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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Kinetic Mud Bath

I was going to post about the god-awful rain streak we’ve been slogging through during this lemon of a weekend (natch, from the weather report it will rain through Saturday). But as we’ll see, some people take crap weather and make mud lemonade.
The New Glitterati posts photos of a brave young gal who struggled through [...]

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Let the sun shine

The economy may be crumbling, but the sun is shining in Baltimore today. Temperatures are racing up to 41, then 54 tomorrow. Iced-over snow from Monday’s six-inch dumping will shrink and vanish. Unimpeded by black ice–not that she can see the visible kind–Foxy will gallop through Ploy alley sniffing for rats. We will frolic in soggy poop-smeared grass opposite City Cafe. 
Sorel boots will be [...]

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Postcards from the Edge

I started the Baltimore Block Blog with the intention that neighbors would keep in touch by blogging from the road. Working/studying in the international health field, we collectively accumulate a lot of air miles, exotic knick-knacks (elephant god statues, Malian necklaces, Senegalese sex beads) and premature gray hairs.
I intended to take Baltimore Block Blog on [...]

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Windup Getaway

The Windup Space is a new Baltimore discovery just north of Mount Vernon. All week, the rotating drug dealers on the corner hovered oppressively, so on Friday we retreated up to scenic North Avenue to visit Baltimore’s newest gallery/music club. For those who don’t live on any Baltimore Block, when I describe North Ave as [...]

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Summering in Fall

On the evening of the last debate in the 2008 election, Mother Nature has decided to cast a vote.
At least that’s how I am choosing to intepret the weird 80-degree weather Baltimore is experiencing in mid October.
She’s saying, Mr. Obama, Mr. McCain, don’t drill, baby, drill. 
“It’s not just the economy. It’s the warming planet, stupid!”

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Good Day Sunshine

Good Day Sunshine!  Cheesy Paul McCartney’s words have new resonance today as Baltimore’s skies cleared. A single thunderclap during yesterday’s storm provoked my blind, anxiety-prone dog Foxy Brown to chew out the remaining Styrofoam from inside my apartment door, scratch wood off the battered frame and bend the metal back so it cuts right into the shin as you enter to [...]

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Hurricane Cancels Plans, Diverts Attention back to Election

Just when my superintendent agreed to replace my dog-wrecked door, forecasters tell us to take cover cause Hanna’s coming through. According to the Baltimore Sun,
“The Tropical Storm Watch posted for Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay yesterday has been upgraded to a Tropical Storm Warning, meaning tropical-storm force winds of 39 mph and higher can be expected within [...]

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Cultured Chics

DailyCandy is an addictive email service founded by Dany Levy, who I worked with back in the day at Budget Living Magazine. The Travel emails (they have city-specific daily dispatches, as well as Kids, Deals and Travel, which you can subscribe to) are always fun and sometimes heart-pattering, in the case of the India series.
Scensters love to [...]

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Cold and Obama

Rose and I just went to see Obama at the 1st Mariner Arena. The arena was a lot closer than I anticipated, though it was FRICKIN COLD. We also met up with neighbordhood block-ers Jess and Radha. I definitely need to get more exercise.

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