About Erik Maza
Erik Maza is a features reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He writes for several sections of the Sun paper and contributes weekly columns on music and nightlife. He also writes and edits the Midnight Sun blog. He often covers entertainment, business, and the business of entertainment. Occasionally, he writes about Four Loko, The Block, the liquor board, and those who practice "simulated sex with a potted palm tree." Before The Sun, he was a reporter at the Miami New Times. He's also written for Miami magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, the Sarasota Herald Tribune and the Gainesville Sun. Got tips? Gripes? Pitches? He's reachable at erik.maza@baltsun.com. Click here to keep up with the dumb music he's listening to.Midnight Sun covers Baltimore music, live entertainment, and nightlife news. On the blog, you'll find, among other things, concert announcements, breaking news, bars closings and openings, up-to-date coverage of crime in nightlife, new music, round-the-clock coverage of Virgin Mobile FreeFest, handy guides on bars staying open past 2 a.m. on New Year's Eve and those that carry Natty Boh on draft. Recurring features include seven-day nightlife guides, Concert News, guest reviews of bars and concerts, Wednesday Corkboard, and photo galleries, as well as reader-submitted photos. Thanks for reading.
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- Goodbye, you wretched Movable Type
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- July 5 - 10 in Baltimore nightlife: Cut Copy, Animal Collective, Def Leppard
- Virgin Mobile FreeFest line-up, date to be announced next week
- Photo Gallery: R. Kelly in concert at 1st Mariner Arena July 1
- Baltimore's best places to watch the fireworks
- June 27 - July 2 reviewed: Muggsys's, R. Kelly, African American Heritage Festival
- Charlie Wilson spans the R&B generation gap
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Comments
Genius.
Posted by: GF | July 24, 2008 3:00 PM
You must be bored today!
Posted by: David Sturgill | July 24, 2008 3:09 PM
Talk about a match made in heaven! Alright, who's it gonna be? who's gonna be the first to bash Sesame street? The letter I entered in the field below was the letter "S". HA HA HAAAAAA
Posted by: Anon | July 24, 2008 4:08 PM
Thanks - that song is going to be going through my head all night.
I particularly liked the chickens just back from the shore :)
Posted by: Anonymous | July 24, 2008 4:19 PM
You're finally posting the Feist Sesame Street video. I've know about it for awhile now.
Posted by: REBoehme | July 24, 2008 4:25 PM
I don't know if this is news, or even an appropriate topic for MidNight Sun, but today my son asked me if he could go to Toys R Us at MidNight on Friday. As in this friday, as in today. A strange request - especially since my son is four years old and can't tell time, or even give the most general explanation for the word MidNight. It seems that there is a new Star Wars animated feature film coming out soon and this Friday at Midnight marks the first availability of official Star Wars Clone Wars merchandise. So, people will be lining up outside of select Toys R Us locations so that at 12:01AM on Saturday they can be the first on the block with some new Star Wars toy...I mean Star Wars collectable. How is that for something different to do on Friday night?
Posted by: Beerman Cold Beer | July 25, 2008 12:51 AM
REBoehme -- wow, really? Man, I wish I knew you knew about it. Then I wouldn't have bothered in the first place ...
Posted by: Sam Sessa | July 25, 2008 9:29 AM
Bitter Sam Sessa.
Much less fun than the Funny Sam Sessa. Collect the whole set!
Posted by: JTK | July 25, 2008 9:52 AM
Lets not forget that Elmo is actually a large African American male from right here in Baltimore. Well, Elmo is from Turners Station (Dundalk) to be more exact, and his real name is Kevin Clash. He was a friend of Jim Henson from University of Maryland, College Park. There was even some talk of putting up an Elmo statue in the Old Town area of "downtown" Dundalk.
Posted by: Beerman Cold Beer | July 25, 2008 1:44 PM