Social Pub and Pie is open for business

In the grand tradition of making bars and restaurants in the Federal Hill area larger by absorbing neighboring properties, Grumpies Pour House has successfully expanded into the adjacent Federal Hill Lounge space and has reopened as a pizza restaurant dubbed Social Pub and Pie (25 E Cross St). The old Federal Hill Lounge was completely […]

Fun With Bad Reviews Vol. 3 – Creepot Edition

Ah, the internet. A time-tested repository of folks more than willing to express their opinion on venues and destinations that somehow disappointed them massively. This time (much like the last time) one of Baltimore’s beloved dives, The Depot (1728 N Charles St, Charles North), receives a general lambasting based on the quality of ownership and […]

Brainstorming: The Star Spangled Bicentennial

Earlier this morning I received an email from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, who are currently soliciting folks to come up with ideas for next year’s bicentennial of the War of 1812, in which the British received a most unholy dick kicking by us colonials, a naval bombardment repelled via Fort McHenry and the birth […]

This whole “Complacent Reynolds” thing is pretty funny

As it popped up the other day on Orioles Hangout, a delightful thread about a delightful photo of one Baltimore Oriole Mark Reynolds nonchalantly eating a bag of sunflower seeds as Red Sock David Ortiz baseruns his way past, seemingly complacent in the whole affair. The photo in and of itself is hilarious, and then […]