Tonight’s Oblivians Show is Postponed Until October 2

Due to a death in the family, the Oblivians announced recently via their Facebook page that they will be re-scheduling their tour dates for Baltimore and Brooklyn. According to the Unregistered Nurse Tumblr the new date for Baltimore is October 2, at which time all tickets for tonight’s show will be honored. To clarify, the […]

Nothing Doing: Our Bi-Weekly Political Roundup

Hi-ho Choppers. Do you know what today is? Of course you do. There’s a dateline right under the title of this post. Today is August 14. which means it’s pretty much the exact dead-on middle of August. Which means there’s nothing much at all going on politically with all of congress back in their districts […]

August Is National Hard Cider Month

August is not National Hard Cider Month. But it probably should be. After all, it’s 2013- the perfect nexus of foodieism, craft brewing, and lazy journalism. Any asshole with a Facebook page can unilaterally declare a day to be Boston Cream Pie Day or National Greek Yogurt Day. In fact, just the title of this […]

Less is More: J&M Wallets and Billfolds

We got a bad feeling about this story in the Baltimore Sun on Tuesday. We don’t generally freak out much about crime, but having planned to walk over a large swath of North Baltimore that night, and seeing that the mayor was out doing photo ops for National Night Out… it all just made us […]

Tavern on the Hill: Humble Beginnings

It was with great dismay that we came back to town to hear news of the closing of Dionysus. Dio was perhaps our favorite Mount Vernon bar, not too much of anything but just enough of everything. Let the beer snobs go to Brewers’ and the clubby people go to Red Maple and the drunks […]