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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- Concert news: IDentity Festival, Tom Tom Club, Return to Forever
- HFStival announces 2011 line-up headlined by Avett Brothers; stays at Merriweather
- New Preakness cocktail recipes from B&O American Brasserie, Idle Hour, Sloop Betty, and others
- Still want tickets for Grace Potter's Bonnaroo Buzz Tour show?
- Maryland Jockey Club releases Preakness Infield map
- Giveaway: Six tickets to Grace Potter show at Rams Head Live, including two with meet-and-greets
- Club One has closed; club was site of 2009 double shooting
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i love that in the ad it says, "Montreal, despite being in Canada, is a real city"
Posted by: Anonymous | July 11, 2008 1:11 PM
Sorry to be off topic, but did anyone notice that Bo BICE will be at Seacrets this weekend? and no Midnight Sun reference?
Posted by: Mike | July 11, 2008 1:32 PM
Oh snap! That one slipped by me ... load cannon!
Posted by: Sam Sessa | July 11, 2008 1:43 PM
I would be highly, highly interested in participating in something like this. But what would the destination be? (I say Savannah)
Posted by: Evan | July 11, 2008 2:24 PM
it really is a pretty cool idea, and would be an interesting chance of pace in terms of a quick weekend vacation. registration fee aside, that would be like what, 300-400 dollars for the whole trip?
Posted by: Allan | July 11, 2008 3:19 PM
per team, methinks, if that. so if you get a car of 4-5 ppl that'd be a pretty effing cheap trip.
.........................i think i'm going to start doing some online research into how much this would actually cost.
Posted by: Evan | July 11, 2008 3:54 PM
ahhh, all those extra people might be able to pay money, but would be dead weight if you're in it to win it.
Posted by: Allan | July 11, 2008 4:22 PM
5 people in a car for twelve hour trip sounds like too much togetherness, even if you're more than friends.
Posted by: karlosi | July 13, 2008 12:10 AM
i was talking it over with the gf (who was pretty excited by the idea) and we thought 3 per car would be a pretty cheap way to do it.
Posted by: Allan | July 14, 2008 8:53 AM
yeah I was just perusing some of the listings on Thrifty rentacar and it's pretty cheap - like 182 bucks per week with 1000 miles free (plus 10% off if you use an AmEx card). for a 2 to 3-day trip it would conceivably be dirt cheap.
Posted by: Evan | July 14, 2008 7:53 PM
thats not a bad deal at all. how would we coordinate start points though? i'm thinking everyone start at one predetermined place? like in the parking lot of someplace big and well known.
Posted by: Allan | July 15, 2008 9:44 AM
yah, any park n' ride would do, synchronize watches, that sort of thing.
LET'S DO THIS
Posted by: Evan | July 15, 2008 6:56 PM