"All Hollows Eve" is quickly sneaking into the chilling air and what better time to be entertained by the ghosts of futures past! Leave your tiny tots with the sitter and bring along your teens to this "costumes welcome" event!!!
Tickets are 10 Dollars and include GARDEL'S after party Maryland-based director Robert G. Christie is proud to announce the premiere of full feature film "No Longer My Twin" at the Chesapeake Arts Center onOctober 26th at 7pm. For directions to the theater see http://www.chesapeakearts.org/. Having screened at the traveling New York International Film Festival in New York and Las Vegas, "No Longer My Twin" is a supernatural thriller about a young housewife who, after a miscarriage, encounters a ghost that appearsto be her identical twin. "If you kill you, then you kill me" are the hauntingly whispered words of the ghostly visitor. But what can those words possibly mean? This innovative PG-rated film intends to frighten its audience psychologically. "Without an ounce of bloodshed, I was chilled to the bone by this movie," remarked one festival viewer. And..."Loved the intensity of this film. It really spooks you", says United Pictures International.
Tickets are $10, which includes admission and the after-party at Gardel's restaurant in Baltimore, owned by "The O.C." actor Johnny Alonso and family. Our VIP guest speaker is Francis Xavier, producer/director/writer of the acclaimed film "Barry's Gift" and the recent released "Johnny Come Lately", both films starring Johnny Alonso, Lance Kerwin, and Irv Becker.
At Gardel's, Johnny Alonso and family will be on hand and are offering 10% to 20% discounts meals and drinks and limited free-drink tickets to guests who attend the screening. Gardel's has been written up for it's three star exquisite dining and offers ballroom dancing in it's main venue and a nightclub atmosphere in it's second floor Galaxy, both of which have quickly become the new"hot spot " frequented by such acclaimed celebrities as, Robert Duvall, Director John Waters, Barry Levinson and stars from the Wire and many of your East Coast talent. This definitely promises be a networking event not to be missed, with Francis Xavier personally on hand to reveal his new anthology series for TV and Robert G. Christie scouting talent for his next two feature films slated to begin production in late 2004 and 2005 - Actors, bring your head shots and resumes to Gardel's after party !!! Johnny Alonso has accepted a lead role for Robert's next feature, a science fiction thriller, the "The Sobbing Stone"....along with John Doyle of "Serial Mom" and "Line of Fire" John Doyle has also embarked on his own comedy production, "The Falsetoes". Directors and talent alike are on fire and ready for action! Join in, be entertained, groove with the best and make your mark!
Gardel's is located at 29 S. Front Street (21201) parallel to President St, intersecting Baltimore St, approx. 20 minutes north from the Chesapeake Arts Center in Glen Burnie. Gardel's phone is (410) 837-3737.
For more information on Robert Christie and his past films please visit http://www.rcfeatures.com/. Or email rcfeatures@a....

An OPEN FORUM to introduce the Key Highway Beautification Project Plan (KHBP)

Subject:
[BGM] OPEN FORUM this Wednesday at 7:00pm

An OPEN FORUM to introduce the Key Highway
Beautification Project Plan (KHBP) and to get
resident, business, industry and general community
input will be held THIS Wednesday, October 20 at 7:00
p.m. at the Harborview Tower in the meeting room just
off the lobby. Please come (and bring your neighbors
and friends) and contribute your comments, questions,
concerns and suggestions and let us know how you
envision the entranceway into our neighborhood, that
1/2 mile stretch of Key Highway from E. McComas St. to
East Key Highway. What plantings, sidewalks, lighting,
etc do you feel we need?

The meeting is open to all residents and businesses in
the area. Speakers will include the Project Engineer,
Landscape Architect and officials from City Planning
and the Department of Transportation. Also, meet the
muralist as the CSX wall is nearly completed.

We will gather at 6:30 for a Social Half-Hour. The
Wine Market is providing wine, mini gourmet
sandwiches, cheese trays, and fruit and veggie trays.
The meeting will begin at 7:00.

Hope to see you there! For more information, call
Nicole Pastore Klein, KHBP President, at 410-332-8854
or email her nickipastore@yahoo.com

"Presidential News Conference"

“I did complete my political video called simply "Presidential News Conference". It runs 2 1/2 minutes..........Do you still think you can get it on TV? It’s being played as part of a traveling ANTI bush political festival around all the swing states for the next few weeks leading up to the election. I’m trying to put this up on line and let the bloggers take over. Can you check this out and see if it opens correctly and that the sound is working too?”
http://uglyworld.org/pressconference.htm
billy
uglyworld@comcast.net

[the true vine] 78 listening night at the Golden West Friday the22nd

Subject: [the true vine] 78 listening night at the Golden West Friday the22nd
>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 06:10:56 -0400
>
>This Friday the 22nd
>at the Golden West
>on the 1100 block of W 36th (a few doors down from the True Vine)
>
>Justin (from Soundgarden and the Golden West)
>Jack (from El Supremo)
>and your truly, DJ Baffling Paternity (from the True Vine)
>
>will be spinning mossy, crusty, filthy old 78s
>from 10PM till 1 AM
>for your listening pleasure.
>
>for my own part, I'll be playing recordings from the 20s and 30s and 40s made in distant lands: Laos, India, Denmark, Ireland, Vietnam, Bali, Greece, Turkey, Japan, Spain, Sardinia, Serbia, Guinea, etc.
>dunno about the other guys, but count on some hillbilly, gospel, blues r&b, c&w, jazz, novelties and other delights.
>
>see you there.

Wednesday October 13, Rally at City Hall 4:00 p.m. Public Hearing on Cable Franchise Agreement City Hall Council Chambers 4th Flr. 5:00 p.m. Testimony

Come out and be heard. Shows like Democracy Now! and other news / information / entertainment not regulated by mass-media cannot exist without Public Access.

GREAT NEWS!

ACORN, located at 16 West 25th Street, will provide a bus leaving at 3:00 p.m. to take ANYONE who wants to go to the Public Access Rally tomorrow. There is no charge for this service -- and no excuse for you not to be at the Rally! Free food will be provided. Have I convinced you yet?

As you all know by now, the Rally in front of City Hall tomorrow for Public Access is crucial to this issue. Speakers who have expereince with Public Access and who work in various communities within Baltimore will speak for 45 minutes until 4:45 p.m.

This hearing is particularly significant for Public Access, because it is the last hearing open to the public regarding Public Access. This is a last chance for EVERYONE to express their thoughts, opinions and ideas on how they feel about Public Access.

To give you an idea about how the hearing will progress:
First, there will be presentations from the City Council Law Department, Comcast Cable and Baltimore Grassroots Media. Each presentation will be between 15 - 20 minutes.

Second, the floor will be opened to public testimony. That means YOU!!

Jack Germond lecture - Oct. 21

News from Johns Hopkins: Jack Germond lecture - Oct. 21

Amy Cowles amycowles@jhu.edu

10/12/2004,

Office of News and InformationJohns Hopkins University
901 S. Bond St./Suite 540
Baltimore, Md. 21231
Phone: 443-287-9960
October 12, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Amy Cowles(443) 287-9960amycowles@jhu.edu JOURNALIST

JACK GERMOND TO SPEAK AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Political columnist and author Jack Germond will speak at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 21, in the Shriver Hall Clipper Room on the Homewood campus of The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. The talk is part of the Press and Public Policy seminar series presented by The Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies. The series spotlights the common ground between those who study and those who report on domestic policy issues. New York Times senior writer Jason De Parle will speak at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 4. Germond will share his thoughts about the domestic policy implications of the upcoming presidential elections. After his lecture,he will sign copies of his new book, Fat Man Fed Up: How American Politics Went Bad, (Random House, July 2004), which offers his observations on political discourse in the United States. Germond has covered every presidential campaign since 1960, according to the Baltimore Sun, where he was a columnist. Germond was also the Gannett bureau chief in Washington, and a columnist and editor for the Washington Star. He first appeared on "Meet the Press" in 1972 and has been a regular on the "Today Show," CNN, and "The McLaughlin Group." He now serves as a panelist on WUSA-TV's "Inside Washington" and writes occasional newspaper pieces.

For more info,visithttps://webmail.perfora.net/dereferer.php3?locate=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.randomhouse.com%2Frandomhouse%2Fauthors%2Fresults.pperl%3Fauthorid%3D9924%3Cbrhttps://webmail.perfora.net/dereferer.php3?locate=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jhu.edu%2Fnews_info%2Fnews%2F
Information on automatic E-mail delivery of science and medical news releases is available at the same address.

Baltimore, Maryland, October 2004: Everyone needs to vote the current Comcast public access TV proposal down

SUBJECT: Baltimore's public access TV battle with Comcast is important to every county in Maryland.

Why is it so important to all of Maryland's communities? Because if Baltimore gets a good deal with sufficient funding from Comcast this time around, as it is contract time again, this will set the precedent for the kind of a deal that every county can get for their citizens. That is why as a new volunteer with Baltimore Grassroots Media, the group at the forefront of fighting the battle of getting the citizens of Baltimore a good public access deal, I've personally decided to contribute this particular email tactic of letting a lot of top government people from all over the state know of this so that they can keep their eyes on it, confer with each other about it, and maybe also be helpfully influential in the current Baltimore battle.I've sent this message to the Governor and to many other people near the top of his administration, as well as to many people at the top of each county government. After making sure that I had selected a lot of top officials in each particular government, I then only randomly selected some other folks further down, and in various departments, inclusive of legal ones. I've also sent it to colleges and universities all over Maryland, as well as to various other people and organizations. To protect everyone's privacy, I've sent each message to myself and a blind carbon copy to each of the few email addresses that I send off each time so that they don't show (by the way, my browser limits me to sending no more than 10 at a time). Of course here in Baltimore, and starting with the Mayor and his administration, and every member of the City Counsel, the team that will either make a good or bad deal with Comcast, I've sent this to every person in charge of all the departments that I found that were listed on a Baltimore City "Executive Branch" page that I got with a goggle search. I've also sent it to many more Baltimore government people in various departments and agencies on other pages that I found in the search. What is found below is what was contained in two prior mailings of mine in the last few days. The subject-heading of the first email, and the two paragraphs of lead-in comments, was to the "Association of Maryland Nonprofit Organizations", which leads in to my first mailing to the print, TV and radio media organizations that I showed them, which speaks a lot about the contract situation between the City Council of Baltimore and the Comcast cable TV company, and contains ideas and information that everyone in every Maryland county should know about, be thinking of, and considering for their own communities. Hopefully all you folks who did get this message will pass it on to others who didn't.============================
--------Subject: A call for "HELP" to the "Association of Maryland NonprofitOrganizations"-----
---Dear Mr. Berns, and all other staff members (all 29 of you who are listed on page 5 of my 2004 "Membership Directory"). I'm John DeSantis, a member who is listed on page 160 in the "Emerging Nonprofits" section. I've sent this to each of you in separate e-mails, so that you could confer with each other on my important request for some immediate helpful action on your part for the city of Baltimore concerning public access TV with the Comcast cable company, which every single nonprofit organization has a very strong stake in. Why? Because if Baltimore city gets the "public access" TV deal that it needs, then the precedent will be set for a similar arrangement to be made between every single Maryland county and the Comcast company. I notice that there are over 3,000 nonprofit organizations in Baltimore City alone, and over 18,000 in all of the counties of Baltimore listed under the "Nonprofits By The Numbers" chart on page 2. So after reading what is below, if you all confer and come to think that it's a worthwhile cause to immediately get involved with, besides possibly doing some other things, if you simply send an e-mail to every one of your thousands of members, and maybe even to those nonprofit organizations who aren't yet members, maybe many of them will rise to the occasion and motivate some of their people to get involved in some way this week, as explained below in a copy of the exact message that I sent out yesterday (Saturday) to many media organizations in the Baltimore area. The first line below is what was in the subject heading.================
--------Subject: Everyone needs to vote the current Comcast public access TV proposal down---
-----This is a RUSH ALERT, a call to quick and decisive coordinated action: Every Baltimore citizen and every media organization needs to quickly come together and let the mayor and the City Council know that the proposed Public Access TV contract by Comcast is not in any way good enough and should be firmly rejected so that it can then be negotiated and made much better. Dear print, TV and radio media folks (I'm sending this off to many Baltimore media organizations, one by one, or placing them in "forms"where no direct media e-mail address is available): Please consider using all or parts of the various paragraphs that I have composed above and below simply as starting ideas, as rough unedited raw starting material to work with in any way that you want to. I most sincerely thank you all in advance for considering it in order to get involved. Please know that I'm an amateur at writing and that the various ideas are presented in no specific order in my rush to put this letter together. I've numbered the eleven paragraphs found below for any possible convenience to anyone. (My name, address, and home phone number is found at the end, as well as four links to some pertinent information concerning this issue.)========================
(1) Comcast will naturally gain a lot more Baltimore city customers if public access is funded because young and old people, families, non-profit and religious organizations, and businesses will want their friends, families, organizational members, and customers and potential customers to see the shows that are produced and presented, as well as sponsored. Comcast may not be thinking about or seriously considering this very important factor.
(2) City Counsel members who do not vote to make Comcast pay each and every year for a strong public access presence will steadily have their non-support of the community highlighted, loud and clear, to the community of people who's votes they need at each election period -- as well as to the media. The few thousand dollars of Comcast contributions that any Council members may get in order to back their non-support (or very meager support) could prove to be very costly in the end: as far as votes by citizens are concerned.
(3) A city the size and stature of Baltimore should not be treated in this denigrating, non-caring, and selfish way; especially because of the enormous amount of money that Comcast makes off of its citizens each year -- your constituents! You are the elected folks who can do either the right or the wrong thing for our city.
(4) Public Access TV is a very fair and very respectful UNITING social factor in these few very important ways (among many others): every person, rich or poor, every small or large non-profit organization, every religious organization, every race and ethnic group, every nationality, and so on, are all treated the same concerning everything that has to do with their dealings with public access TV and the people who work within it.
(5) A properly funded public access TV channel, with adequate facilities, staff, training, and equipment (not as our current unfunded public access channel that is without a staff or decent equipment), will offer great benefit to our youth in giving them an ongoing and non-stop creative and constructive outlet and will help reduce crime, among many other positive things for our city, like, just for example: allowing them to showcase their many different talents in sports and entertainment; allowing them to express their views on talk shows that they or others create around every important social, political, educational, and economic subject. Adults and businesses can sponsor and provide rewards of all types to winners in all kinds of contests(sports, educational, entertainment, debate, etc.)
(6) Everyone in our Baltimore community, somehow organized by the media, should brainstorm together and come up with a long sample list of the very many and various kinds of shows that can be produced once we have a real and well funded public access staff and facilities -- and especially for the youth of our city, inclusive of, and adequate to, all of their different age groups. We should also bring this idea up to the City Council members.
(7) With the wonderful "Baltimore Believe" idea in mind, I was inspired to write this after reading the "Planned TV deal raises concern" article in the Maryland section of THE SUN newspaper on September 8th. Why? Because we should all believe in this battle that the public access advocates from Baltimore Grassroots Media are conducting on behalf of all of us, and wholeheartedly support their quest for the proper funding of public access TV because it absolutely includes every citizen and every institution and organization: schools, small and large non-profit groups and charities, religious organizations, businesses, social justice movements, youth and senior citizen organizations, entertainers, artists, poets, actors, writers, and so on. Everyone, no matter what their ideas, reasons, or production formats, would be able to produce video tapes of shows to air on public access TV if they ever wanted to-- once in a while or regularly.
(8) The very crucial and important "Public Access / Comcast City Council hearing" is scheduled for Wednesday, October 13th at City Hall. Everyone should rally to the occasion and, in many ways, let all of Baltimore's government leaders know how we want them to vote on this issue and/or the kind of financial deal that they should make with the Comcast cable TV company in order to strongly support funding public access TV --all-inclusive of the studio spaces and the equipment that everyone would be able to use in making their tapes, along with the necessary training classes that would teach us all how to do everything necessary.
(9) As many citizens and organizations as possible, as well as media people, should attend the rally that is scheduled to be outside of City Hall at 4:00 P.M., an hour before the hearing, in order to make our united presence and voice seen and heard, loud and crystal clear. This rally is organized by BGM, the Baltimore Grassroots Media organization (which my wife, Bonnie Hurwitz, and I are very new volunteers with), whose volunteer members, as well as people and organizations who support what they are fighting for, will be speaking at the hearing.
(10) We should all be strongly united, even those of us who would never actually create a show to put on the air, and "Believe" that an important city like Baltimore should not continue to be without sufficient funds and facilities necessary for providing this very important service and system for all of its citizens and organizations to use and communicate through. We should hope and expect, and even demand, loud and clear, that our leaders will negotiate a deal with Comcast where they have to ante up sufficiently, year in and year out, since they make big money from our citizens every year.
(11) Finally: Thanks for reading and absorbing it all. I did my humble best (four informative links are found below). But hopefully others, as well as those who are much more knowledgeable than me concerning this whole public access subject, and who know how to skillfully deal with politicians, as well as being more skillful in writing and presenting ideas, will add many more ideas and subjects for everyone to both consider and draw from, to use as ammunition to express ourselves when we get involved in whatever ways each of us do.
Most sincerely,
John DeSantis
1113 Scotts Hill Drive
Baltimore, MD 21208
(410) 484-1987
-------City’s Proposed Cable Contract Lacks Public Access TV Provisions:http://baltimorechronicle.com/090904BradCarlton.shtml
Baltimore Grassroots Media:http://www.baltimoregrassrootsmedia.org
Baltimore Public Access Media News Wire: http://baltimorepublicaccessnewswire.blogspot.com
Baltimore Public Access Television Channel 5 Volunteer Website:http://www.bpatv.org/bcpa_tv.html

“First Hand Reports From Sudan” forum and meeting of the Baltimore Coalition to

PRESS RELEASE

Monday Oct 11, 7:30pm, Progressive Action Center (PAC), 1443 Gorsuch at Kirk:
“First Hand Reports From Sudan” forum and meeting of the Baltimore Coalition to
End War & Terrorism (BCEWT). The forum will feature Yagaub Elmarrbu from
Darfur, who has been the target of 2 government-sponsored assassination
attempts, and James Chiracol from Southern Sudan, who is working here in
Baltimore with the Tressler Refugee Training Services, Diocesan Lutheran
Churches Ministry. Come hear first-hand reports about the starvation and
genocide that is happening right now.

BCEWT is an open and democratic organization that sponsors forums and
demonstrations to educate the public to the fact that the war on terrorism is
strictly for the benefit of the ruling class’s imperative to rule the entire
world and maximize the profits of the international corporations which finance
the American electoral process.

BCEWT meets regularly on the 2nd Monday of the
month at 7:30pm at the PAC and welcomes your participation.
Info: Bob Kaufman, 410-728-8611, peacenotwar@comcast.net

Website Information Changes

The website address for Baltimore Grassroots Media has been changed. The revision has been placed on www.bpatv.org. A Baltimore Public Access Media News Wire Service has been placed on www.bpatv.org as well. All news articles for the region can now be placed on this blog website. It's address is http://baltimorepublicaccessnewswire.blogspot.com/

For www.baltimoregrassrootsmedia.org, a production copy can be viewed @ http://www.evolving1media.com/bgm/ . For further inquiries contact them.

A rally is planned at 4:00 pm, Wednesday October 13th, outside of Baltimore City Hall in the Memorial Plaza, to speak out on the Comcast Cable Franchise Agreement and the City Council Hearing later at 5 pm in the 4th floor council chambers to take all statements from the community on the franchise agreement text and changes. Show your support of a better Public Access Television in City of Baltimore, Maryland.

Demonstration and Appeal To Decency By Refugees From Sudan & Darfur

PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE
Yagaub Elmarrbu, (443)527-5823 peacenotwar@comcast.net
Demonstration and Appeal To Decency
By Refugees From Sudan & Darfur
Tuesday, October 5th
5:15 PM
East side of 1000 block of Park Avenue at Chase,
across from Congressman Elijah Cummings office
We will be displaying signs which read:
Cong. Cummings

" We Are From Darfur/Sudan. Why Won't You Save Us From
Starvation?"

Lt. Gov. Steele

" We Are From Darfur/Sudan. Save Our People From Starvation

Cong. Cummings & Lt. Gov. Steele

" Your ancestors' children are starving in
Darfur. WHERE IS YOUR
HUMANITY?"

Cong. Cummings & Lt. Gov. Steele

" We Are the Jews of Africa, Darfur Is Our
Holocaust. DO SOMETHING!"

We are refugees from Darfur and southern Sudan. It is our family members who
are being murdered by the Sudanese government and its paramilitary janjaweed.
50,000 people already killed and more than a million internally displaced.
By cell phone we talk to friends and relatives every day. Every day it gets
worse. 350,000 are expected to starve to death by Christmas even if the
international community delivers all the food and emergency aid it has promised. This
is because it has promised only about half the amount of aid that human rights
workers in Darfur say is minimally needed.
Congressman Cummings and Lt. Governor Steele are the leading African-American
elected officials in Maryland. They have thus far ignored our efforts.
HOW MANY MORE OF US HAVE TO DIE?
Yagaub Elmarrbu

Baltimore City Comcast Franchise Agreement City Council Hearing October 13th 5 pm

The City Council will hold its first hearing on the Comcast franchise agreement at City Hall October 13th at 5 PM.
The City Council will hold its first hearing on the Comcast franchise agreement at City Hall on Wed., Oct. 13th at 5 PM. We plan to hold a rally beforehand at 4:00 p.m., in front of City Hall, so come out and make some noise to show your support for public access TV in Baltimore!! Information at info@bpatv.org or info@baltimoregrassrootsmedia.org