Since the year is starting cold and a little slow, I thought we could use some heightened awareness of those goose-pimpled bodies we’ve got bundled under layers of wool and holiday butter. Three different events in Baltimore this week call attention in one form or another––furred, feminine, and naked––to our sweet mortal husks. Show up [...]
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Upcoming Events – New Year’s Eve
December 31st, 2009 No Comments
The good news is you already know how to celebrate New Year’s Eve––by drinking champagne which you get to call champagne because you live in America, by making jokes about kissing someone at midnight while you search desperately for someone to kiss at midnight, and by claiming the role of the earnest keeper of resolutions [...]
Tags: Inner Harbor · Maryland Science Center · New Year's Eve · U.S.S. Constellation
Upcoming Events – Weekend of 12/18
December 18th, 2009 No Comments
Mainstream religious holidays have made a hash of public events this week, so it’s as good a time as any for some counterculture to clamber into view. Whether or not you subscribe to one of the major world-views currently celebrating a historical triumph, there are a few local offerings from some oft-neglected philosophies/attitudes/identities/hairstyles. Below:
The Red [...]
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Upcoming Events – Weekend of 12/11
December 11th, 2009 No Comments
Happy Chanukah, Baltimore! The festival of lights is upon us, and apparently that means that not a whole lot is going on in the city. Which is fine, because we’ve got candles, loved ones, and the stern gaze of history to keep us warm, right? Also, these things:
1. The B’nai Israel Sisterhood is throwing a [...]
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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 [...]
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Upcoming Events – Weekend of 11/20
November 20th, 2009 No Comments
Open your heart and your heartburn medication, Baltimore; Thanksgiving is here again. The national day-of-gratitude-cum-eating-contest happens only once a year, but the feelings of warmth and nebulous goodwill can last for months, or at least until the Christmas decorations go up. Whether you’re skipping town this week or sticking with the Greatest, we wish you [...]
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Upcoming Events – Weekend of 11/13
November 13th, 2009 No Comments
Yet another Friday the thirteenth is upon us, Baltimore, and still your luck is yours to make, unless you’re still hungover from the double-impact of last winter’s Irish twin thirteens. Whether you’re superstitious or not, rouse yourself from the warm dent you’ve formed in the couch and take a chance on something unusual this week. [...]
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Upcoming Events – Weekend of 11/6
November 6th, 2009 No Comments
If your Halloween in any way resembled mine, then one little Daylight Savings do-over hour was far from sufficient. This week the events calendar seems to be taking a bit of a hangover break, so change things up and try improving yourself with some nice, crunchy culture. Next weekend I promise it’s back to debauchery.
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Upcoming Events – 10/30
October 30th, 2009 No Comments
So, other than Devil’s Night, All Hallows’ Eve, Samhain, All Saints’ Day, and the Day of the Dead, there’s really nothing happening this week. Here’s where:
1. Baltimore Critical Mass will begin (in costume!) tonight at 7:00 p.m. by the Washington Monument in Mt. Vernon. The idea is simple: cyclists have just as much a right as [...]
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Haint Misbehavin’ – Baltimore’s Haunted Houses
October 28th, 2009 No Comments
Haunted houses, crib sheets, and liquor all serve basically the same end: making the unmanageable seem manageable. So, whether you’re a dresser-up for the eve of All Saints’ or not, consider it a duty to your psyche to mock death at least once this October. Four places for doing so:
1. The Cox’s Point Haunted Mansion [...]
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