Baltimore

thanks for the recs some dude & al3x - ended up just going to atlantic city instead :-O

i'd jump his beaowns

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-skateboarder-arrest-20100831,0,1519800.story

"This is a perfect example of why we need officers down there who aren't afraid to enforce the laws," said Robert F. Cherry, president of the Fraternal Order of Police lodge. "Good police work involves being proactive on the smaller level as well, and the business community has said it had an issue with skateboarders who trespass and deface property. … Lo and behold, three years later the homicide unit locks up a skateboarder."

Bring back Salvatore Rivieri, in my opinion.

i'm for arresting all skateboarders and bicyclists on the sidewalks in NYC

all skateboarders are murderers

the mayor urges u to stock up on flashlights, batteries, and water for the hurricane btw

it's hard to even wrap my mind around how amazing this city is

Why

it's pretty good, i like it

Pretty stoked about the rebuild of the Route 40 bridge over the Patapsco. There are lots of reasons that section of road is so scary, but the old crumbly bridge takes the cake for me.

i saw bishop barry of jesus christ bail bonds and bishop barry pest control in a parking garage in glen burnie

there was an article about lake trout in the nyt

is it the next big thing now

>Why

in most cities when you dj John Oswald you clear the floor, but in Baltimore that's apparently when everyone starts line dancing

I was talking to Jason Willett and he mentioned a previous party: "I had them dancing to a Teach Your Parakeet To Sing record, and I wasn't even mixing it with anything. It was just 'Hello! How Are You! Hello! How Are You!', and the entire room was on fire"

xp: harbl, until I got to the article I thought you were talking about Lake Trout the band: "Hm. Maybe jazzy flute solos are going to be the first big '90s revival of the '10s..."

http://www2.citypaper.com/sb/124022/CHEAPEATS_cm.jpg

i've still never had lake trout but i don't really want to anymore. do you have to eat it on white bread like that? also why do ppl eat "cheese fish" subs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2buuZgjKUo

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-12-06/news/bs-md-ci-fire-downtown-20101206_1_smoke-and-water-damage-buildings-red-light-district

http://mimg.ugo.com/200810/25743/tha-block-is-hot.jpg

Holy shit at attempt to bomb Army recruitment center less than a mile from my old house.

this is retarded http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/dining/bs-ae-hon-trademark-20101209,0,7828781.story

http://www.baltimorehousing.org/vacants_to_value_search.aspx

are beehives, feather boas + specs specific to that lady, or is it a baltimore-wide thing?

no everything she does is a like a parody of the thing, that is a "hon" costume

my work closed at 2:30 because of the dusting of snow and it took 2 hours to get home!! wtf baltimore

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-02-07/news/bs-md-toilet-bomb-scare-20110207_1_toilet-baltimore-county-courthouse-mysterious-package

He said of Monday's incident, "It's not a stunt. It's a statement." He denied that he had left the toilet at the courthouse, but in a post on his Facebook page about 7:30 a.m. Monday, he wrote: "Left my Toilet at the Baltimore County Courthouse. Also left a kite of Knowledge. Secrets will not Block Justice."

According to his Facebook profile, Davis owns Shorty's Underground Pit Beef Shack in Upperco. Reached by phone at the restaurant, he at first denied knowing anything about the toilet. Later, he said he boasted on his Facebook page about leaving it so that his supporters, who are responsible, "don't get in trouble for it."

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/DavisDuaneToiletCourthouse.JPG

DavisDuaneToiletCourthouse.JPG

so cool video http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/02/15/police-apprehend-suspects-accused-of-stealing-car/

Ugh at Shomrim supporters

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-shomrim-demonstrators-pg,0,2929017.photogallery

Police say the pursuit was especially hot

Here is her letter:
Hello, my name is Chiara and I'm a 15-year-old Italian student who went to Baltimore this summer, with my family.

I found your email address on a page of the BaltimoreSun website and I'm here to write you due to the impression my family had of the city. I actually like "bad parts" because anyways, they are a part of the city culture and everything.

We were arriving from DC and we got into East Lafayette Street and then to Berea because the GPS didn't work. You can't image: my mom, dad and sister were literally frightened of everything they saw. Nearly all the houses were boarded up, the streets were so dirty and it all seemed about crime and bad stuff. We are white and there were only black people (big, big men) looking at us in our car (Hertz did give us a beautiful Volvo but we had no idea that a car would make people look at us.. in a certain way)!

We were afraid of asking directions to Downtown so we just went straight on until we were alone and then called Hertz for info.

As I could hear and see, literally 85% of the city is a ghetto. Go five blocks north, east, or west of the Inner Harbor and you are in a war zone. 90% of the houses are boarded up, rampant drug trade and prostitution everywhere. We wanted to stay there for 2/3 days but we abandoned the idea and went back to Georgetown, DC.

Is it possible that a city like Baltimore has this effect to tourism? They say the Downtown is more or less safe but we had the chance to see 3 purse snatching in AN EVENING!

Please tell me your ideas about that and what the city is actually doing to battle against this!

Chiara M.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2011/02/a_wrong_turn_and_a_visitors_di.html#more

We are white and there were only black people (big, big men) looking at us in our car (Hertz did give us a beautiful Volvo but we had no idea that a car would make people look at us.. in a certain way)! We are white and there were only black people (big, big men) looking at us in our car (Hertz did give us a beautiful Volvo but we had no idea that a car would make people look at us.. in a certain way)! We are white and there were only black people (big, big men) looking at us in our car (Hertz did give us a beautiful Volvo but we had no idea that a car would make people look at us.. in a certain way)! We are white and there were only black people (big, big men) looking at us in our car (Hertz did give us a beautiful Volvo but we had no idea that a car would make people look at us.. in a certain way)!

lol fake

literally 85%
90%

characteristic wikipedia entry

Ellwood Park is a neighborhood in the eastern part of Baltimore, Maryland. It is named for a small public park with a playground between Jefferson and Orleans Streets. The neighborhood extends from Ellwood Avenue to Highland Avenue, between Monument Street and Fayette Street. It is contained within the 21224 zip code. Sorry but when I was growing up this was East Baltimore not Highlandtown. Highlandtown started at the other side of Fayette Street Between Highland Avenue and Foster Avenue.

God, who is this bitch?

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/2011/03/del_carters_gay_marriage_tantr.html

By which I mean: she is this bitch

http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/html/msa13966.html

and please call her up on her lunch break and tell her to vote for gay marriage already.

on your lunch break

Good job y'all, it looks like she's back on track.

http://www.wbaltv.com/politics/27053790/detail.html

chazz
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/dining/bs-ae-chazz-palmienteri-20110301,0,3440209.story

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/music/bs-ae-tiki-barge-sl-0301-20110302,0,984051.story

When the Tiki Barge opened early last summer, crowds flocked to the new club, soaking in the novelty of a pool party on the Patapsco. Yet for Tiki Barge's neighbors in high-priced condos like HarborView and the Ritz Carlton, the novelty quickly became a nuisance.

...

In the long, Bible-thick petition more than 40 neighbors filed with the board in December, one complainant noted seeing patrons "trampling a flower bed in the residential area."

The petition also accuses the bar's patrons of accosting neighbors, illegally parking on driveways, destruction of property, causing traffic jams, and "simulated sex with a potted palm tree."

oops lol

More than 30 people, including the actress known as "Snoop" from the Baltimore-based HBO series "The Wire," were arrested Thursday morning across the city and its surrounding counties in connection with a large-scale heroin and marijuana operation.

Raids were carried out in the pre-dawn hours by agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Baltimore police and a slew of other federal and state law enforcement agencies.

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, known for her drug-assassin character on "The Wire," was taken into custody at a downtown apartment on a state warrant, officials said.

The actress has a troubled past, having been convicted at age 14 of second-degree murder. More recently, she refused to testify as a witness at a murder trial and was arrested at her then-Northeast Baltimore home.

The arrests are part of a five-month drug investigation, officials said.

Welp. No more Sonar.

yeah it's pretty nuts!

i was all excited to get Shellac tickets on Friday (playing Baltimore was all kinds of ?! considering their MO) and then this shit went down. it was actually a decent medium/large venue, i'm bummed to see it go. and for what seems like totally unnecessar, silly bullshit. unfortunately another reason for a lot of bands to pass over Baltimore.

http://www.modsquadhockey.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/facepalm.gif

http://www.conawayformayor2011.com/index.html

i am pondering moving to baltimore.

cool! do it!