Stirring up News and Views in Baltimore Maryland
Photo by: Ben Sollee’s website
On September 8th, One Less Car is hosting cyclist/cellist extraordinaire Ben Sollee for the Baltimore leg of his 2010 Ditch the Van Tour, a cross-country endeavor in which Sollee straps his cello onto the back of his bicycle and tours city-to-city without leaving a carbon footprint.
“I love touring by bicycle!” Sollee writes on his website. “…I made a promise to myself that I would dedicate a portion of my yearly touring to pedal power.”
People involved in the Mount Royal Avenue bike lane issue have asked for the full text of the statements issued by Maryland Institute College of Art and the Baltimore Department of Transportation so here’s a link to a page where we’ve pasted up both. In addition, MICA has put Lazarus’ statement up on its website [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
