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Joshua James Tour Diary - Baltimore, MD - 10/30/09

There isn’t any possible way to properly describe the events that have taken place. I want to. I feel as if I need to. But I can’t, and therefore won’t. There are many adventures I can remember. But even more that I can’t. I am noodling....  read more

Matt and Kim Storm Charm City

The natives of Charm City know the legendary Ottobar well: a consummately grungy dive bar tucked in the backstreets of Baltimore’s Charles Village neighborhood. If the Hüsker Dü and Talking Heads posters lining the walls don’t give you an idea of the place’s character, a hirsute bartender in his trademark Megadeth t-shirt will slide dirt-cheap rail drinks your way and regale you with stories of the time he snuck into a church late at night and threw empty beer bottles at the apse....  read more

Four Reasons to Get Behind Rye Rye in '09

First came Edgar Allan Poe. Then, after a long interval indeed, came the double-whammy of The Wire and Michael Phelps. And now, in a sign of its possible ascendance from the depths of the cultural abyss, the fair city of Baltimore has given us the girlish rapper Rye Rye, who in her short life has already become muse to Blaqstarr and protégée to M.I.A., and whose sassy rhymes are reason enough to get excited about 2009. Here are four reasons to get on the bandwagon now:...  read more