One of the beauties of Christmas lists is that you get to put down things that no one will ever buy for you. No one’s getting me a rocket car made out of diamonds this year, but if they did I’d love them forever. And while it’s unlikely that I’ll ever be able to afford [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Mount Vernon'
Upcoming Events – Weekend of 12/4
December 4th, 2009 No Comments
Welcome to that magical time of year when the noun ‘holiday’ can be used as an adjective to modify any event, product, or activity, regardless of its relevance to any historical or current holy day. It may not feel much like December––so much as an interminable pre-dawn shower with no hot water when the power’s [...]
Tags:
Baltimore User’s Guide: Learn Something. For Free.
November 3rd, 2009 1 Comment
Now, Baltimore, we don’t want this to go to your head, but the Daily Beast thinks you’re pretty smart. In their recent survey of American metropolitan areas with more than a million residents, Baltimore finished 10th out of 55 cities, and that’s nothing to sneeze at. Now while these surveys should be [...]
Tags:
Willing Spirits – The Ghosts of Baltimore
October 29th, 2009 No Comments
Ghost tourism is an odd, if not paranormal, phenomenon. The tales of the departed that we gobble up when hankering for a healthy shiver tend to be decidedly distant in time and circumstance from those we read about in the daily news. There’s pleasure in in being reminded of the great beyond, so long as [...]
Tags:
October’s New Baltimore Restaurants!
October 15th, 2009 No Comments
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 [...]
Tags:
Baltimore User’s Guide –– Down at the Heels
August 5th, 2009 No Comments
Where I’m from shoes matter. Scuffing a stranger’s kicks can get you a broken nose—and that’s just the men’s shoes. I was a shoe salesman in Atlanta shortly before I moved here, so one of the first things I noticed about Baltimore was that shoes just don’t seem very important to people here. That’s all [...]
Tags:
Believe, Hon
July 1st, 2009 No Comments
One of the benefits of living in the city is proximity to a variety of religious traditions. Baltimore, in particular, has a proud history of tolerance, though the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 only applied to Christians… and even then got nixed by Oliver Cromwell. But! Since then, our religious heritage has been plentiful and [...]
Tags:
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 [...]
Tags:
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 [...]
Tags:
