So how about inviting denizens of the sandbox to post their own amateur reviews this week. Maybe you could squeeze a couple of them into a review substitute.

I dunno, Canon. I really doubt people want to hear about my lunch today at Chicken Rico (it was awesome, as always).

Canon - does the mainandbroadway site you referenced a couple weeks ago have something to do with Vancouver? If so, which Vancouver?

Buck, I think the Canon's new church is located at Main and Broadway

http://www.emmanuel.ang-md.org/

The website seems to need a updating, but I'm quite confident in the Canon's inspirational abilities.

Thanks, Eve.

no monday morning QB of the Prime Rib review?

I was surpirsed that the review gave PR staff 3.5 stars when the review noted that it is "top notch." I find the service there wonderful; not sure how it could be better. Otherwise, hard to argue with it. We go to the PR because we know what we're getting and that is what we want.

As it is, 3.5 stars is a body blow. 4 stars and the Monday headline would be "Prime Rib destroyed by meteor, no survivors".

Does the Prime Rib still routinely direct timely arrivals to the bar even when tables are open?

sherry lynn (and others), EL had already posted the Prime Rib MMQB about 20 minutes before you made your post.

Bucky: My new location is Main Street and Broadway in Bel Air, Maryland, as Eve pointed out. And yes, the website is in need of attention. (We're actually securing a separate domain name, though we will continue to be hosted on the Diocese of Maryland server.)

From that corner I can look south to see the beginnings of old, downtown Bel Air, with the armory, restaurants and the courthouse. Beyond that is the mall, the new high school and the new hospital. So, all business and professional in that direction.

Looking north, I can see the place where the old MA and PA (Maryland & Pennsylvania) railroad crossed Main Street, gone now 50 years. Across those tracks was the tiny African American community of Frogtown and the farmland that makes up the most of the county.

Looking east there is a block of old houses and apartments that are almost entirely Hispanic and beyond that an 80 acre woodlot that was developed into a family compound of Williamsburg style homes. New immigrants and old money side by side.

To the East there are new condos built within a block of the developed hiking and biking trail, filled with young professionals, but also the town's most used funeral home.

One of the attractions for me of being at this intersection is the possibility of bringing such diversity into a community. My sense, after living almost 20 years in this neighborhood, is that local culture was built around division and separation, rather than on bringing differences together. I am eager to see what can happen with such a new pattern and the MainandBroadway blog (once we get it up and running) will document that.

Ah, I see. I tried mainandbroadway.com this weekend (I made a note when you mentioned it) and got a hit on some "under construction" website that referenced Vancouver. That prompted my question.

If what I've learned of you on here is any indication, you will, indeed, be able to facilitate the building of a new community.