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Youtube brings it again: this completely awesome gem of a gem from 1978, an Evening Magazine spot about the shuffle bowl league at Sid’s over der in Pigtown. Sid’s most recently made some headlines and sparked a huge amount of discussion in the community when it was shut down about a year ago after a […]
Awesome How about a little historical wrapup?
I recently took a trip out to the bowels of Columbia to check out Frisco Taphouse and Brewery (6695 Dobbin Rd., Columbia), where their beer list is not – as most places – in the form of a printed menu (which would cost very little), but rather a huge and presumably expensive flat panel display, […]
Noticed today via Dining@Large and a few other sources that the Texas Based food chain Wingstop, who specialize in chicken wings (durr) will be opening up to 20 new locations in the Bmore/Wash region in the next few years. This inevitably got me thinking about Laurel, MD based (now with a location in Lebanon!) Cluck-U […]
This past summer, a phenomenon was born: Mondo Baltimore. A glorious festival of sitting amongst a crowd of people at Windup Space (12 W North Ave., Charles North) and watching awful, terrible movies every first Thursday throughout the summer was a wonderful thing, so wonderful in fact that Mondo Baltimore has been extended through the fall, and with any luck and lots of patronage will become a permanent fixture on the landscape of awesome in this city. So please won’t you, join the ghoulish Minions of Mondo next Thursday October 7th for their next feature, Trick or Treat starring Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons! Doors open at 6:30pm or something. More movies listed on the flier below!
(Mondo Baltimore also has a Facebook page)
As it was widely reported this past Sunday, a big ol’ statue of Frank Zappa’s head – Baltimore’s own prolific avant garde rock/jazz/classical/everything else musician and defender of free speech – was dedicated in Highlandtown in front of a crowd of billions. While the idea as to where it should have gone was expressed a […]