I don’t know how you go about celebrating the Fourth of July—maybe you dance around Carhenge like some UAW druid—but when I was younger we did a lot of camping around this weekend. Given that we never had the state park to ourselves, it’s safe to say that others enjoy pitching a tent under the [...]
Entries from June 30th, 2009
Frugal Tuesday: Doomed to Repeat Edition
June 30th, 2009 3 Comments
History is free, and it belongs to all of us, whether we want it or not. But historical attractions like to charge admission. Here’s an abridged list of some time-laden Baltimore locations that cost less than $10.
1. Fort McHenry in Locust Point (It is its own address. Seriously.) is the big one. This star-shaped fortress [...]
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Monday Morning Links Round-Up – June 29th
June 29th, 2009 2 Comments
A Baltimore Block lets us in on 101 Baltimore secrets.
Adventures in Baltimore Restaurants knows about so many deals!
On the Town tells us about a new bar in Federal Hill called the Hill. Sounds like fun.
Also sounding like fun is the Midnight Sun’s rundown of Ocean City beach bars. Ahhh, summertime.
Audacious Ideas talks about ways to [...]
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Difficult Stages
June 26th, 2009 No Comments
When it comes to local culture, the least fungible of its elements may be the theatre. Almost everything else can be shipped, mass-produced, outsourced, or phoned in. Theatre, by definition, has to happen where it happens, and there’s so little money in it (actually less than none) that it’s rarely worth the investment to take [...]
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Upcoming Events – Weekend of 6/26
June 25th, 2009 No Comments
This week there are lots of ways to feel marginally more cultured. So pause the brand-name portable music playing device and step out into the bright, scary day. First things first:
1. LatinoFest in Patterson Park (corner of Eastern and Linwood Avenues), this Saturday, June 27 from noon to 10:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 28 from [...]
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Development Spotlight: City Arts
June 25th, 2009 No Comments
Most of our DS installments are aimed at prospective Baltimoreans of the upper-middle-class variety. Here’s one for all y’all in the service industry. Station North, the city’s designated arts district, is where scores of Baltimore’s artists both present their work and make a living. (The two endeavors rarely coincide.) Soon it may also be where [...]
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City Living is Better – Green Roadways
June 25th, 2009 No Comments
One of the defining features of a city is its roads, and speaking personally, we don’t like them. They’re dirty, they’re hot, they’re not that safe, and grass is just so much prettier.
Our objections to asphalt and tar aside, roads are perfectly utilitarian: they provide an excellent means for cars and people to travel quickly. [...]
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Baltimore City User’s Guide: Golf.
June 24th, 2009 No Comments
One of my first jobs was as a range attendant at a public golf course near my house. It was easy enough; I handed out buckets of balls, parked golf carts, and drove the ball picker on the driving range. It was a good summer job for a teenage kid: I got tan, I got [...]
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Charm City Screameasies
June 24th, 2009 No Comments
The New York Times ran a piece recently about a peculiar fad among bars––across the country, but especially in the city that never stops talking about itself. The theory is that the ultra-posh and grimetown-hip alike prefer to buy their overpriced swill in dives nobody knows about. Which is hard, because if you know about [...]
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