Our War of the Worlds is My Husband Versus the Squirrels
By Michele Wojciechowski | June 25, 2009
My husband and I, we used to like squirrels. A lot.
Having grown up in the city, I was thrilled when, at our old house, we would see the occasional squirrel either jumping on or running across our fence or running up our neighbor’s tree.
They were so cute. And when they would eat little nuts with their little paws, they were even cuter.
My husband doesn’t think they’re so cute anymore.
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Eats: Honey Bee Diner
By Caryn Coyle | June 12, 2009
“On several occasions, Elvis has been sighted eating here,” said Jim Filipidis, co-owner with his twin brother, Nick, of the Honey Bee Diner, 7346 Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie.
Evidently, Baltimore has an abundance of Elvis impersonators. “I’ve seen two of them sit at my counter,” Jim added, “They’ll eye each other from opposite ends.”
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Good Sports
By Bruce Goldfarb | June 11, 2009
Childhood favorites such as kickball and dodgeball are the rage, with teams cropping up all over town. Emphasizing on fun rather than athleticism, these sports are a good way to combine socializing with healthful physical activity.
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Eats: Home Cooking at the Sip & Bite
By Caryn Coyle | May 23, 2009
If you are lucky enough to get Sofia Vasiliadesas as your waitress at the Sip and Bite, you will be enchanted. And if you listen and watch in this neighborhood establishment, you might be reminded of the Empire Grill in Richard Russo’s Empire Falls. This is the kind of place where you can feel at home.
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No Cause for Alarm
By Michele Wojciechowski | May 22, 2009
WHOOOOOPPPP… WHOOOOOOPPP… WHOOOOOOPPP…
This was the lovely sound that recently awoke my husband and me in the middle of the night. Seems that our security system (i.e. burglar alarm) was tripped and blasting our eardrums, and, we hope, scaring the bejeezus out of whoever was trying to do whatever.
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Flying Fish
By Bruce Goldfarb | May 21, 2009
Craving a taste of Baltimore but confounded by the cruel fate of geography? Thanks to the miracle of overnight shipping, your taste buds could be in for a treat.
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The Prisoner of Violetville
By Noam Sane | May 19, 2009
Dale pops open another beer as we watch the television screen across his darkened rec room. The pool table is set up for a game yet to be played. Grainy video speeds by in quadrants on the monitor, the only source of light in the windowless room. Dale scowls as he pulls on his cigarette and fiddles with the buttons of the remote control.
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Eats: Broadway Diner
By Caryn Coyle | May 12, 2009
“It’s happy, fast-paced here. And no one can ever finish what they are served,” says Alexis Kavourakis, who manages the Broadway Diner at 6501 Eastern Avenue, just off Interstate 95. Her father, George Kavourakis has owned it for four years.
How do you keep people happy and feed them twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week? I think of Jay Gatsby’s parties in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby: “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer [sic] … spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.”
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