With recording becoming more accessible these days, many aspiring musicians are taking the process into their own hands. With so much indie music flooding the scene, it is becoming even harder for artists to be recognized in the industry to turn their passion for music into a paycheck. In Baltimore, the now 28-year-old rapper Bossman [...]
This week one of the people I follow on Twitter posted a link to this blog that has recently been writing about Lauraville and Baltimore events. It is the accompanying blog of a website for Salamander Points, a Baltimore based website that has formulated a points system for a huge variety of things you eat [...]
I came across this blog called Harford Road, Hon about the neighborhood of Westfield in Baltimore, which is slightly northeast of Lauraville. It talks about a lot of things going on in the same general area and links to a lot of the businesses in Lauraville, including all of the places I did stories on [...]
After my Interview with Thomas from Zeke’s, he suggested that I talk to Jeff Smith, the owner and head chef of Lauraville’s Chameleon Cafe. There isn’t really a recent article about the cafe, but they have been reviewed several times so I read through a few of them to get an idea of what Smith [...]
This week I found the blog of John Laur, a Lauraville resident who recently started working with the Lauraville Improvement Association and recently visited the Tuesday Market Connection and wrote a blog about his experiences with some accompanying pictures. The blog itself focuses on John and his girlfriend Bobbie and their experiences in Lauraville. After [...]
I am having a really hard time to find current articles about Lauraville. It is a very small area of Baltimore, so there is not a lot of people blogging or writing articles about it; which is actually one of the reasons that I chose to cover it. I found a post in the blog All [...]
So I have almost completely abandoned my idea to do the stories about the hiking areas in Baltimore. While this is interesting to me, and I think could make for a great multimedia project, I just think it is going to be a stretch to be able to get all of the necessary elements together [...]
Possible Sites: • Great Falls (Md./VA line on Potomac River; ~1 hour) • Sugar Loaf Mountain (Dickerson, Md.; ~1 hour) • Gwynn Falls Trail/Leakin Park (Baltimore, Md.) The Peg: The Baltimore area has many recreational spots and trails that are a lot closer to the city than most people may realize. I want to try [...]
Possible Sites: • The Brewer’s Art (Baltimore, Md.) • Flying Dog Brewery (Frederick, Md.) • DuClaw Brewing Company (Bel Air, Md.) • Clipper City Brewing Company (Baltimore, Md.) The Peg: When most Americans think of beer, they think of the light lager style beers like Coors Light, Bud Light or Miller Lite. Originally beer was [...]
Possible Sites: • Lauraville Improvement Association • Zeke’s Coffee • Great Soul Wellness Studio • Grind On Cafe • Tuesday Market Connection in Lauraville (Baltimore Sun) – Starts June 2nd. The Peg: Lauraville is a tightly knit community in northeast Baltimore that is doing many things to improve both the quality of the area and [...]