Archivist/Baltimore/she/her/I share this w/LarryTheCat.
Link: "Documenting a social movement in real time: The Preserve the Baltimore Uprising Archive Project"
Baltimore has way too many restaurants that are owned by the Smith brothers. Please - if you are boycotting
@OuzoBayBalt
or outraged by the openly discriminatory dress codes and other policies at
@The_Choptank
boycott ALL
@AtlasBaltimore
restaurants: next tweet is the list 1/
I know it’s fun to think, “The guy who refused medical treatment after being rescued from the Key Bridge must just be an old school blue-collar Baltimore guy,” but okay, let’s also think about road crew demographics in 2024 and why someone might be apprehensive of hospitals.
@CurtisGoodnight
Ugh, that's terrible, but I can completely understand someone doing whatever they could to avoid hospital bills. I've received EOBs that show the "total" cost before insurance and WHAT THE
@CarnieMega
Think we’ve all had bodies for a while and yeah, unless there’s a good reason *not* to go, I think plenty of people would go just to be checked. There are so many injuries that don’t show/surface immediately.
I broke & bruised 2 ribs and didn’t feel it until over a day later.
I don’t give a shit if Hogan sent us money today. He still blocked every progressive public education and transportation plan that would have actually benefited Baltimore, and then blames the city when it suffers.
I mean, I’m not giving that money BACK though. Don’t be tacky.
Public history, archives, library, activist friends:
I’m looking for good examples of community-based/participatory archives, and other collaborative efforts to preserve and archive the history of marginalized people. Any suggestions?
If you've been to any of the following Baltimore bars, stop worrying and just get the vaccine:
The Crown
Mt. Royal Tavern
Club Charles
The Depot
The Paradox
Sidebar
The Get Down
CVP
Red Maple
Eden’s Lounge
Paparazzi
Ottobar
The 8x10
Club Hippo
Grand Central
Club Bunns
Leon’s
1/
@stschrader1
Honestly kind of surprised that there’s a super proactive “Blue Lives Matter” pro-police graffiti artist out there readily willing to vandalize another artist’s work in the name of the establishment.
The Smith family owns Sinclair Broadcasting and its 193 stations nationwide, as well as Atlas Restaurant Group and its 32 establishments. They co-own the Baltimore Sun and Curio Wellness, real estate & other investments.
They don’t want to “fix” Baltimore, they want to own it.
It's 62 degrees in Baltimore and there is a Winter Storm Warning for tonight, when the temperature will drop about 30 degrees and our mental and emotional well-being will drop off the fucking charts.
Ah, Baltimore. Nothing like a beautiful 3:15pm start to sunset on a 66 degree day with 15mph winds, a 25% chance of rain in 2 hours, and a 50% chance of snow in 2 days.
@jonstewart
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Springtime in Baltimore, which means that whether it’s the Bradford pear trees or the Water & Wastewater treatment facilities, the whole city looks absolutely beautiful and smells like absolute shit.
Y'all shouldn't be going to ANY of these IN BALTIMORE:
Azumi
Ouzo Bay
Ouzo Beach
Loch Bar
The Elk Room
Italian Disco Pizzeria
Bygone
Harbor East Deli
Tagliata
Choptank
The Lollipop
Maximón
Monarque
Atlas Fish Market
Watershed
Atlas Farms
2/
@myemtv
My future unborn children: Wow, mom! Are these necklaces heirloom?
Me, 20 years from now: No, sweetheart. That’s from a magical place called Anthropologie, and that’s from H&M.
The fact that white supremacist Proud Boys have made it past multiple levels of security to get INSIDE the Capitol Building without facing ANY of the excessive force measures taken against progressive protesters a few months ago is pretty telling.
A woman parked at 26th & St Paul just rolled down her window and said, “EXCUSE ME. Did you walk all the way from Charles & Saratoga? I saw you when I was at the dentist. Damn girl, that’s why you looking like that.”
I feel seen, literally and figuratively. Say hi if you see me.
Imagine being a Black woman in a majority-Black city and stumbling upon a local festival celebrating a highly romanticized stereotype of (white) working class women.
And that, my dear friends, is me realizing I have unknowingly walked right into HonFest.
Happy Legalization Day!
Remember: friends don’t let friends buy Curio, a major cannabis brand/distributor that is heavily funded by David Smith (of the wealthy, conservative Smith family) and obviously, don’t eat at Atlas restaurants after smoking your newly legal weed!
Compare this (quite possibly the whitest night in downtown Baltimore in recent history) to the reports from Wednesday night. Let's play "Spot the Difference."
'This is what Baltimore should be': Busy night brings thousands downtown
Simultaneously learning that the mayor has a gf, she’s expecting, and I’m tangentially related to her is the most Baltimore thing I’ve experienced in a minute.
Wait but seriously, I’ve had a long-standing dream of creating a Baltimore Club Music archive. Who would you interview? What kinds of collections would you want to see? Flyers? Oral histories? News articles? Essays?
Kim Klacik canvassers standing at the corner of Keswick and 33rd, perplexingly leafing through a binder full of papers, just asked me what neighborhood and district this is.
I told them good luck and kept walking.
Hey
@JohnsHopkins
! Not trying to put your bus drivers on blast, but I was under the impression that shuttle buses should stop at designated (signed) spots, including Penn Station. So why doesn’t the bus stop for me or my other Black JHU affiliates? Do we need to wave a flag?
Reliving the moment when Baltimoreans toppled the Columbus Statue, it "somehow" ended up in the Harbor, others tried to retrieve it, and it slipped right back in. Beautiful.
Christopher Columbus Statue Pulled From Water In Baltimore via
@YouTube
I feel compelled to alert Baltimore Twitter that John Brown Butchery (located in the old Parts & Labor building on Howard St.) is now open and that's it.
You mean to tell me that the place that (still) has a 5 foot mural of Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the side of their building is acting in a misguided and counterproductive manner?
Dang.
It’s starting to feel like a Baltimore summer, so this is a friendly reminder to keep some small bills on you in case of an emergency.
Like an unexpected drag show.
Or a visit from an arabber.
Or a run-in with Al Pacino Ice Cream, Baltimore’s favorite ice cream truck.
There are so many other Black people that can offer really enlightening, meaningful perspectives that next time you think, “We need Ibram Kendi’s take on this!”, please consider asking them to share some words. He’s not the Official Black Spokesperson or Antiracist Translator.
Woke up, went back to sleep.
Glaring at my phone for cursing my nap, I saw that it was an acceptance to the first MLIS program I’ve ever applied to.
I’m 30, it took literally 8 years, quitting my job as an archivist, and a pandemic, but I’m (finally) going to grad school.
Couldn’t possibly be that an overpriced, mediocre-at-best brunch spot called “Let’s Brunch” that’s owned by a failed politician (who endorsed Thiru after dropping out) in a space owned by a(n accused) sexual assaulter where a beloved corner bar/restaurant once stood would fail!
"Exhibiting characteristics of an armed person," we know what that means.
"We have a lot of body-worn camera footage to look at," we know what that means.
They fired at least 6 shots at a 17 y.o. after mocking his shoes and for being Black. This is why we can never trust BPD.
NEW: Baltimore Police say the person shot was 17 years old, saying he was displaying traits of an armed person before he took off running. Officers rendered aid and the 17 year old is in critical condition.
@wjz
I’m sure it’s “purely coincidental” that Hogan is avoiding addressing the missing two weeks of COVID data just at the height of a season filled with travel, shopping, potential financial gains - I mean, HOLIDAY SPIRIT - and indoor recreation.
Shout out to the construction worker at 33rd and Greenmount that just lit a cigar, saw a vision-impaired man with a white cane across the street, crossed the street, held out his arm in the most unpretentiously chivalrous manner, and escorted the man across the busy intersection.
@susanorlean
Somebody get this woman a Pulitzer.
I swear to god, her tweets are getting us through the summer of the most tumultuous year in recent history.
Amazing how Hogan returned $900m of federal funding AND reallocated $736m of state funds originally for the Red Line into building roads in white areas, and now his Purple Line pet project for the DC ‘burbs is $1.4 billion over budget.
Maryland says planned "Purple Line" light rail expansion in D.C. suburbs will now open in fall 2026 (4.5 years late) and at cost of an extra $1.4 billion.
As many people know, they are the sons of Frederick Smith, who co-owns Sinclair Broadcast Group
@WeAreSinclair
. In Baltimore, Sinclair owns Fox45, MyTV, and The CW networks.
There are much better things to watch, and many better ways to entertain yourselves than to support them.
Remember when several months ago, people were absurdly scared of squeegee kids coming too close to their cars? And then last week, a bunch of like-minded people tried to stage The Dumbest Insurrection in Modern History? Hm.
Owings Mills is such a weird suburb. Nouveau Riche interacting with Old Money and No Money. I just watched a burly looking dude getting out of his Escalade squealing with fear after he saw a kid with a mullet emerging from the woods with his bike like a Goonie Child of the Corn.
Pulled a cicada that landed in my hair like it was making a nest out of my curls. It screamed as I pulled it out and threw it to the ground.
In related news, if you see a woman in a beekeeping suit walking around Charles Village, say hi to me!
I know the
@weatherchannel
forecast did not just tell us for the past 3 days that today would be filled with 6 hours of "severe thunderstorms, damaging winds, and possible hail," only for it to lightly rain around noon and then end by 2pm.
By the way, if your shtick is to perennially complain about Black people being outside during the summer and how that’s hurting your restaurant because it scares your “customers,” please kindly see yourself out of Baltimore and over to a city that’s *not* over 60% Black.
I get that Suzanne Loudermilk is a respected food writer, but elevating coded narratives from Alex Smith about crime and Ashish Alfred about being "accosted by the squeegee kids" is part of a bigger-than-food-culture problem that should not go unchecked.
Don't know who needs to hear this, but in a city as blue as Baltimore, you're going to have to do a lot harder than a "Joe & Kamala" sticker and "lived in Hampden" to convince us. There has never been a time in which Hampden was without racial strife.
@LisaMcCray
Who would have thought that 25 years later, between Alicia Silverstone and Stacey Dash, Cher would get all the points?
(Though I will admit, Stacey Dash hasn’t aged a second)
Went to a predominantly white, somewhat conservative Catholic school in Towson and honestly, the whole town kind of creeped me the fuck out. So many white people living (by choice) in a colorless, melanin-deficient bubble just minutes from Baltimore.
Hopkins undergraduates (undergraduates in general),
Please understand that Minnetonka Moccasins and Sperry Top-Sider boat shoes are not appropriate footwear for a Baltimore snowstorm during a pandemic when hospitals are nearly at capacity. Who raised you? Buy some Tims.
Yeah, there are hot food trends like the “Caesar salad & fries,” but let’s talk about this ongoing trend of local restauranteurs blaming Baltimore’s “crime and safety” concerns as the root cause of poor business.
Fells Point restaurant owner has decided to temporarily close three businesses in the historic district. In this lengthy statement Chef Ashish Alfred cites on-going safety concerns.
@FOXBaltimore
If you’re in public, put your dog on a leash.
I know, YOUR dog is amazing and obedient and would never do anything dangerous. But you absolutely cannot account for other dogs, animals, children, adults, literally anything else.
When I look back on this year, my greatest accomplishments will be 1) announcing Wyman Park Dell goat arrivals and departures to Baltimore Twitter and 2) giving a 15-minute presentation, followed by a Q&A at a national conference without wearing pants.
2020 was kind of weird.
Woke up this morning at around 4:40 because I heard sirens. It already smelled like campfire. Went outside and saw firefighters raising ladders to get our neighbors out. The fire was a tragedy in itself, but it was finding out the cause of the fire that absolutely gutted me.
My favorite thing about springtime in Baltimore is overhearing people describing the scent of Bradford Pear trees in wonderfully creative ways: "smells like sweaty dick," "They got Charles St. smelling like doodoo," and the classic, "Why it smell like shit out here, bruh?"
Walked through Hampden after the Christmas Parade and half the people were wearing their holiday-themed pajamas outdoors, so it just looks like any other day in Hampden.
The “LOVECONQUERSFEAR” tag all over Baltimore’s (sometimes recently) gentrified neighborhoods has really made me rethink my respect for “all types of graffiti.”
Adults deserve more inclement weather days.
It’s a travesty that we live in this capitalist society that expects (on super-soaker dark, rainy, windy days like this) for us to do anything more than stare out the window, dramatically sighing while sipping coffee or tea.
Baltimore friends,
If you’re ever in need of a slight self-esteem boost, get yourself over to an intersection with some squeegee people out there and just be nice to them.
I don’t know what it is, but they know the art of complimenting without being creepy or crass.
I don’t have children, so forgive me, but I’m so tired of hearing parents say their children have “suffered enough” from wearing a mask at school when they have clearly not considered how much their child could end up suffering from the long-term effects of COVID.
@LisaMcCray
I recently saw someone shove about $40 of meat into a backpack and walk out of the grocery store. Do I get an MSNBC segment? Because I will tell everyone to “mind your damn business,” because the rent is too damn high.
Good afternoon, Baltimore.
It's October 1st. Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life as bag people. I've been a bag lady for years and rest assured, you will quickly adjust to the sights and feelings of tote bags everywhere.
@ElectRyanDorsey
@FedEx
So is anyone that has said Ryan is complaining about something minuscule going to admit they don’t even know what this city block looks like?
Because this is a two-lane, one-way street with 3-4 parking spaces that are never being used. You can also see them in this photo.
Safeway patron: Ohmygod, I love your tattoos, the sun and moon? What do they mean?
Me: Oh, thank you! It’s actually the sun and moon from a Ouija board.
Them: Wait. Isn’t that demonic?
Me: Oh, it was invented in Baltimore, and I wouldn’t say demonic, it’s—
Them: *already gone*
The Drinkery
Hammerjack’s
Bourbon Street
Sandbar
Baja Beach Club
Cancun Cantina
Frazier’s
Ram’s Head
Holy Frijoles
Windup Space
Bad Decisions (or literally any bar in Fells Pt., Fed Hill or Canton)
Quit playing like you didn't put your body through hell, and just get the vaccine
Dear Maryland politicians in support of shutting down The Block at 10pm,
If you're so worried about sex trafficking, why is MD so behind on passing a "safe harbor" law?
Signed,
Is This About Persecuting Sex Workers?
Which is a totally different guy also named Gov Larry Hogan who strategically cancelled the Red Line while simultaneously pushing forward on the Purple Line. Same name, same build, same Blue Lives Matter flag hanging in the background, but three totally different guys, seriously.
Must have been a different Gov Larry Hogan that used the pandemic as an excuse to veto funding for proven violence prevention programs like Safe Streets.
Thinking about years ago when a guy on Tinder asked if I wanted to go “tourist around Baltimore” and I said, “We can get a drink, but I see people everywhere, I can’t be caught doing goofy shit like a Duck Boat Tour” and he unmatched.
Anyway, just saw him in my work building!
There is something truly unique about Baltimore shade-throwing and calling out. It’s the most bombastic, no frills, no bullshit sort of shade, and Atlas Restaurant Group deserves every single bit of it that we can muster.
If anything should make us more invested in patronizing local, independent, non-Atlas restaurants, this should be it. They’re buying up restaurants and serving bland, gentrified versions of actual food with racist dress codes and old school country club vibes.
So HBO became HBO Go and then changed to HBO Max, and now it's going to be MAX, but HBO still owns Cinemax—remember when Cinemax was (briefly) MAX?
By some design flaw, we used HBO Max a week or 2 ago and had commercials for Episode 2 of Love & Death and wow, it was terrible.
Hard to believe the Baltimore Banner is only a few months old. Seems like just yesterday that they started publishing terrible, bigoted Opinion pieces and (occasionally) giving belated (half-assed) apologies like the decades-older papers. They grow up so fast!
I get that Suzanne Loudermilk is a respected food writer, but elevating coded narratives from Alex Smith about crime and Ashish Alfred about being "accosted by the squeegee kids" is part of a bigger-than-food-culture problem that should not go unchecked.
1) Your other restaurants have been failing because of shady business dealings
2) You talked shit about Baltimore while IN Baltimore
3) You praised Alex Smith & Atlas Restaurants
4) You talked shit about Black Baltimoreans
5) You messed with Cynthia Bailey
TRASH.