Live Easy, it’s Summertime

After much ado, Baltimore’s fat, lazy summer sun seems to have settled in. Glimmering with the new heat we hoist fat white thighs into summer shorts. Iced coffee displaces hot joe as the morning caffeine kick of choice. Foxy’s tongue lols out and her fur appears in clumps around the house. But things beyond the [...]

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The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow

The sun may emerge Thursday, so the weatherman says. The new issue of Urbanite offers  a few reasons he should show up for the weekend(s):
1. Sundays 9am-3pm, Arabbers sell produce from local farms in Legends Park at Fremont Avenue and Laurens Street. These wooden wagon-toting sellers are an endangered species.
2. Live Baltimore’s Buying into Baltimore [...]

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Reality TV at the Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Brew blog reports that the Baltimore Sun is now webcasting its daily 3pm front page meetings.
The idea is to open the door to reader participation so we can weigh in on the news of the day.
But apparently, the window into news-making is often ignored by people who maybe have stuff to do at [...]

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Satisfying newsprint, inky, virtual

Baltimore street corners offer a bonanza of free publications, some better than others. There’s the wryly edited City Paper, in its trademark yellow bin, next to shock-orange containers housing B, a kind of downmarket pitch to young and supposedly vacuous 20-somethings, a 2008 brainstorm of the now-bankrupt Baltimore Sun publishers.
Then, on really good corners, you’ve [...]

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Obama win in the news

On Wednesday, we scrounged every news vendor in Mount Vernon but to no avail–everyone wanted a copy of the day’s papers declaring the Obama victory. Even the free quasi-newspaper B was snatched up.
So I did the new school thing and saved home page screenshots from November 5. (this also prevents my apartment from becoming stacked with yellowed [...]

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The news today in Baltimore

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“We scream, we swoon” — Are we dumb, ladies?

Here I am in my non-newspaper reading bubble (I thought Morning Edition kept me up to speed) while a furious internet debate rages over the Washington Post’s Sunday editorial on gender and politics.
“What is it about us women? Why do we always fall for the hysterical, the superficial and the gooily sentimental?” writes Charlotte Allen, [...]

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Pizza makers, movie stars and now NY Times news

Remember Radia and Brian from Genevieve’s birthday party?  Or more to the point, remember their kids, the ones who gave us the eye for being weird and then spent most of the night behind the counter making pizzas?  Well, they have now made the New York Times.  Check out the article, about their turn as [...]

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