2012 Election Predictions

We think Obama’s going to win. That’s not really a shocker coming from a decidedly liberal blog in a decidedly liberal city. We think Obama will win in a walk and that’s always been our opinion, since even before the GOP primaries. There was never even a time when we were even a little bit […]

The Chop’s Guide to the 2012 Baltimore Book Festival

We said in this space recently that Baltimore’s premiere cultural festival, Artscape, was highly overrated. The whole experience is such that some years we skip over it entirely and don’t even show up for a single day. This weekend the coin flips, and the city is gearing up for its best and most underrated festival, […]

The Tyranny of Overrated Things

Artscape is coming up this weekend. We might even bother to go to it. Don’t get us wrong: Artscape is a great and wonderful thing and our heart floweth over with civic pride and our city is truly lucky to have a premier arts event that generates tons of commerce and community and culture and […]

Baltimore Pride Parade Bingo

It’s Pride Festival weekend here in Baltimore. We’re not going to go into detail about the parade, festival, events, afterparties and everything else. You can check out baltimorepride.org if you want to know about that. What we are going to do is partake in one of Baltimore’s all time favorite games, Gay Bingo. We’ve made […]

Just For the Lulz : Our Bi-Weekly Political Roundup

There are two things that will set the 2012 presidential election apart from all other previous elections. The first and more important of these is that in the wake of Citizens United this is absolutely the year of the super pac, and we’re seeing campaigns financed in ways that were never possible before. The second, […]