Not everyone can cook well. Me, for example. My first job was working in a restaurant when I was a teenager, and I hated it. The deep fryers and greasy hamburgers made me nauseated, I constantly burned myself, generally spent my shift sweating and smelling bad, and, after a few weeks of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'City Living'
Machines for Living: Baltimore Architecture Week
October 8th, 2009 1 Comment
Sir Winston Churchill once said, “We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us.” And while that might not be as famous as his tiff with Lady Astor*, it may be just as true. The environments we choose — be they physical, social, or mental — influence us in ways both small and large. So, that [...]
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NCHH Survey: Where the Heart is (Dying of Cancer)
October 1st, 2009 1 Comment
The National Center for Healthy Housing has done its homework, my fellow countrymen, and they’re spreading the news: we haven’t done ours. They polled citizens 18 and older about basic home health risks and their findings should surprise nobody who’s ever lived in America. Three generalizations that account for most of the particulars:
(1.) we know [...]
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Pay BGE Less for Free
September 24th, 2009 2 Comments
This is an easy one. Baltimore Gas and Electric, your friendly occasionally menacing local power provider, is offering a new program they claim will make your home more energy-efficient and save you money and not cost anything. Probably.
The details are these: you can set up your BGE Quick Home Energy Check-up by filling out this [...]
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Retail Spotlight: The Loading Dock
September 17th, 2009 No Comments
It seems, to us anyway, that renovation projects are pretty popular these days. Maybe we just weren’t paying attention in the past, or maybe bloggers, in all of their televised glory, have sharpened our awareness. Whatever the case, we appreciate a renovated rowhouse; it’s better than building new for a number of reasons: [...]
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Seats of Unsung Muses
September 9th, 2009 No Comments
Maybe it goes without saying that the Monument City houses a glut of museums, but even after all the ones we’ve mentioned on this blog, there are enough left over that we could probably do a weekly segment on B-more’s bizarro museums and still not get through all of them by New Year’s. Not that [...]
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Restaurant Rumors
September 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Charm City foodies have recently been all abuzz about the long list of restaurant closings around town. Places unable to weather the recession range from the old and beloved (The Brass Elephant) to the new and trendy (Ixia). (You can see a longer list here; we’re too depressed to list them all.) Which is why [...]
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A Food Lover’s Guide to Baltimore
August 12th, 2009 No Comments
The Kitchn is one of our favorite foodie blogs, so we were honored when we were tapped to put together their Food Lover’s Guide to Baltimore. Good thing we love food and Baltimore. Check out a sneak peek of our picks below, or head over to The Kitchn for the full list.
City: Baltimore
Population: 2.7 million, [...]
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Guest Post: Hollins Market, Neighborhood in Transition
August 6th, 2009 No Comments
This post first appeared in a slightly different form on Baltimore City’s Past Present and Future. It is reprinted with permission.
In 1980, Hollins Market was struggling. Sandwiched between one of Baltimore’s most notorious housing developments (Lexington Terrace in Poppleton) and the never-completed I-170 highway spur, the neighborhood’s vacancy rate reached an all-time high of 35 [...]
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