Stirring up News and Views in Baltimore Maryland
Video Americain on Friday morning was jammed. (Photo by Fern Shen)
Toilet paper wasn’t the only thing Roland Parkers stocked up on Friday, as the storm approached. The Cold Spring Lane branch of Video Americain was, uncharacteristically, packed.
Since the advent of Netflicks, video-on-demand, Hulu, etc, our favorite musty House of Film has been struggling. Maybe this unsually snowy winter will help them hang in a bit longer?
Transportation officials don’t like it, but Hampden residents are apparently fed up – they want cross-walks repainted on The Avenue and if the city’s not going to maintain the crosswalks on this busy north Baltimore street, they’re doing it themselves. Deborah Patterson, a former OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow who runs ArtBlocks, is one of the ringleaders. [...]
RG Steel told Maryland environmental officials today that the weekend fire that lit up the skies around Sparrows Point was caused by the disposal of hot metal from the mill’s blast furnace. “We were told that conditions relating to the idling and subsequent restart of the blast furnace led to the need to dispose of [...]
Catching up on a slew of interesting things to do and read this weekend that we almost lost track of in the Kickstarter hub-bub. Here are just a few: SATURDAY (1/28/12) New Mercury Non-fiction Reading – Check out tell-it-like-it-is education blogger Edit Barry (see below) and a pack of other feisty non-fictional characters from the [...]
