Falls Road, in between Hampden and Mount Vernon, is a positively magical stretch of road which features (among other things) the Baltimore Streetcar Museum. It’s a shockingly scenic area of the city – a bizarre nature escape combined with the steel and brick of old architecture that abruptly ends with you being dumped out onto […]
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111 W Heath St.
A short while ago I decided to do some investigating into a rather large, abandoned and borderline blighty building at the end of Heath Street. One which if ever were converted into something useful that the community could truly enjoy, say a parking garage with some decent retail, I would give a big thumbs up […]
(Mis)Adventures in House Hunting – Part 1
(Originally posted May 19th, 2008) I don’t really think anyone enjoys the process of house hunting. The somewhat creeping urgency of having a lease that’s going to expire in three weeks and having to find another roof over one’s head is stressful to say the least, but in this particular instance, it turned out to […]
City Council Update 05/05/2008
Time to see what those wacky folks running this city are up to, here are some highlights from the upcoming city council agenda.
City Council Update 04/25/2008
For a little while now (one year) I have been following the city council’s website. It provides listings of all agendas dealt with by the city council and provides summaries of what goes down legislatively. Additionally, you can subscribe to the council president’s newsletter and they’ll email you the agendas. Pretty handy! This time around, […]
Baltimore News Threefer
(from Monday) Prosecutors try to make their jobs easier; slightly craftier murderers continue to murder Upon first glance, this plan ‘serves to increase the rate of convictions’ but if they outright refuse to prosecute a murder simply because they’re too fucking incompetent to protect a single witness or get them to testify, then we truly […]