For the sake of full disclosure, I should admit that I have a problem with reviewing poetry. It's a deeply personal form of writing that elicits personal responses, and there is no truly universal guide to quality. For that reason, there is an appeal to ...
Every weekend in Baltimore you’ll hear the question “Are there any good shows happening tonight?” The usual response is “Yeah, (local indie band) is playing at (local underground venue)”. But that was not the response I got one recent weekend, where everywhere I heard: “Yeah, ...
The 29th Street Bridge was first built in 1937. It was created to get across the Jones Falls Valley, now the Jones Falls Expressway. Thanks to Baltimore street artists the area has become something more. Today some refer to the 29th Street Bridge to be ...
Dubstep is very big in London yet the music is little known in the United States. Baltimore is one city where the music is gaining recognition. Here the Dubstep scene is rapidly growing and the music is recognized as an exciting and important new genre. ...
What is Guerilla Gay Bar? Taking over - one straight bar at a time! The first Wednesday of October, hundreds of people awaited the Facebook message that would reveal the place and time of this month's coup d'etat of one of Baltimore's traditional, straight-laced bars. ...
About IGNITE BALTIMORE # 3 http://www.ignitebaltimore.com/ If you had five minutes on stage, what would you say to Baltimore? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? On June 25th at 6 pm, 16 artists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers answered ...
This past Thursday (February 5, 2009) the second Ignite Baltimore event used a unique format to help realize this greater goal. Sixteen speakers, including Councilman Bill Henry, and musician Caleb Stine (of Caleb Stine and the Brakemen) along with a variety of entrepreneurs and assorted ...