Another one bites the dust: Bill’s Lighthouse Inn sold

Signaling the further death-knell of working class enclaves in South Baltimore, Bill’s Lighthouse Inn (1741 Light Street, Riverside), the storied and longstanding neighborhood bar has been sold to a group known as Velocity Cafe. Bill’s went up for auction in December, but owner Adele Wedemeyer rejected the $475,000 bid for the sizable property, opting to […]

3 Alternatives to PETA’s proposed help to keep the Poe House open

The Daily Record initially broke the news on January 31st that Baltimore’s Edgar Allen Poe house, a museum no one goes to, could be forced to shut down in 2012 unless it maintains funds previously given by the city to keep the Poppleton rowhome-slash-museum up and running. Over the course of the past few weeks […]

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 […]

Top 4: Buttrock songs of all time (because 5 is one too many)

Ahhhhh Buttrock. Generic, uninspired aural diarrhea that has somehow actually managed to evolve – as far as primordial ooze can, in a way – into its own genre, its own way of life. And although the internet may provide varying opinions, as some consider Hair Metal or early 80’s Crotch Rock to be Butt Rock, […]