The Chop Goes to the Great Lakes

It’s too goddamn hot. We’re going to spend the rest of the Summer on the Great Lakes. Smell you later, Baltimore. We’ll be chilling in the Great White North for the next 60 days. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, maybe Canadia. Have fun with your scapefests and your derechos and your leaky water pipes. This blog will […]

Neighborhood Pop-Ups: Get Ready to Buy Into Baltimore

When we bought the Chophouse a few years ago, we had a pretty good idea exactly what we were looking for. Living close to downtown was a must for us, but alas… a four story brownstone next door to the Engineers Club was a bit beyond our means. We could afford a pretty nice house […]

Baltimore Ratscape @ Hour Haus This Weekend

First there was just the urban landscape. Here’s an old train station and here’s a little patch of grass and here’s a statue and a few old brownstones around. Then somebody got the idea to fill the landscape up with art. They called it “Artscape.” It was a pretty good idea and a lot of […]

Flicks From the Hill- Breaking Away @ AVAM Tonight

We don’t usually like to write about the same exact things week in and week out here at the Baltimore Chop. We like to mix it up a little, keep it fresh. But as we mentioned yesterday, bloggers is broke these days, so things like free movies are exceptionally good entertainment on our budget of […]

Free Happy Hour @ Center Plaza Today

Update: Presumably because of the water main break and the extreme heat and the generally shitty state of affairs in Baltimore City this has been postponed until August 15. Not exactly a banner endosement for living and working downtown, but that’s a matter for another time. Hey Baltimore, c’mere a minute. No closer. C’mere all […]