Bill Ayers @ Red Emma’s Tonight

First things first: the new location of Red Emma’s is finally open at the corner of North ave and Maryland in Station North. You may recall that we posted some photos of the construction progress a while back. The new shop opened for good about a week and a half ago with not too much […]

Sneak Peek Inside the New Red Emma’s

A couple of weeks ago the folks at Red Emma’s held an open house on the Saturday night after the Baltimore Book Festival to showcase the construction progress they’re making in their future home at the corner of North Ave and Maryland in Station North. The Chop popped in for a look and we snapped […]

Baltimore Book Festival This Weekend

Starting today and running through Sunday evening the annual Baltimore Book Festival comes to Charles Street at Mount Vernon Place. And for us the timing could hardly be better. As we gear up to go out to sea we’re going to want to be stocked up on unread books, and trolling through Amazon in ‘just […]

Banned Books Happy Hour @ Pratt Central Library Tonight

As anyone who’s spent about one single hour on any social media site can tell you, there are a lot of fake holidays floating around lately. One can hardly wake up in the morning without being reminded that today is National Steak and a Blowjob Day or National Talk Like A Pirate Day. Whether it’s […]

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, […]