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Lee Future's Biography
Lee Future is a writer who lives and tends bar in South Baltimore. Check out his other writing at his website: www.LiteratureIsNotdead.com or myspace him at www.myspace.com/literature_is_not_dead. He would be pleased if you befriended him.
Lee Future's Articles
The Monument, the Amazing Memory Man and Monumental Death Rates
Baltimore's Washington Monument has already been written about HERE, but there are two things Sarah didn’t mention in her review: One is that ...
Posted On: Jun 23
Smile, hon!
Baltimore’s charm is somehow untarnished by rats. In fact, rats seem to be part of the charm. I can’t explain this, but I know a magazine (or zine, really) ...
Posted On: Jun 16
Zen West
Cafe Zen is my favorite Chinese food ever. Zen West is not my favorite Tex-Mex food. I went to Zen West, on York Road in Northern Baltimore, with Mom this Mother’s day (why am I posting this now? I’ve been busy. Buzz off.) The interior is as slick as the next door Cafe Zen and the hostess quite cute. Besides the two gay guys,
Posted On: Jun 12
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 ...
Posted On: Jun 10
Survivor 7
I’m not in shape! Nonetheless, I’m looking forward to a long, painful seven miles while running the Survivor Harbor 7 this Sunday. The weather should be nice since ...
Posted On: Jun 07
James Joyce Restaurant
Steve is a human bloodhound. His first comment on any person, room, or restaurant is it’s smell. On that basis he immediately liked James Joyce. We stopped in ...
Posted On: Jun 04
Elvis brings real Latin food to Federal Hill
To me, authentic Mexican food means what I ate with my fellow workers when I worked construction in D.C. They’d find little corner shops where potent soups of reddish orange or green bubbled, where strange colas filled the coolers and where no one spoke English. Maybe mole sauces and enchiladas are authentic too. I’m not interested in debating what authentic means. Besides, the food I remember is pan-Latin, or most likely, knowing the makeup of ethnicities in D.C., central American. “Mexican” is a word Americans have long used to brand the sum of all of Latin America’s foods. So debate doesn’t have much of a point. But what does...
Posted On: May 30
Rub
South of the SOBO skanks and pushers, at the very tip of Federal Hill in what should probably be called Port Covington, lies Rub. Rub has cream soda ...
Posted On: May 26
Ixia
Ixia deserves a slightly hipper language than English. Something with more words for swank or bizarre is required, because in English it’s hard to describe how the blue ...
Posted On: May 22
The Wire!
Just thought I'd hop online to say that they're filming an episode of The Wire just down the street at Fort Charles, which I blogged ...
Posted On: May 19
