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A lot of folks have been gushing over Esquire’s reprint of their 1984 profile on William Donald Schaefer, but over on Z on TV Mr. Zurawick draws attention to MPT’s 2009 feature “Citizen Schaefer,” a compelling look at the man’s career in Baltimore and the state of Maryland, chock full of interviews and archival footage […]
So there I was, somehow on my way to Michael’s 8th Avenue (7220 Grayburn Drive, Glen Burnie) with a press seat ringside waiting along with some legitimate press people covering the event, it’s straight up Golden Gloves amateur boxing, old school to the core. How old school, you ask? Let’s just say we asked the […]
It was reported in February that Good First Date bar Illusions (1025 South Charles St., Federal Hill) had its entertainment license challenged in court by Paul Robinson and the Federal Hill Neighborhood Association, a challenge that was dismissed by judge Audrey Carrion (awesome name btw). Now it would seem that the FHNA is up to […]
This video from the good ol’ days about Wild Bill Hagy is purestrain awesome and I want it bronzed and mounted on my wall. Also guest cameo by Marty Bass!
The Baltimore Comedy Factory has moved into its new home at Power Plant Live (6 Market Pl., Downtown) from the now shuttered Burke’s Restaurant upstairs, digs that logistically are a vast improvement in terms of access as opposed to walking through a restaurant into a cramped attic lobby. Going on nearly 30 years, the Comedy […]
It has been almost two years since former bartenders and employees of Don’t Know / No Idea Tavern filed a lawsuit against owner/operator Jason Zink, a civil suit that has devolved into little more than a mexican standoff during that period of time, until recently when federal judge Richard Bennett issued a first-of-its-kind 22-page opinion […]