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Baltimore City Paper Online, April 23, 2013
...me in the head.”) Or this one, which he attributes to former Sun reporter (and current CP contributor) Rafael Alvarez: “Reading other people’s raw copy is like looking at your grandmother naked.” Or, my favorite: “RTFP,” which McIntyre...
Baltimore City Paper Online, November 27, 2012
...created in a West Baltimore neighborhood, plus Hit & Runs about new city council bills. In City Folk, Rafael Alvarez goes all in with Mary Carol Reilly, a high-stakes gambler whom you'd better never call 'granny.' In the arts, Baynard Woods...
Baltimore City Paper Online, November 20, 2012
...treasures, a Charm City native not soon to be forgotten. (“Baby of the Family,” City Folk, Nov. 14) Rafael Alvarez has a unique way of characterizing gems like these that make our city the wonderful, people-centric town it is—despite the crime, a...
Perry Hall Patch, September 24, 2012
...Rafael Alvarez spoke about life in Baltimore at the Perry Hall Library. new Embed | Share Rafael Alvarez spoke about life in Baltimore at the Perry Hall Library. Photos (1) Photos...
Perry Hall Patch, September 5, 2012
...Perry Hall, MD | Get Directions » FREE Join us to mark this special occasion with guest speaker Rafael Alvarez. A former reporter for The Baltimore Sun, writer for the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, writer and producer for the crime dramas The Black...
Baltimore City Paper Online, August 29, 2012
...highly influential Love and Rockets comics—sign copies at Atomic Books Sept. 18 Longtime Sun reporter and master storyteller Rafael Alvarez reads from his new book, The Tuerk House, at the Pratt Library’s Central Branch. Sept. 20 Laura Lippman...
Baltimore City Paper Online, June 5, 2013
...failing the drug-tests her slap-on-the-wrist probation for selling a machine gun, among other crimes, required. In City Folk, Rafael Alvarez profiles Mary Bond's long relationship with Baltimore's bar-going artists. And in the arts, Baynard Woods...
Gaston Gazette, June 4, 2013
...2012. Police say that Spencer broke into a Myers Street home on Dec. 3, 2012, and killed Enrique Rafael Alvarez. Ramsey’s trial was slated for July, and Spencer’s was set for September. Keller told Superior Court Judge Robert Sumner that he...
Psychology Today, June 3, 2013
...hear about most often are successful adults. For example, among Forbes magazine’s top 30 social entrepreneurs are Rafael Alvarez, whose Genesys teaches low-income high school juniors basic IT skills and places them in paid internships, hoping they’ll...
U-T San Diego, June 1, 2013
...3.50; Conner Larkin, Sr., 3.57; Michael Martin, Sr., 3.98; Nicholas Prunty, Sr., 4.26. CENTRAL Rafael Alvarez, Jr., 3.37; Giovanni Coronado, Sr., 4.26; Lorenzo Silva, Jr., 3.40; Jacob Vela, Sr., 3.18. CHRISTIAN Chandler Cossio, Sr., 3.42; Andrew...
Lowell Sun, June 1, 2013
...following students graduated Greater Lowell Technical High School. Kaileigh Anne Abreu, Jonathan Agudelo, Rosalina Aguilar, Zuleyka Alvarado, Hector Rafael Alvarez Duclet, Alisha Pereira Alves, Madelynn Nuemi Amparo, Pamela Andreazza, Robert Michael...
Baltimore City Paper Online, May 24, 2013
...the men obsessed with a 500-year-old bronze relic that may be at the bottom of a Dundalk marina. Rafael Alvarez may be the closest thing we have to Joe Mitchell and we think his story about IND’s Sister Hildie is worthy of the master (Today is also...
Baltimore City Paper Online, May 21, 2013
...or so it seems to me) don’t have local roots. I’m glad to see lifelong resident Rafael Alvarez’s work in CP more and more. He knows what it means to have grown up in blue-collar Baltimore in the 1970s and 1980s—and all of the class baggage...













