Feedbag As our elders always told us, a bargain isn't a bargain unless it's something you need or want. After reading the Chameleon Café's menu for their new Tuesday and Thursday three- ($30) and four-course ($35) prix-fixe dinners, we know that we both need and want to go to Lauraville for supper. Choose from bistro favorites like sautéed skate wing (skate!), coq au vin, and choucroute garni (that's Alsatian sauerkraut with all manner of pork products) with escargots or onion tart to start a ... [MORE]
Noise Details are still thin, but Rye Rye, a.k.a. the small dancing/rapping nuclear reactor that's quickly turned into the national face of Baltimore's young (read: youth) urban club culture, announced this morning via a MySpace blog, beginning "I BEEN BUSY. MADD BUSY," that her debut record will be arriving next March via M.I.A.'s personal imprint on Interscope Records, N.E.E.T. Here's predicting that you've never seen a 17-year-old blow up quite like this. ... [MORE]
Noise Yes, it's been a while since we've heard a show at the old Falls Road mill building know as the G-Spot. Was it Beach House? That long? In any case, plan on trundling over this Friday for Phosphorescent, a.k.a. Matthew Houck, a Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans songwriter that makes lovely, drowsy beardo folk music that should appeal in drooling degrees to fans of outfits like Au, Vetiver, and Animal Collective, if only for the few hoots and hollers, but is a bit more languid and staid than any of them. Pho ... [MORE]
UliBlog I get up before sunrise, and am out on the streets taking photos by 6:00am. I encounter a world I would never see, if I got up a couple hours later. At this time of the day there are mostly only men out on the streets. The sidewalk dormitories have turned into bustling street markets, chai stands, rickshaw parking lots, garbage recycling stations, chicken and goat slaughter houses. It is unbelievable how much business is being done already in these early hours. Everybody is nice to me and I phot ... [MORE]
The News Hole An audit of the state agency that doles out loans and grants to corporations on the theory that they'll create lots of jobs has (again) found no confirmation of the jobs created. As it did in 2001 and 2005, the state Department of Legislative Audits reports that the Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED) did not validate the job-creation claims made by companies that received more than $27 million in state funds. 2008 audit: Finding 3 - DBED's Process for Verifying Employment ... [MORE]
UliBlog Kingfisher Airlines brings me safely from Hyderabad to Kolkata in two hours. We touch solid ground after night has fallen. The airport is nothing like the spaceship in Hyderabad. It has the beige and brown lived in charm of a Mexican cantina from the 50ies. There is no point looking for public transportation at this time of the day, so I decide to get a prepaid taxi into town and end up in an old Ambassador. Breathing out is the most important thing in life Dr. Vijayan told me every day back ... [MORE]
Noise The Oranges Band's new album is all about revisiting the Baltimore rock scene's past, so it's appropriate that it was unveiled in a somewhat anachronistic way on Friday night--a local release party at the Ottobar several months ahead of the album's national release date. It's something that even the smallest indie bands are now much more reticent to do than they would've a few years ago, letting even a small clutch of local fans get copies of an album early, which inevitably translates to the al ... [MORE]
Feedbag Chef/owner Sandra Lawlor is going all out with a special truffle menu this weekend (Nov. 21-23) at Feast (4 E. Madison, [410] 605-2020), her dining room at the 4 East Madison Inn. Dishes include diver scallops layered with truffles ($24), roasted organic chicken with truffle-infused potatoes ($18), and pasta with truffle shavings ($14). Don't forget to BYOB. I suggest a burgundy. ... [MORE]
Noise Given how many times "crayola" has been used as a adjective to describe the music of Dan Deacon, this really couldn't be more apt: the producer/performance artist/ringleader has licensed his song "Pink Batman" (from Spiderman of the Rings) to said crayon company for a commercial for some very awesome looking glowing/drawing thing that looks like it would suit either kids or psilocybin wonderfully. Deacon had this to say in a MySpace bulletin posted over the weekend: this is the first time i've ... [MORE]
Noise A large part of Height's appeal as a rapper is his fraught, heady flow, not necessarily angry or urgent but ticked enough that you know business is meant. I'd have a hard time calling Height, Dan Keech to the government, a party rapper, at least in the bubbly, sprightly AK Slaughter sense. You won't find that Height flow lacking on "The Woods," but it's surrounded by a veritable forest of deft, forward-thinking production--ringing guitar, dubbed in rhythmic vocal loop, meaty bassline. Very nice. ... [MORE]
Noise It's not difficult to imagine that Asa Osborne, looking sort of like an aged Michael Palin, performing his Zomes project live appears rudimentary to a newcomer. It's him, sitting on the Talking Head's floor surrounded by a close-in crowd of sitting, rapt listeners, with a keyboard synthesizer and a tape recorder. He has two younger folks performing with him, adding another synthesizer and a small box of effects pedals. The result is a whole lot of hypnotic beauty out of a remarkably simple palet ... [MORE]
The News Hole The Charles Village election night incident that led to the arrests of 15 people has prompted a request from U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings that Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefield III review the matter (see below). Mayor Sheila Dixon's office, calling the incident "disgraceful," has indicated that the Baltimore Police Department of Internal Affairs is investigating the matter. As happened in cities around the country, a spontaneous celebration occurred at the corner of 33rd ... [MORE]
The News Hole A memo posted to Romanesko yesterday indicated that the Tribune Co. plans to make even more cuts at The Baltimore Sun, just a few months after cutting 100 jobs that resulted in the loss of some of the paper's best talent. According to the memo, this time around there will be no buyout offers--people will simply be laid off. Seriously, though, what's left to cut? There's so little of the Sun we used to know and love left. Maybe Tribune is planning to kill the paper completely and turn the respons ... [MORE]
Feedbag Calling all Marcella or Mario wannabes. If you'd like to try your hand at creating an authentic Italian meal in a restaurant kitchen, consider Sotto Sopra's Chef for a Day program. Here's the deal: interested cooks meet with Chef Michael Crouse, who determines their skill level, chooses a date for cooking, and collaborates with them on a four-course menu that to be offered at the restaurant that night for around $40 per person. (Restaurant patrons dining on a Chef for a Day night can also choose ... [MORE]
Noise Well, the biggie is that M.I.A. is hosting the compilation, due in early December on Koch Entertainment in cohort with local club gold standard, Unruly Records. And, we're saying that's pretty cool. In an e-mail statement released earlier this week, Unruly heads Sean Caesar and Scottie B had this to say: "We are happy to have such an eclectic and versatile artist such as M.I.A to host this album. Swift and M.I.A share similarities that go deep into the appreciation of club music and the movement ... [MORE]
The News Hole It seems that this election, with all the hope it offered to so many, was a lot less hopeful for the LGBT community. Four states passed laws banning same-sex marriage. In California where the courts had already ruled gay marriage legal, and thousands of same-sex couples had actually tied the knot, that meant not just denying people a right but actually taking it away from them (although it is still unclear if existing gay marriages in the state will be nullified). The gay community has finally g ... [MORE]
Noise It constantly amazes how such a hushed, languid two piece can be so devastating, so covertly affective; think foggy, tungsten chills, like the strange feeling of waking up and knowing, even before you open your eyes, that it's a gray, chilly day outside. And "Used To Be," running around on the excited interwebs as "the new Beach House song," might be some of the duo's finest work yet. Twinkling organ, chiming vibraphone (we think), trailing vocal chorus, churning downcast electric guitar, all of ... [MORE]
Noise At some point in the past couple years, the Beechfields Record Label seemed to grow from just another Baltimore indie imprint with a couple bands producing the bulk of its discography to a fully formed label with several active bands on its roster. On Saturday night at Frazier's in Hampden, the label marked its latest release, the debut album by eastern Maryland singer/songwriter Mike Pursley, the way it always does: with a release party performance, complete with a cake to celebrate the occasio ... [MORE]
The News Hole Neel Kashkari, the Assistant Treasury Secretary respectfully known as Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's Mini Me, took a mean grilling today at a House Domestic Policy subcommittee hearing, during which--according to this deftly edited YouTube video--Baltimore's very own Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-7th) asked an impertinent question. A source close to the congressman says Cummings was not accusing Kashkari of actually being a chump, but more explaining that back in Baltimore, a chump is someon ... [MORE]
Feedbag It's a bakery! It's a deli! It's a market! It's a bar! It's a restaurant! It is the Parkside, the latest venue to open on the Hamilton-Lauraville stretch of Harford Road. Owners Vickie Johnson, Troy Zinderman, and former Brewer's Art brewer Chris Cashell and his wife, Colleen, have transformed the dicey Cameo Lounge (and prior to that, 1930s movie theatre, the Parkside) into a collection of food-centered businesses all under one roof. The idea to have so many facets of the business came from b ... [MORE]
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