I met up with an old friend for drinks last night, and over the course of conversation it became clear that he didn't know about the current boon of good music with overt Maryland ties. Both of us spent a lot of time listening to crappy local acts back in High School and directly afterward. If you spent enough time hanging around that circuit you' ( Read more... )

The verdict came down, guilty of stealing $600 dollars worth of gift cards. A brief sampling of opinion from the man on the street segments on the local newscasts show the “blood and iron” side of the city. “It would be best if she just resign”, “Corruption will never go unpunished”, etc… The message boards on the Baltimore Sun website are a ( Read more... )

A faint curiosity on the crime stats in Baltimore City struck me this week.  Thank goodness for Google Maps. For instance:  say you want to see the descriptive icons representing the various non-fatal transgressions.  You could look here:

http://www.crimebaltimore.com/

But being a fan of such Charm City exports as Homicide and the Wire you're ( Read more... )

The annual Best of Baltimore was a hot ticket. I'd just gotten back from New York and I was struck by how the creme de la creme of my fair city could barely match any given bar on the lower east side of Manhattan ( Read more... )

Last weekend was a good time to be in Baltimore. Artscape, Whartscape, and Otakon all went off simultaneously within a three mile radius ( Read more... )

I don't get the taste for tacos that often anymore, but whenever it comes, Taco Bell does their mightiest to discourage me. First the e coli scare kept me in hamburgers for a solid two months. When the taste flared up again, the New York rat video started making rounds on Youtube and the social tagging sites ( Read more... )

So thank you Michael Richards: you’ve made it that much easier to part with my Seinfeld box-set. But I kid. I don’t really know how to take it. Whether he’s some kinda racist or just going through that old age dementia thing (which his rambling apology tapes seem to indicate). I’d rather not get a queasy feeling when watching Seinfeld reruns. It’ ( Read more... )