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Chocolatea (3811 Canterbury Rd., Tuscany-Canterbury) is fairly easy to miss. It’s settled on the corner of the Ambassador Building (next to Ambassador Dining Room, natch), it’s quiet, unassuming and fairly colorful inside. And the few times I had strolled past Chocolatea on foot I figured it was a fairly run-of-the-mill coffee shop with a remotely […]
Joining the likes of gotime.com, 600block.com and probably a bunch of others I forgot, comes drinkbaltimore.com – a site dedicated to all things drinking in Baltimore. Today is the “soft launch” of the site – just in time for Baltimore Beer Week’s first day – preloaded with staff written reviews of local drinkeries, features on […]
Consumerist is running one of its most treasured annual routines until October 16th, the Worst Ads Awards, where readers get to vote for, well, the worst ads in America broken down by category (Creepiest, Worst, Most Annoying Performance By a Human, etc.). This year has had a slew of television ads worthy of scorn, some […]
Baltimore’s first ever Cosby Sweater Bar Crawl benefiting BARCS is a mere 11 days away, I’m excited and so are you. In preparation for the event, a bunch of very attractive 2.25″ buttons featuring Dr. Cosby have been made (see below), and they’re very attractive! Thing is, I only made so many of them and […]
This Saturday the 8th, word has it that some zany folks at the Southeast Community Development Co. will be putting on an “old-fashioned” soap-box derby styled race with custom built, zany art derby cars (the one pictured will be a chocolate chip cookie and the rider will be dressed as a carton of milk): On […]
Sheila, I’m sure you’re well aware that your mayoral successor-by-default, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, recently won Baltimore’s illustrious and completely amazing primary election, essentially guaranteeing her mayorship after the general election. Just as you were finally voted into office having served as mayor-by-default after Martin O’Malley saved us all from BGE rate hikes when taking office […]