Charm City’s Bosley Brown doesn’t perform in the park much anymore. His band is pretty busy packing the dance floor.
It’s that time again. Visit Charm City for 13 blocks of aesthetic experience. July 19 to 21, 2013. Free.
32nd Annual Artscape, Baltimore, Maryland. Festival website here.
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The National Pinball Museum is being bounced from its Georgetown Park location, but it’s flipping up to Baltimore. Look for an official announcement soon and a Charm City museum opening in November.
What it means for you: Free Game! More accurately, free museum admission today through Monday.
National Pinball Museum
The Shops at Georgetown Park
3222 M St NW
(corner of M St NW and Wisconsin Ave NW)
Washington D.C.
Saturday 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM
Sunday & Monday (Labor Day) 12:00 Noon to 6:00 PM
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Hey! What’s new in Baltimore?
Better go back and find out.
– Frank Vincent Zappa, “What’s New in Baltimore?”
Musician and composer Frank Zappa (1940-1993) was born in Baltimore, spending boyhood years in a Park Heights Avenue row house and at nearby Edgewood Arsenal. His family moved to California in 1952, but Charm City is honoring its native son with a statute from Lithuania. There will also be free performances and a symposium at this weekend’s sculpture dedication.
Hey! What’s new in Baltimore?
Better go back and find out.
— Frank Vincent Zappa, “What’s New in Baltimore?”
Musician and composer Frank Zappa (1940-1993) was born in Baltimore, and spent boyhood years in a Park Heights Avenue row house and at nearby Edgewood Arsenal. His family moved to California in 1952, but Charm City plans to honor its native son with a statute from Lithuania, which will be placed somewhere in Fell’s Point.
Lithuania? Did Mr. Zappa visit that Baltic land or have kinfolk there? Nope. It turns out that young revolutionaries in the capital city of Vilnius adopted the music of FZ as a symbol of freedom:
We never saw Zappa, but nobody ever saw God, and they still go to church. Lithuania is a nation of mythology, legends and fairy tales. Everything is mystified. People believe really quickly, and one of the myths is that independence is good for everyone, with no exceptions. That’s why, in such an environment, the Zappa seeds were so successfully planted.
— Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian musician, quoted by Adam B. Ellick in Rolling Stone.
After the fall of the USSR, grateful Lithuanian patriots erected a statue of the inspirational Mr. Zappa in the hip Užupis neighborhood of Vilnius which, except for a medieval monastery or two, seems a lot like today’s Fell’s Point.
The statue, a representation of Frank Zappa’s head by sculptor Konstantinas Bogdanas, is on a tall thin column. A duplicate of this 15-foot-tall artwork, purchased by Lithuanian admirers, will be shipped to Baltimore, (the city will pay for crating, shipping, and installation). The sculpture looks a bit like a huge parking meter, the kind Fell’s Point is phasing out. The exact site for the statue has yet to be determined.
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An exhibition of work by Baltimore artist John Malloy (pen & ink, oil paint, mixed media, prints) opens Saturday, February 21st at Art Whino National Harbor. Opening reception: 6pm to midnight; music by Rank & File.
Mr. Malloy is also a well-regarded visual narrative artist and illustatrator.
Art Whino relocated from Alexandria to National Harbor in Oxon Hill (a few minutes from DC) last year. Read about it in WaPo and On Tap.
Art Whino
173 Waterfront Street
Oxon Hill, MD 20745
301-567-8210
(directions)
website
blog
Bluegrass radio is on the air in Northern Virginia. Why is this news? The transmitter, mighty 250-watt W288BS-FM (105.5 MHz), is the “translator” or relay station for Washington’s WAMU-FM which, after 47 years, deleted Bluegrass from its programming during the Great Bluegrass Purge of 2001. The American University public broadcaster put Bluegrass out to pasture way beyond the North 40, in the sideband Siberia known as HD Radio ™.
Only one thing can save Maryland’s education system and the futures of innocent children. Remarkably, the very same thing will save the state’s strategic Equine Industry — you know, racing, the track, the ponies, Sport of Kings And Guys Named Lefty.
The solution: License corporations to take money from Maryland’s poor, one quarter at a time, rake off half and give the rest to the state government. Slot machines are the only salvation for education and the impoverished owners of Thoroughbred horses.
What kind of freakin’ jerks put this Road Rage List together anyway? A list of the worst road rage cities and DC is only number 5? What’s with that?
Okay, Miami pulls out in front, claro, and New York if you count taxis, but the Washington area cut off by lousy Boston and Baltimore? Boston drivers are cream pie since they finished that Big Dig, and Charm City drivers have been soft-shelled ever since Cantown got gentrified.
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