City Paper's Top Ten Memes of 2015
We here at City Paper love memes, the viral moments or bursts of online creativity that spread like wildfire and become like a short-hand language. Our office Slack group is filled with them. Given...
View ArticleTop Ten Baltimore Protests Songs of 2015
1. Young Moose feat. Martina Lynch, 'No SunShine' 2. Old Lines, 'Midnight In Baltimore' 3. Abdu Ali, 'Keep Movin [Negro Kai]' 4. Dboi Da Dome, 'Fuck 12' 5. PulseWidthMod, 'An Awakening' 6. Damond...
View ArticleArts Editor Brandon Soderberg's Top Ten Films of 2015
1. "Tangerine" (Sean Baker, United States) 2. "Creep" (Patrick Brice, United States) 3. Shaun Young yelling "Fuck CNN" on live TV on April 21 4. "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution"...
View ArticleHot Fudge Wednesdays: Top 10 Wetlands You Can't Google Yourself Out Of
Can I tell you something extremely personal? I'm on the Eastern Shore for a full week, and two days in, my pelvis is vibrating. Faintly, arrhythmically, sure, but as I sit here on a lawn chair in a...
View ArticleMr. Wrong: Totally Top Ten Time
This episode of City Paper, Baltimore's Top 10 Alternative Weeklies, is all about Top 10, or at least that's what they told me (and you know who They are), and here at The Mr. Wrong Column we are...
View ArticleTop Ten Video Games of 2015
1. "Darkest Dungeon (early access)" (Red Hook Studios) The stark illustrative style and dramatic voice-overs in "Darkest Dungeon" make it uniquely menacing. Turn-based combat isn't for...
View ArticleTop Ten Nonlocal Books of 2015
1. Maggie Nelson, "The Argonauts" (Graywolf Press) Part love poem, lit-theory crash course, and parenting guide, this memoir embraces fluidity and queerness along with Maggie Nelson's desire to...
View ArticleTop Ten Nonlocal Albums of 2015
1. Kendrick Lamar, "To Pimp A Butterfly" (Interscope/Aftermath/Top Dawg Entertainment) This swirling postmodern novel of a "real hip-hop" album on race, responsibility, legacy, capitalism, and...
View ArticleTop Ten Baltimore-Area Brews in 2015
1. Old Pro Gose (Union Craft Brewing) Thanks to the lactobacillus yeast and the use of sour malt, you get a big tart taste with a little salt and a touch of coriander tossed in to the finish of this...
View ArticleTop Ten Films of 2015
1. "Mad Max: Fury Road" (George Miller, Australia) "Mad Max" never needed Mel Gibson. And the world doesn't really need Mel Gibson—fuck that asshole. The newest installment in George Miller's...
View ArticleTop Ten Baltimore Books of 2015
1. Ta-Nehisi Coates, "Between the World and Me" (Spiegel & Grau) West Baltimore native Ta-Nehisi Coates has garnered national attention for his intelligent, deeply researched, historically based...
View ArticleTop Ten Baltimore Dishes of 2015
1. Aguachile at Clavel (225 W. 23rd St., [443] 900-8983, barclavel.com) Cool, refreshing ceviche seems like it should be a summer thing, but it's December and we're still ordering the aguachile...
View ArticleTop Ten Baltimore Singles of 2015
1. Tate Kobang, 'Bank Rolls' (300 Entertainment) Jumping on Rod Lee's endlessly bubbling beat for Tim Trees' 'Bank Roll,' Tate Kobang announces his place in Baltimore's musical mythos while...
View ArticleTop Ten Stage Productions of 2015
1. "The World is Round" (Acme Corporation/Annex Theater) Director Lola B. Pierson zeroed in on the grown-up anomie lurking just below the surface of Gertrude Stein's unorthodox children's book "The...
View ArticleTop Ten Art Shows of 2015
1. "REWIND" (Creative Alliance) Though this show closed a full month before three bike cops chased Freddie Gray through West Baltimore, Paul Rucker's retrospective became a manifesto for the entire...
View ArticleTop Ten Baltimore Albums of 2015
1. Dan Deacon, "Gliss Riffer" (Domino Records) "America," Deacon's 2012 release, was a statement album, a sweeping, pastoral meditation on America and its geography and culture. "Gliss Riffer" finds...
View ArticleTop Ten New Restaurants of 2015
1. Clavel (225 W. 23rd St.,[443] 900-8983, barclavel.com) There's a lot to love about this new mezcaleria and taqueria from Lane Harlan, also the owner of speakeasy W.C. Harlan located nearby. It...
View ArticleTop Ten Local News Stories of 2015
1. Freddie Gray dies, outrage ensues. When police chased down and arrested Freddie Gray, 25, on April 12, they could not have known what forces they were unleashing. Gray's death seven days later from...
View ArticleTop Ten Photo Galleries of 2015
From the Uprising to the Pratt Comtemporary's Ball, our annual Top Ten Galleries are based on the number of hits they recieved throughtout the year. These are the galleries that you liked.
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