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1._goucher_hall_7

2010-05-10T04:09:47+00:00

Goucher Hall Goucher Hall used to be the main Administration building of the Goucher College located at the corner of the 23rd and St. Paul streets in Baltimore. It was designed in 1888 by McKim, Mead, and White along with the prominent local architect Charles L. Carson.The same company provided the site plan for the college and designs for its first four buildings. ["Goucher Hall." Reproduced from Bulletin of Goucher College Dec.1943]Some people speculate that Stanford White, the famous nation…

1

2010-07-11T19:50:39+00:00

By Jack Combs Tyrone picked up a rock from a pedestal of crab grass that had sprouted from the dark beneath the concrete. He took it in his hand, feeling the stone roll against his palm and settle at the base of his digits. He stretched his first two fingers outward, making an acute angle over the rough gray back of the rock. Tyrone threw it at the stretch of plywood boarding up the back door of the abandoned townhouse. He didn’t aim for the windows anymore; all of them had been shattered except…

1300_n._charles_street

2010-08-13T01:14:47+00:00

Starting out on the 1300 block of Charles Street, I must note that this is University of Baltimore’s student village. A place where students can catch a quick bite. With only twenty minutes, it is hard to take it all in but I started with the Turp’s Sports Bar and Restaurant. On the outside, Turp's has a bright awning that is inviting to anyone passing by. Inside, Turp's offers a wide variety of inexpensive meals and front-row seats to just about any sport one would want to watch. Personally I e…

1600_north_guilford

2010-08-06T19:32:17+00:00

I anxiously anticipate your arrival through the multi-colored portals. “Great Kids, Great Schools” reads the banner hanging outside the facade of the tall stone and brick building. In my mind I think “Boy! Do I know how true those words really are!” To the right of where I stand, I take notice of “The Flag” also known as “Old Glory” languidly hanging overhead… so lifeless and unresponsive, as if beaten down by life’s tragedies. What has come to be commonly regarded as our iconic symbol of hope…

1652

2010-08-05T18:47:00+00:00

The land that makes up what is now known as Druid Hill Park was once a vital part of the territory of the Susquehannock Indians, who valued it for its many springs and the Jones Falls Stream. However, in 1652 Lord Baltimore obtained the land from the Susquehannocks, and thus began its Europeanization.

1741

2010-08-05T18:50:04+00:00

From Lord Baltimore’s acquisition of the area into the 1700’s, the land that would become Druid Hill Park was parceled out and sold multiple times, often to carpenters who prized it for its lumber. Much of the land (200 acres) passed from Nicholas Rogers to his daughter Eleanor in the early part of the century. She married George Buchanan, another landowner, in the 1720’s. In 1741 the Buchanans purchased an additional 350 acres of land from John Gardner, creating a 578.5 acre-estate. George …

1783

2010-08-05T18:47:39+00:00

In 1750, George Buchanan died, leaving his vast estate to his eldest son Lloyd. The family buried him on a hillside in Auchentorlie, which would come to serve as the resting place of many future Buchanans. The family cemetery remains intact to this day in Druid Hill Park, on Greenspring Avenue close by the disc golf course. [The Buchanan Cemetery((http://www.btco.net/ghosts/oddsends/druidhill/parkdruirogerscem.jpg))]In the mid-to-late 1700’s Lloyd had the land resurveyed, and added additional …

1812

2010-08-05T18:47:54+00:00

Nicholas Rogers IV was well known for his love of architecture and design. Thus it was no surprise when he built his own mansion on the Buchanan estate, on the same hill as the former (it had burned down during the time of the American Revolution). [The Mansion House of Druid Hill((http://www.billandnicole.net/billandnicole.net/Wedding/pics/mansionhouse.jpg))]He also renamed Auchentorlie Druid Hill. It was undoubtedly an appropriate title, since the ancient Celtic druids revered oak trees, an…

1860

2010-08-05T18:48:09+00:00

In the mid-nineteenth century, Mayor Thomas Swann of Baltimore advocated for the creation of a public park system for the city, and almost immediately set his sights on Druid Hill.[Mayor Thomas Swann ((http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Thomas_Swann_of_Maryland_-_photo_portrait_seated.jpg/225px-Thomas_Swann_of_Maryland_-_photo_portrait_seated.jpg))] In order to finance the purchases of the valuable Buchanan/Roger lands, Mayor Swann implemented a “park tax”, which stipulate…

1888

2010-08-05T18:48:23+00:00

The Baltimore Zoo, located in Druid Hill Park, was officially opened in 1876 by an act of the Maryland General Assembly. However, animal collecting for and on the premises began much earlier than that. In 1865 the Friends of Druid Hill Park listed an inventory of “9 deer, 4 swans, 3 wild geese, and 24 ewes”. In 1867 a rich railroad designer named Thomas Winans gifted a domestic herd of 52 deer to the park. Soon exhibits began to crop up, in classic Victorian menagerie-form. The displays con…

1925

2010-08-05T18:48:40+00:00

Throughout the early twentieth century, Druid Hill Park was the only park in Baltimore in which African Americans felt welcomed to, albeit in a segregated manner. As part of the Children’s Playground Movement, in 1914 a playground especially for black children was built (along with ten whites-only playgrounds). In 1919 tennis courts for Negroes were created, and became home to many tennis greats including Warren Weaver, John Woods, and Evelyn Freeman. In 1921, a blacks-only pool and adjoining…

1948

2010-08-05T18:48:55+00:00

On July 11th, 1948, Druid Hill became a stage for racial demonstrations. On this day, the interracial Young Progressives of Maryland, with the support of the Baltimore Tennis Club, conducted a tennis match that would become famous. The biracial match was to serve as a protest against segregation and the failure of “separate-but-equal” in Baltimore. The match was staged on “white” courts, and more than five hundred people showed up to watch the well-publicized event. The match began at 2:00 p…

1961_blue_jay

2010-08-06T19:26:57+00:00

Hopkins of a Different Era W. Carl Hossfeld Remembers Hopkins of Decades Past You could drink on anywhere campus. There was no drugs. Universities are a reflection of society in general, whatever era you’re in. Marijuana, you heard about it, but I didn’t know anybody who’d ever experienced it... When I was there you could take a keg of beer to a lacrosse game.

1976

2010-08-05T18:49:13+00:00

In the 1940’s, an intriguing collection of distant history was quietly transported to and stored in Druid Hill’s maintenance yard. The collection, called the Susquehanna River Petroglyphs, was made up of stones carved with ancient symbols that included concentric circles, fishlike shapes, and images that are thought to illustrate men and the sun. The stones were so old that even the Indians of the 1600’s could not tell William Penn at the time who had carved them, only that they had been there…

2._bennett_hall_8

2010-05-10T04:10:26+00:00

Bennett Hall Bennett Hall, located next to the Goucher Hall, was the college gymnasium, which housed the offices of the Department of Physical Education.The building was named in remembrance of Eleanor A. Bennet, the wife of Benjamin F. Bennet, a main contractor of the Woman's College of Baltimore (renamed to Goucher College).It was designed by Stanford White in the Romanesque style.The construction of the building was completed in 1889. It was built of the local Port Deposit granite, and conta…

2006

2010-08-05T18:49:29+00:00

In 2006, the Maryland Historical Trust moved the Susquehanna River Petroglyphs from Druid Hill Park to the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab, where they are now being studied. The stones had been all but forgotten under a tangle of poison ivy for several decades. With their rediscovery came the fear that they would be damaged or vandalized. These apprehensions drove scientists and archaeologists to move them.[Removal of the Susquehanna Petroglyphs ((http://mht.maryland.gov/archeology_p…

2010

2010-08-05T18:49:46+00:00

[((http://www.kilduffs.com/park_32_Baltimore_DruidHill_Lake_oldPC.jpg))] She’s sitting beneath an old oak, a few feet from the noisy stream. It’s a day like any other, and she’s a person like any other. The tree where she sits isn’t extraordinary; there are a thousand others like it throughout Druid Hill Park. Just as countless other moments hold no apparent significance, so too this scene appears unremarkable to the casual observer. But sitting there, this particular moment in time may me…

20_minute_blocks

2010-05-11T15:02:58+00:00

As i walked though Baltimore i found that there was allot that i had not noticed. Buildings abound, factories i have never heard of and so much more. i have decided to explore Central Baltimore the only way one can explore a city - to see it. I am taking 20 minuets per block and will report what i do and see while there. I hope that it is as interesting for you as it was for me (a work in progress)

2519ncharlesst

2010-05-16T01:01:33+00:00

2519 North Charles Street Lakewood Pool was beautiful, with white sand, suntan lamps at night, dancing, music and palm trees. But it you can bend your eyes away from F. Scott Fitzgerald lounging in the shade or the synchronized diving exhibitions, you’ll notice that, tans aside, Lakewood was a pretty white place. Baltimore City Public pools didn’t desegregate until the mid ‘50s and Lakewood, a private pool, was closed by then. So it’s either one of life’s little ironies or just a sign that Bal…

25th_street_wal-mart

2010-05-05T22:50:37+00:00

With plans in the works for a 93,000 square-foot shopping/residential package deal that includes a Lowe’s, Wal-Mart, Marshalls, 80 to 90 residences, and 1,050 parking spaces. Remington could be heading for major changes. WV Urban Developments announced in December 2009, their plans to build a “grocery store/pharmacy” above the Lowe’s, but didn’t announce the operators were Wal-Mart until later in February.

2800_n_charles_street

2010-07-11T19:36:09+00:00

[Courtesy:Jrchester] Can a specific location or building be destined to remain a place devoted to helping Pre-K (PK) through grade 12 gain a quality education? If the answer is yes, Central Baltimore has just such a building: 2800 North Charles Street.

3._fensal_hall_24

2010-05-05T12:34:06+00:00

3._vingolf_hall_26

2010-05-10T04:11:51+00:00

Vingolf Hall Vingolf Hall was a grand residence hall of Goucher College located at the corner of Maryland and 24th streets. Before the new building received its mystical name it was simply referred to as Home D, which young and imaginative students very unhappy. They attempted to give it a more sophisticated name like for example Gorton or Fisher. Finally, at the suggestion of Dr. Joseph S. Shefloe, whose ancestors came from Norway, the building’s name as well as other residence halls was deriv…

3200_st._paul_street

2010-08-13T01:15:52+00:00

Walking on, I find myself on the 3200 block of St. Paul Street. On the corner, there is a Subway that I imagine is popular with the local student body; the store is just a few blocks from John Hopkins. But I did not walk here to see a Subway; for that we could have gone anywhere.

4._catherine_hooper_hall_6

2010-05-10T02:52:23+00:00

The Girls’ Latin School ["Catherine Hooper Hall." Reproduced from "The History of Goucher College" by Anna Heubeck Knipp & Thaddeus P. Thomas, 1938.] From the beginning the Woman's College of Baltimore intended to maintain high academic standards. Unlike some of the already existing female colleges, the Woman's College emphasized the importance of attending the preparatory schools for any student who desired to pass high level entrance examinations and become a freshman of the college. Loweri…

5._glitner_hall_18

2010-05-10T04:14:36+00:00

Glitner Hall Located at the Northwest corner of Charles and 23rd street, Glitner Hall (known at first simply as Home B) was opened in January 1893. Build with red brick and finished with sandstone trimmings, Glitner embodied “Forseti's golden hall which glittered like the sun” from the Norse mythology.

501_st._paul_place

2010-08-13T01:11:24+00:00

It is my secret dream is to one day wake up and find that my last name has changed to Ewing and that this is Dallas Texas. That my brother is Bobby and my Dad is J.R. (John Ross) and that my wife can hold down a pint of whiskey. But I know that will not come to pass, that Dallas has long since been canceled, and we know who shot JR. However, The Standard Oil Building still stands to this day in Baltimore. The Standard Oil Building in Central Baltimore, also known as the Stanbalt Building, is lo…

6._goucher_house_5

2010-07-05T14:32:53+00:00

Goucher House ["Goucher House."Bulletin og Goucher College (Dec. 1943)] Dr. John Goucher and his wife Mary Fisher Goucher lived in the Romanesque house across the street from Goucher Hall and were known to host receptions for their students and the faculty of the college. Dr. Goucher, who was a well-traveled man and dedicated his spare time to serve various missions and the college, made provisions for the college to use his house as needed; however, the Board of Trustees of the College did n…

900_n_charles

2010-08-13T01:15:18+00:00

Next I find myself on the 900 block of North Charles Street; an area that has been called Gayborhood. First, is the MacGillivray’s Building of Baltimore. MacGillivray’s was given a $230,000 loan from the Inner-City Ventures Fund to renovate the building. It is a 10,000 square foot property with a rear addition added as apartments sometime in the 20th century.

97_years_and_counting

2010-05-18T03:47:24+00:00

On April 17, 2010, I visited the Reginald F. Lewis Museum with the sole purpose of viewing the portable exhibit called the Baltimore NAACP: 97 YEARS AND COUNTING. I was on a quest for information for my final project, also called The Baltimore NAACP. It was a stroke of luck to find that this exhibit even existed. I was directed to the third floor by the unenthusiastic desk clerk who was engaged in conversation with one of the security guards. I almost felt like I was interrupting them to ask…

a_day_in_the_life_of_a_bmpcs_student

2010-08-06T19:35:16+00:00

One Monday morning in mid April upon my awakening, I was alerted by my 8-year old daughter that the upcoming week was “Bring your Parent to Work” week. As I slowly attempted to digest what she was saying, she further stated, “and you are coming!” “Alrighty then” I remarked, “I guess that’s settled.” One of the neat things I would say characterizes the nature of the relationship that exists between my daughter and me is the word “close”. We share a mother-daughter bond so unique and so stro…

a_drought

2010-08-05T19:26:10+00:00

I think we are in rats’ alley, where the dead men lost their bones – T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” the cop said, kicking The Manufacturer’s sleeping set of bony legs across the dirt-stained, beer-soaked, rodent-strewn floor, his gun mechanically drawn.

a_glimpse_into_reality

2010-08-06T19:06:44+00:00

On the corner of North Charles and 23rd street on a weekday morning, in the depths of the Barclay neighborhood, three young, African American children stand unaccompanied at a crosswalk waiting for the light to turn green. Each one wears a colored knapsack on their back and they are giggling. When the “walk” signal flashes, they parade across the main road pushing and shoving each other. The girl, who appears about five-years-old, drops her pink, woolen glove in the street but none of them notic…

a_green_university_of_baltimore

2010-07-21T01:55:59+00:00

A Green Movement ---------- University of Baltimore is host to more than 7,000 students and facilities. Located in Mt. Vernon between Maryland Ave and N. Charles Street, its relative small size, modern buildings and plans to expand make it a prime candidate for Going Green. The goal for the University of Baltimore is to become an sustainable community. Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has set a goal of reducing statewide emissions by 15 percent between now and 2015. The goal of the University is…

a_journey_through_ub_history

2010-07-05T14:09:15+00:00

It is a cold evening as I begin my journey in search of the elusive history of an area called Central Baltimore; an area deluged with daily news images of a city gone bad. A dire image that is not on my mind as I trudge through the streets armed with a notebook, a pencil, a map, and a can of mace (one never knows).

a_late_afternoon_at_central_baltimore

2010-07-05T14:17:10+00:00

It was a late afternoon. I just finished one of my history classes and decided to go for a walk around the neighborhood that surrounds the University of Baltimore. I left the Academic Center through its western exit and found myself in the Gordon student plaza, a starting point of my excursion. Gordon plaza occupies a large, square area at the corner of Mount Royal and Maryland. At the southwest corner of the plaza there is a gleaming bronze statue of Edgar Allan Poe seated on the throne. …

a_perspective_from_the_belvedere

2010-08-05T19:02:09+00:00

By: Bryan Gamble The elevator ride has grown longer and longer than ever before. My room was on the last floor overlooking the city. There is only one floor that I have left to go to, that’s the thirteenth floor. It’s not that I’m superstitious by any means. I’m afraid of the world that I have left in the past. I live in Baltimore on East Chase Street. I live in a dark condo that is modest at best. I live in the famous Belvedere building. The building was once one of the most prominent hotels t…

a_rare_blend

2010-07-11T19:35:23+00:00

Overview Charles Village touts an ethnic, socio-economic and educational diversity unlike any other neighborhood in Baltimore, which remains largely segregated even today. The 2000 U.S. Census revealed 7,925 residents lived in Charles Village. According to that census, Charles Village was made up of the following races:

a_snowy_north_charles

2010-07-11T19:42:05+00:00

by Jack Combs A broken building sleeps on the sidewalk, the blacked out windows signal its dormancy. A thick layer of dust makes its sockets blend in with the snow covered streets and falling overcast; teenagers have carved their names and other obscenities into the gray accumulation behind the glass, which at this time of night, could be mistaken for the tossed, dirty white after midday sledding. A few cars have made the venture to midtown, parking at the plastic-only meter in front of Cha…

a_stroll_to_remember

2010-08-06T19:37:16+00:00

While walking the streets of Central Baltimore, one can’t help but notice the people standing in front of their picturesque row homes or apartments smoking a cigarette, and mindlessly staring out into nothing. Native college students of the surrounding area, often look as if they are in a hurry or in a rush, meanwhile older people seem to enjoy themselves with taking their time and enjoying the present moment. My journey around the University of Baltimore, MICA, and the surrounding neighborhoods…

a_walk_a_through_the_gayborhood

2010-08-23T19:35:17+00:00

Off to the Gayborhood ---------- My walk through Central Baltimore took me to Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon is the Cultural District of Baltimore. It is the oldest neighborhood in Baltimore, and has been home to artists, musicians, and affluent residents since its conception. In recent years the gay population has migrated to this area creating a gayborhood. The migration has cultivated a number of restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and health services in Mount Vernon targeted to gays and lesbian…

a_walk_down_st._paul_s_street

2010-07-05T14:09:31+00:00

I’m not from Baltimore city, have never lived in the city, and other than occasional trips to selective areas, know very little about the city. I was raised just a few miles up in the suburbs of Baltimore County. And for me, the ideal vacation is as far away from the city as I can get. My favorite place is the mountains where I can stand in a deep forest listening to the wind as it whispers across a canopy of trees, or stand at the top of a roaring waterfall watching as it tumbles down an ancien…

a_walk_on_n._charles_and_preston

2010-08-05T19:02:24+00:00

By Bryan Gamble The reminders are all around. Letting glimpses of the future come to light. The sign in the window read “coming soon.” That’s what is happening here, Central Baltimore is the latest coming attraction and is indeed coming soon. Walking the brick paved sidewalk with the sounds of tiny rocks scattering beneath each step. The sound quickly fades when the rocks find their new home in the darkness between the missing brick pavers. Stretching my neck towards the sky, the buildings, lik…

a_walk_on_north_ave

2010-02-18T00:00:46+00:00

Once, about a year ago, while I was driving home from work during a blizzard, I decided eating thin-crust pizza was a necessity, and stopped at Joe Squared, a restaurant on West North Avenue. No snowfall was going to stand in the way of me getting my dinner, so I parked my car and stepped out into the blustery cold, letting flakes of snow cake my hair and shoulders. As a thin-blooded Californian I am overly sensitive to cold weather, and was alarmed when I saw a man a block ahead of me sitting …

abrasive_alarming_enamoring

2010-05-05T20:35:26+00:00

Encounters with Baltimore brick structures Running from my coast to this coast and straight into a brick wall. Of all the differences between San Francisco and Baltimore, this has been most alarming: brick everywhere. Back home is stucco, tile, white-washed Spanish wood.

absent

2010-04-28T22:35:24+00:00

Sterility I have a largely inexplicable and anxiety-ransacked fear of the drugstore Royal Farms. This stems from a more generalized discomfort that I feel under any kind of fluorescent lighting, which probably only emerges now because for the first 18 years of my existence I lived in soft, pink, yellow light, the kind that sprays through evergreens in relentlessly liberal towns in Northern California. Baltimore introduced me to fluorescence. This is not a criticism, not entirely.

advice_for_life

2010-04-29T03:00:13+00:00

Advice From W. Carl Hossfeld First Piece of Advice On your agenda you ought to write “Go to the Sheraton Belvedere.” Go in that main ballroom on the first floor and you’ll see. You go in the main lobby to the right. It’s very European. It’s like you would have a ballroom in Italy or France. They used to have a top notch restaurant over on the other side, I forgot the name of it... Then go in the back and have lunch at the Owl Bar. Famous bar, old famous bar. Go there. You’ve got to go t…

affordable_housing_in_central_baltimore

2010-08-06T19:33:40+00:00

Affordable Housing is Becoming Unaffordable “The right to housing, the right to an honest job are integral to a single plan of social life, which must provide dignified living conditions for everyone without discrimination. Every city should feel committed to being a city for everyone”. - John Paul II, Address at St. Peter's , June, 1996

afro-american_newspapers

2010-05-18T17:02:04+00:00

By Dre Carter “Your history. Your community. Your news.” The Afro-American Newspapers, commonly called “The Afro,” has provided a voice for the nation’s African American community for more than a century. Used to fight civil injustice and to promote a positive image of Blacks in the U.S., The Afro was shaped by legendary civil rights activist, John Henry Murphy, Sr., leaving a legacy cherished by future Murphy generations and African Americans at large.

all_that_remains

2010-07-27T19:31:30+00:00

At the time, I bummed on a couch in my old roommate's place in Charles Village. One day at class, an old woman who only spoke Korean and Spanish died of congestive heart failure. I was in the room when Clark told the family, two women with a few streaks of gray in their hair and a boy. The boy spoke English best. He said they had no money for a burial. As they were about to leave, I asked if they knew of any apartments nearby. I almost didn't have the nerve. I threw in a lot of bowing, co…

an_epidemic_s_unseen_cause_women_trade_sex_for_drugs_with_aids_the_result

2010-07-21T00:49:42+00:00

An epidemic's unseen cause. Women trade sex for drugs, with AIDS the result While just a teenager in the 1970s, she danced on The Block, where she snorted cocaine and heroin and sold sex in backrooms. Later, with her addictions firmly rooted, she set out on her own, offering her body on the streets of West Baltimore as a deadly virus was spreading.

and_now_a_word_from_our_sponsor

2010-08-06T19:34:55+00:00

Now you've probably gotten a toothache from all the mushy gushy, sometimes over the top sentiments and accolades I've attributed to our dear, Miss Allison...but to know her is to love her!! Usually bound by the constraints of conversational interviews that are initiated by various reporters I thought I would deviate from the norm and allow Miss Allison to speak from the heart! Sitting across from her, I noticed her enthusiasm slightly increase as I asked subjective questions that aren't gen…

answer_the_phone

2011-08-19T02:35:51+00:00

“I just called to say hello,” he said. I had a fleeting vision of someone of someone doing a series of rapid pushups. “Also, I was wondering if you would like to grab drinks with me tonight?” “Where?” I said in a small, unpromising voice.

april

2010-05-13T16:19:44+00:00

The end of April was washing over us and Beth said she was weary of suicides. According to her Psychology textbook, the last few days of April see more suicides than any other time of year. “Why? Wouldn't it be winter?” Beth shook her head. “No, not winter. Everyone thinks things will get better in the spring. And then - spring comes. And nothing's better.”

april_11th_-_my_second_excursion

2010-07-05T14:15:01+00:00

[Baltimore Streetcar Museum]My next adventure to find more about the Jones Falls started in front of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum on sunny Sunday morning. We arrived around 11 a.m., an hour before the Museum opened. Parking was free here so we weren’t tied to a time limit as we were on our first excursion. This time we brought Shadow, our energetic 6-year old golden retriever, determined to satisfy my research on the Jones Falls and get a walk in for Shadow.

architecture_and_mapping

2010-05-10T04:43:52+00:00

[ ] Kayla - Howard St Bridge, The Lyric Opera House Jon - Two Churches; White and Black Mary - rowHome, Sweet rowHome, The Mill Districts Doug - The Abell Community, Marble Stoops Shanley - Remington; Gilman Hall Stephanie - Evergreen Museum Lauren - Charles Commons, Copycat Building

arts_and_culture

2010-05-11T16:39:14+00:00

With a burgeoning arts district, Central Baltimore is fast becoming an East Coast hot spot for the visual and performing arts. Central Baltimore has freaking Artscape! People from your city can't factually state that they have America's largest, free arts festival, unless you live in Baltimore.

artscape

2010-08-06T19:09:07+00:00

What is Artscape? For three days every summer, Baltimore’s vivacious art scene spills out onto the streets. Artscape is the largest arts festival in the country that remains free and open to the public, accommodating over 350,000 people every year. Held outdoors in tents, it features performing arts, such as dance, opera, theater, fashion, film, and musical performances like the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. It offers family events, such as children entertainers, hands-on art projects, and demo…

atlas

2010-03-18T16:03:43+00:00

[Atlas Bar] The Atlas Bar is located on Charles Street, two doors north of 25th Street, through a door at the back of the Charles Restaurant, a/k/a Charles's Restaurant a/k/a Charles Carry-Out. It has been open only since Mid-February.

avery_s_story

2010-08-05T19:06:17+00:00

Another affectionate kiss from the only other life form that seemed to care about Avery Inez. It was 6:30 in the morning and the sun was barely creeping over the skyline of Baltimore. Avery got out of the shower only to be bombarded with kisses from his three year-old Staffordshire Bull Pit Terrier named Brutto. Brutto was all white except for two patches of light brown over his left eye and on his shoulder. It must have been another one of those days for Avery because he couldn’t seem to ge…

balti-mobility

2010-04-08T19:17:35+00:00

Balti-mobility Parking= Atrocious. Buses=Inconsistent, yet adventurous. Taxis= Scandalous. Hacking= Deranged and dangerous. Light Rail=Slow moving, but commodius. Subway= Sporadic-ous? Bicycle=Weather permitting, but cars are sometimes unyielding and oblivious. Rollerblades= Sidewalks broken and tremulous. Hovercraft= Pretentious??

baltimore_bicycle_shops

2010-05-05T18:25:06+00:00

Array ArrayBaltimore Bicycle Works is located in the heart of Central Baltimore on 1413 Falls Road. Worker owned and operated, BBW sells new and used bicycles and parts. They are open: 11am - 7pm Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm Sunday Closed Monday Click on map or picture to visit site!

baltimore_naacp

2010-05-12T14:44:02+00:00

The Baltimore Branch of the NAACP is not housed in a ﬂashy building. It has no elaborate facade with columns or other Greco-Roman architecture to suggest a stately position in the community. The building blends in with the neighborhood and posts a faded sign that identiﬁes it as the Enolia P. McMillan Building, after one of its presidents. However, if the organization wanted to boast, it has indeed earned bragging rights. It would not be over-reaching, if it wanted to add a ﬂashing marquis. But …

baltimore_office_and_promotion_of_the_arts

2010-07-11T19:08:02+00:00

Mission • Producing high-quality special events, festivals and arts programming that stimulate communities economically, artistically and culturally. • Inspiring and promoting literary, performing and visual arts, and artists. • Celebrating Baltimore's rich, diverse heritage while enhancing the quality of life and sense of community for all residents. • Forging partnerships that make Baltimore a premiere visitor destination. • Managing cultural and historic attractions. • Generating positive lo…

baltimore_reportage

2010-08-06T19:30:46+00:00

Origins I grew up outside Detroit. There was acreage. In Anthro 311 we teleconferenced with a one-room school in Tibet. I had chanced the People Mover from Comerica Park to Cobo, and escaped with all my flesh. Phenomena Hard to define. I don't know. Something akin to a duty. Something akin to a need for balance. Something akin to a summons from Woodward, a battered beckoning hand. Something akin to heat, neuron damage from certain legacies of privilege and wicker and nobility and sloth.

baltimore_symphony_orchestra

2010-08-05T19:31:19+00:00

---------- The URL for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Web site is . BSO Music. In the world of classical musicians, BSO usually denotes the older, bigger, more esteemed symphony, the Boston Symphony Orchestra. That the Baltimore Symphony has not shied away from the BSO moniker is testament to its self-assured presence in the sphere of an enterprise that fights daily for its survival, the 80-piece ensemble.

baltimore_without_penn

2010-05-18T17:11:16+00:00

Contributor: Dre Carter Discover a wonder just blocks from Penn.

bands

2010-08-05T19:27:17+00:00

See Also Home List of Show Stories List of Major Characters in Show Stories List of Venues in Show Stories

bar

2010-07-11T19:27:58+00:00

I missed class at four in the afternoon to go to Joe Squared with the beloved for gin and tonic and more gin. Took the bus to Penn Station then walked up. He didn’t know exactly where the bar was, and that power trip of leading him around like a seeing eye dog is a feeling I hope will bleed into my professional life. Like if I became a teacher, and all my students feared me. We arrived and the first thing I saw was Christmas lights framing the window. This made me pleased and giddy, since I pers…

barbarak

2010-07-05T14:16:55+00:00

* A Late Afternoon at Central Baltimore * The Old Bostock's Zoo * Langsdale Library Contributions to Group Projects * Old Goucher in Group 3 * The Early Years of Goucher College * The Lovely Lane Methodist Church Individual Research

barbra_s_story

2010-08-05T19:07:14+00:00

“Mommy...hurry Mommy, or I'm going to be late for school,” Winnie said while violently shoving Barbra's shoulder. Barbra seemed more out of it than usual this morning. She barely responded to the ill-tempered shaking, only mumbling some incomprehensible words before swatting at Winnie to go away. The young child persisted and finally won her battle.

barclay

2010-08-05T19:11:31+00:00

Barclay is a neighborhood located in Central Baltimore City. Its boundaries consist of East 25th Street on the north, Greenmount Avenue on the east, East North Avenue on the south and North Calvert street on the west. It is neighbored by Old Goucher, Greenmount West, Charles Village, and Charles North.

barclay_elementary_and_middle_school

2010-03-03T06:17:43+00:00

barclay_greenmount_baby

2010-08-05T19:12:46+00:00

and we were driven past insomnia by chemicals that tasted like batteries. The Ninja got them from The Dealer up the Stairs. He was always talking about discipline and defense and other irrelevant things, but he always brought something that made it easier to hear them, and the only thing I'd ever seen him put his fist through was his own kitchen window while drunk, so I took them from him smiling. A while later, a gel tab was coming damn close to burning a square-shaped hole through my tongue,…

baseball_live_where_you_work

2010-05-16T00:55:32+00:00

In baseball, Live Where You Work was very much practiced by the Baltimore Orioles of the 1890s. Besides Ned Hanlon’s home at 2403 North Calvert, ten Orioles put up for the season at Oxford House on Greenmount a couple of blocks north of the park where it was reported that “every morning the players exercise and breathe the pure air of Waverly”(New York Clipper story quoted in Baseball in Baltimore). Catcher Bill “Boileryard” Clarke married a Baltimore girl and moved into her home at 120 West 2…

baseballmusic

2010-05-22T17:02:35+00:00

[ ] You can down load Frank Sinatra singing “There Used to be a Ball Park” or slide on over to , open the tribute to Shea Stadium in another window and let it run in the background while you read my tribute to Union Park.

basketball

2010-05-09T04:01:39+00:00

Basketball at Goucher College ["Woman's Basketball Team at Goucher College in 1903."Courtesy of the Enoch Pratt Free Library] Basketball was first introduced in 1894-95, and since then on played a significant role in college life. From the very beginning, students showed a lot of interest in playing the game. Each class had up to four teams. At first the classes played with each other and then gradually the competition took place between the freshmen and sophomores, then between the juniors and…

beer_and_baseball

2010-05-16T00:57:21+00:00

Union Park was built by beer. John H. Von der Horst founded his eponymous brewery in 1866 when his son, Harry, was fourteen. Harry grew up loving both beer and baseball. He started investing in the Orioles in the late 1880s and was club president, aka senior owner, by 1890. He built Union Park for his team the next year. Von der Horst, senior, though initially keen on the sport, eventually soured on baseball. He actually went to court at one point to block Harry from spending more money on the O…

bennett_hall_-_now

2010-05-10T04:11:11+00:00

Maryland Geological Survey - The Kenneth N. Weaver Building ["Maryland Geological Society." From the Collection of the Author] After Goucher Hall moved to its new campus in Towson,which is a few miles north of Baltimore, Bennet Hall along with Bennet Hall (pictured on the main page of Bennett Hall) was purchased by the State of Maryland in 1945 for $50,000. After the building underwent severe redesigning, it became a home of the Maryland State Health Department from 1950 to 1976. During the…

betty_s_famous_buffalo_wings_recipe

2010-08-13T01:44:27+00:00

Prep Time: 10 minutes  Cook Time: 45 minutes  Ingredients: * 4 to 5 pounds chicken wings  * Freshly ground black pepper  * Salt (if desired)  * 4 cups vegetable oil  * 4 Tablespoons butter or margarine (1/2 stick)  * 5 Tablespoons Louisiana-brand hot sauce or Tabasco sauce  * 1 Tablespoon white wine vinegar

biking_a_baltimore_corridor

2010-04-08T19:15:56+00:00

I had in mind where my writing destination would be, and looked forward to seeing my old stomping ground of sorts. I could picture it now, Remington, often confused with Hampden or left Charles Village. Most people are unaware of its existence or just assume that it is part of the other neighborhoods. But Remington is its own entity, from the interesting characters strolling about, unique shops sprinkled in between brightly painted row homes, to the hidden Village Green garden the community b…

blogs

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

Unlike Twitter, blogs are great. Television is a mockery of our lives, telling us what to think and how to act. It's a synthetic reality, even the news and political shows. No, especially the news. Blogs give us unfiltered reality. Reality What happens if you want to know about alcoholism? You might start out by researching it on Wikipedia. But really, what you want to know is what it's like to be an alcoholic. TV might tell you something about it, but it will all be a lie. Blogs, and blog-wi…

bluelaws

2010-05-22T16:57:39+00:00

In the beginning: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. First amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

bma

2010-03-31T22:10:01+00:00

[Courtesy: Jrchester] The first time I entered the Baltimore Museum of Art I remember being shocked. It is sandwiched in between Johns Hopkins University, a fairly sterile pre-med factory, and one of the worst neighborhoods I’d ever seen. I assumed the museum would be bleak, under funded, and small, but was dragged in by my mother who has never been one to walk past any museum gift shop.

bolton_hill

2010-07-27T19:07:04+00:00

On one sunny day following one snowy weekend my dog and I escaped the confines of our home and found true appreciation for the historic neighborhood we recently moved into. We took a left out of the iron gate that prevents any unwelcomed visitors into our courtyard and headed south on Park Avenue, turned left onto McMeachen Street, and then a right onto Mt. Royal Terrace. As we cruised the tree lined streets of Bolton Hill it was as though I was taking a retrospective look back at the lifestyle …

bones_gum

2010-08-05T19:39:52+00:00

[chicken bone!] A wag once said, “You know you're in Baltimore when you see more chicken bones than chewing gum on the sidewalk.” It's telling - no city should be the shallow grave for artery-clogging food. But certain food establishments in Central Baltimore may be a sign that things are turning around. Eat your heart out, Michael Pollan.

bostock_s_great_animal_arena

2010-08-23T19:43:01+00:00

History The Bostock’s Great Animal Arena of Baltimore. Started and run by the world famous Frank C. Bostock's. Located in Mount Vernon, Baltimore's Cultural District, just blocks from the Washington Monument. Exhibitions Come see live tigers leap, elephants dance, and kangaroos box. One of the arena's major attractions is Rajah-the 800 pound Tiger who jumps through rings of fire alongside a dozen other domesticated tigers. In addition, see the dance of the elephants-12 elephants moving i…

botts_big_dream

2010-04-23T06:10:21+00:00

Botts' Big Dream CUT TO: And then scroll to the bottom of the page to where you last left off.☚ ---------- Δ Return. ---------- Written by Dana Covit

boxer

2010-07-11T19:27:26+00:00

New York is the best because no one wants to talk to you on the street. That’s the thing—it’s not just that no one talks to you, it’s that they don’t want to. Unless they want money or directions. In Baltimore it’s a little different. People would come up and talk to me a whole lot. Just locals, primarily, people who wanted to chat. Maybe they are friendlier overall, or maybe they’re lonely. I have my impromptu conversations with the locals during the day. One afternoon I was walking back from t…

bram

2010-04-28T22:19:23+00:00

Bram introduced me to Derry a few months ago when we got back from Florida, where we had exhausted our patience for fashionable mothers with screaming toddlers in tow, the oppressive island heat, the decadent storefronts and hacienda-styled clubhouses----which is to say, our supply of synthetic psychedelics. Bram said we could get some more at discount. “Like wholesale,” he said. “From Derry.” I expressed reticence but really I was excited to see the Terrarium, which I had heard about, which in …

brick_structures

2010-05-04T16:44:38+00:00

but it took awhile It’s a weeknight, blustery, and they say the first big snow is coming. If I breathe through my mouth the air shoots in like some chilly unknown demon – it sneaks past my tonsils and settles deep within. I’m alone. Rehearsal just let out – my thoughts still sound vaguely British and I’m tossing my hair for comic effect – and I turn west, lumbering through the weeds and sticks that pass as nature. Eliza said she wished a tunnel would open from the theater to her dorm room,…

bryan_gamble

2010-08-05T18:51:41+00:00

Brief History Bryan Michael Gamble is an emerging artist with his chosen media being that of written word. He hails from Baltimore and considers himself a hopless romantic. Writing Styles Bryan seems to gravitate towards first person narrative with the content being dark in nature.

building

2010-07-11T19:29:02+00:00

This feels more like a dream, entering senior year. The classrooms in this building are certainly spacious with high ceilings and fluorescent lights, and the main staircase is wide and swirly, but none of that really matters if it is impossible to find one damn water fountain on the entire third floor. Saliva only works as a hydrating lubricant until it runs out from drought. I am in big trouble if I forget to bring a water bottle on the four-mile walk from therapy in Mt. Washington to class in …

bus_stop

2010-07-11T19:27:13+00:00

After I said good-bye to Stan I walked about 20 feet to the bus stop. I could’ve easily continued the conversation with Stan until the bus came, but talking to strangers really upsets me. On the other hand sometimes I’m too polite and can’t get away. I would’ve walked home but it was so cold. I knew the bus would take a while, it always does, but at least the damn thing is free. I didn’t have any music with me so I began thinking about scenes from “Fantasia.” Especially the mythical pastoral se…

cafe_hon

2010-08-13T01:34:21+00:00

Anyone who appreciates kitsch needs to take just one glance at the massive pink flamingo towering over Café Hon’s door to figure out that they may have just happened to stumble upon a slice of madcap heaven. Café Hon, situated on Hampden’s famous West 36th Street, is the pinnacle of Hon-dom, the essence of the beehive itself, in meatloaf-serving form.

camden

2010-08-06T19:11:18+00:00

Nestled in the heart of Charm City is Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Baseball has done something exquisitely well- and that is the retro-style ballpark Camden Yards. Situated in downtown Baltimore, this revolutionary baseball stadium set the stage and precedent for all major ballparks. With its state of the art design, traditional and quirky features, and crisp, green, natural turf field it is no wonder why Camden Yards is a fan-favorite. It is one of the most highly praised ballparks in the count…

car

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

A Nissan 300ZX twin turbo from 1996. It's a fairly rare car. To people who know their Japanese cars, it's the Fairlady Z32. To the people whose houses I visited, it looked like a generic Japanese car. The people at the racetrack knew it as the Black Bullet.

caribbean_paradise

2010-05-18T17:04:26+00:00

By: Dre Carter [Courtesy: Jrchester] Caribbean Paradise is the vision of Barbara Vessel, a Jamaican immigrant who migrated to New York in the late 1970s. A decade later, she found herself in Baltimore. Spurred on by her family and her passion for healthy eating, Vessel opened Caribbean Paradise on New Year's Eve 1999, offering a taste of Jamaica to Central Baltimore residents and the city at large.

carol_blattau

2010-07-05T14:08:58+00:00

I am an English/Professional Writing student at University of Baltimore ---------- I'm often asked what I plan to do with my degree (or even if I plan to use my degree) to which I now answer: ANYTHING I WANT! ---------- Sketches: Feb 3, 2010 - A Walk Down St. Paul's Street Feb 10, 2010 - A Journey Through UB History Feb 16, 2010 - J.L. Blattau Company East 25th St March 2, 2010 - Taming The Jones Falls March 10, 2010 - Protecting The Jones Falls

catherine_hooper_hall_-_now

2010-05-10T04:12:53+00:00

New Antioch Baptist Church ["New Antioch Baptist Church."From the collection of the Author] The New Antioch Baptist Church was organized in 1952 under the supervision of Rev. Joe Z. Williams. It was first located at Ann and Jefferson Streets. The church changed its location several times before it moved to its present location. In November 1992 the congregation acquired the former Goucher College building known as Catherine Hooper Hall located 2401 St. Paul Street, where it is still located …

central_baltimore_index

2010-04-30T05:14:09+00:00

If you find errors or omissions, or would like to be included here, please contact me. The Central Baltimore Partnership Array This index simply must start here. The Central Baltimore Partnership is what made this entire wiki possible, and provided the majority of all contacts listed on this page. Without them, this project would never have been realized. The Central Baltimore Partnership is a collection of several agencies and community organizations. Currently the organization assists fou…

central_baltimore_map

2010-08-06T19:04:23+00:00

Using the intersection of North Avenue and Calvert Streets as the origin, running clockwise from the top left of the plane, the target area encompasses the neighborhoods of Old Goucher, Barclay, Greenmount West, and Charles North. Old Goucher is known as the original home of Goucher College.

central_baltimore_s_performing_arts_individual_project_proposal

2010-03-10T22:25:57+00:00

by Jack Combs For my solo portion of the group page, I’d like to do several pages that cover local theaters in the Central Baltimore area. I’ve already done a brief wiki about the Everyman Theater, but I’d like to add on to that: there’s the Theatre Project on W. Biddle Street, and the Carrot theater on North Avenue; all of these theaters make the Central Baltimore area a prime spot to see live, local productions. My pages will cover the history of the theaters, and it will also encompass des…

characters

2010-08-05T19:26:54+00:00

Name Stories Mentioned The Lawyer When the Hexagon Was the Lo-Fi; Barclay, Greenmount, Baby The Ninja Barclay, Greenmount, Baby; A Drought The Author Barclay, Greenmount, Baby The Manufacturer A Drought That Damn Kid A Drought The Fuck-Up A Drought The Landlord …

charles_commons

2010-03-08T20:13:53+00:00

Charles Village is a neighborhood situated in the north-central area of Baltimore, Maryland and highly stimulated by the proximity to Johns Hopkins University. The area has undergone several restoration projects recently. Charles Commons, a somewhat recent addition to the neighborhood, is a residential, dining, and retail complex in Charles Village. Charles Commons is located on 33rd Street between North charles and St. Paul streets. The housing complex opened in 2006, and provides suite-style …

charles_royal

2010-02-25T23:27:41+00:00

It’s 3 am and I haven’t slept in four days. Outside, Baltimore lies coiled beneath a thick blanket of porcelain white. The snow not only obliterated streets, sidewalks, and cars but any sense of motivation I possibly had to begin with. The endless rumble of taxi cabs and cramped sidewalks has ceased and I’m annoyed with the silence. My brain has been stimulated only by hours spent watching my cat Lippy lick the remnants of eggplant parmesan off the plate on my bedside table. I convince myself I …

charles_theater

2010-03-31T22:08:18+00:00

The Charles Theater, located on North Charles Street, a few blocks north of Penn Station, has always looked to me more like a former automotive repair shop or a train station. The theater is brick red and has very high paneled glass windows that look like they were converted from some type of garage. Upon some research courtesy of the Charles Theater webpage, I learned that my assumptions were nearly correct. Not only did the theater once house cable cars, but the space has been used for a numbe…

charles_theatre

2010-02-24T02:36:06+00:00

The Charles at night, Courtesy of thecharles.com The Charles Theatre, owned by James “Buzz” Cusack, is a five-screen theater located in Station North. The theater attracts a variety of moviegoers with its screenings of foreign, independent, Hollywood, and classic films. On Cinema Sundays the Charles screens movies and provides munchies, followed by a Q & A session.

charles_theatre_project_ticketeer_interview

2010-04-28T23:29:43+00:00

Sharing the Things We're Passionate About, and How to be Meaningful in the Meantime D - So, since then, The Famous Ballroom became The Times. A news-reel only theater. But then, in 1959 it became what is now lovingly, The Charles Theatre. Could you tell me a little about the story behind The Charles, as an independent movie theater, in Baltimore.

charles_village

2010-07-11T19:35:49+00:00

Introduction The most northern area of Central Baltimore, Maryland is known as Charles Village. Originally called Peabody Heights, the name Charles Village was derived in the 1970s from Charles Street, the community’s primary corridor. Its boundaries include 20th Street to the south, University Parkway to the north, Howard Street to the west and Greenmount Avenue to the east. This is often contested by Charles Village residents who insist 25th Street and Guilford Avenue are the southern and …

charles_village_pub

2010-08-06T19:15:20+00:00

She had disrespected him; disrespected his space, his time, his music. She knew this was his. Everyday after work he would sit down in the garage, in a worn camel-colored leather chair, and listen to his jazz. It had started years ago, after his mother’s funeral, cleaning out her apartment. He moved systematically, placing china and crystal bowls and tribal miniatures into newspapers and boxes. In her closet, shielded by long skirts of taupe and earthy greens, he found a Contadina tomato s…

chasebrexton

2010-07-21T00:42:07+00:00

Chase Brexton Chase Brexton is the second largest health care clinic in central Baltimore. It is located at 1001 Cathedral Street Baltimore, MD 21201. Started in the early 1990’s as an alternative for patients without insurance, today it offers not only primary health services, but also dental services. Chase Brexton is a one-stop shop providing medication, dental service, and community out-reach

chelsea_comments

2010-04-21T19:45:55+00:00

Chelsea, I love your voice and candor. I got lost in your story, which is a compliment to your flow. And in the course of it found that I was absorbing the information, page by page. I think this project is a terrific example of fiction/fact -- the process by which truth is achieved via narration and fact. It's winning and interesting.

chelsea_illusion_rinnig

2010-04-21T19:42:33+00:00

[Feeding an elephant bananas on Ko Samui Island]Chelsea is a BA/MA History student and Writing Seminars major at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She grew up in Los Angeles, California and received her high school diploma from Santa Monica High School. Chelsea enjoys playing the flute, writing poetry and fiction, and traveling. She is a member of the Phi Mu Fraternity. She hopes to attend law school and pursue a career in human rights.

cherry_hill

2010-07-11T19:49:19+00:00

By Jack Combs Eden paced north along the brickwork of Charles Street. She passed the University of Baltimore, making sure not to make eye contact with the students who were getting out from their evening classes. She kept her view on the bricks below, taking note of the angles they made and how tightly packed they were between the stone curb and buildings. Eden stopped when she noticed the black craters of Mt. Royal, looking up to see the orange glow of a five fingered hand with its palm fac…

christina_mcdonald

2010-08-05T18:45:18+00:00

* My First Impressions of Central Baltimore * Gordon Plaza: January 30th, 1901 * The Schuler School of Fine Art * Penn Station: A Timepiece of Charles North (Group Project) * Wandering & Wondering About Druid Hill Park My Final Project * A Collection of Perspectives and Histories: Druid Hill Park of Central Baltimore

church_steps_tuesday_morning

2010-05-16T00:59:59+00:00

Church Steps, Central Baltimore linda 80 minutes, 25 blocks, about 12,500 steps and nine churches: some faded, some new and all punching way above their weight class. It’s a fighting neighborhood. And smack me for being condescending. In my neighborhood within three blocks of my house there are six churches- two in use, one turned into a theatre, three empty.

civic_and_commercial_planning

2010-05-16T01:31:49+00:00

Group Members Emily Jeffries Pamela Brown Bryan Gamble Mac Schwerin Linda Bambrick Subtopics Balti-mobility-How residents get around Central Baltimore Taxes and Tax Breaks-What residents and businesses pay and how it shapes living and working in Central Baltimore. Affordable Housing in Central Baltimore Marketing the Arts Restaurant Reviews-What satisfies the residents of Central Baltimore and what keeps a resturant alive in the area. Sprawl-timore-Wal-mart causes a stir in Central Baltimore

claire_davis

2010-02-24T23:01:20+00:00

Sex: Female DOB: 11/08 Race: Caucasian Hair: Blonde Eyes: Blue Height: 5'8” Weight: 131 Business: Hopkins Student; Departments of Russian and the Writing Seminars Current Residence: Hampden, Baltimore Permanent Residence: Govans, Baltimore Greenmount West

clean

2010-03-18T20:26:32+00:00

Proofread your work. Clean up and link your contributor pages and your screens. No orphans! Please try, every time you edit, to think of link-backs and references. What are other related pages? What are your colleagues writing? Links breed readers.

clinic

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

I didn't really mean to mention the clinic, but I've gone and created a page for it now so I may as well come clean, right? The thing is, I don't really like alcohol. It smells funny and tastes funny and makes me act funny. And not cute funny like it does to girls, but creepy funny. But the clinic is helping me to get away from that, plus it turned out that tennis is a pretty awesome game. There was a court next to my house when I was growing up, but I never really thought to actually play. I wo…

club

2010-07-11T19:32:40+00:00

The breakdancers called us up, my girlfriends and I, and told us we should go to the club with them tonight. They suggested the Wind-Up Space, and of course we said yes. It was a Thursday and we had just performed in a small dance showcase and now we wanted to dance some more, and I was looking to get drunk. It was doubly exciting because someone had a car, so we wouldn’t have to take taxis or the bus. My outfit was too skimpy to walk around Baltimore in at night. Though every outfit is too skim…

computer

2009-12-02T19:50:18+00:00

Computers suck, and I love them. They always need fixing, and not just your own. It's kept me a steady job for a long time, although that thing about getting girls to give you favors for fixing their computers isn't true. They just don't like computers that much.

conclution

2010-08-13T01:13:04+00:00

In the end, I spent 140 minutes walking the streets of central Baltimore and have seen a lot, from great restaurants to historic buildings. At the start of this walk, I thought it would be a waste of time; that 140 minutes could be better spent doing anything but looking at Baltimore. However, I have learned that Baltimore can not be judged by what it is today, but should be looked at for what it was. That is to say, in this city, some of the biggest names in American history made their homes, …

construction_of_the_beltway

2010-04-29T03:00:53+00:00

Life Before the Beltway W. Carl Hossfeld: Driving Back Roads When I was in high school there was no Beltway. They didn’t start building until the late 50’s. Parts of it were done while I was in college. But it wasn’t 100 percent complete until the early 60’s.

2010-04-22T18:19:43+00:00

Group Projects * Arts and Culture * Civic and Commercial Planning * Geography and Ecology * History and Demographics * Architecture and Mapping ---------- * Index of Contributors * Directory of Individual Projects * Course Schedule * A To Do List

contribution_to_group_project

2010-02-24T20:50:23+00:00

By tonight's class, you should have created an individual page for your subtopic and contributed a sentence with a link on the group's topic page.

contributors

2010-05-12T14:27:59+00:00

[Writers Writing Central Baltimore] Barbara Kiedrowska Linda Bambrick Carol Blattau Chelsea Illusion Rinnig Whitney Harriet Janis Dre Carter Jack Combs Dana Covit Tristan Davies Doug Anderson Stephanie Delman Jane Delury Christina McDonald Bryan Gamble Jonathan Gavazzi Erica Hellerstein Leah Honeychurch Emily Jeffries Hilary Kaden Kayla Kahn Jane Klene

copycat_building

2010-03-10T23:49:23+00:00

Through the rabbit hole * Dan Deacon * Jimmy Joe Roche (interview to come) "His work feels like the visual equivalent of Bmore crazy, hyper and mashed up, with various elements pillaged from the outer limits of trash culture feeding into the mix."- Dazed and Confused "Roches videos throb with uncomfortably sweaty closeups, purloined pop-song soundtracks, and epilepsy-inducing gross-out humor" - Baltimore City Paper "The conditions that bought that place about bought so many peopl…

crab_cakes

2010-03-24T23:16:06+00:00

The World's Largest Crab Cake Last summer, while attending a street fair in Baltimore’s Hampden area, my nostrils were hit with a very unappealing fishy odor. It was early on a Sunday morning, after a long Saturday night, and the last thing I wanted to be around was a gust of fishy air. I looked around to find the source, and discovered that I was down wind of the ‘World’s Largest Crab Cake’.   Baltimore locals were looking at the crab cake with pride. The city is famous for its crab cakes,…

crab_feast

2010-08-13T01:38:20+00:00

Masses of garish-jewelry-donning hon’s made the exodus to the 2009 and HonFest, to witness (and sample) the World’s Largest Crab Cake. Later, the Guinness Book of World Records certified the crab cake as the largest crab cake ever made. This hulking brute of a crab cake is rumored to have weighed over 253 pounds, worth over $2, 400 of crabmeat. Volunteers from Handy International administered the crab cake rationing (it took four men to lift the cake and 9 hours to bake the beast.)9 hours! Jim C…

crash

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

And I really liked that car, too. They're not that easy to find nowadays, you know? But that morning was the same as every other morning. I had the rhythm down to an art form, except for one tiny little wrinkle. I didn't sleep well that night for some reason, and I had an appointment to reach. I'm not some loser cable repairman, an incompetent buffoon cartwheeling about in a van at ten miles an hour. When I say I'll be there at nine in the morning, by god I will be there at nine in the morning. …

cultural_ecology

2010-08-06T19:37:51+00:00

Central Baltimore is a hub for the cultural arts. Having gone to multiple plays over the past few years, I’ve noticed that many local community members like to get involved in the field of the performing arts or theatre. Geographically, there are several theatres within the immediate area of central Baltimore. My main focus is to take a look at theatre locations close to both the University of Baltimore and the Johns Hopkins University to see how local inhabitants interact with the theatres. I w…

curling_up_with_a_good_book_by_the_fire_at_the_langsdale_library

2010-08-06T19:08:33+00:00

Kevin and Tina had been doing their physics homework on the basement floor of the University of Baltimore library when Kevin said, “Do you smell smoke?” “I smell something,” said Tina. “I’m sure it’s nothing though; probably just a prank. We can go tell Mr. Dolling to look into it, if you want.”

cvp

2010-08-06T19:14:39+00:00

Nobody calls it the Charles Village Pub. It's CVP. But neighborhood bar is the best way to describe it. It draws in the college students, the sports fans, the cops, and any other grouping possible. Some come for its menu, one that has stayed the same since, well, forever. It offers the standard variety of pub grub; chili, wings, fries, burgers, salads, and cleverly named club sandwiches. Its weekly specials are scrawled in chalk on a board out front.

daisy_chain

2010-05-10T04:08:31+00:00

Daisy Chain Daisy chain was special ceremony during the commencement program, where the sophomores paid a special tribute to the seniors. ["The Daisy Chain 1940." Reproduced from "The History of Goucher College, 1930-1985" by Frederick O. Musser,34.]It was first offered in 1905, but before that there was tradition of the Loving Cup ceremony, where at the end of the commencement ceremony graduating class would be seated on the Goucher lawn encircled by the thick daisy chain held by sophomores. T…

dan_deacon

2010-03-24T21:49:07+00:00

That was a JOKE. The Dude The Music The City That Created Him

dana_covit

2010-09-29T03:18:44+00:00

Dana is a Senior at Johns Hopkins University studying Creative Writing and Film & Media Studies. She loves Baltimore for its readily available music scene and great restaurants, as well as The Charles movie theater. What? Your favorite band has sold out every show across the United States, leaving you out in the cold? Rest assured they'll be in Baltimore, playing the best, most intimate venue, with plenty of tickets on sale. Nothing beats it.

daniel_coit_gilman

2010-04-29T03:18:44+00:00

First President of Johns Hopkins University Array 1831-1908; Norwich, Connecticut Daniel Coit Gilman graduated from Yale College with a degree in geography. During his time at Yale, Gilman joined the secret society, Skull and Bones. He was a co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, the organization that owns property and runs the secret organization.

daymare

2010-05-04T16:59:26+00:00

unreal and unnavigable spaces There's a link on the pinkie finger of MetropolisMag.com that says you might consider learning from Japan. The grammar of this is questionable - must the participant settle in Japan itself, become a correspondent? - but I understand its true intention and I do not feel quite obnoxious enough today to raise a flag. The article itself, the other four fingers of the page, I should say, details a rendering of the proposed John and Frances Angelos Law Center at the Univ…

de_vere

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

Thaddeus De Vere (born January 1, 1966 in Menorca, Spain) is a botanist and pretender to the Spanish throne. His works on succulants, xerophilous propagation, and the genealogy of the the ancient Phoenicians have won him international recognition, a fame somewhat tempered by his hysterical and, according many sources, entirely unfounded claims to the so-called Fount of Honor. He was also for a period in the 1970s lead guitarist for an early hispano-germano post-punk sound-poem project known as t…

dead_pigeons

2010-04-29T03:02:10+00:00

Dead Pigeons Hers Mother Superior woke shaking violently. She half expected to see a dead bird floating from the ceiling. Clutching at her rosary she peeled off the sweat-drenched sheets, fumbled through the dark to her prayer corner and knelt before the crucifix.

derry_fitzcarraldo

2010-08-06T19:29:34+00:00

Matthew Eric Tiernan (August 27, 1981 - July 9, 2009), most widely known as Derry Fitzcarraldo, was an American musician, writer, transgressive painter, librettist, social organizer, printmaker, landlord, and amateur anatomist based in Baltimore, Maryland. His work, mostly self-distributed, cemented him as a figure of popular myth and attention in the burgeoning Central Baltimore arts district, despite never quite attracting national press. During his intensely prolific career, Fitzcarraldo prod…

description_of_old_oriole_park

2010-08-06T19:10:33+00:00

(And the player got a lead off of first. But the pitcher faked a throw to first and the player was forced to leap back onto the base.) The Field Oriole Park was one of those classic urban ball fields. The property seemed to be engraved around rowhouses, streetcar tracks, a florist’s greenhouse, and the village’s Episcopal Church, St. Johns Huntingdon.

details_from_49_years_ago

2010-04-29T03:01:19+00:00

Fraternity Pranks Pledge W. Carl Hossfeld You know the big clock tower? Now, remember it was all male... Remember this was 1957... It’s a little high school-ish. You pledge this fraternity. You’re 18 years old. Not too mature... They have you do little things... They said, “Alright, we want you to go up at lunch time and ring the bell in the clocktower.” That was the challenge.

discovering_the_hidden_origins_of_urban_outsiders_in_central_baltimore

2010-07-27T19:23:11+00:00

Lauren Villa The Copy Cat Building is located in Baltimore, Maryland and serves as a landmark of artists' live/work/paint spaces. According to the 1905 Baltimore City atlas, The Copy Cat Building was once occupied by the Crown Cork & Seal Bottle Cap Company. Mr. Charles Lankford bought the 165,000-square-foot brick building located at 1501 Guilford Avenue in 1983. The building is commonly referred to as the “Copy Cat Building” and the name originated from a billboard advertisement for the Copy C…

doctor_1

2010-07-27T19:32:19+00:00

I poured a packet of white powder in with the scotch. I passed the glass to the woman sitting on my couch. “The good stuff, I hope,” she said. “Only the best,” I said. “Where is your staff? It’s expected from a gentleman of your stature,” she said. “Oh, I enjoy privacy at night,” I said. “You can’t conceal that accent,” she said. She moved to place the glass on the side table. The glass fell onto the tall carpet and she slumped onto the couch. I picked up her glass and poured the drin…

doctor_10

2010-07-27T19:34:33+00:00

The inspector returned tonight. He had two partners and a warrant. I drugged them all. They lie in the basement now, and I shall join them at night. Turn back a few pages Turn to previous page Turn to next page --- Jonathan Torres

doctor_11

2010-07-27T19:34:46+00:00

I had no time to fully clean the table from my last subject, but it is of no consequence. For this subject, I will delve into the cognitive areas of the brain. My entire career has been spent on how various systems relate and communicate with each other and has brought only disappointment. I already have the necessary instruments, I only needed to make small internal adjustments to a recording machine in the lab. This experiment will not be as neat or formal as my previous ones, more a rough…

doctor_12

2010-07-27T19:35:00+00:00

I packed only my journal and doused the property in kerosene. I watched all my notes erupt into flames and become ash on the ground. I traveled west and hoped the world was still small enough for a man to disappear. Turn to front Turn back a few pages Turn to previous page

doctor_2

2010-07-27T19:32:33+00:00

She awoke to a spotlight in her face. She felt frozen in the flash. Her head could not move. Neither could her arms or legs. She struggled even to glance from side-to-side. “Do not exhaust yourself, my dear,” she heard. Metal scraping against metal behind her, on the right side. A fresh spark landed on her cheek. “Content yourself with the fact that you are advancing a most noble profession.” Her hushed voice managed to grunt. She saw me standing over her. The reflective disk strapp…

doctor_3

2010-07-27T19:32:50+00:00

I turned the spotlight on the cadaver and revealed the spirits and pipes imbibed over a lifetime. A group of students entered and gawked at the body. One seemed eager to poke the side with his pencil. Then they noticed me behind the bloated entrails and appeared even more nauseous.

doctor_4

2010-07-27T19:33:11+00:00

The boy entered the lab at the specified time. The room was dark and he did not see me. He heard a crash and groan in my office on the far wall. He rushed along the counters. As soon as he entered, I extinguished the lights. I grabbed him around the neck. He smelled the ether before collapsing. “Hello, Mr. Suthers. I'm glad you accepted my invitation,” I said and stared down at him. His body was naked, shaved, and fully restrained. A stereotaxic scaffold hung over his head. I held a …

doctor_5

2010-07-27T19:33:25+00:00

I visited the undertaker again last night. A mole of a man, surely born into his profession before he even knew of death. His head reached my sternum. He would be my height, were he to stand upright. He never laid down his walking stick or lantern. I wonder where he hides his fortitude. The hunchback said I was in luck, a plot was already prepared for a ceremony tomorrow. He charged double for the convenience. Luck proved an unnecessary ally. Turn back a few pages Turn to previ…

doctor_6

2010-07-27T19:33:47+00:00

An inspector arrived earlier, inquiring about the boy. Several witnesses recalled that I was one of the last people to see him alive. I fed him the usual lines but he seemed persistent. He also refused a bribe. I will have to look into the matter.

doctor_7

2010-07-27T19:33:59+00:00

Success, approval for publication! Once I heard the news, I jumped and yipped like a trained collie. This will be revolutionary, my name will be known in universities across the globe. I should start organizing a lecture series, New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow. I shall need a student to help me address all the letters. And my work can help people suffering from movement disorders throw their canes and wheelchairs into the harbor. God knows, they've been punished enough.

doctor_8

2010-07-27T19:34:11+00:00

An interesting letter arrived today. A new hospital is to be opened within the year. They will be funded by a Mr. Johns Hopkins. I have met the man a few times, many years ago. He seemed short and shrewd. But he bequeathed an unprecedented amount of money. A university has already been opened with part of the funds. The Board of Trustees would like me to be on the surgery faculty. While I am content with my current position, I long for the environment of private institutions again. I b…

doctor_9

2010-07-27T19:34:20+00:00

REJECTED! THEY REJECTED ME? MY ARTICLE, ONCE IT WAS ALREADY APPROVED? ALL THAT METICULOUS WORK, GONE. THERE WAS SOME LUDICROUS ERROR IN MY CALCULATIONS. IT UNDERMINED THE ENTIRE THING! If that weren't unthinkable enough, the Baltimore Police, clever snakes that they are, have fabricated evidence and persuaded a judge to suspend my medical practice license until I am cleared as a suspect. I am NOTHING without my work!

doug_anderson

2010-05-10T04:40:42+00:00

I am a Senior in The University of Baltimore's Government and Public Policy Program Hobbies Personal fitness Photography Interests Politics, Health, Music,Buddhism. My Sons: Johnny is 4, Michael is 2. Sketches Road of Fear Something old Something new

douglas_h._thomas

2010-04-29T03:17:59+00:00

Architect 1872-1915 Thomas graduated from Johns Hopkins University and designed Gilman Hall in 1893. He worked and traveled for a few years, until starting his own firm in 1900. Bostonian J. Harleston Parker, became Thomas’ business partner. Parker and Thomas maintained Baltimore and Boston offices. Their firm was prominent in Baltimore architecture, particularly in rebuilding the city after the Great Fire of Baltimore. Thomas would go on to become president of the Baltimore chapter of the AI…

douglas_ross

2010-08-06T19:29:14+00:00

Fun n' fluent. Mistakes Haircut* Cherokee Boots Rejection of Above-Water Sports *Amended 2/12/10 Botched Opportunities Home and Abroad The Grand Canyon (9/11 Related Changes to 7th Grade Arizona Camping Trip Itinerary) Seine-side Dining Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam) Derry Fitzcarraldo's last show at the Hexagon Prague Museum of Communist Torture (Closed Sundays) The Revolutions of 1848 (2007 Budapest Revival) Baltimore Reportage

dre_carter

2010-05-18T06:20:02+00:00

Native Baltimorean...Charles Village resident. Writing Central Baltimore Sketches March 24, 2010: Individual Project - Seven Wonders of Central Baltimore March 10, 2010: Group Project Contribution - A Rare Blend March 3, 2010: Group Project Contribution - From Peabody Heights to Charles Village

drinks

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

On Simpsons they said that alcohol is the cause of, and solution to, all of man's problems. I'm pretty sure that is completely true. What they don't tell you is that the order is backwards. In fact, alcohol is the solution to, and cause of, all of my problems. And I have no idea whether the clinic was the cause or the solution.

drive_through_central_baltimore

2010-08-06T19:12:50+00:00

---------- Driving south from the Charles Village on St. Paul, the houses alternate between bright colors and triangular rooftops; it is a seemingly endless strip of painted porches and cookie cutter shapes. At 24th, the colors begin to dissipate and the rows are now dotted with grays and rust and wood-covered windows. Eventually the road leads out onto North Avenue, an overwhelming stretch of traffic and bus exhaust. Above the cars are three or four massive billboards, the edges slightly fr…

druid_hill_park

2010-08-05T18:46:31+00:00

Spanning 746 acres, Druid Hill Park is Baltimore’s first large municipal park, purchased in 1860 from the Rogers estate. While many of the Park’s original buildings are still intact, numerous relics of earlier times can be found strewn throughout Druid Hill. These include various wells, stairways, and even an old Luthern graveyard. Currently its most famous aspects are Druid Lake and the Maryland Zoo. For a much more detailed history of this remarkable area's rich past, please visit my ind…

druid_hill_park_of_central_baltimore

2010-07-11T19:39:50+00:00

[http://www.personaltrainingbaltimore.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/druid-hill-park.jpg] Druid Hill Park is a fascinating pocket of Baltimore, as rich in history as it is abundant in foliage. Located at the near center of Baltimore city limits, it can be found on the west bank of Jones Falls . Throughout the centuries its inhabitants and visitors alike have changed considerably, from the Susquehannock Native Americans to current Central Baltimoreans. Nevertheless, from the seventeenth…

e._mount_vernon_place

2010-08-13T01:09:43+00:00

Next on my walk through Baltimore, I find myself taken away by the Peabody Institute. It is truly a diamond in the rough. Designed by Edmud George, it was completed in 1886 after many delays brought on by the Civil War. It is the first of its kind in the United States.

edgar_allan_poe

2010-02-11T01:46:38+00:00

[Statue of Edgar Alan Poe]

edgar_allan_poe_house

2010-07-11T19:11:48+00:00

Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum I like to envision Poe hard at work. Where could he have produced those deranged stories—both so haunting and yet so enrapturing? Lets start with his office. He must have always been huddled over a feeble wooden desk. In a chair that squeaked when he swiveled and eagerly scribbled his inspiration. And his beverage of choice? Whiskey on the rocks. Or soul-warming cognac, swirling around the bottom of the glass gently. Hypnotically. Poe must have hovered over his…

edgar_allan_poe_statue

2010-07-27T19:28:09+00:00

[Photograph by Barbara K] This is a historical account of the Edgar Allan Poe statue currently located in Gordon Plaza of the University of Baltimore, School of Law. Many of the facts were obtained from Clifford Krainik's, “The Sir Moses Ezekiel Statue of Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore.”

ehrand_sewell

2010-08-06T19:37:01+00:00

Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Currently resides in Owing Mills. Has obtained an Associates Degree from the Community College of Baltimore County in Computer Graphics and Visual Communication. He then transferred to the University of Baltimore where he is currently majoring in Corporate Communications. And is currently scheduled to graduate in May 2010!

emily_jeffries

2010-04-22T05:55:54+00:00

I am a senior at the University of Baltimore majoring in Corporate Communications. I have no idea what I want to do with my major or myself, but I am having fun trying to figure that out and learning a lot along the way. I bike everywhere, sometimes only because I have to, but I mostly prefer to bike more often than to drive. Most of my writing will probably reflect this in some way as I am a huge bicycle advocate.

erica_hellerstein

2010-08-06T19:42:57+00:00

Sustainable Bmore Parks Central Baltimore Edgar Allan Poe House Writing Central Baltimore Hon Baltimore Erica is the technologically inept student in this class!

events

2010-08-05T19:12:23+00:00

* Barclay, Greenmount, Baby * A Drought * When the Hexagon Was the Lo-Fi (Incomplete) See Also Home List of Major Characters in Show Stories List of Major Places in Show Stories List of Bands Mentioned in Show Stories

evergreen_museum

2010-03-10T23:35:41+00:00

It's the sort of house that might tip over with a strong wind or fierce fall storm, but it also eeks of timelessness, yellowy New England summers and popsicles handed out by loving mothers in floral cotton skirts. I am not sure the Evergreen House has actually seen any of these things. It just feels like it has - it smells, looks, sounds like it has.

f_scott_fitzgerald

2010-08-06T19:52:37+00:00

F. Scott Fitzgerald, an author known for his enchanting and elegant writing style, had a life in Baltimore that was anything but. Fitzgerald moved to Baltimore in 1932 so that his wife Zelda could get treatment for schizophrenia at the Johns Hopkins Phipps Psychiatric Clinic. And while Fitzgerald’s life in Baltimore was most likely stressful and emotional, his writing did not seem to suffer. During his time here he was able to produce two of his more famous works, the novel Tender is the Night a…

feast

2010-08-05T19:35:30+00:00

How accommodating, I thought as I sat down for a meal at a Baltimore bed and breakfast. I’d just returned from two days in New York City, which I'd found to be weirdly stubborn. On the subway, I’d left my seat to get a better look at the subway map across the aisle. When I returned to my chair, I found someone else sitting in it. “I was coming straight back,” I told the stranger. “That’s okay,” he said as he sat. I nodded, muttering to myself about the foolishness of leaving the subway be…

feb._17

2010-02-17T21:42:37+00:00

Please clean up and link your contributor pages and your screens. No orphans! We will talk generally about some issues and examples. We will break out again into our groups and spend some time discussing what is up already. Please try to spend some time on each contributor's screens.

feb._24

2010-02-24T20:41:13+00:00

For tonight's class, you should have created an individual page for your group subtopic and contributed a link on the group's topic page.

fender_standard_stratocaster

2010-02-03T23:54:12+00:00

This is probably the most popular guitar for modding work, period. They're very affordable guitars, and downright cheap on the used market. They're easy to work on, have a wide array of parts available, and have the potential to be amazing instruments. Frequently referred to as a “Mexi” or “MIM” (made in Mexico).

fensal_hall_-_then

2010-05-05T12:33:10+00:00

finding_the_jones_falls

2010-07-31T21:06:59+00:00

I have always loved the mythical quest. Growing up, I spent countless hours watching old movies about the search for the Holy Grail, Jason and the Golden Fleece, the seven voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, and stories about lost cities like Atlantis, and mythical bodies of water like the Fountain of Youth. I loved these stories as a child, and I admit as an adult, I still do. After all, who can resist admiring the tenacity of these adventurous souls. [City of Atlantis]

fire_at_langsdale

2010-07-11T19:47:25+00:00

by Jack Combs A hero waited in the stairwell, pacing back and forth along the slanted handrails until the last of the male study brats had trickled into the slush lined streets. He cracked the door to the third floor, licking his lips as if he were fine-tuning something requiring careful precision. It’s not every day that one saves a life, and from a quick head count of the young women peppering the sprawling study space, this appeared to be the day that he was going to save three.

fire_at_oriole_park

2010-08-06T19:10:45+00:00

(And the player got a lead off of second. But the fly ball was caught and the player was forced to run back to second to tag-up.) It was approximately 4:20 a.m. on the 4th of July 1944 when a six-alarm fire began near the third base grandstand at old Oriole Park.

first_impressions

2010-08-05T18:45:30+00:00

My impression of Central Baltimore was stained before I even entered the area. Not so much by my own preconceptions; to me one declining neighborhood is much like another, in Baltimore or any other city. Any half-developed speculations that may have wandered into my mind in the past mostly consisted of a brief acknowledgment of its lack of aesthetic appeal: a passing thought embraced and then forgotten as I drove through the area to arrive at a more inviting location. The introductory session…

first_sketch

2010-05-07T19:09:51+00:00

* Drop physically into the “target area” of Central Baltimore. * Bring a camera if possible. * Walk a minimum of one block. More as possible or prudent. * Immerse yourself. * Document. * Produce approximately five hundred words. * Bring thirty copies to class on 3 February.

food_choices_in_barclay

2010-08-05T19:00:24+00:00

Resturants on Greenmount Avenue * H & B Seafood & Produce, 2210 * Chan Cheung Mon, 2002 Resturants on East 22nd Street * Green Mt. Fried Chicken, 451 Resturants on East 25th Street * His Grace African Carryout, 439 ---------- Back to main page Bryan Gamble

food_choices_in_charles_north

2010-08-05T19:00:09+00:00

Resturants on Charles Street * India Tandoor, 2101 * Caribbean Paradise, 1818 * Gerils Luncheoette, 2200 * Jong's Carry Out, 1910 * Tapas Teatro Cafe Inc., 1711 * New Seoul Resturant, 1910 * Classic Penn Station, 1515 * Sofis Crepes, 1723 * Lahore Kabab House, 2110 * The Lost City Diner, 1730

food_choices_in_old_goucher

2010-08-05T19:00:45+00:00

Resturants on North Charles Street * Sunflower Deli, 2436 * Paul Chen Hong Kong Resturant, 2426 * Chicken Express, 2448 * Eric's Eatery & Catering: Wings Things & Pizza, 2334 Resturants on North Maryland Avenue * Terra Cafe, 2126 * Rita's Place, 2126

four_degrees_in_spring

2010-05-12T14:47:07+00:00

---------- In this world within a world the choices are yours. Have fun exploring the different ways of looking into the lives of four Central Baltimorians. The People Barbra Willinick Avery Inez Stacie Nebbit Marcus Johns ---------- Created by: Bryan Gamble

francis_guy

2010-05-22T17:15:36+00:00

Francis Guy was born in England and died in Brooklyn, but he lived and painted in Baltimore from 1798-1817. The Maryland Art Source () cites him as one of the “the most important English artists to come to the New World in the late eighteenth century .“ But in 1806, art critic and playwright William Dunlap visited the city and said of Guy, “he was originally a tailor of Baltimore. He attracted some attention by his attempts at land…

free_parking

2010-07-11T19:47:03+00:00

by Jack Combs The MVP: Luxury Chinatown Bus service’s headquarters are located across Charles Street from an empty lot, just north of the parading cabs of Penn Station and congested weeknight commute of North Avenue. There’s an empty booth at the entrance to the parking lot, where morning tenants used to hand out tickets for the dashboards of paying customers. Today, only a few sedans and pickups use…

friends

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

Friends are a convenience. Yeah, they're really nice to have, but so is porn and I'll settle for the closest thing in either case when I'm desperate. I've had plenty over the years, although some do a lot more to make themselves memorable than others.

friends_1

2010-07-27T19:36:03+00:00

The three of us sat in my patio after we returned from the park. “How goes the prose?” Alex said. “Same as always, I can't string two lines together worth their weight in shit,” Will said. “What's it been now? Two years? What good's a poet without inspiration?” Alex said. “I bet he's found plenty of inspiration in wine bottles and the casinos,” I said. “I would like to try for something unique,” Will said. “You'll waste your life on that,” I said. “I can't believe that first check has lasted …

friends_2

2010-07-27T19:36:21+00:00

Abigail lived in Roland Park, both us of lived on Oak Street in the city. We passed by the coach stop and dashed for the horse-drawn. The omnibus trotted along and we could see the fireflies on the Rogers Estate. Something about the area drew them and they saturated the fields. Lanterns weren't even needed on those grounds at night. During the spring, you could hear the Falls as well. The wind blowing from the harbor became more acrid with each passing day. Smoke and steam blanketed the h…

friends_3

2010-07-27T19:36:39+00:00

I looked up and saw the window was closed. I mumbled into the pillow and got up. The window gave me an idea for a line to use in a letter. I rummaged through his clothes and found a pen, out of ink. The last desk drawer held an inkwell next to a large bundle of pages. I pulled them both out. There were at least 150, from the size, written by Will. The manuscript was sealed shut. I stared at the pages for a minute. Then I grabbed a pen knife from the top drawer and heated it by the lant…

future_of_the_mount_royal_area

2010-05-12T14:00:47+00:00

The future of The Mount Royal Area Future: The year is 2055 Begin at West Mount Royal Terrace; continue down West Mount Royal Avenue; make a right turn onto North Howard Street, and than turn east on Preston Street. There you will find the bustling crowds of young college students that have taken over this area. The sound of busses and the clicking of bicycle gears also accompany the sound of the crowd. This is a Green Zone. In 2025, when the green house emissions went off the charts, both…

general_sense_of_the_city

2010-04-29T02:59:59+00:00

A 'Branch-Office' City Interview With W. Carl Hossfeld Times have changed. This economic crisis… Baltimore has changed a lot in that respect. I follow this pretty closely. Now we’ve lost Black and Decker. That’s the latest one... Through mergers and acquisitions, Baltimore has lost almost all the major businesses that have contributed so much to the culture, philanthropic things... Compared back to the 50’s and 60’s and even 70’s, Baltimore has lost a lot. Baltimore has become a branch-off…

geography_and_ecology

2010-07-21T01:50:40+00:00

Baltimore is a concrete city. There are parks, but not enough (see 'Parks in Central Baltimore'). There are markets, formerly open-air venues, that are more relics of the past than keys to the future (see 'This Is Not a Yuppie Market...'). Nonetheless, signs of a growing “Green” movement have been sprouting up around town - recycled goods, organic foods, clean water initiatives, sustainable building - even rooftop gardens are multiplying rapidly.

georgian_architecture

2010-08-06T19:25:27+00:00

Current between 1720 - 1840 This style of architecture is characterized by its symmetry and proportions. Georgian buildings are grand and lavish, but even and classic. Brick and stone are typical for Georgian exterior. The interior has ornate details on moldings and framework.

gertrude_stein

2010-08-06T19:22:50+00:00

While most associate Gertrude Stein with Paris and her apartment located on 27 rue de Fleurus, the esteemed author and art collector actually blossomed into the very vocal and visible figure we know today right in central Baltimore. Stein once stated, “I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made,” clearly giving Baltimore credit as the city that ‘made’ her. Coming from Stein, who infamously bashed the likes of Ernst Hemingway and other r…

getting_help

2010-02-24T19:44:14+00:00

Registration Please register at the login tab. The site will mail you a temporary password. Getting Help See Fender Standard Stratocaster for a more detailed test page. You might like to begin with Steven Jones and follow the links to see how a wiki narrative might work.

getting_tested_a_first_hand_look

2010-07-21T00:28:42+00:00

Getting Tested First Hand Account- Let's Listen Jackson Davenport has obtained exclusive access to an HIV screening. “Yes, today we have a student who has agreed to go into HERO and be screened and tested for HIV / AIDS, while letting us sit in on the visit. We can't give out her name, but we will say she is a female between 18-25”

ghost_tour

2010-02-17T22:46:48+00:00

They moved the statue of me to the plaza of the law school. It was a rather smart move on the part of the Edgar Allen Poe Society, as my bronze likeness was withering away in the overgrowth of Wyman Park. It was created by Sir Moses Ezekiel, a well-known sculptor, I heard, who was commissioned to do some other works for the Corcoran Gallery in the capitol. The statue was then left in the park and eventually forgotten over the years. I came upon it by accident one day as I was going about my stro…

gilman_hall

2010-04-29T02:55:38+00:00

The Heart of Hopkins image courtesy of PlanetWare History Gilman Hall was designed in 1893 by Douglas H. Thomas, a Johns Hopkins University graduate. The construction contract was awarded to Edward, Brady & Jones in May 1913. Two years later, on May 21, 1915 Gilman Hall was dedicated. The building was named after Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of Johns Hopkins University. The building was considered a Georgian revival piece of architecture.

glen_brannon

2010-04-14T16:49:03+00:00

Was married to Gale Brannon. They lived on the 2000 block of West Mount Royal Terrace located in Baltimore City, Maryland. Glen worked as a train yard manager at Union Station (later to be named Penn Station) in the historical district of Mount Vernon in 1924. They were the great, great grandparents of Sir William Brannon. Glen and Gale lived during a controversial time. They saw multiple newspaper articles during the “public enemy era” when Bonnie and Clyde made the front page of every national…

glitner_hall_-_now

2010-05-10T04:15:09+00:00

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Center For Children - (Baltimore Child Abuse Center) ["Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Center for Children." From the collection of the Author] Baltimore Child Abuse Center (BCAC)is a non-profit organization which was established in 1987 and is located at 2300 N. Charles Street, Baltimore. It is committed to preventing and ending child sexual abuse in Maryland. The Center, which is led by the city's former prosecutor - Adam C. Rosenberg, is located on the upper floors …

gloria_victis

2010-07-27T19:07:34+00:00

On the 1400 block of Mt. Royal Terrace, a parallel access street to Mt Royal Avenue, at W. Lafayette Avenue stands a looming allegorical figure of Glory. At a height of twelve feet she stands draped in a lofty, flowing gown and her large wings are raised to full extension behind her. Her left arm is stretched towards the sky, and she holds a laurel wreath in her hand, similar to the one adorned on her head. Upon her right shoulder rests the heavy head of a second figure, a soldier whose own stre…

going_green_in_the_hood

2010-05-22T23:29:50+00:00

With the recent popularity of the green movement, the implementation of recycling, organic food consumption, repurposing of objects and elements of overall sustainable living have become stylish components of responsible life. No longer are these elements associated solely with tree-huggers, hippies or commune dwellers. What is considered the urban environment has embraced this alternative lifestyle as more knowledge of it has come to light. There is a growing awareness that the Earth’s resourc…

goucher_hall_-_now

2010-07-05T14:20:24+00:00

Baltimore Lab School ["Baltimore Lab School."From the Collection of the Author] Baltimore Lab, a division of the Lab School of Washington, is located next to Lovely Lane Church in the old Goucher Hall building at 2220 St. Paul Street. The school was founded by Sally L. Smith and the Board of Trustees in September of 2000.The main goal of the school is to provide educational opportunity for the children with moderate to severe learning disabilities who are not able to success in the regular c…

goucher_hall_-_then

2010-05-09T03:24:00+00:00

goucher_house_-_now

2010-07-05T14:21:00+00:00

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.-Corporate Headquarters Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity is the first intercollegiate fraternity established for African-Americans. ["Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc." From the Collection of the Author] The Fraternity was founded in 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by seven college men who recognized the need for promoting and supporting education among minority students. The founders were: Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jon…

goucher_house_-_then

2010-05-09T12:55:44+00:00

great_fire_of_baltimore

2010-07-11T19:12:39+00:00

Who In addition to Baltimore's own, firefighters from NYC, Philadelphia, D.C., Wilmington, Atlantic City, and Virginia joined in fighting the blaze. What A historic, disastrous fire burns down nearly 75% of downtown Baltimore, totaling more than $150,000,000 worth of damage.

green_mount

2010-07-27T19:31:11+00:00

Green Mount To follow the project in the intended order, follow the underlined links. The following can be read on a plaque at the entrance: [Downtown View] Green Mount was Baltimore's first such rural cemetery and one of the first in the U.S. The movement began both as a response to the health hazard posed by overcrowded church graveyards, and as part of the larger Romantic movement of the mid-1800s, which glorified nature and appealed to emotions.

green_mount_cemetery

2010-07-11T19:05:54+00:00

The Green Mount Cemetery is located at 1501 Greenmount Ave. Grounds are open Monday through Saturday until 4PM - the ghosts come out at night so it's really for your own safety. History The cemetery is one of the oldest garden cemeteries founded in the country, commissioned by Samuel Walker, a tobacco merchant, in 1838. July 13, 1839, Baltimoreans gathered at the dedication to hear Felix Mendelssohn's chorales and the special hymns written for the occasion. How ironic that a social even…

green_mount_white

2010-07-27T19:29:20+00:00

The group shuffled along Oliver's Walk. It was the first frost of the year but none saw their breath. They all wore hoods or masks. Two women wore simple Venetian masks that glittered green and yellow in the fire and moonlight. One man covered himself with a cream-colored sheet with dirt rubbed across the arms and legs and two small blood spots on the neck. Another donned a gentleman's outfit complete with hat, jacket, cane, even a broken pocket watch he checked every few minutes. The glas…

greenmount_west

2010-03-24T22:37:43+00:00

I. Some woman defecated in the vestibule last night. Or was it a man? It was a human-sized shape, shadowy around the edges, and wore a pink polyester skirt. It crouched in the corner of the vestibule, close to the front door and virtually invisible to the headlights flying down Calvert Street. “So you caught him?” I said, picturing the hairy buttocks and the pink fabric curled around the culprit’s ankles. Orpheus frowned. He was staring at the blooming apple tree in the park across the s…

greenmount_west_baltimore

2010-07-11T19:10:10+00:00

A neighborhood in the state-designated Station North Arts District of Baltimore City, Green Mount West's borders consist of Hargrove Alley to the west, Hoffman Street and the Amtrak railroad tracks to the south, the south side of North Avenue to the north, and Greenmount Avenue to the east. It is one of two neighborhoods (Charles North is the other) that comprise the North Central Historic District, a district listed on the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places. Some sou…

group_projects

2010-05-04T14:22:58+00:00

Architecture and Mapping History and Demographics Arts and Culture Civic and Commercial Planning Geography and Ecology

groups

2010-05-07T19:10:59+00:00

Group 1 Ehrand Sewell Victoria Wambui Carol Blattau JaysonKenneth Douglas Ross Erica Hellerstein Dana Covit Group 2 Emily Jeffries Pamela Bryan Gamble Mac Schwerin Linda Bambrick Group 3 Jonathan Gavazzi Barbara Jerome Christina McDonald Chelsea Illusion Rinnig

health_clinics_in_baltimore

2010-07-21T00:36:36+00:00

Overview One of the major issues that faces newly diagnosed persons is health care. A person can live a long and productive life with HIV for years before it turns in AIDS. However, to prolong the transition from HIV to AIDS one needs medication, long term housing, and primary health care. In Central Baltimore there are two well-know clinics that offer comprehensive health services. Below is a list of health clinics in central Baltimore in addition to a general outline of the services offered.

hero

2010-07-21T00:30:47+00:00

Health Education Resource Organization, Inc Health Education Resource Organization, Inc or HERO located at 1734 Maryland Avenue Baltimore, MD 21201 in Central Baltimore is the largest public clinic. Started in 1980 at the onset of the HIV AIDS epidemic, the clinic has grown into a saving grace for thousands of HIV and AIDS patients. They provide primary health care, counseling, and additional health services.

hidden_origens

2010-05-07T18:24:35+00:00

Lauren Villa Jimmy Joe Roche Interview with Jimmy Joe Roche Discovering the Hidden Origins of Urban Outsiders in Central Baltimore answer the phone take a walk outside stop for a drink voyage onto Normals

hilary_kaden

2010-08-06T19:06:22+00:00

Hilary is a junior at Johns Hopkins University. She’s from Long Island, New York. And yes, it’s pronounced draw, not drawer. Her sister’s coming to Hopkins next year—she’ll tell you. Oh no you didn’t just add an extra 'L' to Hilary Her parents named her Hilary because they thought it was an original name.

hilary_old_oriole_park

2010-08-06T19:09:45+00:00

Hilary, What a delight. Very smart and engaging. A terrific fiction and a terrific piece of writing. Excellent. There are some places you might build-out. Particularly on the early screens, I would not mind a few more links and a little more art. There is still some housecleaning to be done, of course. But you should be proud of your achievement. I'm very glad for this to be a part of our project.

history_and_demographics

2010-05-10T02:03:00+00:00

Jonathan Gavazzi has begun researching the Barclay neighborhood, where he resides. His first piece is somewhat less of a conventional study and more of an imagining of events revolving around Operation Midway, one of the historical milestones of the community's love/hate relationship with the drug trade.

history_of_central_baltimore_mica

2010-08-06T19:39:13+00:00

---------- Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) was established in 1826. The most iconic figure of that institution was John H. B. Latrobe. He was son of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who was designer of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, and also the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary here in Baltimore. The Institution’s original location was at Saint Paul and Lexington Streets. In 1826, the schools first lectures were comprised of chemistr…

history_of_jones_falls

2010-07-05T14:15:23+00:00

Beginning with a very quick geography lesson … Baltimore sits on a fault line between the Piedmont plateau and Coastal plain, which means water flows generously from the plateau creating ripe conditions for industrial and manufacturing needs. Jones Falls is just one of several streams (Gwynns Falls, Gwynns Run, Great Gunpowder, and Little Gunpowder) that lie on the fall line between the Piedmont plateau and the Atlantic Coastal Plain. By the way, all this is very confusing to me and hard to im…

history_of_the_old_oriole_parks

2010-08-06T19:10:19+00:00

(And the ball was slightly fouled so the player walked back to the plate to try again.) Oriole Park Times Five Kyle’s father had told him all about the history of the old Oriole Parks—how the first field called Oriole Park was built on the southwest corner of Sixth Street/Huntington Avenue (later 25th Street north) and York Road (later Greenmount Avenue east), which was the first home of the major league Baltimore Orioles from 1882-1889. How in 1890 it moved four blocks north to become Oriole…

hiv_aids_central_baltimore

2010-04-11T18:12:04+00:00

HIV AIDS and Central Baltimore Central Baltimore is undergoing great changes as time moves forward. We are seeing the demolition of abandond housing, converting of industrial space and the introduction of art. However, when talking about the positive changes in Central Baltimore it is important to note that other changes are just beginning. HIV/AIDIS has begun to take hold of a population under educated and impoverished. The question becomes how do we curve IV drug use, stop prostitution, and …

hiv_aids_introduction

2010-04-11T18:14:14+00:00

home

2010-05-13T16:45:58+00:00

[Alyssa Stokes | No Vacancy ] Writing Central Baltimore was a collaborative course offered by The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the School of Communications Design at the University of Baltimore in the Spring of 2010. Its objective was to create a literary database about those neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland that make up the district known as Central Baltimore. Central Baltimore is, at its center, four historic neighborhoods: Barclay, Greenmount West, Charles North…

hon

2010-08-13T01:39:18+00:00

“The Hon is not a Dying Breed” - HonFest website “The higher the hair the closer to God!” The Hon Herself There is one person that stands out amongst Baltimore’s residents. She is a working class woman with spring-stiff hair teased to the heavens. She smells like a vague mixture of vanilla musk perfume and hairspray. She is wearing leopard print pedal pushers, blue eye shadow, and a spandex green and yellow neon striped shirt etched with pink flowers, so tight it constricts her (…

hon_baltimore

2010-08-13T01:24:59+00:00

Welcome to Baltimore, Hon! Every major city has its defining features. Think of Paris, and the Seine comes to mind, gleaming serenely under the moon’s romantic light. Or Rio de Janeiro with its ethereal Christ the Redeemer statue and city beach, Barcelona and its dreamy Gaudi architecture, San Francisco’s elegant Golden Gate Bridge. These physical structures in some way capture the essence of each city’s character.

honfest

2010-08-13T01:36:27+00:00

Hon is Baltimore’s favorite term of endearment and there isn’t anything in Charm City more endearing than Hampden’s classic HonFest. HonFest, founded by Denise Whiting, the owner of Café Hon, is a festival that celebrates the historic Baltimore blue-collar babe. Centered around Cafe Hon, HonFest has skyrocketed in popularity over the past twenty years since its humble beginning in 1994. Now this wacky-tacky festival has blossomed into a wildly popular annual Festival: a heavenly Hon-Haven paying…

hopkins_homewood_campus

2010-05-18T17:09:04+00:00

By: Dre Carter [Courtesy: Jrchester] The name Johns Hopkins is synonymous with prestige. The history of the Johns Hopkins University is well documented. Johns Hopkins, an entrepreneur and childless bachelor from Anne Arundel County, Maryland, bequeaths $7 million, the largest philanthropic bequest in the U.S. at the time, to fund a free hospital, an orphanage for colored children and university to be based in Baltimore. The rest, as they say, is history.

howard_st_bridge

2010-08-06T19:13:27+00:00

---------- Every city has its defining bridge; New York's Brooklyn Bridge, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, St. Louis' Eads Bridge. However, Baltimore's Howard Street Bridge, although rather small, can truly be seen as the epitome of the city it resides in. Much like the eclectic and lively neighborhoods that combine to make Baltimore, its brightly colored beams and arches intertwine to form a vibrant and unique structure, one that undoubtedly catches the eye of those near and afar. It is…

i_can_t_turn_it_off_a_woman_s_repeated_efforts_to_get_clear_of_the_street

2010-07-21T00:48:33+00:00

'I can't turn it off' A woman's repeated efforts to get clear of the street More than 25 years after being pressed into a life of addiction and prostitution, Ann Battle thinks she may have found a better path. Battle, 38, says she was only 11 when an adult she doesn't want to identify rented her out to support his own drug habit. Soon, she was trying heroin herself, acquiring a taste for narcotics that later drove her to sell sex on the streets. Along the way, she contracted HIV.Now, after nu…

ian_humphrey_esq

2010-07-27T19:14:46+00:00

Ian Humphrey, Esq., born Ian Michael Humphrey, is a resident of central Baltimore, living near the intersection of 25th Street and St. Paul Street in a two-bedroom apartment with a musician—for whom I shall eventually create a page—and is not licensed to practice law, but will represent you in civil court hearings for a nominal fee.

imaginary_hagiography

2010-05-16T01:02:51+00:00

Baltimore city has only one bona fide saint: Elizabeth Seton. But saints have been close to the lives of Central Baltimoreans in the names of their streets and churches. Why were certain churches and roads dedicated to specific saints? This exhibit explores those saints and the links between their lives, deaths and Baltimore.

indigma

2010-08-05T19:38:50+00:00

Tony Chemmannor, executive chef and owner of Indigma, points out that Central Baltimore is a cultural center. “Students are a tremendous influence” on food culture, he says. “A lot of foreign students are coming here, and they bring that culture to this area.” He ticks off the schools: the University of Baltimore is in the middle of everything. There’s Peabody, of course. And Johns Hopkins University is mere blocks away. Thanks to the schools, Central Baltimore, more than other neighborhoo…

individual_project_proposals_due

2010-03-02T14:54:34+00:00

Your individual project should comprise at least three linked screens with a Central Balto. topic as the nexus. For tonight's class, please bring in a brief (1 page), typed description of your proposed project. Carol, The Jones Falls

individual_projects

2010-08-13T01:18:09+00:00

Christina McDonald: A Collection of Perspectives and Histories: Druid Hill Park of Central Baltimore[Writing Central Baltimore] Barbara Kiedrowska: Missing Goucher Linda Bambrick: Lost from Central Baltimore Carol Blattau: Finding the Jones Falls Hilary Kaden: Old Oriole Park S. Rose: People Behind Gilman Jonathan Torres: Green Mount Jack Combs: J. Van Story Branch Sr., Apartments Leah Honeychurch: Vegetarian Baltimore Kayla Kahn: The Neighborhood Bar Jane Klene: Famous Authors From Baltimore,…

inked

2010-04-28T04:44:43+00:00

Proem After a while, I start to think, I think: you can’t afford an airconditioner. The choice was beer or the acrylic or a livable temperature and you sprang for all three, didn’t you. The ragged ATM downstairs with the punctured screen won’t even spit you out a receipt and your head’s quaking and the canvas is all smeared and wasted and you only saved on the Western Family ibuprofen, which won’t help, which doesn’t. I think: To Improve, what? Move, firstly. Approach the Wind-Up Space, approa…

interview_at_atlas

2010-08-06T19:14:14+00:00

---------- On a warm night in April, two Hopkins students embark on a journey to learn more about neighborhood bars in Baltimore. One is a Colorado-born, Exeter educated, world-travelling senior. She is a student whose desire for something different and appreciation for everything quirky seems to fit right into the confusing microcosm that is Baltimore. The other is born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Although her upbringing is rather conventional by the other’s standards (it does not…

interview_with_jimmy_joe_roche

2010-07-27T19:18:57+00:00

“His work feels like the visual equivalent of Bmore crazy, hyper and mashed up, with various elements pillaged from the outer limits of trash culture feeding into the mix.”- Dazed and Confused “Roches videos throb with uncomfortably sweaty closeups, purloined pop-song soundtracks, and epilepsy-inducing gross-out humor” - Baltimore City Paper “The conditions that bought that place about bought so many people together that whole thing will keep growing and growing. You don’t have to be from Baltim…

introduction

2010-08-13T00:30:40+00:00

I am not a native Baltimorean, and since I arrived I have had a hard time understanding Baltimore and its culture. From the onset, I was disappointed at the lack of a significant gay population or meeting places. In addition, I could not find culture in the city, and it seemed at first that Baltimore was a forgotten city with no redeeming qualities. On my bus trips down Greenmount Avenue, all I saw were vacant houses, abandoned stores, and some unusual people to say the least. However, I suspect…

intrusive_modern_art

2010-03-24T23:46:26+00:00

Pennsylvania Station, the main train station in Baltimore, spans almost a city block of central Baltimore. The station is surprisingly large and beautiful, and its old Beaux-Arts architecture sets it apart from the rest of the area. It could easily be confused for a museum of some sort if it weren’t for the constant line of yellow cabs anxiously waiting outside for stranded travelers. The station is so elegant that Amtrak is in talks to build an upscale hotel on the three unused floors of th…

j._van_story_branch_sr._apartments

2010-07-11T19:50:08+00:00

By Jack Combs The J. Van Story Branch Sr. Apartment building is a dominating structure in the Central Baltimore skyline. This mass of living space is twenty-stories tall with a brickwork body and shadow-filled balconies that look like eyes from afar. The building is broad, and it meets in the middle as if two buildings were shoved together and blended at the spine. It towers in relative isolation above the businesses and midtown apartment buildings that surround it. Located between Charles Str…

j.l._blattau_company_east_25th_st

2010-07-27T15:06:36+00:00

Fifteen year old Jim Blattau knew that when the alarm sounded at 6:30 a.m., he had 45 minutes to crawl out of bed, throw on some clothes, and down a bowl of cereal before his ride showed. At exactly 7:15 a.m., Bill, an auto glass mechanic with whom he worked, would pull up in front of the 1950’s brick Catonsville rowhome, and Jim knew if he wasn’t ready, he’d be left behind. And there was no way Jim was going to miss a day’s pay. After all, he was saving for the car he was determined to have by …

jack_combs

2010-07-11T19:41:51+00:00

Jack is enjoying his life in a glasshouse. Assignments A Snowy North Charles Fire At Langsdale Free Parking The Charles J. Van Story Branch Sr., Apartments (Against Green Lights) (Abandoned Houses) (No Trespassing)

jackson_botts_at_the_famous_ballroom

2010-04-28T23:27:11+00:00

Jackson Botts at the Famous Ballroom Baltimore, 1938. Jackson Botts was that type of man everyone in town knew. He worked over at the Famous Ballroom on North Charles, keeping count of things and greeting entrants with a wide toothy grin. During ball-season he’d slip into server’s uniforms and make his rounds at the gatherings of who’s who in Baltimore citylife. This was before the Famous Ballroom became famous for offering stage space to jazz greats like Dizzy Gillespie and Buddy Rich.★…

jackson_davenport_reports_from_central_baltimore

2010-07-21T00:50:37+00:00

Jackson Davenport Reports From Central Baltimore Jackson Davenport is a famous freelance journalist who always seems to get the story. He has been published in numerous newspapers, magazines, and journals. Recently he moved to Central Baltimore in Maryland. He has uncovered a disturbing problem that deserves immediate and direct attention. Mr. Davenport has chosen to investigate and research the issue of HIV AIDS in central Baltimore. He plans on posting the findings on the WIKI for public view…

jane_comments

2010-04-21T19:32:20+00:00

Jane, Very nicely done. The information you present is pretty basic, but you bring to it a fresh and thoughtful approach that is free of the usual claptrap associated with discussions of these writers. I feel that, with your simplicity and straightforwardness, you put an end to the sort of sniping that surrounds these writers' association with Baltimore. These are three important people, all of whom had significant and consequential ties with the city. You make the point and prove it. Thus, th…

jane_delury

2010-08-04T18:08:36+00:00

Jane Delury teaches fiction in UB's MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts program, as well as undergraduate fiction courses in the School of Communications Design.

jane_klene

2010-04-21T19:10:31+00:00

Jane Klene is a senior at Johns Hopkins University Jane Klene Individual Project sss A Walk on North Ave Charles Theater BMA Crab Cakes --- Jane Klene 2010/02/17 23:49 Comments

jane_klene_individual_project

2010-08-06T19:23:12+00:00

Baltimore is home not only to all of the writers responsible for the pages on this wikipedia, but also was once claimed ownership to the likes of F Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Edgar Allan Poe. Each of these authors were originally from Baltimore, and resided in the central part of the city for an extended period of time. What is it about Baltimore that was able to foster and inspire three of the most influential authors of all time?

january_30th_1901

2010-08-05T18:45:43+00:00

With a broad grin and sweeping bow, I conclude my act for the night, and lightly tap my foot on Big Liz’s back. The complacent elephant is, as always, unmoved by the hundreds of gawkers who applaud her and bellow for more stunts. She responds to my touch, however, and immediately begins to lumber towards her cage, which is located discreetly (or, at least as discreetly as anything elephant-sized can be) on the outer rim of the circular building. Before she passes through its threshold, I expe…

jaysonkenneth

2010-11-30T12:58:47+00:00

A Walk Through the Gayborhood Life's a Zoo 140 Minutes in Central Baltimore by Foot Group Project Contribution Group Project as a Collective A Green University of Baltimore Jackson Davenport Reports From Central Baltimore

jazz_greats_at_the_famous_ballroom

2010-05-05T15:51:17+00:00

The Famous and its Jazz Greats This here is the story of the Left Bank Jazz Society’s brief, but still significant place in Baltimore cultural history. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of schools in America. In the same year, the Interracial Jazz Society was founded in Baltimore. The intention, they said, was to bring more jazz to the city, but it also was to position Baltimore as a place of culture and modernism.

jhu_homewood

2010-02-24T21:36:28+00:00

jimmy_joe_roche

2010-07-27T19:17:50+00:00

Jimmy Joe Roche is an American visual artist and underground filmmaker, based in Baltimore, MD. He is a long-time collaborator of the Baltimore-based musician Dan Deacon Career Roche's works have been screened in venues and museums all over the U.S. and Canada including the Corcoran Museum of Art,[1] Walters Art Museum,[2] Anthology Film Archives, New York Underground Film Festival,[3] Yale College, the Great American Music Hall, and San Francisco International Animation festival. His recent …

joe_s_squared_pizza

2010-07-11T19:16:50+00:00

Exponentially Better Fact [Inside Joe's Squared] I have never entered the building of Joe’s Squared Pizza. I walked passed it on my Walk through Central Baltimore, but I’ve never set foot inside. The building stands out on North Charles with its block lettered sign, graffiti-like artwork, and the blue art car that was parked out front. Its connection to an art supply store confused me as well. A patio with Amstel Light and Heineken umbrellas makes it a traditional American bar, but the…

jonathan_gavazzi

2010-05-12T14:23:44+00:00

Jonathan Gavazzi is not a unique snowflake. Individual Sketches Mr. Charles Liquor Store The Barclay House Group Project Contributions Barclay Operation Midway Individual Project Show Stories

jonathan_torres

2010-07-27T19:24:06+00:00

Bio I am a senior at the Johns Hopkins University. I am from Hudson County, New Jersey. I study neuroscience and creative writing. Neuroscience Indulge me. Assignments Sketches 1. Survey of the neighborhoods 02/03/2010 2. Edgar Allan Poe Statue 02/10/2010 3. Rainbow Room 02/17/2010

jones_falls_expressway

2010-08-06T19:37:28+00:00

While walking across campus to the student center I saw my former English professor. I stopped to chat a bit and during our talk, he told me about some of the classes that he was offering in the fall. I explained that I was feeling a bit down because I wouldn’t be taking any more classes since this was my last semester before graduating. I also told him that I was just walking around campus to reminisce about my years as a student. So we stood there and talked for a couple of minutes and then hi…

jones_falls_final_note

2010-07-31T21:03:09+00:00

I wonder what Baltimore would be like today if the Jones Falls still flowed unfettered through the city. What if our 18th and 19th century fathers had fought harder to keep the stream in its natural course, building the city around it instead of over it. One 19th century engineer Henry Tyson proposed constructing a promenade along the banks of the Jones Falls. Imagine if his vision had come true. Other cities did it. Check out USA Today’s article 10 great places to stream through cities. Why not…

judge

2009-12-02T19:44:23+00:00

I bear that man no ill will. There is no grudge. He simply does not understand my world, and I can deal with that. After all, he's sending me to the clinic when he could have sent me to jail. And maybe things will even be better from it. I was probably drinking a bit much, after all. But he didn't understand. It started with a stern, uncaring look. I tried to come clean, too. I was caught disobeying the letter of the law and it didn't seem like there was any point in lying about it.

kayla_comments

2010-04-21T18:57:48+00:00

Kayla, I had my doubts at first, but this turned out delightfully. Smart, well written, and interesting: It is both a charming narrative as well as an artifact of a moment. It is absolutely accurate -- you got all three places perfectly. It says something specific about CB today. Ten years from now or twenty years from now, people will read this. And they will say -- “Whatever happened to Atlas and the Dizz? But CVP has not changed a bit.”

kayla_kahn

2010-04-21T18:53:14+00:00

Kayla is a senior at Johns Hopkins University majoring in Writing Seminars and minoring in French Cultural Studies. She is from St. Louis, Missouri. Assignments Drive Through Central Baltimore UB and 1968 The Parkway Theater-A Baltimore Treasure

kayla_s_project_proposal

2010-03-10T22:45:03+00:00

Central Baltimore and the Neighborhood Bar I would like to do a project on the local neighborhood bars in the area. I don’t know if this means zeroing in on a more specific section of Central Baltimore, but I would like to capture the essence of the neighborhood bar in Baltimore. From the one hand I don’t think there could be that many longstanding bars in Central Baltimore. However, researching the entire area and its bars seems a little bit overwhelming. Thus far I’m thinking of focusing …

killing

2010-04-08T22:20:46+00:00

Narrative Distance is an umbrella term often and incorrectly employed by Mac Schwerin to denote any perceived tension in a text due to authorial omission or redirection. Intended for use when referencing plot discrepancies, red herrings, or other narrative trickery: i.e., what the author does not want you to know; i.e., what the author does not himself understand. Originates from a misinterpretation of Derrida's commentary on the deconstruction of textual aporia and consequence.

kumari

2010-08-05T19:34:54+00:00

It is thanks to Kumari that, for one night in this weird semester, I was able to treat myself to good delivery food. A week prior, I’d had Indian food delivered by a different restaurant nearer my house. It was disappointing. The lentils were rock-hard and tasteless (burnt? Is that possible?), and the naan had no life. Kumari’s food, though, was a different story.

lakewood_pool

2010-07-11T19:00:49+00:00

They really did pave paradise and put up a parking lot. [Lakewood Pool_theBaltimoreSun] July 3, 1931, Central Baltimore residents looking for relief from the high heat could go play in the traffic: street showers arranged by putting sprinklers on fire plugs and turning on the water were scheduled for 2PM at Biddle and Washington, 3PM at Rutland and Chase. In the summer of 1932 a slice of heaven opened on the east side of the 25oo block of North Charles Street in the form of the Lakewood Swimmi…

langsdale_library

2010-07-05T14:17:43+00:00

Since a very young age I have been fascinated with reading books and going to the library. When I was in the second grade my teacher took my class for a trip to what we considered the “big” library that was located in the middle of the small Polish village where I grew up. Though the library had only about ten small shelves stacked with all sorts of books, I never seen something like that before; it was a thrilling experience for me. At the time, I owned only one small book of elementary reading…

later_developed_passion

2010-04-29T03:02:37+00:00

Art History W. Carl Hossfeld “didn’t have any use for liberal arts… now I’ve turned 180 degrees.” During his sophomore year at JHU, Carl took a history of art class as one of his 8 required electives. By his own recollection he took 21 or 22 credits. As a result he spent much of the class nearly asleep on his desk. The professor showed slides frequently and turned down the lights, creating a relaxing environment for the overworked sophomore.

launch_party

2010-05-08T02:07:20+00:00

Tristan getting down to business right away ---------- ----------

lauren_comments

2010-04-21T19:56:45+00:00

Lauren, This is still a little rough -- there's not enough linking and a lot of places that feel like dead ends. That said, there is also a lot to like. Your take on the fictional -- the addition of a prose musing at the end of some pages is inventive and worthy of further experimentation. You've got a good eye and the pages you choose are interesting to look at.

lauren_villa

2011-08-19T02:32:14+00:00

Jimmy Joe Roche Interview with Jimmy Joe Roche Discovering the Hidden Origins of Urban Outsiders in Central Baltimore Drops of Oil One Piece of Advice Fill Up Voyage Onto Normals

leah_comments

2010-04-21T18:39:38+00:00

Leah, What a complete delight. I will admit at first I was made skeptical by the low key affect of the start page; however, I clicked on from curiosity. By the time I got to XS I was utterly charmed. By the end I was entirely in your thrall. You've thought this out so well: It is a narrative; it is a sort of encyclopedic entry. You make you point subtly and consistently. The writing is always terrific and self-confident.

leah_honeychurch

2010-08-05T19:40:58+00:00

Her true surname isn't Honeychurch, but she once spent a summer viewing A Room with a View on a lengthy loop. She had the screenplay memorized. She continues to enjoy impersonating Lucy Honeychurch. Therefore, Honeychurch. Among her favorite quotes are

learning_from_japan

2010-02-17T19:54:51+00:00

lillie_mae

2010-04-25T03:54:46+00:00

victoria's page...

lillie_mae_carroll_jackson

2010-06-03T20:32:35+00:00

I have been aware of the Mitchell family and its political standing in Baltimore for many years. As a teenager, I attended Western High School, the oldest all-girl public school in the country, and made the acquaintance of Lisa Mitchell. She was a member of the storied Mitchell family and embodied the poise and social grace that would befit someone of her background. More importantly, Lisa was a typical teenager with a sweet disposition and friendly smile. It always intrigued me that she was …

linda

2010-05-16T02:25:47+00:00

Linda was a graduate student in the Master's in Science Writing program at JHU, she graduates this May. Although originally from Canada, the snow this spring is not her fault. Individual Project Lost and Found in Central Baltimore Group Project Civic and Commercial Planning: Taxes and Tax Breaks

linda_ip_introduction

2010-05-16T01:11:12+00:00

My Individual Project for the WCB Wiki is Lost and Found in Central Baltimore. The pages have been renamed and reorganized and are all found there. Share and enjoy. Linda

linda_s_forgotten_baltimore

2010-04-14T19:58:03+00:00

Linda, What a delightful suite of pages. As obvious as it is to say, I like best those pages that you have built out the most. Your style in smart and winning, your thoughtfulness refreshing, and the material you present fascinating. If I were to have imagined what a perfect CentBalt piece would look like, it would have been very close to yours.

links

2010-01-27T02:06:43+00:00

Master Plans for CB: Baltimore Neighborhoods: Station North Arts and Entertainment District:

liquor_store

2010-07-11T19:27:02+00:00

By sophomore year I wouldn’t turn 21 for another year and a half, so getting a fake ID was somewhat necessary, and I look very young. My picture was very beautiful, and I was so proud of it. But still, going to the liquor stores near campus seemed unwise--all the kids with fake ID’s go to the liquor stores around campus. So to be safe I walked a long way down to a small one near Penn Station. It was tiny and ill-stocked, but what did I care? They had the correct beer and vodka for me. So I would…

list_of_major_places_in_show_stories

2010-08-05T19:27:06+00:00

Venue Stories Mentioned The Barclay House A Drought; Barclay, Greenmount, Baby The Hexagon When the Hexagon Was the Lo-Fi The Talking Head When the Hexagon Was the Lo-Fi The Ottobar When the Hexagon Was the Lo-Fi See Also Home List of Show Stories List of Major Characters in Show Stories List of Bands in…

lost_and_found_in_central_baltimore

2010-05-22T16:54:55+00:00

[The Lost and Found Project] Central Baltimore has been the country, the suburbs, a bustling hub and a bit of an afterthought in the life of the City of Baltimore. As the city has grown and contracted, people and places have come and gone. Writing for the Central Baltimore Wiki, I started out interested in the lost and forgotten: the cemetery under Charles Street, the ball park under a city block. And I got ready to mourn the faded glory. But a funny thing happened on the way to the mortuary. Ce…

mac_hewitt

2010-04-28T21:23:56+00:00

Mac Hewitt (born in May, June, or July of 1988) is the bass player for the central Baltimore-based, psychedelic rock band THE FLYING EYES. In addition to his work with THE FLYING EYES, Mac works at OK Natural Foods, a natural food store that caters to vegan and vegetarian diets. In OK, which is located across the street from the University of Baltimore's LAP building, you can find Mac behind the register on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with a perpetual smile.

mac_schwerin

2010-04-08T22:28:08+00:00

Male, student, author, scorpio. Traits Listed in Various Legal Documents Born: 14 November 1988 Height: 5'8” Weight: 165 Eyes: GRN How He Might Self-Identify In point of fact, he might select any one of four incidents which in the wake of their respective occurrences had mutated in his mind to become something like defining moments: palpably absurd or incidentally compelling, what a lesser thinker might describe as thick with coincidence, what he would call ferociously phantasmic…

magnolia

2010-03-18T15:10:17+00:00

male_female_statue

2010-07-11T19:09:03+00:00

The Male/Female Statue stands erect outside of Pennsylvania Station on North Charles Street As we walked on our tour of the University of Baltimore Campus, one student remarked, “And here you can see the ugly statue in front of Penn Station every day!” It’s true: the statue is not my favorite piece of public art that I’ve seen. I’ve passed it hundreds of times—on the shuttle back from Peabody, driving to and from the airport, or on long walks through Mount Vernon. I never thought about wha…

many_steps_to_a_fresh_start_women_getting_out_of_the_sex_trade_and_drugs_need_housing_treatment_and_counseling

2010-07-21T00:50:18+00:00

Many steps to a fresh start Women getting out of the sex trade and drugs need housing, treatment and counseling Angela Jackson strides down Pennsylvania Avenue with pamphlets under her arm, unfazed by the line of dealers hawking drugs beneath blinking police cameras. ” James Brown, James Brown!” cries one young man, applying the late soul star's name to his heroin capsules. ” Ray Charles, Ray Charles!” cries another.Places like this are utterly familiar to Jackson, who once supported a heroin a…

marble_stoops

2010-05-10T15:24:15+00:00

Baltimore marble stoops were a symbol of community and a prominent Central Baltimore feature. In the days before air-conditioning, cool marble steps became a place to gather and a focal point for neighbors to get to know each other. The nearby quarries in Cockeysville and Texas MD supplied some of the best marble on the east coast. The Washington Monument in D.C. was constructed almost entirely of marble from Cockeysville quarries, which was transported to rail by oxen wagons. The quarries in Co…

march_20th_-_my_first_excursion

2010-07-05T14:14:42+00:00

There's the sign...where's the trail? [Trail Head at Penn Station] It was one of the first warm days of March when my husband—such a good sport—and I headed down to the city (it was at least the third time he’d gone with me on my research for this course). We knew the trail began somewhere around Penn Station, so we parked along North Charles Street across from the University of Baltimore. Heading towards the station, we quickly found a sign hanging on a fence above the JFX announcing the trail…

marcus_story

2010-08-05T19:08:28+00:00

It was a shame that Marcus didn’t wake up until two in the afternoon on that Tuesday. He wouldn’t have gotten up at all if Stacie didn’t call him. She was running low and needed a quick fix before her latest masterpiece was to be started. Marcus was a small time pusher. He was unreliable; he would only be able to let go of a few grams when he bought some for himself. None of his clients ever really knew when that was exactly. It was Stacie’s lucky day; she called at the right time and was…

mary_claire_herbranson

2010-07-27T19:11:17+00:00

Mary is a junior at University of Baltimore in the Community Studies Program. Sketches Sketch One - Bolton Hill Sketch Two - Mount Royal Tavern Sketch Three - Gloria Victis Group Project My group - Architecture and Mapping My contributions- rowHome, Sweet rowHome and The Mill Districts

maryland_ave

2010-05-12T18:10:19+00:00

Maryland Ave. PROGRESS HERE! CONTENT IS SOON TO BE Start over

memorial_stadium

2010-08-06T19:10:58+00:00

(And the player tried to steal home but was forced to run back.) A Surprising Turn of Events What Kyle Bordy didn’t realize was that the fire at old Oriole Park singularly and dramatically revolutionized the future of Baltimore sports and opened the door of opportunity for a long yearned for major-league identity. Destruction lead to fame; yes, can anyone see the irony in this? The flames on July 4, 1944, which totally destroyed the wooden landmark known as Oriole Park became the catalyst th…

mildred_monroe_elementary_school

2010-08-06T19:34:43+00:00

In this piece I attempt to chronicle the path that the Mildred Monroe Elementary School traveled to become what is now known as The Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School, located at 1600 North Guilford however as you may have already noticed, I brought “Ms. Mildred” to life and had a conversation with “her” to add a bit of comic relief.

missing_goucher

2010-05-06T02:32:03+00:00

Missing Goucher Why the old Goucher? My own experience with the charming city of Baltimore goes back only seven years, when I decided to leave my native Poland for Baltimore in order to learn English as a second language. At the time, I just graduated from the Law School of Nicolas Copernicus University and spoke only Polish and Russian. As Poland was getting ready to join the European Union, it became clear to me that in order to continue my legal career I had to master English first. When I…

missing_goucher_-_main_page

2010-07-05T14:18:30+00:00

The Lovely Lane Tower ["Lovely Lane Tower." From the Collection of the Author] It was a fine sunny morning, as I drove toward Baltimore City. Anytime I get closer to the city, I like to take in the panorama of the city and pick a little detail that stands out. On that morning a glossy crayon-shaped tower jutting charmingly into the sky caught my attention. It would not be until weeks later that I have learned while doing my Central Baltimore research project of the old Goucher that this tower w…

missing_goucher_-_vanished_neighborhoods

2010-04-07T20:51:19+00:00

Missing Goucher (Draft) It was a fine sunny morning, when I was driving towards Baltimore City. Anytime I get closer to the city, I like to scan through its panorama and pick a little detail that would significantly stand out from its surrounding. I have noticed a glossy crayon shaped tower proudly leaning towards the sky. There was a despicable charm that was gleaming from the place where the tower was located. A mysterious charm of the place in the “city of lost charm” caught my attention so …

mmcc_showroom_to_odorite_to_student_center

2010-08-06T19:24:15+00:00

Out With The Old Building 1915 The structure commonly known as “the Odorite building” was originally designed as a showroom for the Monumental Car Company. At the turn of the century, blue collar Baltimore had streets lined with car showrooms, auto shops, and the like. Wilson Smith and Howard May were responsible for designing this Elizabethan-Tudor knockoff building.

mobtown_modern

2010-08-05T19:31:43+00:00

Mobtown Modern is Baltimore’s very own new music ensemble. Playing the best known of obscurer composers and the least known of established composers, Mobtown Modern exposes Baltimoreans to music that’s not to be heard at Meyerhoff or at Peabody (at least, not frequently heard at Peabody).

modern_art_at_penn_station

2010-02-17T23:47:57+00:00

'' Pennsylvania Station, the main train station in Baltimore, spans almost a city block of central Baltimore. The station is surprisingly large and beautiful, and its old Beaux-Arts architecture sets it apart from the rest of the area. It could easily be confused for a museum of some sort if it weren’t for the constant line of yellow cabs anxiously waiting outside for stranded travelers. The station is so elegant that Amtrak is in talks to build an upscale hotel on the three unused floors of …

mount_royal_tavern

2010-07-27T19:07:19+00:00

On the skirts of the Bolton Hill neighborhood, anchored in a converted row home sits the unpretentious, unashamed Mount Royal Tavern. Allow the glowing red hues of its neon sign lure you in and you’ll be trapped, in a good way. With a liquor license dating back to the end of prohibition the place surely has served up cold ones to the most diverse crowd in Baltimore’s history. The bar attracts a base of somewhat older, cantankerous yet neighborly folk, a mix of punk hipsters and tattooed hooliga…

movie

2010-07-11T19:29:13+00:00

Our first official, scripted date was a movie. This was after we had met (not a blind date), and after we had already been intimate. It was weird. Not the date itself, but how I felt. First time I felt obliged to act a certain way, probably because we were in public. Why should that matter? It’s just a movie, the theater has Christmas lights hanging in the lobby for Christ sake. Love the Charles theater, with its Christmas lights and clean bathrooms. Oh now I remember—we had gone to see a movie …

mr._charles_liquor_store

2010-08-05T19:09:14+00:00

Mister Charles says he doesn't trust the banks. Furthermore, he says, “why the hell d'you wanna know about my money?” He stares me down as best he can through two or three inches of old, scratched, bullet-resistant plastic, all peopled by glamor shots and prom pictures of his regulars and their children; the bending of his brow is daring me to ask where he learned a word like “furthermore.”

my_first_encounter_with_the_baltimore_hon

2010-08-13T01:42:28+00:00

On a Saturday morning far too early for any self-respecting college student, I absentmindedly stumbled into Carma’s café. I was a timid, California displaced freshman wandering down Charles street for some baked goods that could fill my old San Francisco-scone cravings. As soon as I wandered into Carma's, my life in the realm of cookie delish-isness took a decisive turn for the (calorically) worse. My eyes watered and nostrils quivered, delighting in the just-out-of-the-oven aroma so particular…

naacp

2010-04-08T03:24:01+00:00

The NAACP: Representing in Central Baltimore and BeyondUnderlined Text The Baltimore Branch of the NAACP is not housed in a ﬂashy building. It has no elaborate facade with columns or other Greco-Roman architecture to allude to a stately position in the community. The building blends in with the neighborhood and posts small simple signage that identiﬁes its presence. However, if the organization wanted to boast, it has indeed earned bragging rights. It would not be over-reaching, if …

nam_kang

2010-08-05T19:39:13+00:00

Sun Myung Park was taking her three-year-old daughter to meet her grandparents, Sun’s parents, for the first time. She had been crafting a story in her mind, one that would satisfactorily explain why her daughter looked the way she did. True, her daughter Min shared features with her – she had darkish hair, dark eyes, and sallow skin. In those respects, she looked Korean. But other features warranted explanation. Why, for example, wasn’t her hair pitch black? Why was her forehead so high? …

natty_boh

2010-08-06T19:14:53+00:00

Welcome to the Land of Pleasant Living. In 1885, the National Brewing Company of Baltimore, which also brewed Colt 45 Malt Liquor, began brewing National Bohemian beer. From 1920 to 1933, American tested its Noble Experiment, otherwise known as the era of prohibition, and National Bohemian, along with all other alcohols, was forbidden. When the alcohol ban ended National Bohemian beer, or Natty Boh, came back in a big way. It brought with it a new mascot, Mr. Boh, who quickly became one of t…

ned_hanlon

2010-05-16T01:03:58+00:00

Baltimore Orioles Manager, Ned Hanlon Edward Hugh “Ned” Hanlon managed the Baltimore Orioles through 1892-93 (not so glorious) and into the glory years of 1894-98 when the team won the pennant three times and the post-season Temple Cup twice. As Orioles manager, Hanlon lived near Union Park at 2403 North Calvert Street, now a parking lot. In Baltimore today he is remembered not in his old stomping ground, but in the neighborhood of Hanlon in Northwest Baltimore, centered on Hanlon Park, where …

neighborworks_plants

2010-07-11T19:08:23+00:00

The Idea Behind the Event NeighborWorks Plants! was a special event that kicked off NeighborWorks Week on June 6, 2009. The project aimed to beautify communities around the nation, including parts of Baltimore. It encouraged communities to plant anything as part of the national green effort and wear NeighborWorks apparel. The remains of these efforts can be seen on Barclay on along the sidewalks. However, there’s not much left to show—a few painted rocks in a couple sidewalk planters.

neuroscience

2010-07-27T19:24:22+00:00

Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system. Not to toot our own horns, but the most intricate nervous systems belongs to humans. Dolphins and chimpanzees are the nearest competitors. I have studied the human nervous system for three years and will write the neat stuff here.

nice_to_meet_you

2010-02-17T22:45:51+00:00

As I make my way down Maryland Avenue, gray figures walk past with their heads down, carefully stepping in the pockets of sidewalk where the ice has melted. On the left is a Korean restaurant, the owner of which, or perhaps his wife, is sweeping snow off the steps with a broom. The building across the street is a faded red apartment complex called the J. Van Story Branch, Sr., and it seems formidably high. It's getting dark as I make a right on 20th Street, continue past a parking lot and square…

night_at_the_charles

2010-05-05T15:53:48+00:00

The ticket line at The Charles runs down the block. Movie-goers and Baltimoreans craving good eats mingle and mix trying to squeeze into Tapas Teatro and keep their place in line for the 7 pm showtime. The Mediterranean restaurant opened in 2002 and the rest has been date-night history.

no_threat

2010-04-28T21:49:05+00:00

no_trespassing

2010-07-11T19:51:30+00:00

By Jack Combs I told them I wouldn’t sit still, not this time. In countless letters of candid promises, I divulged to the political powers that be the extent of my discontent and the depths it would lead me. I’d been quiet my whole life, complicit to the system and complacent in my ignorance. I waited silently as Gorbachev reared his head from behind his tall, stone wall; I had a drink with dinner as the bodies of my brothers abroad accrued by the thousands. I’ve been subtly toughening, lik…

norman_chiang

2010-02-03T23:57:50+00:00

... is the English name chosen by his parents because they didn't know any better. He goes by Mu.

north_ave

2010-02-04T18:53:13+00:00

north_avenue_anatomy

2010-07-11T19:07:09+00:00

North Avenue annotated.

north_avenue_via_north_charles

2010-02-04T00:02:50+00:00

We were walking down North Charles and with the sun high in the sky it was actually sort of beautiful out. We decided we could walk after vacillating between getting in a cab, catching the shuttle, and walking, for a good 5 or so minutes. Two girls alone? Well, neither of us had ever walked the whole way down North Charles to North Avenue, and of course we knew it was a little unsafe. My mother would shudder. But it was a Sunday, and for some reason the snow on the ground seemed comforting that …

ok_natural_foods

2010-08-05T19:36:51+00:00

I left Austin last August, and one of the things I miss most about it is my beloved Wheatsville Co-op, the grocery store that gets its produce from nearby farmers, sells tofu “egg” salad, and hosts a deli that makes a mean lemon-scented quinoa. It had bulk grains, bulk pastas, bulk beans, bulk spices. Homemade peanut butter sits in a large tub, ready to be scooped out into a plastic mini-tub to be taken home. A variety of pitted and unpitted olives fills half the bottom shelf in the dairy sec…

old_goucher

2010-05-10T02:04:04+00:00

The Old Goucher Neighborhood It was early afternoon when I finally found a parking spot in front of the Kenneth N. Weaver building, which used to be part of the Woman’s College of Baltimore and later renamed as Goucher College. As I stood safely in the middle of the parking lot belonging to Maryland Geological Survey, I was proud of myself finding the subject of my interest without getting lost. Normally, it takes me a few hours of driving around Baltimore before reaching a final destination. W…

old_oriole_park

2010-08-06T19:10:08+00:00

The Beginning Baseball: they call it America's Pastime. It's the kind of sport that your parents send you out to play when you're four and the one that you're screaming at on television from your couch when you're 80. You play or you watch or you attend the game, simply speaking, for the love of the game.

oliver_s_walk

2010-07-27T19:31:52+00:00

[Food for the most foul, cruel, bad-tempered rodent you ever seen] White blossoms exploded off the trees, the first buds littered the ground. I read about the cemetery beforehand and walked down Greenmount to the front gate. I arrived at 2:30pm and decided to roam the grounds until closing. The office by the gate contained a map; I grabbed one and off I went. After a few minutes of walking, the city noise died down. The only remnants were two wailing sirens. I sat and scanned the tombsto…

on_the_earnestness_of_the_mid-blizzard_cultural_immersion_of_a_suburban_college_white

2010-08-06T19:31:23+00:00

one_big_family

2010-08-06T19:35:30+00:00

Below are actual accounts that have been given to me from some of the parents of The Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School. In the spirit of “keeping it real” you will see that not everyone shares the same opinion regarding some aspects of this school, however in the end I hope you will receive the overall impression that we are One Big Family!!

operation_midway

2010-05-12T14:24:07+00:00

Operation Midway was the name given to the first in a series Baltimore City drug raids in the mid-1990s. Headed by police commissioner Thomas C. Fraizer, “the raid”—as it has come to be called by neighborhood residents—resulted in forty-two indictments, twenty-eight arrests, and the bombardment of fourteen homes along the five-block stretch of Greenmount Avenue between North Avenue and 25th Street on March 19, 1994.

oraquick

2010-07-21T00:32:40+00:00

A 20 Minute Test for HIV AIDS “The OraQuick(R) test is the first and only rapid, point-of-care test, for HIV,” announced the Food and Drug Administration. “Specifically, the FDA approved the use of the test in detecting antibodies in oral fluid.” This is exciting news, it means no longer should patients be afraid of HIV AIDS test. “The days of needles and finger pricks are over,” said Dr. Clover. Now when a person comes into a testing site a sample of saliva is take using a cotton swab and in …

orientated

2010-05-13T16:22:27+00:00

Acclimatization Before the cross-country plane trip and the accumulation of books, bags, bizarre bug-zapping devices (for the dorm, Dad said; he wouldn't be there to butcher pesky spiders), my biggest brain-block occurred when I tried to imagine a haircut.

oriole_park_at_camden_yards

2010-08-06T19:12:04+00:00

(And the crowd roared and the player waved back at the crowd.) The Transition to Camden Yards Today is July 4, 2014, seventy years since the Fire at Old Oriole Park; twenty-two years since the opening of Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the new baseball stadium in downtown Baltimore, a few blocks away from the Harbor. Camden Yards replaced old Memorial Stadium in 1992, perhaps to have more seating or a better stadium or a better area, just as its Oriole Park brother was replaced before it many y…

orphans

2010-03-18T20:52:23+00:00

Orphans are pages that have no parents. As a consequence, they often fail to link to other pages. Links do not always need to be obvious; indeed, they are an opportunity to surprise or send the reader in unexpected directions.

ounce

2010-04-08T22:20:01+00:00

Blow blow blow blow blow blow

pamela_brown

2010-05-12T14:26:07+00:00

Hello I am Pamela Brown aka “Destiny's Mom” as I've more commonly become to be regarded. I juggle for a living...I juggle being a non-traditional full-time student in college, business owner, single mom, doctor, chauffeur, and the list goes on. By the way,please note, this is not to be taken as a plea for help, I love my life and all that it entails. My life is abnormally normal and I wouldn't have it any other way!

panacea_for_a_recession

2010-08-06T19:33:27+00:00

The Panacea for the Recession a la’ Central Baltimore as seen through the eyes of a "40-something" year old. Remedy for former suburban home owners , unable to keep their homes, having succumbed to the horror of foreclosure - Vigorously mix new energy efficient highrise apartments and contemporary condominiums while liberally adding convenience and luxury, allow to set until the occupancy rates rise, and then take a huge gulp.

paperwork

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

Paperwork is an invention of bureaucracy and lawyers. They insist it's absolutely necessary, every little bit. Maybe it is. I used to pick fights about it, demand to know why they wanted so much information about me. Privacy Haven't they ever heard of it? I'm trying to get a loan, not marry you. Why do you want every little detail about my life? I know that all you'll do is store it away in a computer somewhere, never to be seen again. Actually it will be seen again. Eventually some especiall…

parks_central_baltimore

2010-07-11T19:11:22+00:00

I've always had a thing for parks. My favorite childhood memories of family romps to Europe invariably include me resting my weary limbs on a park bench, eagerly digging into a cone peaked with fresh gelato. I remember fondly gazing at the dusty old men grouped together, playing cards, smoking cigars, and wearing tweed pants without care or concern towards the powerful sun. On those afternoons, my mom would always reprimand me for allowing chocolate gelato to dribble down the front of my “This…

parkway_theatre

2010-05-22T23:26:16+00:00

Past Since 1998, the Parkway Theatre has essentially been vacant. A fundraiser was given in December of that year that was meant to raise funds for a museum focused on the history of African-American theater and film in the United States. It was named The Heritage Shadows of the Silver Screen Museum and Cinema. I was the opening act for a small concert featuring Gil Scott-Heron, preceded by some local poets. It was my first time in the building and it was obvious that a lot of work was neede…

parlor

2010-04-28T22:13:19+00:00

Charm City Ink. ARNOLD tattooing A CUSTOMER’s lower back. An elaborate work: her birth state with bulletholes marking lost loves. Bead curtain draws. DANNY, 23, enters, lanky, effete, promising. Hangs by the counter. Flicks “Stay Sanitary” pamphlets. Pockets sample cleansing gel. Clears his throat.

penn_station

2010-08-05T18:46:14+00:00

Pennsylvania Station, better known as Penn Station, is located at 1515 N. Charles Street. It was designed by Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison in what is known as the Beaux-Arts style, and built in 1911. It has stood ever since. In 2004 a controversial, 51-foot tall statue, “Male/Female” (created by Jonathan Borofsky), was placed in the center of the station’s plaza. The Male Female Statue has inspired much debate ever since: some praise its modernity, while others deride it for clashing with the …

pennsylvania_station

2010-05-12T13:54:34+00:00

[From the Maryland Historical Society] Pennsylvania Station 1924 Maryland Historical Society The Pennsylvania Railroad Station, better known as “Penn Station,” was a crucial means of transportation for central Baltimore during the early 1900s. Before 1928, it was known as Union Station. The name change occurred when the Pennsylvania Railroad Company bought out Union Station and used their system of tracks to tie in with the other Pennsylvania Railroad stops. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company lat…

people_behind_gilman

2010-04-29T02:38:47+00:00

My early writing for this course looked into my relationship with the city (see author page). Then I started focusing on the buildings and older businesses of central Baltimore. I’ve researched and profiled the buildings of central Baltimore. Here I step away from the cut & dry physical structures and look into the lives of the people who made and make this city.

personal_project_the_charles_movie_theatre

2010-03-24T21:43:52+00:00

The Charles Theatre is my favorite place in Baltimore, hands down, no question. The only place I'd miss if I could never step foot in this city again. Abroad in Argentina, I would pine away for its hand-picked selection of movies, the cheap popcorn, cheap tickets, cheap candy. Even the plaid-clad employees. “You can sneak in the crepes from next door.” Maybe even some Sangria from Tapas Teatro too. To me, The Charles embodies what is good about Baltimore - low key arty, accessible and inspiring.…

pharmacy

2010-07-11T19:27:37+00:00

At the pharmacy on 25th and North Charles Street they know me because I buy multiple morning-after pills there. (By this time I was a junior.) I can’t help it, I’m just too paranoid to risk pregnancy. I wouldn’t go on birth control for a whole ‘nother year. Why? I was afraid it would make my boobs bigger. Like way too much bigger. So big I would have to join the circus, and not the coveted Cirque du Soleil either, but the 18th-century style freakshows. I would have none of that. So up until the…

phyllis_zhu

2010-02-17T22:52:04+00:00

Phyllis is a junior at Johns Hopkins University. She is studying English literature and Writing Seminars. She is sometimes friends with Stephanie Delman, but only on Wednesdays from 5-8. Writing Central Baltimore ---------- Sketch #1 Nice to Meet You

pink_bucket_memories

2010-04-28T23:12:28+00:00

[Pink Bucket Memories]The train eased its way into the terminal and Susan awoke to the sounds of the operator’s voice, announcing their arrival into Penn Station. The train slowed to a stop and Susan arched her sore back, lifted her aged arms over her head of luscious mango curls and reached to the ceiling of the train for a long stretch. She soon noticed that there was a couple hovered above her seat, hunched and waiting to leave their aisle. She almost married her fists with their face. She…

poe

2010-08-06T19:52:03+00:00

According to Baltimore’s Edgar Allan Poe Society, Poe once claimed Baltimore as his place of birth, denying this honor to his true birth city Boston. Since his lifetime, Baltimore has returned the favor by constantly celebrating the life and work of the famous author and Baltimore ‘native’ Edgar Allan Poe. Poe Portrait

present_mount_royal_area

2010-08-06T19:39:28+00:00

Present: City life as we know it now: “But Mom, you and Dad never went to college and neither one of you guys are doing bad for yourselves. So why do I have to go look at colleges? I mean, yeah I graduate in a year. But why do I have to start looking now?” Charles's mother replies, “Because that’s what you’re going to do; and that’s final. Now I don’t want to hear another peep about the matter. Go on upstairs and do your homework. Supper will be ready in a minute.” Charles stormed out of the …

promit_roy

2010-02-03T23:57:41+00:00

Promit is the technical expert behind this class! I should write about computers.

protecting_the_jones_falls

2010-07-05T14:11:51+00:00

On a recent walk along Wyman Park Drive, near the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, I looked over the hill down to what I thought at the time were the shallow waters of the Jones Falls* and was dismayed by what I saw. Trash of all sorts, from paper to plastic to an office chair and large bags of who-knows-what lay along the banks. I realize some of this waste is pulled downstream from other areas, perhaps falling from an overloaded truck or a garbage can knocked over by the wind, but I suspect …

questions_and_answers

2010-02-24T16:56:58+00:00

Ask your questions here! Q: How do I ask a question? A: Just add it to this page, and it will get answered. You might want to press “subscribe page changes” at the top, which will make the site send you an email when there's an update. Q: How do I sign my pages? A: Just link back to your name somehow. For example, I might write:

rachel_feller

2010-07-27T19:30:15+00:00

rainbow_room

2010-07-27T19:27:30+00:00

The Rainboow Room is the nickname for Rainbow Music Studios, located on 2126 Maryland Ave. I searched for a karaoke place for months. My friends became annoyed at my singing in the car and avoided my favorite stations. I swear I have a condition. Even if a song played in my head, I had to mimic the sound. The Cafe Hon Bar puts up a mic every Friday night but I'm usually too drunk by the time the KJ can work the playlist. Nevin's in Fed Hill has a great atmosphere but the Collegetown Shutt…

red_emma_s

2010-08-05T19:38:11+00:00

[The Believer]Red Emma’s Bookstore, Central Baltimore’s leftist hangout and collective, is full of what you’d expect to find: locally published zines, McSweeney’s, The Believer, histories of punk, tomes on critical race theory, socialist manifestos, writings on semiotics and signifiers. One can go there to get her Walter Benjamin fix or her Susan Faludi fix.

reflections_from_the_past..as_told_out_of_the_mouths_of_babes

2010-03-24T23:13:09+00:00

Pamela Brown

remington

2010-04-27T01:22:07+00:00

The Who's Who and What's What Location, Location, Location The Central Baltimore community is located: South of Wyman Park Drive North of North Avenue West of North Howard Street East of Falls Road On the North-West edge of the Remington neighborhood is the Stieff Silver building.

restaurant

2010-07-11T19:28:16+00:00

When I first arrived in Baltimore, the student advisor assigned to me drove me and my group to the vegan restaurant Yabba Pot for taco night. Angelica was pretty and blonde and very nice and outspoken, and she was also a vegan, so that’s where we went. As freshmen we had no other suggestions.

resturant_reviews

2010-08-05T18:59:53+00:00

My name is Bryan Gamble, I have lived near Baltimore City my entire life and had yet to really explore the wonderful world of food. The thing that draws me into the specific location of Central Baltimore is the amount of diversity in the choices I have for the actual distance neede to be traveled. The focus is going to be on all the resurants in the Central Baltimore area. Over time each resturant will be listed by neighborhood. I will not be biased towards corporrately owned versus family o…

right_of_way

2010-08-05T19:30:25+00:00

Right of Way When the snow is everywhere piled 2 to 3 feet high, Central Baltimore ceases to be a city. Or, in its incarnation as a winter wonderland, it survives, for a day, without the trappings of city life. In my Saturday walk of forty blocks and ninety minutes, not a single siren sounded. No public transportation vehicles were taking their routes. The few vehicles on the road stopped at every corner. Only three establishments on Saint Paul and Charles between 5th and 25th Streets we…

road_of_fear

2010-05-10T04:39:51+00:00

The Road of Fear The onlookers--tiny, fleshy things--point and speak. Sometimes, they throw meat into my cage, only to be scolded and hurried away by my trainers. These five who share my cage are not my mate or cubs; they were taken from this place long ago. I hope they are faring better than I. At least I know they are not here and will be spared the end I face tonight.

roommate

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

There are two kinds of roommates, really. One kind can become the other; it doesn't happen in reverse unless there's sex involved, I'm quite certain. Roommates you want to live with I mostly just hear stories about these, it's not something I've ever experienced. Still, my friends swear that they really do exist. I believe them, mind you. After all, that's what a happy marriage is, and there seem to be enough of those. It's just that, every time I thought I had found this kind of roommate, I …

rowhome_sweet_rowhome

2010-05-10T04:50:31+00:00

The fingerprint and most meditating image of home is a myriad of bricks, one room wide, two or three stories high, with white marble steps-their claim to fame, a black handrail, and mailbox, uniformly dotted next to the door. New York has skyscraping apartment buildings, Beverly Hills has sprawling mansions, and Central Baltimore has rowhouses.

rutter_s_graveyard

2010-07-11T19:01:35+00:00

You’re on Charles Street, just south of North Avenue, just in front of the Charles Theatre, and just on top of Rutter’s Graveyard. Unless they missed a body, or unless Baltimore’s homicide rate has gone up one while you’ve been standing there, the area should be free of skeletons. Urban renewal waits for no man, dead or alive, and when Charles Street was extended north in the 1840s, all denizens of Rutter’s Graveyard were moved and reinterred in Greenmount.

s.rose

2010-04-29T02:39:12+00:00

Sorry for the nuisance of my page not being my actual name. I spent the entire month of October (as well as bits of September and November) fighting a stalker in court. @~~»~~~ Great link about Baltimore: Where do you live??

scorpio

2010-04-28T23:10:32+00:00

From the roof of the Crestar Building it is possible to see, according to the celestial boundaries of Ursa Major and assuming a night of limited cloud activity, several popular constellations. Look under Leo and you'll make out the roof of the Terrarium on Biddle Street.

second_contribution_to_group_project

2010-03-02T23:01:09+00:00

Add another page and linking sentence to the group project.

second_sketch

2010-05-07T19:10:24+00:00

Use your UB walking tour as inspiration for a wiki entry of 500-750 words. You may write fiction or creative nonfiction. If you choose to write straight nonfiction, you should do research beyond what was provided in class. (Compose your entries in Word to begin.)

seven_dates_in_baltimore

2010-07-11T19:13:45+00:00

I’m not from Baltimore. I haven’t lived here more than three years yet. And as a student at Johns Hopkins University, I’ve only barely skimmed the surface of what Central Baltimore has to offer. There’s one thing that I love no matter where I live though, and that is food. To explore a city through its food expands the culture of its heritage: the hoppy taste of the Beacon at The Brewer’s Art, the luxury of The Brass Elephant, the swanky sushi at XS, the speakeasy transformed into The Owl B…

seven_observations_on_central_baltimore

2010-04-14T15:55:30+00:00

These pieces connect several locations through the experienes of a single narrator during her time in college. Written by Whitney Harriet Janis 1. Restaurant 2. Station 3. Building 4. Club 5. Bar

seven_wonders_of_central_baltimore

2010-05-14T02:20:06+00:00

By Dre Carter The Taj Mahal, the Colosseum in Rome and the Great Wall of China all inspire images of splendor, magnificence and awe. They, along with the other Seven Wonders of the World, signify greatness on a grand scale. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines wonder as a cause of astonishment or admiration. With that in mind, these Charm City institutions make up the Seven Wonders of Central Baltimore.

seventh_baptist_church

2010-07-27T19:29:55+00:00

I stopped outside the Seventh Baptist Church. The clock across the street that hung between those two rusty prongs hadn’t moved all night, and I didn’t know what time it was. The sun had started to rise though, and I was on my way home. During the night, I hadn’t noticed the church. Between the snow and the low clouds, the street lamps orange haze spread over everything. In that sick light, the church had seemed a part of the sidewalk.

sheila_s_decency

2010-08-06T19:31:02+00:00

Selections March 3rd, 2009 Sheila, I’d been thinking about a suitable topic for this next letter expressing my care &support&good faith but found myself struggling as the week went on. My husband has been laid off and so I’ve been obliged to take more hours at work (if you ask, again, where I work, Sheila, I’ll still have to say no- like my race I think it’s an issue of unbiased trust and the system has worked marvelously so far. I know at this point you may still be grasping for an image of…

show_stories

2010-05-12T14:25:44+00:00

This Show Stories page is the product of a somewhat arbitrary--albeit intense--desire to document the culture surrounding DIY musical performances in the Central Baltimore area. In April of 2008, Rolling Stone Magazine cited Baltimore city as home to the “Best Underground Music Scene” in the United States, and in fact, the Central Baltimore area is home to many of the musical acts and venues that seem to be responsible for catching the nation's attention. Needless to say, this was exciting…

sights_along_the_jones_falls_trail

2010-07-31T21:07:36+00:00

We took many pictures during our various walks and car rides. Here are the ones that just wouldn't fit on my pages! Standing on a bridge These three pictures were taken while standing on Wyman Park Bridge. I couldn't resist shooting Round Falls from this angle. Hard to believe this is in the middle of the city. The second pictures shows the debris bridge Professor Kemp and I discussed. Notice the tangled debris lodged up against the concrete. It is located downstream from Round Falls. The t…

social_gestures

2010-08-06T19:30:11+00:00

The Spirit of the Colonies, also known as The Bleeding African or The Bleeding Child, was an illegal art installation set up in Central Baltimore in 2003 by controversial area artist Derry Fitzcarraldo. It is perhaps the most notorious of his “Social Gestures”, both for the violent and confrontational nature of the display and its misinterpretation by Baltimore Police as a bomb threat. The installation went live in the early hours of June 20th, and remained active and running on its street corne…

social_life

2010-05-10T03:57:55+00:00

The Early Student Life ["Students Socializing with Each Other in Goucher Hall." Bulletin of Goucher College (1934)] The early student life suffered early from lack of organization. In 1890 the first college newspaper appeared, the „Kalends,“ which had for a time two rivals, the “Sex Sorores“ and the “Talemki.” Thanks to the college newspapers, students who had exceptional literary skills were able to share their ideas with others, which was very helpful in creating various student organization…

sofi_s_crepes

2010-07-11T19:15:20+00:00

[Sofi the dog] Ann Costlow founded Sofi’s Crepes after leaving a job in the finance industry for a job as a galley cook on a boat—her return inspired her to open her own business. She found the space next to the Charles and Everyman Theaters, and named it after her dog who persevered with “joy and playfulness” despite spinal injuries. Costlow became a legal franchiser February 2009, and Sofi’s expanded to a second location in Annapolis, MD the following June. It hopes to expand to New England…

something_old_something_new

2010-05-10T04:39:01+00:00

Normally my daily pace precludes simple pleasures. Places I experience several times a week leave no impact as my mind always focuses forward to the next task, the next class, the next assignment. As I walked out of the parking garage, determined to slowly experience central Baltimore, the cold weather assisted. Like a cold blooded reptile, I was forced to slow down with the rest of the city.

soup_s_on

2010-07-11T19:15:43+00:00

When I walked to Soup’s On, I didn’t even really want to go. A hot summer day, it wasn’t cold enough for a piping bowl of soup. What I really wanted was a crepe, but I had to go to one more place for my project. Jane Delury had suggested I try Soup's On, so I felt almost like I really should to show that I had listened to her recommendation.

soup_s_on_2

2010-08-05T19:35:53+00:00

Soup’s On is at 11 W Preston. Its extensive soup menu includes dozens of vegetarian and vegan soups. Dozens. Daily sandwich specials and salads include a vegetarian and vegan option. Need a low-sodium soup? No problem. The soupies at Soup’s On leave the salting to you, the eater, making sea salt available for you to add as you deem fit.

speed_limits

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

Most people don't understand speed limits. They think that the number on the sign, plus ten or fifteen, is the speed limit. The number on the sign is some relic from the seventies based on physics and stuff that makes no sense. The truth is that the speed limit is individual.

sss

2010-03-31T23:54:30+00:00

st._paul_and_e._32_street

2010-08-13T01:14:08+00:00

I start my journey on St. Paul St. and East 29th St., not far from John Hopkins University. I chose this location because it is close to one of my favorite places of all time, Cold Stone Creamery; but that comes later. At the top of the block, I find CC Carry-out, a small take-out restaurant offering quick, or so it claims, American and Chinese food. Walking in, however, I am not impressed. It is just like every other take-out restaurant I have been to, offering the same type food. Of course,…

st._paul_street

2010-04-22T07:21:34+00:00

St. Paul Street PROGRESS HERE! CONTENT IS SOON TO BE Continue Start Over

stacie_s_story

2010-08-05T19:07:54+00:00

Why the hell did I move from New York for this place? Stacie thought while paging through her emails. She thought that if a person were to make it as an artist, Baltimore seemed to be harder than New York. But then again, it could be easier to stand out here with less people around trying to do the same thing she thought. Stacie Nebbit considered herself an impulsive girl. When most people are out bar hopping and getting hammered she found joy in moving from Albany to Baltimore on her twent…

station

2010-07-11T19:26:46+00:00

Not quite so near but reasonably close to the entrance to Penn Station there is an alleyway on North Charles Street near the movie theater and usually it's fine and uninteresting and all that but this time there was a completely dead rat right at the front. Its body hadn't started to disintegrate like all the other dead carcasses I've had to avoid walking over, so I presumed this was a fairly recent murder. It was first gross but then oddly tragic and I felt really bad for the rat, probably got…

station_north_thrift_store

2010-05-04T21:22:05+00:00

The Station North Thrift Store is located on Greenmount Avenue right across from the main entrance to the Greenmount Cemetery. It's really in an ideal location: on a bus line, around the corner from The Copy Cat Building, in walking distance from the University of Baltimore, etc. And it's in a perfect position to promote the move for us all to recycle, repurpose and reuse the material goods that have already been produced, as opposed to buying new things and throwing the old ones into landfil…

step_singing

2010-05-10T04:06:08+00:00

Step singing ["The Last Night of Step Singing." Bulletin of Goucher College 1934] Step singing tradition started during the late 1890s, beginning on May 25, the seniors assembled every evening on the steps of Goucher Hall to sing class and college songs. The students would sing almost every night for the last two weeks of school. This traditions lasted for over twenty years and the number of the step singing days would be gradually reduced first to five days, then to four, and finally to only t…

stephanie_delman

2010-07-11T19:33:52+00:00

Abrasive, Alarming, Enamoring (Encounters with Baltimore) Stephanie is from California, but she doesn't smoke pot with movie stars. She drove a car, not a surfboard, in high school. Shirley Temple is the best celebrity-lookalike she can think of. This is troublesome.

steven_jones

2010-02-08T05:29:58+00:00

Hello Hello, I'm Steven Jones, and I guess this is a wiki about me. Most people keep a blog, or apparently Twitter is the new thing. But everybody is doing Twitter, so I thought I'd try something a bit different. And what, Livejournal? That's for whiny teenagers, and I'm a sophisticated whiny twenty-something. At least at heart...that's the thing about being thirty one.

stieff_silver

2010-04-29T02:53:28+00:00

Then In 1892 the Baltimore Sterling Silver Company was founded by Charles Clinton Stieff (1805-1923) and other business partners. In 1904 Stieff bought out his partners and changed his business to The Stieff Company. In 1967 Stieff purchased The Schofield Silver Company. Then in 1979, 75 years after becoming The Stieff Company, the company saw another name change. With the purchase of Kirk & Son Silversmiths, The Stieff Company became Kirk-Stieff. The Schofield and Kirk purchases were attempts…

stop_for_a_drink

2010-07-27T19:21:17+00:00

The Owl Bar ...enjoy Lauren Villa

street_names_central_baltimore

2010-07-11T19:02:26+00:00

North was always South of Here Baltimore started at the Harbor. That is indisputable. But then the city grew and grew and by 1870 Baltimore was a dense network of streets downtown topped by some estates, fields and mills and the city’s northern border was the appropriately named “North Avenue.”

student_life_in_the_old_goucher_campus

2010-05-10T02:07:17+00:00

Goucher College Opens Its Doors ["Goucher's City-Bound Buildings from the Air." Picture by Robert F. Kniesche (1939) Courtesy of Enoch Pratt Free Library] Inauguration of the College During the fall of 1886, thousand of people came to the First Methodist Episcopal Church to witness the inauguration of the first building of the Woman’s College of Baltimore City, named later „Goucher Hall.“["Viem from the Main Entrance of Goucher Hall." Bulletin of Goucher College (February 1934)] Bishop Andr…

survey_of_the_neighborhoods

2010-07-27T19:27:49+00:00

Maryland Ave between W Lanvale St & Mt Royal Ave Parked cars on the east side of the street slept, tucked under blankets of snow. Shovels never scraped the sidewalk. Concrete walls lined the road, hiding the train tracks and I-83. Once the dividers ended, Penn Station and the largest androgynous statue in the state came into view. [I can see my house from here!] I walked south in the center of the road and saw two men coming north. Both were middle-aged, laughing against the wind, one of …

sustainable_bmore

2010-07-11T19:17:41+00:00

I have to admit, as a San Francisco native, I am a bit of an eco-snob. And a gourmet food snob. And a weather snob. And (most importantly,) a my-hairdresser-is -more-flamboyant-than-yours snob. Ok, so maybe I’m just a snob. Even in spite of my nose-in-the-air tendencies, I’ve expanded my horizons here in Baltimore. I went to Preakness. I drank beers with a 350-pound truck driver who later passed out in a kiddy pool full of Natty Boh. Even better—I’ve tried lake trout (and later suffered the con…

sweet_sin

2010-08-05T19:39:34+00:00

Oh Sweet Sin Bakery goodies on 27th at Howard, how we love thee! Let us count the ways. You can be gluten-free. You can be dairy-free. You can be soy-free. You can be egg-free. You can be casein-free. You let us be free to be you and me. [cupcakes!] Free to be allergen-free or animal product-free – without sacrificing the moisture, the sweetness, the love that comes in a cupcake.

tainted

2010-04-28T22:55:43+00:00

Bram deals to a guy called who went in on a bid that started the Wind-Up Space. Bram says the guy was there from the beginning. “On the ground-fucking floor,” he says to me. He saves a special ounce to cut with ephedrine instead of baking soda “because the guy is discerning,” he says, “and I respect that, I figure he's entitled to that”. We're walking along Guilford. Bram mentions that the guy is something of a cultured man, a critic. “He's a real Pisan, you know, a real comrade,” Bram says. “He…

take_a_walk_outside

2010-07-27T19:20:36+00:00

Lauren Villa I take the stairs and step outside and onto the rough pavement. Baltimore greets me with a sympathetic hello. I watch as the remnants of an indifferent rainfall sift down the gutters and a man to my left mumbles something beautiful. I am here and willing to create. I want to find inspiration in the city and I decide to take a walk to my favorite bookstore, Normals, and peruse their over-trafficked collection for the afternoon. I light a cigarette and begin my walk. With each step …

taming_the_jones_falls

2010-07-05T14:11:20+00:00

The Flood of 1837 It was a hot summer evening in July 1837 when the rain clouds appeared in the sky above Baltimore City. Within a few hours, the skies turned an angry gray and violent thunderstorms drenched the city. By the time the deluge was over, Jones Falls had overflowed its banks carrying away homes, businesses, dams, and many of the mills operating along its banks. Several bridges were also torn apart by the rushing water, victims of the shattered remains from buildings and dams furthe…

tammy_s_famous_buffalo_wings_recipe

2010-04-21T19:58:10+00:00

taxes

2009-12-02T19:51:44+00:00

Taxes suck. Everybody knows taxes suck. But they are necessary, and you need to pay them when you have an honest job. My job is half honest, and it turns out that taxes aren't included in that half. If I had to pay taxes on all that I was doing, I'd have no money at all left over for drinks. By not paying taxes, I was even able to pay for the clinic on my own, and nobody needed to know. Of course I didn't tell anyone at the clinic about my tax state. It was as simple as writing a check, and they…

taxes_and_tax_breaks_page_1

2010-05-16T02:05:00+00:00

Taxes and tax breaks in Central Baltimore Death and taxes may be equally certain but only one is plural. Baltimore residents pay property tax and income tax. Business owners pay both of these plus a host of licensing fees. Both may be able to claim tax credits for improvements they make to their property, the business owner can sometimes claim a tax credit for each person they employ. And everything depends on where they are.

television

2009-12-02T19:54:36+00:00

Television is a sham, an absolute mockery of what the world is. They make up people and places to cater to the common idea of how things ought to be, and people who like drinks a bit too much in normal life become caricatures, bungling and endagenring everything they touch.

telling_the_stories

2010-07-21T00:44:33+00:00

Telling the Stories, Writing HIV/AIDS Jonathan Bor has covered medicine and public health for the Baltimore Sun for the past 20 years. He has a particular interest in inner-city health issues ranging from HIV and sexually transmitted diseases to drug addiction and violence. Last year, he wrote a series on thelink between addiction, prostitution, and the spread of HIV in inner-city Baltimore. In his articles, you will finds stories of those who have been affected by HIV AIDS. It is a compelling…

ten_observations_on_central_baltimore

2010-05-07T18:30:41+00:00

Welcome to Whitney Harriet Janis's Final Project! “Ten Observations on Central Baltimore” is a series of fictional narratives centered around locations in Central Baltimore. The narrator is a female undergraduate student at an undisclosed college. These vignettes recap her experiences as a student.

test

2010-05-05T23:35:25+00:00

this is a test of test. how does this happen usually? this is an ongoing problem for barbara and me. this is an example of a line. with a space. this is an example of a line without one. Right here.

testpage

2010-02-08T05:30:15+00:00

Just checking some things. -- Promit

thairish

2010-08-05T19:38:31+00:00

The posted menu at Thairish states that all dishes can be made with tofu. That’s good. That’s inviting. Vegetarians love that. Some questions of trust: I know I can trust this hole-in-the-wall restaurant because the cooking space is visible from the dining areas. It makes you trust the food. You can see it. Don’t you trust what you can see?

that_damn_kid

2010-08-05T19:28:31+00:00

* That Damn Kid is responsible for defacing a church on Barclay Street, thus propelling The Barclay House into a three-month period of suspension from hosting shows. * His identity has not yet been discovered. * The Author is afraid for him, should his identity ever be discovered.

the_abell_community

2010-05-10T15:29:04+00:00

Abell is a predominantly residential community that structurally conforms to a grid street pattern established in the area during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It was named after Arunah Shepherdson Abell, who founded The Baltimore Sun in 1837.

the_baltimore_holocaust_memorial

2010-08-13T01:07:52+00:00

Next, my walk takes me to a place I drive by often but have never had a chance to visit or understand. The Baltimore Holocaust Memorial, located at the intersection of Lombard and Gay street. The Baltimore Holocaust Memorial was designed by a group of students using funding from the city of Baltimore. At the start of the class, the students did not understand or know the history of the Holocaust or the Jewish people. The answer to ignorance being education, the instructor of the class set hi…

the_baltimore_lyric_opera_house

2010-08-06T19:09:24+00:00

History On October 31, 1894, Emil Paur’s Boston Symphony Orchestra played to celebrate the opening of Baltimore’s new Lyric hall while Nellie Melba topped the evening with her rendition of Handel’s “Sweet Bird” aria. Backstage, architect Mr. T. Henry Randall was congratulated on the hall’s flawless acoustics. Its mission has since been to bring high quality entertainment to Baltimore. No one could have predicted the wide dispersal of sounds that would ring through this building over the years…

the_baltimore_montessori_public_charter_school

2010-08-06T19:33:59+00:00

This final project was the perfect opportunity for me to pay tribute to a school that basically saved my life! This school was the answer to the prayers of a single mother who was faced with a very tough decision. As a result of there not being a neighborhood public school, I was faced with the decision of sending my daughter into a blighted public school environment (where I had heard horror stories and was nothing like our historically and culturally rich neighborhood to which we had become …

the_barclay_house

2010-08-05T19:09:29+00:00

The Barclay House is a diy venue for musical performances located in central Baltimore City. The house hosts performances from a wide array of musical acts from all over the world, though it maintains a heavy inclination toward punk music and other subgenres that are affiliated with diy ethics.

the_brass_elephant

2010-07-11T19:14:34+00:00

brass: /bræs, brɑs/ –noun 1. any of various metal alloys consisting mainly of copper and zinc. 2. Informal. excessive self-assurance; impudence; effrontery. Brass is a substitutional alloy. It is used for decoration for its bright gold-like appearance [The black and white striped awning]

the_brewer_s_art

2010-07-11T19:14:00+00:00

[The Brewer's Art] [Where you can find the Brewer's Art] They make it themselves. That is, aside from serving “guest beers” and wine, The Brewer’s Art brews its own beer. The Beacon is a “fairly hoppy” pale ale. The Ozzy is a drier, lighter beer and has the most percent alcohol by volume of their entire house brewed beers (7.25%) so I always order that one. From what I hear though, the Resurrection is the beer to try—it’s a very flavorful, dark beer with five types of barley malt. The Prole…

the_central_corridor

2010-05-18T17:06:51+00:00

By: Dre Carter Charles Street divides West Baltimore from the city's east side, but its scope is much grander than that. The thoroughfare which became known as Charles Street predates Baltimore itself. Stop anywhere along Baltimore's central corridor and you'll find a mix of the present with the past, a bit of nostalgia, plus some hidden wonders. That couldn't be more evident than its stretch inside Central Baltimore.

the_charles

2010-07-11T19:46:12+00:00

by Jack Combs For more than one-hundred years, the cluster of buildings at 1711 North Charles Street has hosted an array of businesses and local services. Originally designed in 1892 to be a storage area for cable cars and a powerhouse, the buildings have housed ballrooms, libraries, parking garages, and venues for live entertainment. In 1939, the first exclusively newsreel movie house in Baltimore opened. The Times Theatre was then renamed “The Charles” in 1959, and then started showing a vas…

the_charles_theatre_project

2010-07-11T19:57:54+00:00

The Charles Theatre Project [The Charles Theatre] I stand at the ticket counter foot-tapping as our subject behind the glass fixes his sleeves, straightens the shirt at the hemline. He’ll just be a moment he tells me. I’m off staring at the tinsel and holiday lights lining the inside of the place. The theater has always had magic to me, this time of year most.

the_charles_theatre_project_home

2010-05-05T15:55:41+00:00

The Charles Theatre Project is an interactive exploration into the inspirations and would-be, once-was tales behind the ever-evolving, richly historic Charles Theatre, located at 1711 N. Charles Street in Central Baltimore. Designed in 1892 by architect Jackson C. Gott for the Baltimore Traction Company, the Beaux-Arts building, as it was once called, has undergone 6 renovations, all grand gestures of innovation and inspired ingenuity at the time. Its the oldest movie theater in Baltimore, hoste…

the_chessboard

2010-08-05T19:26:35+00:00

Home Barclay, Greenmount, Baby A Drought When The Hexagon was The Lo-Fi

the_cop

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

Strictly speaking, it's because of you that I'm going to be sent to rehab. There are probably worse cops to be found by, though. You actually know me, a bit. We live on the same block, and I think we've seen each other at the local track days, too.

the_copy_cat_building

2010-07-27T19:14:07+00:00

The Copy Cat Building, commonly referred to as the “Copy Cat,” is a brick, industrial warehouse located at 1501 Guilford Avenue in Central Baltimore, Maryland. Though originally the home of the Crown Cork & Seal Company (bottle caps) in the 1890s, various industrial companies occupied the five-story building before moving or going out of business shortly after Charles Lankford purchased the property in 1983 for $200,000.

the_dealership_and_the_whorehouse

2010-07-11T19:36:27+00:00

The Arrangement “Sent 14 your way last month. How many did you sell,” Mona asks. Curtis extends his hand with ten $100 bills across his desk to Mona, then responds, “Sold two. We appreciate your business.” “What are you boys doing, Curtis?” Mona asks with her southern drawl. “Two out of 14? That’s not the best of ratios, darling.”

the_decline_of_baltimore

2010-05-10T14:36:11+00:00

According to the 1950 census, the City of Baltimore ranked 6th in the country with a population of 949,708. By the 1990 census, the city slipped to 12th as it lost nearly 220,000 citizens in that 40 year span, and by 2008 dropped further to a projected 636,919.

the_decline_of_baltimore_-_industry

2010-04-20T08:10:02+00:00

the_decline_of_baltimore_-_policy

2010-04-20T08:10:36+00:00

the_decline_of_baltimore_-_social

2010-04-20T08:11:31+00:00

the_dizz

2010-08-06T19:14:27+00:00

"Baltimore in a Bar" Today, the corner building on 300 W. 30th Street is known as The Dizz. However, in the nearly eighty years of its existence, the unimposing brick building has undergone a series of name changes. Its liquor license dates as far back as 1934, when it first opened as Mitchell’s. Forty years later, under new management, the bar became Stu’s Lounge. Between 1981 and 1990 the restaurant went from Tony’s Place to Igor’s, but in 1990 the most recent owners took over. The D…

the_ecology_of_baltimore_s_transit_system

2010-08-06T19:38:38+00:00

Over the years, having walked up and down the streets of central Baltimore, I’ve noticed that there are multiple ways in which commuters can get to this art district, as I like to call it. However, Baltimore’s transit system has changed commuter’s views on the environment, and the need for them to go green. MTA’s slogan for their green movement is, “Think Green. Ride MTA.” Unlike motorists who constantly zoom through central Baltimore thereby raising their carbon footprint, I have decided to rid…

the_emerson_bromo-seltzer_tower

2010-08-06T19:08:49+00:00

Background Located at 21 S. Eutaw Street at Lombard Street on the Westside of downtown Baltimore, the Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower became a landmark of Baltimore after its completion in 1911, making it the tallest building in the city until 1923. The tower was designed by Joseph Evans Sperry, who also designed the three-story Renaissance Revival style office building, the Brewers Exchange. The tower was built by Captain Issac Emerson, the inventor of the headache remedy Bromo-Seltzer, named aft…

the_flying_eyes

2010-04-28T21:23:05+00:00

THE FLYING EYES are a four piece psychedelic rock band formed in central Baltimore in 2006. Originally formed as a blues-rock band, THE FLYING EYES realized music wasn't fun unless it made you feel high, so they duly incorporated more experimental sounds and rhythms to simulate the feeling of floating often associated with drug trips. (Pictured left to right: Will Kelly, Adam Bufano, Elias Schultzman, and Mac Hewitt)

the_fuck-up

2010-08-05T19:28:41+00:00

* The Fuck-Up was a master electrician before his fiancee broke off their engagement. * He has since failed to hold a job. * He played in the band Rota to alleviate his despair, collaborating with The Ninja List of Characters A Drought

the_good_doctor

2010-07-27T19:32:09+00:00

A small notebook, bound in rotting leather and reeking of earth found at Green Mount. The monogram on the spine reads T.H.M and the year 1888. Most of the pages are illegible, the ink ran or the pages torn. Turn to first page Turn a few pages ahead Jump to page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

the_goucher_lawn

2010-05-10T04:02:04+00:00

The Goucher Lawn ["Goucher Lawn" Courtesy of Enoch Pratt Free Library] The Goucher Lawn was located in front of the Goucher Hall next to the Lovely Lane church and at the corner of St. Paul and the 23rd streets. It was the scene of the May Day festivities, and during commencement season of step singing, daisy chain ceremonies by sophomores in honor of the seniors,or garden parties, where seniors and sophomores, faculty, and parents were celebrating the end of the school year with fruit punch, i…

the_greek_orthodox_cathedral_of_the_annunciation

2010-02-11T01:51:02+00:00

the_greenmount_shuffle

2010-05-18T03:39:59+00:00

7a.m. Saturday morning. The corner of Greenmount Avenue and E. 22nd Street is the location where a dance like no other takes place. A voice slices through the February air over the leftover snow of back-to-back blizzards that immobilized Baltimore for days. “Hootie Hoo,” it cries out. The dancers appear. They set their feet upon trails worn for decades along the street and form a moving line through the cross walk at 22nd, over the bottom step of the first vacant house then around the busted lam…

the_lab_school_of_baltimore

2010-05-05T22:55:54+00:00

Sketch 3/Linda Bambrick The Lab School of Baltimore is crunchy on the outside with a chewy fruit center. At 2200 St. Paul St, the three story building is massive, built of blocks of heavy gray stone. Up the granite stairs, under the looming porch and through the heavy wood doors and then color hits you like an egg cracked over your head.

the_landlord

2010-08-05T19:28:55+00:00

* The Landlord is the owner of The Barclay House * She hates being called a landlord. * She also operates a distro with The Manufacturer * She plays in the band Sacri-Fidelis List of Characters A Drought

the_lawyer

2010-08-05T19:28:01+00:00

* The Lawyer is actually a lawyer. * He plays in several bands--Dawn Treader, Diablero, Manic Impressive, The Imagine Nation--in blatant disregard for his profession, as well as the law. * He has collaborated musically with The Author List of Characters Barclay, Greenmount, Baby When the Hexagon Was the Lo-Fi

the_lovely_lane_methodist_church

2010-05-10T02:05:46+00:00

Lovely Lane Church From the History of the Church Lovely Lane Methodist Church also known as the First Methodist Church located at the corner of St. Paul and 22nd streets in Baltimore played a unique role in the development of the American Methodism. The Methodist Episcopal Church, which was formed at the famous “Christmas Conference” held in the Lovely Lane Meeting House in Baltimore on 24 December 1784 gave birth to all branches of the American Methodism. The young ministers that congregate…

the_lyric_opera_house

2010-08-06T19:13:43+00:00

Don't let the name fool you. The Lyric Opera House has hosted, in its 106 year span, quite the array of performances and performers, ranging from boxing matches to Presidents to cooking exhibitions. The venue originally opened its doors on Halloween, 1894 with a performance by the Boston Symphony and singer Nellie Melba. The architecture of the building, which houses 2,564 seats, is based upon the world renowned Concertgebouw, a concert hall in Amsterdam famous for its acoustics. During the …

the_manufacturer

2010-08-05T19:27:45+00:00

* The Manufacturer is a past resident of The Barclay House * He operates a distro, which provides many local and out-of-state punk bands with merchandise. List of Characters A Drought

the_mill_districts

2010-07-27T19:08:05+00:00

Long before any single human inhabited Baltimore the Jones Falls River, a robust tributary of the Patapsco River, was born into existence and thrived independently. As history played out Native American and European settlers made their way to the river and easily co-existed. David Jones, one of the first European pioneers settled hundreds of acres along the eastern banks in 1661 and lends the ‘Jones Falls’ name. In early eighteenth century Jonestown and Baltimore Town were formed on the western …

the_mount_royal_station

2010-07-27T19:10:08+00:00

New Acquiantances I presume the majority of people can relate to the experience of having walked by a building, what seems like a thousand times, unaware of its significance only later to find out what it stands for now and what it stood for then. Perhaps they took a moment each time to revel in its architectural splendor or ghastly deterioration. Perhaps they never thought twice about its existence on their daily route to work or school.

the_neighborhood_bar

2010-08-06T19:16:51+00:00

by Kayla Kahn ---- Baltimore is Baltimore. It is not New York City. It is not Chicago. But where it lacks size and functionality, it makes up for with diversity and personality. Baltimore is quirky, it is charming, and it is full of pride. It is a city of neighborhoods: over 200 neighborhoods, in fact. Many Baltimoreans define themselves by their neighborhoods, and rightfully so. Each neighborhood possesses its own unique aura; some are crawling with artistic hipsters, others with y…

the_ninja

2010-08-05T19:28:16+00:00

* The Ninja practiced martial arts until his teenage years. * He played bass in Rota, and contributed to the band's inevitable decline. * He has collaborated musically with The Author and The Fuck-Up List of Characters Barclay, Greenmount, Baby A Drought

the_old_bostock_s_zoo

2010-07-05T14:17:24+00:00

In the place of today's student plaza located at the corner of Maryland and Mount Royal there used to be the old Bostock Zoo. A circular, iron-slighted building with curved walls became a house for scores of animal cages and was built either in the late 1880s or the early 1890s. Before it was converted in the zoo and circus, this huge circular building was known as the Cyclorama, which held the exposition of the enormous painting of the battle of Gettysburg. Also, during a brief period it was …

the_owl_bar

2010-07-11T19:15:00+00:00

[The Owl Bar circa 1908] The Owl Bar is one of the oldest bars in Baltimore. Dating back to the early 1900s, the venue has survived Temperance and Prohibition, the Great Depression, and all of Central Baltimore’s ups and downs. From its beginnings as a speakeasy to renovations as a high-class bar in 1994 it maintains an owl décor, high bar chairs and tables, and mixed reviews.

the_parkway_theater-a_baltimore_treasure

2010-08-06T19:13:12+00:00

It's not difficult to overlook the brick building on the corner of North Avenue and Charles Street with its faded brick façade; in fact, most of Baltimore has. The Parkway Theater, built in 1915 under architect Oliver Birkhead Wright and originally intended to serve as a vaudeville stage, has been closed as a movie and performance venue for nearly thirty years. The Louis XIV style theater is home to a single grand auditorium, luxurious boxes, brass railings, and a tea room and seats over one t…

the_past_present_and_future_of_mount_royal

2010-05-12T13:46:53+00:00

West Mount Royal (Past) History of central Baltimore (MICA) Present Mount Royal Area Future of The Mount Royal Area Walking the Streets of Mount Royal in 2055 Composed by: ehrand_sewell

the_physical_training_of_the_woman

2010-05-09T04:00:31+00:00

Physical Training of the Women at Goucher College ["The "Suspension" Exercise by the old-fashioned Student at Goucher College."Evening Sun, October 4, 1938. ] First generations of the Woman’s College did not have much flexibility regarding their physical training. Gym, Latin, and Advanced Algebra were perceived as indispensable parts of a rigid curriculum. Perhaps there could be other more interesting subjects to be learned, but the poor women did not even dare to think of such a possibility.…

the_revolutionary_war_monument

2010-02-11T01:53:24+00:00

the_riots

2010-04-29T03:02:46+00:00

JPA and the Riots W. Carl Hossfeld Remembers... ArrayPosey died in 61 and my father and two other guys formed James Posey Associates. I was still in college. The firm moved out of Pleasant Street – Posey’s wife had sold the building. Posey moved up, just south of North Avenue. On Calvert Street. 1820 Calvert Street. And that was not a great area. We were the til 69. I was there during the riots… We were lucky. We weren’t burned out or anything though. We had to close down for a few days. It w…

the_schuler_school_of_fine_art

2010-08-05T18:45:59+00:00

A Brief Background: The Schuler School of Fine Arts was established in 1959 in the Shuler family home, originally built by Hans Schuler Sr. in 1906. His son, Hans Jr., along with his wife Ann and fellow artist Jacques Maroger, converted the home into an art school so as to keep the classical tradition relevant in contemporary art. Today the School boasts an extensive library of art-related materials, studios, and an art gallery open to the public. To this day, Ann Schuler teaches at the Scho…

the_station_north_thrift_store

2010-05-18T03:42:40+00:00

I left work toward the end of the day to visit the Station North Thrift Store located in Central Baltimore at 1400 Greenmount Avenue. I had a good friend scouring local thrift stores for some book cases for me and I always searched thrift stores first. This practice of buying used goods was initially started out of necessity. Money was an issue and used furnishings allowed me to be creative. It was simply fun to come up with new ways to add freshness to something old. ...changing seat cushion…

the_strange_case_of_the_neighborhood_association_the_extra_fees_and_the_lumpy_boundary

2010-05-05T22:52:59+00:00

Would you like Bulk Trash Pick Up with that? Taxes and Tax Breaks Page 3 Group Project: Civic and Commercial Planning linda The Charles Village Community Benefits District has the following mission: “To provide Charles Village with sanitation and safety services, while empowering the community and educating residents on ways to keep the neighborhoods safe and clean.” You might have thought that was the mission of the City of Baltimore. You also might have thought that your Baltimore City T…

thir-tea_first_street_cafe

2010-04-08T19:17:05+00:00

If you’ve ever yearned for a nice cup of Earl Grey, craved a crumpet in the late afternoon, or just had an unadulterated desire to speak in a British accent, take a trip to Thir-tea First Street Tea Room and indulge your wants and much more. My Experience I experienced the Tea Room during a magical time of year, Christmas time, during Waverly Wonderland. Created through a joint effort by The Greater Homewood Community Corporation and Baltimore Main Streets during their Miracle on Main Stree…

third_sketch

2010-05-07T19:11:57+00:00

For your third thumbnail sketch, please create a page that addresses some specific and concrete aspect of Central Baltimore. For example, North Avenue would be too broad of a subject for a single thumbnail; however, the Baltimore City Schools headquarters, once Baltimore Poly, or the former Jos. A. Bank factory between Maryland and Howard Streets, would be suitable subjects for a single page. A historic moment or a current business or entity would likewise suffice. Please aim for approximately 5…

thirty_one

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

Thirty one is a weird age. First of all it's prime, and I never trusted prime age numbers. Not only that, nobody really trusts a thirty one year old. Actually I don't know about “nobody”, but at least none of the teenagers at the mall seem to.

this_is_not_a_yuppie_market..._lexington_market_baltimore

2010-07-11T19:55:55+00:00

This is Not a Yuppie Market... Lexington Market, Baltimore Gentrification: gen·tri·fi·ca·tion \ˌjen-trə-fə-ˈkā-shən\ Function: noun Date: 1964 Dictionary meaning: The process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents, and past purposes. In Other Words: The process by which a lot of the good (though sometimes bad), gritty, often artistic, certainly interesting stuff looses out in the ba…

three_friends

2010-07-27T19:35:28+00:00

A young woman sat on a blanket under a dogwood tree, her white-gloved hand following the music. She had a parasol in the other hand. Two men of the about the same age sat against the trunk. Their shirts and collars came progressively undone under the July sun. A chorus sang a new composition by Mendelssohn.

three_riffs_on_the_knights_of_pythias-_builders_of_the_crestar_building

2010-05-05T22:54:47+00:00

But not blacks The Pythian Knights were an organization where, according to the Baltimore Sun in 1939, “the millionaire and the mechanic, the learned and the untutored, sit side by side”. Which was not a lie. It was just that the white learned and untutored sat together in one Lodge and the black ditto in another. In 1913 the then colored Knights of Pythias marched over 1000 strong through central Baltimore in uniforms that “would have made Joseph of old feel shabby” (Baltimore Sun). In 1950, t…

to_do

2010-05-07T19:08:32+00:00

Cork Factory Building[North Avenue Market] Cyclops Books Atlas Bar Interactive Map Load of Fun Jubilee - new housing North Avenue Motel Station North Arts District Lake Trout Station North Thrift Store The MICA Buddha Belvidere Street St. Paul Street and 12-20 East Lafayette Street Hans Schuler Studio and Residence [Atlas Bar] Howard Street Tunnel Mt. Royal Station North Central Historic District U.S. Parcel Post Station WYPR-FM James L. Pierce Custom Framing

toto

2010-05-04T17:51:19+00:00

Traveling in a pack isn't traveling at all. Not entirely unlike dogs we scamper, dolled and coiffed up with heels in a clattering chorus - It may be in fact that less is more but that's quite irrelevant, now, for us. ---------- Without dipping into vapid jargon, our sorority unveiled Bigs and Littles last week in a mess of squeals and red balloons. There are too many of us, maybe twice or thrice as much as Sincere Sisterhood would demand, and splintering is inevitable.

tour_du_baltimore_maryland_ave

2010-05-13T19:12:39+00:00

[Maryland Ave. 2010]There wasn't much to Maryland Avenue between North Avenue and Mt. Royal. A one way street, some buildings, parking lots, and a bridge. Many would confuse it today as a quaint and winding country road. Granted, the city scape is still in full view, but on the ground level, the greens are overwhelming. Maryland Avenue has undergone a complete reformation. Fifty percent of the road has been demolished and replaced with grasses and shrubberies. Two lanes of pavement were ke…

tour_du_baltimore_north

2010-05-13T13:14:41+00:00

[ =)]Station North Arts & Entertainment District is Chock full of cool things to see and do. It has been 18 years since Baltimore city government has designated this area as an Arts & Entertainment district. Since the “no car rule” passed, the renovations and improvements to this part of town boomed. Station North is known to be as desirable a tourist destination as popular as the Inner Harbor. Families flock to the district to see shows, movies, dine or just spend time enjoying the scen…

tour_du_baltimore_saint_paul_st

2010-05-13T19:47:31+00:00

[Pennsylvania Station Market]Since most of this strip of Saint Paul Street is residential, the main concern of this area was the road and the empty spaces that needed to be refurbished and maintained. The first spot was the huge parking lot located behind Pennsylvania Station. An eyesore of the community and no longer needed as an empty lot, the city along with the Bike Alliance decided to make it another designated area for a Farmer's Market and Bazaar events. The Farmer's Market is every Fr…

tour_du_baltimore_south

2010-04-22T07:19:55+00:00

Mt. Royal PROGRESS HERE! CONTENT IS SOON TO BE Go Right! Go Left! Start Over

tour_du_baltimore_ub

2010-08-13T01:47:01+00:00

The majority of this street is taken up by the University of Baltimore (My Alma Mater.) The Bicycle Alliance and the University of Baltimore formed a partnership back in 2010 to work together on transportation issues around the University. Parking was always a word to provoke huffs and puffs of those who have had to deal with broken parking meters, full parking garages, and searching for hours at a time for a parking spot that's close enough in walking distance to the campus. The enforcement …

tour_du_central_baltimore

2010-05-13T20:21:41+00:00

We begin our bike tour at the historical Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore. Once a bustling cauldron of metal and concrete, now seems a quiet oasis for travelers on bike and foot alike. The only cars allowed up to the surface are taxis and shuttles, which are hurriedly shooed after their arrival. Where there was once grease-soiled concrete, there are wildflowers and thick patches of green grass that are a perfect cushion for an afternoon picnic.

tour_du_central_baltimore_north_ave

2010-05-13T17:47:13+00:00

Once a feared and notorious street for violence, North Avenue has overcome the obstacles and has risen to become one of the most visited streets in Baltimore. WIth the rise of the arts and entertainment district, the appeal to open a business on the block flourished. North Avenue's entertainment district used to be only one block. It consisted of Joe Squared Pizza, Windup Space, Load of Fun Studios, Single Carrot Theatre and Cyclops. Now the strip spans from Maryland Avenue all the way to G…

tour_du_central_baltimore_right

2010-04-22T07:22:55+00:00

Right North Ave. Take another right! U-turn! Start Over

towards_penn_station

2010-09-29T03:20:34+00:00

I’m leaving Hopkins Homewood Campus, hailing a cab with some urgency, it’s raining real hard and I’m trying to keep my cool. My Internet is out, has been the whole day. I’ve a million assignments due. Screw it, fuck - whatever. I'll leave instead. I huff and puff for a second and then a cab stops for me, I climb in. Here they don’t say a word, the drivers. Fine by me. I tell him Penn Station. Cabbies in New York are a little chatty for my taste, always interrupting my revelry at the ebb and flow…

travers_nelson

2010-04-29T03:10:37+00:00

Program Manager, Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus Perspective I show up to our breakfast interview not knowing what to expect. He has picked the Paper Moon Diner. I’ve never been to the Paper Moon before, but as I park my car down the street I’m struck by the contrast of the diner’s bright colors and décor against the rainy Baltimore morning. Travers and I have never met. We haven’t even spoken over the phone. Our correspondence up until this point has been e-mail only. My colleagues recommende…

tristan_davies

2010-03-17T23:04:39+00:00

Tristan Davies teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

trolley

2010-04-29T03:00:33+00:00

Childhood Memories of W. Carl Hossfeld “Living in the suburbs then was different than living in the suburbs now. I used to take the trolley downtown to the dentist. “I tell people now, I am so glad it was safe. You could walk around. When I was a little kid my parents would put me on the trolley and I’d take the trolley downtown when I was 11 or 12 years old. Down to the Medical Arts Building on Cathedral and Read. Then I would walk over to Posey’s building on Pleasant Street. My father work…

turning_tin_into_green

2010-05-20T01:08:14+00:00

By: Dre Carter The transformation of some of the city’s more historic structures into 21st century contemporary models is nothing short of amazing, sparking marvel from those who witness the makeovers. This is particularly true for occupants of a groundbreaking building in Central Baltimore: The Residences of Miller’s Court. Miller's Court is the culmination of a local developer's vision for socially responsible development.

twitter

2009-12-02T19:41:47+00:00

God I hate Twitter. Blogs Blogging was this crazy revolution in media. Television is one dimensional, unidirectional. It talks to you and tells you what to think. You can talk to your TV and tell it what to think, but the newscasters don't give a damn. But blogging, blogging had power. Especially because of visionaries like Kos who discovered just how powerful the internet was. Or did they create that power? I think they discovered it, because without them someone else would've been the visio…

two_churches

2010-07-27T19:28:55+00:00

Disclaimer: All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Franciscan Center A young man and woman circled the block three times. “101 West 23rd, it should be here,” the girl said as they idled at the green light. “Let's look around,” the boy said. As they walked, the boy spotted a sign and went to the door. “It's locked.” “Maybe they moved?” the girl said. “No, my roommate came last Tuesday. Did we check the…

two_experts_answer_my_call

2010-07-31T21:07:21+00:00

Reaching out to real people instead of just relying on books and webpages, I found two people who helped me in my search. The first is Stanley Kemp, a UB professor who, even though it was nearing the end of a hectic semester, took the time to sit and chat with me. The other I met via e-mail. Wanting to learn more about the elusive Belvidere Bridge, I e-mailed the webmaster of the website Maryland Covered Bridges, and within hours, received a response. What luck! See below for my live and electro…

ub_and_1968

2010-07-11T19:13:14+00:00

---------- The JHMI shuttle slows to a stop, Penn Station looming on its right. A constant stream of red taillights twists along the rain-soaked drive of the station and circles the 51 foot tall “Male Female” statue at its front. The aluminum statue, dedicated in June of 2004, is the work of Jonathan Borofsky and was donated by the Municipal Arts Society of Baltimore. The walk up Charles Street from Penn Station is familiar; sushi at the ultra-modern XS, coffee at the out-of-place Starbuck…

unemployment

2010-02-17T23:56:19+00:00

Chemical Aptitude Test Victoria Wambui

union_park

2010-07-11T19:01:10+00:00

music to listen to while you read Camden Yards home of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team since 1992, is a shiny modern homage to old-school stadiums. Way north and to the east was Memorial Stadium, the home of the Orioles from 1944-1991. In the middle is Waverly in Central Baltimore. Home to three Oriole baseball parks between 1882 and 1944, now the parks are paved and forgotten. And while it’s true there were three parks and they were all loved, as St Paul might have said if he’d been a baseb…

vanessa_verdine

2010-02-04T00:27:59+00:00

Johns Hopkins/University of Baltimore Project 2010 She sat between Chelsea Illusion Rinnig and Sean C Wilson who sat next to Jack Combs in the third row of room 304 in the University of Baltimore's Liberal Arts and Policy building. Early Professional Career As a young child, Vanessa mastered the art of paper mache and prepared herself for a life of making green and chic tableware. Illiterate until age 14, she accidentally learned to read from the packages of flour bags and glue bottles. F…

vegetarian_baltimore

2010-08-05T19:32:46+00:00

Baltimore is the land of crab, crab cakes, steamed crab, and Crab Imperial. But vegetarians don't eat crab, and they do live in Baltimore, so the promise of an awesome crab dish isn't really a win for the city. But one may be surprised to learn of the vegetarian offerings by restaurants and groceries in Central Baltimore. [no crab!]

velocipede_bike_project

2010-04-22T05:43:26+00:00

Array Velocipede Bike Project is a non-profit community bike cooperative, collectively run by volunteers. They survive on the monetary and various contributions of the people of Baltimore and surrounding areas to help supply reliable, affordable transportation to people of low and moderate incomes.

victoria_wambui

2010-05-22T23:14:25+00:00

is a native Baltimorean majoring in English/Creative Writing at the University of Baltimore. She hopes to establish a writing group and eventually a writing program at an inner-city school. In the meantime, she plans to explore art in all its forms: literary, visual and performing. Oh yeah, and she likes to sing. Her favorite singer is Lizz Wright.

videos

2010-01-27T01:39:34+00:00

Videos MICA '68 Riots (April 2009) Introduction to 1968 series Loss and Legacy

vingolf_hall_-_now

2010-05-10T04:12:17+00:00

Baltimore City Career Academy ["Baltimore City Career Academy." From the Collection of the Author] Baltimore City Career Academy is a division of Baltimore City Office of Employment Development and is located at 101 W. 24th St. The goal of the school is to fight against a high school dropout rate in Baltimore City Public Schools and providing educational and occupational help to young people 16 to 21 years of age.The school's program emphasizes following aspects

vingolf_hall_-_then

2010-05-09T04:25:15+00:00

voyage_onto_normals

2010-07-27T19:22:21+00:00

Normals Bookstore is a neighborhood favorite and located at 425 East 31st Street. It’s location is pleasantly accessible and within walking distance to the Charles Village neighborhood. Normals Bookstore provides the avid, off the beaten track, reader with a place to call home: hundreds of books ranging from metaphysics to large-print music books can keep one digging through it’s labyrinth for hours upon end.

w._carl_hossfeld

2010-04-29T02:59:37+00:00

photo courtesy James Posey Associates (c) Alain Jaramillo A Man of a Different Era W. Carl Hossfeld (born in 1939) grew up in a Baltimore vastly different from today’s Charm City. During our 1.5 hour interview Carl spoke the words, “It was a different era,” no less than five times.

walk_through_central_baltimore

2010-07-11T19:06:37+00:00

On Tuesday at two o'clock in the afternoon, I walked from Wyman Park on the Johns Hopkins University campus south down Howard Street to North Avenue. From there, I walked east to Barclay and back north to 29th and Charles over the span of about an hour.

walking_the_streets_of_mount_royal_in_2055

2010-05-12T14:01:59+00:00

It had been more than twenty years since he had been to Baltimore. His work had him traveling everywhere: Bangkok; Alaska; California; Canada; Mexico and Venzuela (to name a few of the places that needed his expertise). Somehow, he had become the guru of green projects all over the world. But now, here he was, Charles Brannon, back where he started, walking the streets of central Baltimore in the middle of July 2055. Charles thought that although the area had changed considerably, yet it was sti…

walters_art_museum

2010-03-10T15:45:19+00:00

Just south of the Peabody Institute in the neighborhood of Mount Vernon, Baltimore is the Walters Art Museum. The URL is . It is renowned for its collection of ancient art, including sarcophagi and sculpture from Egypt, Greece and Rome, Chinese ceramics, manuscripts and Renaissance bronze works. William Thompson Walters (1819-1894) and Henry Walters (1848–1931) were the primary collectors. The museum was founded in Mount Vernon in 1934.

waverly_farmers_market

2010-05-18T17:57:42+00:00

By: Dre Carter It's about 8:15 in the morning. On this Saturday, May 15th, 2010, racing enthusiasts will soon gather at Northwest Baltimore's Pimilco Race Track for the 135th running of the Preakness Stakes, Maryland's premiere racing event. But hundreds, perhaps even a thousand or more, have already flocked to Central Baltimore more than an hour ago for the Waverly Farmers Market.

we_call_it_home

2010-07-11T19:36:57+00:00

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Johns Hopkins University, and the Wyman Park Dell – a few notable landmarks that signal Charles Village. [Courtesy: Jrchester] [Courtesy: Jrchester] [Courtesy: Friends of Wyman Park Dell] A stroll through Charles Village is no ordinary walk in the park for many of its residents. CV, as Charles Village is commonly called, is one of the most diverse communities in Baltimore. While much of the city remains segregated, CV residents enjoy a rare mix of local samplin…

west_lanvale_to_west_lafayette_on_mt_royal_ave

2010-04-29T02:41:47+00:00

Mt. Royal Ave: West Lanvale St. to West Lafayette Ave. Buildings on this Block The bold Brown Center towers over 83 and the Main Building sits unobtrusively across the street, next to the Corpus Christi Church. The contrast between contemporary and Renaissance architecture is striking.

west_mount_royal

2010-05-12T13:55:15+00:00

Past: The Year was 1924: Sitting on the side of the bed in his work uniform, hunched over from the long hours of working the night shift at the train yard, Glen Brannon rubbed the back of his neck, which had become stiff from the stress of the job. He looked out the window at the Jones Falls, flowing past his house. The sound of the swift flow of the stream calmed his nerves. He turned to his wife, Gale, who was sound asleep. As he watched her rhythmic breathing and listened to the flow of…

what_is_hiv_aids

2010-07-21T00:31:14+00:00

What is HIV AIDS? Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is transmitted through contact with a body fluid that contains the virus. HIV destroys certain types of white blood cells, weakening the body's defenses against infection. When people are first infected, symptoms of fever, rashes, swollen lymph nodes, and fatigue may last a few days to several weeks. HIV progressively destroys some types of white blood cells called CD4+ lymphocytes. Lymphocytes help defend the body against foreign cells, infe…

what_led_me_here

2010-07-11T19:54:58+00:00

Raised in beautiful suburbia-central, New Jersey, I’ve always, with a certain and self-knowing smile, figured myself a little bit cosmopolitan, considering my upbringing. I could navigate city streets, hail cabs like a pro, I promise. I even knew how to put money on a MetroCard without calling attention to myself, without screaming I’M FROM (insert other far away land) like so many befuddled and bemoaning New York Subway-goers do. I ended up at Hopkins, after considering New York City too much o…

what_yoga_looks_like

2010-08-05T19:30:56+00:00

What charming yoga looks like On a cold night in which sidewalks are still hiding under blocks-long, feet-high plateaus of snow, resolute Baltimoreans still manage to make it to Charm City Yoga. Not to be deterred by street conditions, the yoga students are determined to fit in their spiritual / physical practice.

when_lenny_met_honey

2010-08-05T19:30:41+00:00

When Lenny Met Honey Leonard Schneider was 17-year-old Long Islander when he joined the US Navy in 1942, serving his country during the Second World War. Four years later he wanted out, and he would go out with style, putting on a women’s naval uniform. He donned a dress. He donned a dress and was dishonorably discharged. (The Navy would later find that wearing women’s clothing wasn’t so dishonorable after all. The discharge was modified to “honorable”.)

when_the_hexagon_was_the_lo-fi

2010-05-12T14:27:18+00:00

too much, he thinks sometimes, though he refuses to vocalize things like that, unless screaming incoherently through a half-broken microphone; he remembers every time, every place he has done this. In a way, there’s something statuesque about him, his long swaying dreadlocks and stutter-footed movements defying the rough, constricting material from which he has been made. Perhaps, though, he is just old. Well, he’s nearly thirty, which is not old. His memories just seem to quantify his years …

whitney_harriet_janis

2010-07-11T19:33:35+00:00

Whitney walks with a swagger, cause she's a baller like that. She is sometimes friends with Stephanie Delman, but only when copious amounts of cheese and potatoes are involved. Whitney's a messy eater, but in the best way possible. Her code name is Magic Marker.

wiki

2009-12-02T19:39:12+00:00

Twitter is terrible because it requires no effort. At least, you could say that. But wikis are exactly the opposite. Wikis require a lot of effort, and Wikipedia requires the most effort of all. Twitter gives everybody a voice, but wikis gives you a chance to shut them up, too.

wikiality

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

It's one of those clever words that Steven -- sorry, Stephen -- Colbert thought of, along with “truthiness”. It recognizes that Wikipedia sets what reality is, more so than any actual facts. This isn't Wikipedia, but Wikipedia doesn't care for articles about Steven Jones, so Steven Jones will have to settle for his very own wiki. Can a Steven Jones wiki set wikiality for Steven Jones' own life? I suppose that depends on whether anyone ever reads it at all. Everybody reads Wikipedia. Who cares to…

wondering_around_the_central_baltimore_neigborhoods

2010-03-08T04:10:30+00:00

writing_central_baltimore

2010-05-11T22:47:02+00:00

[Abell Avenue] Spring 2010 Jane Delury (University of Baltimore) & Tristan Davies (Johns Hopkins University) Central Baltimore is, at its center, four historic neighborhoods: Barclay, Greenmount West, Charles North, and Old Goucher. To the north and west are Charles Village and Remington. We will begin our discussion with the four core neighborhoods and expand outward.

writing_central_bmore

2010-08-06T19:42:27+00:00

I remember my first dance with a homeless man. It was a leisurely Sunday afternoon at Joe Squared in Baltimore. He smelled like cat litter and vodka. The kind of vodka I like to call Homeless People Rubbing Alcohol, but I think that should go without saying. My friend suggested we hit up Joe Squared as a way to cure the hangover: “A chill spot, live music, pizza.” How could I say no? It serves triple cheese pizza and avocado risotto. Oversize mirrors frame the dance floor. I could stare at my …

xanga

2010-01-20T15:59:47+00:00

What the fuck is a Xanga? Why did I even date you?

xs

2010-07-11T19:06:13+00:00

“I like the ambience: exposed brick, DJ on a catwalk above the crowd, narrow floors around a winding staircase. More hep than I thought Baltimore had to offer.” -John P. “Seriously sometimes awful service. A lot of the waiters are assholes. The managers don't really care that their employees are assholes. XS thinks their really modern because they are fusion food with live DJ's. This type of crowd usually brings it a lot douche bags. However, their sushi isn't that bad.” -Holly J.

xs_2

2010-08-05T19:37:26+00:00

Two extra small hipsters, a guy and a girl, walk into XS, the overtly hip food establishment in Central Baltimore. Though slight of physique, their appetites are big. They intend, in true hipster fashion, to eat to excess and eat no meat. The XS menu, they see, runs the hipster gamut – sushi, paninis, wraps, pan-Asian staples, breakfast, salads, desserts, coffee, cocktails. They want for nothing - XS is a haven. Coffeehouse on the bottom, nightclub restaurant on top, the XS schizophrenia i…

yabba_pot

2010-08-05T19:37:50+00:00

Yabba Pot, on St. Paul St just north of 24th St, is 100% vegan, offering lunch and dinner cafeteria style and made-to-order smoothies. It’s known for its Queens Greens, the citrus ribs (made from a soy-based meat substitute), and the baked ziti.