Baltimore_city_paper

City Paper
Type	Alternative weekly
Format	Tabloid
Owner	Times-Shamrock Communications
Publisher	Don Farley
Editor	Lee Gardner
Founded	1977
Headquarters	812 Park Avenue Baltimore, MD 21201 United States
Circulation	85,750Baltimore City Paper. Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Retrieved on 2007-01-15.
Website: citypaper.com

Baltimore City Paper is a free alternative weekly paper published in Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 1977 by Russ Smith and Alan Hirsch. It is distributed on Wednesdays in distinct yellow boxes found throughout the Baltimore area.

It is best known for providing information on clubs, concerts and restaurants, but each issue also has one major article on a subject not usually being carried by the mainstream media. In each issue there are also several political and advice columns and numerous cartoons including the weekly comic DIRTFARM by Ben Claassen III.

The City Paper has broken several important stories in the Baltimore area, including the recent plagiarism scandal involving longtime Baltimore Sun columnist Michael Olesker.

The City Paper presents the Best of Baltimore awards every year.

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