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Jubilee: The Concert - It took me a little while to find a live stream of the Jubilee Concert, but I am glad I persevered and was able to watch it. It was very well done, and m...
The Dagger

Dagger Blotter May 31-June 1: Belcamp Girl Plays with Knife; Darlington Postmaster Bitten by Dog; Fallston Homeowner Belligerent - *The blotter is compiled from records of calls for service received by the Harford County Sheriff’s Office. The records are reviewed and prepared for pub...
All the Pieces Matter

Radiohead's Peculiar Power - I took my 12-year-old son, Levi, to the Radiohead concert at the Verizon Center last night and came away stunned, even though I’m not a huge fan of the b...
Baltimore Crime Beat

Man sentenced for videotaped attack on Baltimore officer - Second man found incompetent to stand trial A West Baltimore man captured on video attacking a police officer on New Year’s Eve was convicted of second-deg...
Baltimore Brew

Film star cast in real-life intrigue in pre-war Paris - In Alan Furst's "Mission to Paris," a likable actor is caught up in the poisonous political intrigue of pre-war France.
Mobtown Shank

Madam 8-Ball: Life Among The Cannibals - Madam 8-Ball uses the most up-to-date technologies to tell your weekly horoscope.
Pasta Primavera

Ed Schrader’s Music Beat – Traveling (Javelin Remix) - It seems like a rare occurrence when a remix comes by that I really enjoy enough to devote a single post to. Javelin, a favorite of mine, have remixed Ed ...
Baltidome Blog | Baltimore Green News

BaltimoreBikeParty 80′s Ride - BaltimoreBikeParty 80′s Ride June’s RAD 80′s Bike Party Friday, June 29, 2012 Washington Monument, 7:00pm BaltimoreBikeParty has something special planned ...
mango & ginger

Cherry Picking - We moved into our house seven years ago last summer. At the time, we didn't know it was a fruit farm. When we moved here, big chunks of the backyard were ...
This Charming City - BaltiAMORE

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The Baltimore Chop

Food Stamped Screening @ Pratt Central Library Tonight - [image: 600_Food-Stamped-press-shots---5] It can be difficult to write about events like tonight’s screening of Food Stamped at the Pratt’s Central Librar...
The Forge Flyer

231 Murdock, and other Rodgers Forge homes, up for auction today - Baltimore County is having a tax auction today and included is 231 Murdock (above), the home at the corner of Murdock and Dorking that has famously been aban...
990 Square

Girl’s Weekend in NYC - This weekend we celebrated my sister’s upcoming wedding in New York City with shows, food, and all around general fun. Yes, we got matching Minnie Mouse sh...
Historiographic Anarchy

Lynne Cheney Claims "Postmodernism" Killed Creepy Teacher - I recently rummaged through the Ollie’s books section and happened upon this unappreciated classic- Telling the Truth: Why Our Culture and Our Country Ha...
baltimore etsy street team

Native Berry Festival Seeks Craft Vendors: Deadline June 11th - Blue Water Baltimore is holding their annual Native Berry Festival on June 23, 2012 in the section of Herring Run Park that borders Belair Rd in NE Balti...
The Baltimore Snacker

Snacking State-by-State: Puerto Rico I - A few boricua staples in one! - Before heading up the 95 to the smallest state in the Union, I wanted to give a nod to the largest of US territories, a Caribbean island that has had much ...
Accidental Musings

Crack’d - We all knew it was coming, didn’t we? I was finally going to lose it. And I did. Except the process was entirely wonderful. Two years since the divorce I h...
Baltimore21201.com

Lovin' It: Oliver & Margaret and the View - Feline voyeurs. Young Mr Oliver and Miss Margaret love the super-wide window sills and the downtown Baltimore action. But, looking out the windows they don't...
A Blogger and a Father

Tommy - [image: http://lifeofdad.com/] Life of Dad There are plenty of websites about motherhood. Like Babble, I suppose, which likes to pretend it's inclusive, bu...
Baltimore Skyline

I Don't Agree with the EBDI Opposers - Recently in the news there has been increased opposition to the EBDI development adjacent to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. It has grown to the point where lo...
News From Charm City Craft Mafia

Vendor Spotlight: *Might - *What type of music do you listen to when you're hard at work?* Andrew Bird, The Decemberists, They Might Be Giants & Neko Case tend to keep me motivated ...
The New Glitterati

#dirtythirty Eve - Now, I realize that the whole "Roaring Twenties" metaphor (is that a metaphor? Or an analogy? My brain is fried. Pardon.) totally falls apart because I'm n...
Walk Tall, Kick Ass

DSC_7253 [Flickr] - Matthew J Targarona posted a photo: [image: DSC_7253]
BmoreArt

Go West at Area 405 June 1 - GO WEST! Area 405 presents an International exhibition and the culinary event of the season not to be missed: GO WEST (exhibitionists) is a multi medi...
strawberries in paris

Wordless Wednesday: Loving on Lils - Filed under: Travels
Boyfriend, please!

Kitchen Wars--Crash! - I'm sitting at the kitchen table in the new house & I gotta say--this ain't no merge, it's a full-grown, head-on crash! Difficult to be sure & frustratin...
BaltimoreDIY

Baltimore Mini Goats! - Mini goats are now legal in Baltimore City! These little guys are two month old Nigerian Dwarf goats. They are castrated males (aka "wethers"), fro...
Pragmatik

Bye-bye, doctors. - All of the PhDs in my apartment building are moving right now, this week, and not just Mrs. P and I. Weird.
Baltimore Diary

In the Press. - Dennis Miller: I don't wanna go on a rant here, but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the First ...
Radar Redux; Baltimore Arts and Culture

School of Seven Bells - The first time I heard music by School of Seven Bells was thanks to a podcast that played the song “Iamundernodisguise“. I perked up, said ‘hey! what’s th...
The Great Walls of Baltimore

This Way To Kindergarten - School starts in about three months. She can hardly wait. I'm devastated. Where did the years go?
Baltimore Bicycle Works

Memorial Day Closing - In honor of Memorial Day, the shop will be closed Monday, May 28th. So get your bike shopping in Saturday or Sunday and have a great long weekend. Publ...
C R A I G 3 6 5

The Balcony -
Spectacle Rock

The Very Model of a Modern Major JRPG - Imagine that one day, in some dusty, forgotten corner of your parents’ basement, you were to stumble upon an old shelf, untouched in many years. Lined up n...
Sawmill Marketing Public Relations

Meet Spike & Otis - A trend in social media is “brand humanization,” the concept of adding a bit of personality to an organization’s interaction with people. Who wants to enga...
Taste of Baltimore

REVIEW: Graeter's Ice Cream - So Memorial Day Weekend is here and I know a number of you plan to host or attend some parties, so let me give you some advice if you are unsure about ...
Land of Bean

Stages - At every stage in my daughter's brief life, I have thought things were kinda rough. I'm being dramatic, of course, because rough is relative here. But hist...
The City That Breeds

Mayor to utilize hologram technology to interact with citizenry - Holographic interactions further legacy of facetious citizen engagement After a series of Public Relations gaffes, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will dram...
The B-More Dad Blog

Working Father - Dear Working Mother magazine, Men are not stupid. Your current issue’s “10 Lessons from Working Dads” touts many benefits of parenting like a dad, which do...
THERE WERE TEN TIGERS

Highlights from MICA's 2012 Commencement Art Walk - Nick Cubeta and James Bouche Nick Cubeta and James Bouche Nick Cubeta and James Bouche James Bouche Nick Cubeta Nick Vyssotsky Nick Vyssotsky ...
Kid Baltimore

Gunpowder River Artfest at Boordy Vineyards - WHAT: Arts, Crafts, Music, Wine, Food, Activities WHERE: Boordy Vineyards WHEN: June 2, 2012 We are packing our bags and heading for the Gunpowder River Ar...
The Ninth Strange Day

[ 004 ] 100 Things About Things… - … that I do I bake. I always have. I’d help my Nana bake her cookies every Christmas. I started with cutting out shapes and putting sugar on them when I wa...
pizzablogger

Time Machine: Old Posts Recovered! - Long story short. Many posts from my 2009-2011 initial blogging period that I thought were lost have been found. They are not formatted for WordPress and t...
Mommy Has A Headache

Finding My Water Wings - I have recently become a water aerobics fanatic. I go to a gym that has a somewhat volatile air conditioning and heating system. So I was either freezin...
Renegade Agency Confessional

The Illusion of Choice - *The Safeway down the street doesn't offer near the selection I had at the Shoprite I grew up with. Do you want Coke, Pepsi or the Safeway brand? Whateve...
Baltimore City Paper

Farmers Markets - Baltimore City Baltimore Farmers Market and Bazaar, 7 a.m.-noon Sundays through Dec. 18, beneath the Jones Falls Expressway at Holliday and Saratoga street...
Baltimore City's Past Present and Future

Harlem Park: Don't Wait for the Red Line - There are some parts of Old West Baltimore that have seen lots of reinvestment and redevelopment on both the public and private sectors. They include Upto...
Operation Pink Herring

Crossing the Delaware - I remember feeling utterly panicked in the dark days (let's be honest, dark weeks) after Hannah was born when I realized that one day I was probably going to...
Welcome to Baltimore, Hon!

“Of Dolls and Murder” Baltimore Premiere - WTBH hosts the Baltimore-area premiere of "Of Dolls and Murder," a documentary about the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained death and popular interest in fore...
BeerInBaltimore.com

2012 World Beer Cup® Winners Announced (3 MD Breweries!) - Congrats to three MD breweries for each bringing home a Silver Medal in this year’s World Beer Cup! Those breweries and beers are: Category 7: Chocolate B...
Charm City Moms

Entitlement - Here's Liz Atwood with this week's Tween Tuesday: A Texas couple was demonized by the media last week for not giving a souvenir baseball to a little boy at a...
Jughead's Baltimore Blog

MS Drug Gilenya A Bust, Skating Show Weekend Has Arrived - Started two months ago taking the new drug Gilenya, a drug design for relapsing remitting forms of multiple sclerosis. I really didn't anticipate getting ...
1980s

1980s Fashion: Constantly Happy - Some people love 1980s fashion because, well, they like it. For most, though, the love of 1980s fashion is nostalgic. We all love to return to the period t...
Nailing Jello to the Wall

Day 29: Black & White - I used to take lots of black and white photos, back in the day of 35 mm film. It was interesting to go out on a sunny day today and do this with my new cam...
neglected beauty.

Lost and Found beauty - Santa Cruz, NM Living in a place called the "Land of Enchantment," you think would quell any complaints about the ambiance. Undeniably, it is absolutely be...
The Baltimore Spectator

HOLY DASHCAM-- Raw Video: Batman Pulled Over By Montgomery County Police - Either these cops were afraid to give Batman a ticket, or rich guys catch all the breaks. There's just so many places I can go with this video; but for th...
Foma*

Zack and Zonker - Recently a newspaper comic strip took on a hot button political issue in a provocative stand in a week-long series which ignited controversy and outrage: ...
The Real Estate Wonk

Moving! Follow the Real Estate Wonk to new home - The Real Estate Wonk has moved -- fitting, for a blog about housing. You can tag along to the new location by going to baltimoresun.com/realestatewonk. The n...
SNAP Blog

4 Reasons I Dislike Pinterest - If you have any contact with females online – I’m sure you’ve heard of Pinterest. It’s a service that provides virtual pin-boards (reminds me of a digital ...
Bmore Musically Informed

Here We Come 2012 - With a new year will come a new *Bmore Music*. Re-imaged and re-purposed for 2012, look to be musically informed about artists from Baltimore in different...
All the BS

The Face Painting of James Kuhn - Hovering somewhere between freaky, scary, interesting, inspiring, and freaky (again), is the face painting of James Kuhn. I wish I could say this was only ...
Investigative Voice

CABBIE SHOT — Driver injured in early-morning robbery - *By A.F. James MacArthur* A cabdriver was shot by a passenger at a Remington gas station early Sunday morning, police said, during another bloody weekend...
Free Republik

Callista and the Free Republic - Newt Gingrich said that the next First Lady, his current wife Callista, "describes herself as being a cross between Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush with just a...
Read Street

Moving day at Read Street - The Baltimore Sun is shifting the platform for its blogs, so Read Street is moving to a new address: http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/books/read-street. ...
Harford Road, Hon

Hazardous Waste Drop-Off This Weekend - The city of Baltimore will hold its first Hazardous Waste Drop-Off event at the new containment facility at the Northwest Citizen Convenience Center this w...
The Prince of Dundalk

Mastiff Monday: Halloween Edition - First of all sorry for the lack of entries. I am a bit of a shitty blogger. I'm OK with that though because I am a really good friend and I think that counts...
Age 30+ ... A Lifetime of Books

Dueling Monsters: Dr. Moreau Recap - Thank you to everyone who participated in the Dr. Moreau portion of this year's Dueling Monsters read-a-long! I hope you enjoying getting to know Moreau...
Contemplate with Kitty Kate

A Day In The Life: Baltimore Pictures 2011 - Yesterday, The Baltimore Sun ask people to submit pictures that they took from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM that depicts a day in the life of living in Baltimore. Th...
Urban Revival

The Point of this blog - Recently the New York Times ran an article about gentrification in DC and how for the first time in 51 years, the District will no longer be majority black...
Live from Bawlmer

We've Moved. - This blog has moved to charissacosta.com. See ya on the flip side!
johnwairephoto | blog

the next chapter… - today, i’m turning the page in my photography journey. it’s time to roll up the sleeves and get dirty. i hope you’ll come and join me in my new home HERE….
That Feminist Feeling

Taxing (or Fee-ing) Non-profits - I read this article this morning about Boston (and other cities) turning to nonprofits to increase revenue for the city. I have mixed feelings...Squeezed Cit...
Ashley and Jared's Wedding Blog

I Think We Are Doing This - Yep, that's right. I think me and that boy who used to have long hair and bought a school bus are getting hitched! Only 10 more days to go and most of our...