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Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Baltimore Has Pride


Yes its true, Baltimore has Pride. This past Saturday ( and continuing today, Sunday June 17th), Baltimore City is representing its Pride for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans-gendered (LGBT) Community with its annual Pride Festival. Now it should be noted that the Pride festival isn't just for members of the LGBT Community, it's really for everyone.

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Honfest 2007



Perhaps you have to be from Baltimore to love Baltimorese, but the diction that curls letters like cars wrapping around telephone poles is a beautiful thing to my ear. The MC for the semi-final round of the Hon contest spoke a right awful version of Baltimorese, but perhaps the best was hearing the accent on display everywhere around me.

Without the stage or the mic, a few denizens of ...

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

The Baltimore City Lit Festival



I'm going to give this to you straight. The headlining act at this years Baltimore City Lit Festival, the author and photographer of Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women over 50, will be real interesting. That's not why you should go. The talk on the Clarence Thomas biography and Kwame Alexander's new book of love poetry, those may be even better than the Jewels stuff, but they are not the reason ...

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

Baltimore - Towson Festival



This weekend is the annual Towsontown Spring Festival. Features include live music, arts and crafts, fire and army trucks for the kids to sit on, beer gardens for the adults, and so much more. This is definitly a family oriented festival as opposed to some of the more young adult oriented festivals held downtown. Plenty of food from the traditional Maryland crabcake sandwiches to fun fair food ...

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

First Thursdays



The Stage at First Thursday

WTMD’s First Thursday festival, held the first Thursday of every month during the spring, summer and early fall, hosted Eva Castillo and Julian Velard this time around.

I’d never been before, so I didn’t know to expect such an amazing time. The crowd was dominated by hip twenty and thirty somethings, but older folk and tykes strolled and ...