This whole towing scandal thing is giving me a soul infection

[blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/justin_fenton/status/40452078052712448″] Since the story broke (for me, anyway) last Wednesday regarding one of the largest police corruption cases we’ve even seen in Baltimore, so much information has bubbled to the surface regarding the cadre of officers being charged and suspended in the FBI’s investigation into kickbacks and illegal towing over the weekend (which, oddly, […]

Your weekend, with Sam Sessa: Or, LOOK AT THIS BEARDO EHEHEHE

Behold, The Baltimore Sun debuts the new video section of their website, a push to boost web presence and content delivery in this modem computerphone based society these kids are living in these days. And here we have Mr. Sam Sessa himself, current Entertainment Editor, former Midnight Sun figurehead and biker gang leader giving us […]

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 […]

The HONtroversy Omega – the ultimate flame war

City Paper ran a less-than-timely and detailed interview with Denise Whiting this week, the oft-reviled and always controversial figurehead of Cafe Hon who – in case you were living at the bottom of the bay in the past few months – enflamed the city’s ire when she revealed she had placed a copyright on the […]

3 places other than the Inner Harbor NFL networks could shoot footage

If you’re like me, every time you watch a Ravens home game on the TeeVee you start grinding your teeth with impotent rage at the fact that every time the NFL folks come to town to shoot flyovers of M&T Bank Stadium and stock footage of Baltimore, it’s always the exact same thing: The Inner […]