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Take a trip in the wayback machine yall, Microprose employees and their can-do attitude produce the most advanced war simulators ever made, ever. Featured is the in-development F-15 Strike Eagle game by Microprose co-head Sid Meier, the legendary game developer behind Civilization and X-COM (among so many others!). Co-head Bill Stealy hams it up big […]
The year: 1985. Yolanda Gaskins (with a brief intro from the always fetching DHams, Donna Hamilton) details a LOT of B roll footage of white people riding bikes, playing tennis, and playing golf in 1985’s BALTIMORE’S BEST SPORTS FESTIVAL. Wow! We’ve got to assume this was a Willy Don idea, right, because this city-wide celebration […]
Readers, viewers, listeners, I am a Mayor obsessed: With vintage clips from Evening Magazine. I’ve been scouring the Interwebs for Baltimore’s wholesome human interest pieces that ran daily(? I think) from 1977 to 1990. It’s so great! I’ll be uploaded these treats to our Youtube Channel (and subscribe!) semiregularly to our “Baltimore Ephemera” playlist, so […]
Hi Everyone, As you may well be aware there’s some sort of mysterious virus killing everyone and everything everywhere and the governor of Maryland has decided to shut down well, everything, which royally sucks for everyone involved but mostly the people that are hourly employees that otherwise cannot take off work, lest they not be […]
And so it shall pass that today we debut the soft opening of a new feature to the website entitled “Holy Shit, This is Good (HSTIG).” As inspired by a catchphrase uttered by one Casey The Kasem on the CTB Show, HSTIG aims to spotlight a product or two or three or twenty three we […]
The Podgang is joined by food writer Dara Bunjon (@daracooks) to discuss Passover meals, food trends, old school bar food and more on the second half! In the first half the gang rants about taxes (mostly Evan), What’s the Deal, Al Capino and the new Star Wars stuff. Enjoy!