Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! Series
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Skin Deep 60 pages (color centerfold) $3 Eight-Stone Press gets under the skin of two dozen area contributors with SKIN DEEP, profiling their tattoos and the stories behind them. The staff of the Baltimore Tattoo Museum helps round out the issue, offering their own behind-the-needle perspectives. Read more... |
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Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #9 48 pages $3 In this issue, Sommer Marsden looks at love and loss on Harford Road through neon-colored glasses, Benn Ray (The Mobtown Shank) puts another dime in "Rose's Juke Box", Davida Gypsy Breier laments the demise of the North Point Flea Market and ESP Editor William P. Tandy talks with Jennifer Bodine, daughter of iconic Baltimore Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine and proprietor of www.AAubreyBodine.com. Read more... |
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Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #8.75 Criminally Yours 48 pages $3 Eight-Stone Press (ESP) teams with Baltimore's free weekly e-zine, THE MOBTOWN SHANK, to bring you CRIMINALLY YOURS, featuring the "best" crime-related encounters from 29 area contributors, guilty and otherwise . . . Read more... |
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Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #8.5
SCARS! 48 pages $3 In SHOW ME YOURS SHOW YOU MINE - the third special theme issue in the increasingly popular SMILE, HON, YOU'RE IN BALTIMORE! series from Eight-Stone Press (ESP) - 16 area writers, photographers and other artists share the experiences that have left them forever scarred in body and mind. Read more... |
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Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #8 48 pages $3 Towson attorney Harris “Bud” George sicks “The Flea” on unsuspecting adulterers, Hungover Gourmet Dan Taylor struggles to hold his own lunch down at Phillips Seafood Crabcake Eating Championship, and ESP Editor William P. Tandy interviews local filmmakers Ryan and Tracey Graham in the wake of their feature-length debut, Livelihood, plus a whole lot more. Read more... |
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Infestation! (Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #7.75) 48 pages $3 A sometimes unsavory collection of tales of Charm City's unsung vermin. For Infestation! - the second-ever "theme" issue of ESP's increasingly popular Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! series - ESP Editor William P. Tandy compiled the stories, poetry, photography and other artwork of 18 regional contributors, each inspired by their own encounters with Rattus norvegicus. Read more... |
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Giving Up the Ghost (Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #7.5) 36 pages $2 Don’t miss Giving Up the Ghost, a special collection of otherwordly encounters from Baltimore and (the great) beyond. Read more... |
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Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #7 56 pages $3 Poet Ryan McElroy (Charm City Art Space) puts his back to the pavement, Amy Lynwander (Fell’s Point Ghost Tours) finds that not all snakes live in the grass, Benn Ray (Atomic Books) questions Republican hunger for junkie-meat, George Martsoukos (Baltimore Gamers Alliance) insists that he can quit any time he wants to and Plan 9 from Outer Space star Conrad Brooks continues to make movies any way he can, plus a whole lot more. Read more... |
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Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #6 56 pages $3 Tracy Pickle throws rocks down a duckpin alley near you, Dan Taylor (The Hungover Gourmet) wants you to want Cheap Trick (and the Orioles) for all the right reasons, Michel E. Schuster haunts the Enchanted Forest, Susan Beverly visits D.C. in verse (as only a native Baltimorean can), and Benn Ray (Atomic Books) wonders if it’s all worth the wait in line, plus a whole lot more. Read more... |
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Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #5 56 pages $3 In this fifth installment of the zine Baltimore City Paper named “Best of Baltimore, 2004,” Benn Ray (Atomic Books) takes issue with a would-be assailant, Dan Taylor (The Hungover Gourmet) squints at area drive-ins by the dashboard light, and Davida Gypsy Breier (Xerography Debt) follows the Paddy’s Day Parade to the end of the rainbow, plus a whole lot more. Read more... |
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Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #4 56 pages $3 Follow Charm City from monumental heights to its deep-fried depths, get the dish on local eateries, wax poetic on the merits of the pre-work toke, and just see if Homicide’s chalk outlines really come out in this fourth issue. Contributors include Benn Ray (Atomic Books), Dan Taylor (The Hungover Gourmet), Blair Ewing (And to the Republic) and Davida Gypsy Breier (Xerography Debt) Read more... |
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Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #3 56 pages $3 Indie booksellers, ex-Coast Guards and vodka-consoled English teachers help round out the cast of contributors for the zine The Johns Hopkins News-Letter calls “the literary equivalent of the Sizzler All-U-Can-Eat buffet . . .” Read more... |
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Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #2 52 pages $3 “Man been in prison 20, 30 years, come back to downtown Baltimore - he’d be los’.” Spend enough time in this town and you’ll never use hotel ice again. Read more... |
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Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #1 60 pages $3 The one that started it all. A look at life, liquor and libidinous siblings in Charm City. Read more... |
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