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5 Points Tavern – the long road to victory
1120 E. Fort Avenue in Locust Point has been a bar for a very, very long time. Longer than I’ve been alive, longer than my parents have been alive, longer than ….you get the point. To the longest stretch of my memory, it went from being a bar called French Quarter – a dark, unsettling place where normal bar patrons should never go – to Aloha Tokyo, a poorly managed (both space and quality wise) attempt at a sushi/karaoke bar. Which, even in real estate-bubble era Locust Point didn’t really fit quite yet, alongside the failed Nasu Blanca and Luca’s, which has now reverted to something similar to its former Truman’s in Barracuda’s. Real estate lessons aside, last summer Aloha Tokyo came under new ownership and the long process of completely … Read entire article »
Filed under: Boozetime!, Food and Drink, Reviews
3 places other than the Inner Harbor NFL networks could shoot footage
If you’re like me, every time you watch a Ravens home game on the TeeVee you start grinding your teeth with impotent rage at the fact that every time the NFL folks come to town to shoot flyovers of M&T Bank Stadium and stock footage of Baltimore, it’s always the exact same thing: The Inner Harbor. I think once I’ve seen them use footage of City Hall, but otherwise we get the same 3 shots of The Constellation, World Trade Center, and maybe Harbor Place. Yawwwwn. This isn’t limited to just Baltimore obviously, every single time a Saints game is played in New Orleans the only parts you’ll ever see are Bourbon St. and the French Market, even though there are plenty of beautiful spots within two miles to showcase … Read entire article »
Filed under: Baltimore
Happy Flag Day, America
If you’re in Baltimore this week, head on over to some of our great city’s gigantic American flags – notably Federal Hill Park or Fort McHenry, and salute that mother out. Or, head on over to the Star Spangled Banner Flag House (844 East Pratt Street, Downtown) and see how Baltimore’s Mary Pickersgill created the Most Awesome Flag in Existence (unofficially), inspiring Francis Scott Key to write a poem that would become our national anthem. Show some love for the Stars and Bars, and everything they represent*!! The Star Spangled Banner – The Diamond Four, 1898 *the good stuff, at least … Read entire article »
Filed under: Events
City Paper’s Sizzlin’ Summer – Pick it up today!
City Paper’s annual Sizzlin’ Summer edition is out today, which includes mine and yours’s’ favorite feature, the annual Coldest Beers listing. Such a fan of this section I am that I once created a glorious map of 2007′s list, and placed it gently on the internet (they even gave me a nod for it!). The feature then magically and triumphantly made its return to CP in 2009′s edition. Sweeeeet. This year, my favorite bar in South Baltimore (sorry Idle Hour), Down the Hatch, which consistently ranks in the top 5 each and every year for the coldest (and cheapest!) beer, placed 3rd. Oddly enough, right around the corner at another one of my favorite neighborhood haunts, Thornton’s Pub (1538 East Clement Street, Locust Point), placed last at a balmy 52.4° F. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Links
The Fort Avenue pub crawl stabbing – Backlash and fallout
In case you were not paying attention to the Baltimore area internet in the past few days, it was initially reported on Monday by Sun reporter Justin Fenton that during a pub crawl along Fort Avenue on Saturday (an overlapping pub crawl not associated with the one plugged a few days prior), an altercation broke out which eventually resulted in one man being stabbed in the back by another, the details of which unfolded during the day in the form of edits on the original post. The nature of the report and the individuals involved – for whatever reason – sparked what essentially amounts to a race war in the comments section within a few hours; truly some of the most vitriolic commentary I’ve seen in relation to Baltimore neighborhoods … Read entire article »
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