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Month: January 2007
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A Little Sake To Beat The Winter?
January 29th, 2007
Friday, Feb 2nd
Robert Mintz: "Drinking in the Arts of Asia: Wine Cups, Sake Bottles, & Drunken Scholars" at the Walters. I loves me some sake, and I also loves the Friday Night tours at the Walters Art Gallery on Charles Street, where a curator gives you a more in-depth look at a particular collection. As you might have heard, the Walters (and the BMA) are all free as of last year, so check out these museums!
Six More Weeks of Winter?
Groundhog Day is now an excuse to party! The Baltimore Architecture Foundation will celebrate this underrated holiday with a light-and-shadow-themed party. The soiree is to be held at Gutierrez Studios (2010 Clipper Park Road) and catered by Spike Gjerde's new restaurant, Woodberry Kitchen. Black and white cocktail attire is encouraged. RSVP for some music and mingling! February 3rd at 7 p.m.; $20 to $35; 410-539-7772.
Cake, Football and Strange Books
January 10th, 2007
The Food Network reality show "Ace of Cakes" is starting its 2nd season next week! The show follows Charm City Cakes, a shop mere blocks from where Stuart & Allison live in Remington, which is staffed by a bunch of quirky arty types (and many Fluid Movement regulars, for fans of the summer water ballets). Set your TiVo for Thursdsay night at 10:30 PM! You may catch a glimpse of Marla in one of the episodes...
This Wednesday night is another beginner salsa class at Club One starting at 7:30 PM. Join our growing salsa community!
Saturday afternoon is a grudge match of truly legendary proportions: The Baltimore Ravens host the Indianapolis Colts in a Divisional Playoff game starting at 4 PM. For those new to local football history, the Indianapolis Colts are considered an all-encompassing evil for their franchise's desertion of Baltimore in the middle of the night on March 28th, 1984. The town went to sleep with a football team and woke up without one--they had packed everything into moving vans and bolted, without any forewarning. This betrayal still stings for older Baltimoreans, and should lend this game even more weight than who gets to move on to the AFC title game. I'll be buying beers for anyone who wants to show up at PJs Pub in Charles Village.
Stay with me on the next one:
Atomic Books on 36th Street in Hampden is one of the better bookstores on the planet for the offbeat and strange. They also put out The Mobtown Shank, a weekly newsletter of anecdotes, concert announcements, and random musings. Sign up to receive it weekly, then go look in your Spam filter for the first issue.
All of which leads up to--the Shank Reading Club! Atomic Books sponsors a reading club that meets once a month. During that month, the book being read is 15% off. Here's the lineup for 2007:
SHANK READING CLUB 2007
One of the issues we came up against when choosing our list of classic graphic novels last year was that a lot of titles we'd like to have put on the list weren't really stand alone books but part of a multi-volume series.
So for the New Year, we're going to explore first books from their respective series! But not only in the comic format - we're delving deep into genre fiction, where multi-volume epics and chronicles are the norm. I think you'll find that with all of the coming year's selections, these books all stray in interesting ways from their given "categories."
JANUARY: Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
FEBRUARY: The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
MARCH: Buddha V1: Kapilavastu by Osamu Tezuka
APRIL: Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes
MAY: Neuromancer by William Gibson
JUNE: Hellblazer: Original Sins by Jamie Delano
JULY: Cerebus by Dave Sim
AUGUST: The Invisibles V1: Say You Want a Revolution by Grant Morrison
SEPTEMBER: Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite
OCTOBER: The Ring
NOVEMBER: Lone Wolf & Cub V1 by Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima
DECEMBER: American Elf Volume 1 by James Kochalka
So drop in when you want, or go for the whole ride. Each month's title will be on sale at 15% off during its respecitve month.
Discussions will be held on the last Wednesday of each month at atomic POP and usually involve some form of exotic liquor.
Email Rachel@atomicbooks.com to be kept in the loop and for your secret decoder ring.
-Tim
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