Otaku make-believe. This curious culture of…
Otakon 2011
Once again Baltimore’s annual Otakon Convention summoned a bevy of of eager practitioners of Otaku make-believe. This curious culture of…
nightlife
Comedy Noir
Sexual deviance, death, stupidity, mental illness, brutality, murder: don’t you love ‘em? I do, but not in the form…
Comedy Noir
Sexual deviance, death, stupidity, mental illness, brutality, murder: don’t you love ‘em? I do, but not in the form…
social innovation
Treating Others
Despite that the data on the cost-benefit ratio for using vaccines to stall pandemics is overwhelmingly in favor of vaccines—those…
Treating Others
Despite that the data on the cost-benefit ratio for using vaccines to stall pandemics is overwhelmingly in favor of vaccines—those…
artist profiles
Digital Cavemen
Two heavies dangle a guy by his ankles, seventy feet above a Baltimore street. A body plummets and caves in…
Digital Cavemen
Two heavies dangle a guy by his ankles, seventy feet above a Baltimore street. A body plummets and caves in…
sustainability
Fixing The Future
Photos courtesy Gabby Carroll Last week at the Creative Alliance, the Baltimore Green Currency Association (BGCA), founder of Baltimore’s regional…
Fixing The Future
Photos courtesy Gabby Carroll Last week at the Creative Alliance, the Baltimore Green Currency Association (BGCA), founder of Baltimore’s regional…
technology
Intuitive Insight: The Hot Spot
Part 3 of a multi-post film about how innovation, creativity and prevailing cultural ideas about it in the US. This…
Intuitive Insight: The Hot Spot
Part 3 of a multi-post film about how innovation, creativity and prevailing cultural ideas about it in the US. This…
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