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“Friends In Low Places” Baltimore excerpt from PEOPLE LIKE US: SOCIAL CLASS...
In America, social class is the elephant in the room that nobody says exists, but it’s hard to ignore in Baltimore, whose blue collar charms have been given national exposure via the films of Barry...
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Mark Harp & The Tralalas at HonFest 2004
http://www.markharp.com Mark Linthicum (aka “Mark Harp” or “Harpo”) was born on October 13, in 1947 and passed away Christmas Eve of 2004 at age 47. This is one of the last remaining clips of him...
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Carnival Scene at Monument and Haven Street, 1948
Thrill to the sights of Frieda Pushnik, Living Armless and Legless Girl; Bohemian Glass-Blowers; Mo-Lay, Master of Manipulation; Johann Petersson, Tallest Man on Earth from Finland; Long-Haired Beauty...
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All Hail the Preakness Manimal “Kegasus”!
Jockey Club hopes Preakness 2011 will ‘Be Legendary’ By Matt Vensel (The Baltimore Sun, 3/29/2011) A year after the Maryland Jockey Club encouraged Baltimore to get its “Preak” on with a...
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2011 Natty Boh Film Festival
Saturday, July 30 2011 @ Fraziers on the Avenue 919 W. 36th Street, Baltimore, MD. (410) 662-4914 fraziersonthe avenue.com The inaugural 2011 Natty Boh Film Festival was held this past Saturday night...
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Edgar Allan TyPoes
What’s in a name? A lot of typos! by Tom Warner (Accelerated Decrepitude) We know how Edgar Allan Poe felt about being dissed: “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when...
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Underdog Marches for Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black History Month Classics: Suzanne Muldowney Joins the 2003 Martin Luther King Day, Jr. Parade Suzanne Muldowney marched in her first MLK Day Parade “When the Negro was completely an Underdog, he...
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A Pearl Inside?
“A small boy peeps into a papier-mache clam for a look at what turns out to be Cindy Whitelock, who gives Governor Agnew a sample at Chesapeake Bay Soft Shell Clam Festival, Annapolis, Maryland,...
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Getting people to watch movies the right way – in the dark, on a big screen, with an audience – is far from impossible, says RetroFest programmer By Chris Kaltenbach (Baltimore Sun, November 17, 2012)...
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Shit-canned: Remembering the Preakness Toilet Races
“You can’t kill stupid; you can only attempt to contain it. Like on a very large infield.” – (Source: “The Quotable Tom Warner Omnibus.”) “In 2009, the first year without B.Y.O.B., attendance plummeted...
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Marble Bar Redux returns to SoWeBo 2013
Mark Harp returns in spirit to SoWeBo Fest I’m really looking forward to this year’s Memorial Weekend highlight, the 30th annual SoWeBohemian Arts & Music Festival (aka the SoWeBo Arts & Music...
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The Mark Harp All-Stars highlight SoWeBo Fest 2013
Redux Stage celebrates music long gone but far from forgotten by Tom Warner (Accelerated Decrepitude) Keith Worz (far right) implores The Mark Harp All-Stars to pull his finger at 2013 SoWeBo Festival....
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Alice Cooper Rocks the Towson, Maryland Courthouse, 1991
Alice Cooper rocks 2,000 in Towson Some skip school to hear ’70s rocker deliver his new anti-drug message. By Meredith Schlow (Baltimore Evening Sun, 9/10/1991) Rocker Alice Cooper played to about...
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Edgar Allan Poe, Interior Design Critic
What scared the author of ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’? Bad design. A room furnished according to Poe’s “The Philosophy of Furniture” for a 1959 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (Image: Brooklyn Museum...
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Les Bons Temps for a Baltimore Native
[Baltimore Or Less loves beautiful, talented people - they're so unlike us, yet allow us to live vicariously through their exploits. Jenny Campbell is one of those peeps we love - and now the Baltimore...
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Henry James wrote lavishly of Baltimore
By Jacques Kelly (The Baltimore Sun, 6/13/1995) Henry James in 1910. Wikipedia.org Henry James was one of the most respected writers of his day, but there was no fanfare when he stepped off a train at...
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Annapolis, MD Police Chief Claims 37 Died First Day of Marijuana Legalization...
Annapolis police chief apologizes for citing hoax story in testimony against marijuana legalization By Alex Jackson (Capitalgazette.com, 2/26/2014) Annapolis Police Chief Michael A. Pristoop listens to...
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George Feehley Has Surfed His Way Into The History Of Ocean City, Maryland
George Feehley, who passed away last weekend at the age of 87, is pictured tandem surfing. Photo by Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum ‘George Feehley Has Surfed His Way Into The History Of Ocean...
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Are These Photos of Baltimore Lesbians in the 1920s?
I stumbled on these wonderful photos of 1920s Baltimore women on Ebay. Were they lesbians? Was one a drag queen? Were they dressing up for Halloween or a party? Were they expressing their lifestyle? So...
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