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Hampdenfest to Bring Music, Food, Toilet Bowl Races to the Avenue
What began as a modest community event organized by the Hampden Village Merchants Association and the Hampden Community Council has grown into a quirky, oversize barnburner — albeit a family-friendly,...
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Good Luck Ravens Shirts for Those Who Don’t Own Jerseys
This week’s news is abuzz with what Baltimoreans are doing and wearing for good luck on Sunday. You might have noticed a coworker wearing the same “lucky jersey” every single day this week as a...
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Stephanie Barber Creates Poetry from YouTube Comments with ‘Night Moves’
If it is the job of the poet, as Emerson says it is, to “[re-attach] things to nature and the Whole” — to assimilate the ugly and novel into the “great Order” of poetry — then Baltimore polymath...
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Atomic Books Expands, Adds Alcohol!
Who doesn’t love browsing in Hampden, grabbing a beer, and buying a good book? Soon you can do all three in the same cozy establishment — wonderful Atomic Books — though not necessarily in that order....
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World Book Night Baltimore: “Books Can Only Make People Better”
Jamie Watson reads Jon Green — photos by Howard Yang. On Wednesday evening, five Baltimore book lovers shared excerpts from works they’ve adored for some time, novels and nonfiction that landed on the...
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Atomic Books presents: KILL YR ’90S NIGHT!
Okay, try to follow our logic on this one. Over a decade ago, Atomic Books started and ran an annual night of music dedicated to reminding us that no matter what our nostalgic impulses said, the music...
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Atomic Books Gets Even More Ecclectic with Insane 3-D Printer
Thankfully, at Atomic Books’, your miniature replica won’t be flesh-colored. Recently, Atomic Books, Hampden’s favorite alt-comics/outsider fiction/etc. shop, began serving alcohol. And now, to further...
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Writers Under the Influence at Atomic Books
Poetry always seems to enjoy a little surge in popularity around Valentines Day. And why not? A few well done verses can be all you need to create a total swoon-fest. The poet Pablo Neruda would...
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World Book Night Pre-Party at Atomic Books
World Book Night Pre-Party at Atomic Books Those book worms over at Atomic Books in Hampden really know how to party. As participants in World Book Night 2014, they’re hosting a pre-World Book Night...
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The Gift: 1 Page at a Time from Atomic Books
What it is: The book 1 Page at a Time: A Daily Creative Companion by Adam J. Kurtz. Available at Atomic Books. $15. In 1 Page at a Time, Adam J. Kurtz contends that things are what you make of them....
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The Gift: Baltimore Beer – A Satisfying History of Charm City Brewing
What it is: Since Mary Pickersgill sewed Old Glory on the floor of a local brewery, Baltimore has been a beer-drinking town. Rob Kaspar’s definitive history of our love affair with beer starts at the...
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The Gift: Baltimore Coloring Book
What It Is: A charming, actual coloring book with art drawn by local artists. The illustrations (which you color in) depict iconic views and scenes from Baltimore, as well as some of our most beloved...
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The Gift: Drone Art Baltimore
What It Is: Drone Art: Baltimore is a first of its kind photography book shot entirely using civilian drone technology. It sounds just slightly scary, but the photos taken by husband and wife aerial...
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Atomic Books: The Center of Everything
Whenever friends of mine come to Baltimore, they invariably demand that I take them to “that shop,” and they always mean the same place: Atomic Books, in Hampden. Now, Baltimore definitely has some...
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Survival of the Lit-est
For those hoisting metaphorical “End Is Nigh” signs near their local indie bookstores, 2011’s been positively Revelations-worthy: In Baltimore alone, local clearinghouse Daedelus Books dropped its...
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Baltimore’s (Thrilling) Backrooms
One of the things I love most about Baltimore is the fact that so many of its most interesting places are hidden from public view. Some of the city’s most charming venues, in fact, are the backrooms...
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"Will You Marry Me?" in a Baltimore Bookstore
Last Sunday, a handsome bearded young man strode inside Charlotte Hays Murray’s Bookstore Next Door in Hampden, and explained to the owner that he hoped to propose to his girlfriend in the next few...
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Sing Karaoke? You Could Be the Next Hampden Idol!
In addition to hot fried foods and home-grown indie music, now there’s one more fun reason to be psyched for September’s Hampdenfest: Hampden Idol 2011. It’s just like “American Idol,” except...
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Hampdenfest to Bring Music, Food, Toilet Bowl Races to the Avenue
What began as a modest community event organized by the Hampden Village Merchants Association and the Hampden Community Council has grown into a quirky, oversize barnburner — albeit a family-friendly,...
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Stephanie Barber Creates Poetry from YouTube Comments with ‘Night Moves’
If it is the job of the poet, as Emerson says it is, to “[re-attach] things to nature and the Whole” — to assimilate the ugly and novel into the “great Order” of poetry — then Baltimore polymath...
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