Getting your Baltimore on
Sometimes you go out for a beer and wind up having a wild and crazy time you know could have only happened in this city. I call it getting your Baltimore on.
Last weekend, a couple of friends and I were slurping homemade Jello shots and sucking down $2 Budweiser bottles at a bar so smoky it made my eyes water.
This place didn't even have a sign out front, but it had an old piano inside. And after I had a couple of drinks, I started hammering out some old roadhouse blues tunes on the piano for the regulars, who ate it up.
Later on, a crazy old lady with a piercing cackle came over and told us some hilarious dirty jokes. Now that's getting your Baltimore on.
My question: How do you get your Baltimore on? Does it involve Natty Bohs and dancing on the bar? Or is it something weird and quirky that you could only find in Charm City?
I've been The Baltimore Sun's nightlife and local entertainment reporter for a couple years, and it's surprising how much the scene has grown in that time. Most of Baltimore's bars and clubs are unpretentious places with fairly cheap drinks and plenty of character. I like dancing and think this city needs more clubs, but nothing beats having a cold, locally brewed beer with friends in a comfortably full corner bar.
