Presenting your 2011 HON™Fest™ foursquare venue

Hey! Are you planning on hitting up the totally awesome street festival HON™Fest™ this weekend? I hear it’s totally awesome, which is why we left some totally awesome tips for the venue on Foursquare! Check ’em out! Buy a CHONT bumper sticker! Get all religious-y and get kicked out! Write the word HON™ on your […]

The HONtroversy Zeta – the ultimater flame war

In our last episode, City Paper had just published a feature-length interview with Cafe Hon owner Denise Whiting, the contents of which completely backfired and caused an upswell of renewed ire at her for the then-recent revelation that she had trademarked the colloquial term “Hon.” And here we are months later, when Baltimore Sun reports […]

Update: Baltimore Flyer Watch

Just barely shy of a year ago, Pigtown resident and illegal flyer hater JJT fired up the reigns on a citizen-justice blog entitled Baltimore Flyer Watch, an obvi homage-slash-emulation of prominent Baltimore Slumlord Watch, with the aim of posting photos of the various carryout establishments of the area cluttering his doorway with illegal flyers. And […]

Quintessential Baltimore coffee table book turning 10, we’re giving away a copy

(the winner has been announced! but feel free to leave your “then and now” comments below if you wanna!) Thunder Bay’s popular series Then and Now has been around for a while, and Baltimore’s version (with heavy lifting by Midnight Sunner/beer blogger/photog Alexander D. Mitchell IV) Baltimore: Then and Now is itching to turn 10 […]

Dear Baltimore Bars/Restaurants: Charge Yankees Fans More

And so tonight begins the fabled mass invasion of Yankees fans coming to Baltimore as the weekend series begins, which is sort of like those loud droning cicadas that appear every 17 years, but instead they appear a few times every year, and they’re a lot fatter. At any rate, one of the driving forces […]