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Entries from March 31st, 2009

Complete the Streets!

March 31st, 2009 No Comments

We’re embarrassed a lot of the time by how much we drive.  Sure, we talk a big game on this blog about how we’re so into public transportation and biking – and we are – but we could heed our own advice a little better.  The truth of it is that sometimes it doesn’t feel [...]

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Frugal Tuesday: Cheap Tricks Edition

March 31st, 2009 No Comments

Let’s just go ahead and enjoy a little Vizzini moment, shall we? Tomorrow is April first, and I’m not going to fool you. Plenty of people will, and blogs especially get sort of a free pass whereby all they’ve got to do is post some random not-true stuff and call it a day. Well, here [...]

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Fixer-Uppers for Sale in the $200,000 Range

March 30th, 2009 2 Comments

For $200,000 (ish), you can get the kind of fixer-upper that’s ideal for many people. The house is (probably!) in good enough shape to move in, with a few tweaks needed to bring it to its full potential. If you’re lucky, lots of lovely original details will be intact.
2113 Pratt Street – Butcher’s Hill
The previous [...]

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Monday Morning Links Round-Up — 3/29 Edition

March 30th, 2009 No Comments

Lots of controversies afoot! First up is the city’s proposed “Arts and Live Entertainment Legislation.” We don’t want to bore you with the details, but the consensus from Baltimore’s art community seems to be: NO! Some perspectives here and here.
The ten winners of the first-annual Baker Artist Awards for Baltimore artists were announced, and congrats [...]

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Baltimore's Best — Vintage Stores

March 27th, 2009 3 Comments

Okay, maybe thrift is all the rage now – but we just want to make sure you know that we were into it way before it was cool. Sure, we love Mount Vernon’s antique row (800 block of Howard Street) and all those cluttered, kitsch-filled stores in Hampden. But we’ve always found the best stuff [...]

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Upcoming Events — Weekend of 3/27

March 27th, 2009 No Comments

We’ve already mentioned the City From Below conference on progressive urbanism, but it bears repeating.
Last week Mayor Sheila Dixon announced that Baltimore would be participating in Earth Hour, an international movement that’s attempting to get a billion people (!) to demonstrate their eco-allegiance by turning off their lights for one hour. The website puts it [...]

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Baltimore Markets – Northeast and Broadway

March 26th, 2009 No Comments

So we managed to cover two of Baltimore’s markets last week (In case you missed it, here they are.) But that leaves four outstanding.  And since we consider ourselves nothing if not comprehensive, we decided to cover two more this week.  Without further ado, we bring you the Broadway and Northeast Markets.
Northeast Market is located [...]

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Grassroots Conferencing

March 25th, 2009 No Comments

In a few weeks, Providence will play host to What We Do, a conference helmed by Rhode Island School of Design students “designed to bridge departmental gaps and create new connections through the sharing of ideas.” Like a lot of other conference-type events we’ve noticed lately, W.W.D. is purposefully diverse and informal, with RISD profs [...]

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City Spaces are Smaller and Better

March 25th, 2009 No Comments

I moved to Baltimore from the suburbs.  Not the county or Glen Burnie, but from real Midwestern suburbs, the sort that are featured in articles about McMansions and sprawl.  While I had a good time growing up there, it just isn’t what I want anymore.  I want to live in cities because they’re close to [...]

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A Book by its Cover

March 24th, 2009 No Comments

Recently, spending more time at home has become both prudent and chic. Even those of us who don’t have to are tightening the nonfunctional pelvic bangle, if only for appearances. Thing is, moderately wealthy people, you need to keep buying stuff. That not doing so is hip right now is exactly the evidence that you [...]

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