
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
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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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Friday Night: Hopefully pick up a few friends and go hopping around the city tonight but will go solo most likely. I’m bound to have another story that I won’t be about to share for years to come, as usual.
Saturday night: Annex Theatre for a wham city theater show @ 8pm
Sunday: North point flea market to converse with the people who hand out the “Sparks” paper and how communism will never work and should put their energy into something worthwhile.
Posted by: rob brulinski | November 21, 2008 9:55 AM
Oh man, I've been looking forward to this weekend for a long time. Haven't spent one in Baltimore in a month...
Which means doing houscleaning crap for Thanksgiving prep.
Any good live music selections going on? I'm thinking of checking out Basshound at 8x10 Saturday night.
Posted by: duffster | November 21, 2008 10:15 AM
We are having a record release party for More or Less at the Hexagon tonight.
Posted by: love/hate | November 21, 2008 10:39 AM
Getting a week long weekend as I took off all next week, but for my plans this particular weekend...
Friday: Going to Fletcher's to catch a band I've been following for a long time, Innerpartysystem. However, not looking forward to the sold out crowd of underage hipsters and neon clothing for the horrendous fad band, 3oh!3.
Saturday: Tailgating and going to watch my alma mater, James Madison U., clinch the number 1 seed for the FCS playoffs against Towson.
Sunday: Football sunday...Hail!
Posted by: Terry | November 21, 2008 10:51 AM
Friday: Imperial China at WMUC at the Unversity of MD in College Park.
Saturday: MT6 Fest at the Hexagon with a crapload of excellent local bands.
Sunday: Avocado Happy Hour at the Ottobar.
Posted by: Jeff Mewbourn | November 21, 2008 11:38 AM
Tonight I'm probably going to hit up some place on Fort Ave. Haven't been there for awhile. Going to the JMU / Towson game Saturday. Then saturday night in Annapolis.
Go Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuukes!
Posted by: NR | November 21, 2008 11:39 AM
This Sunday, I go to my first professional football game.*
Does this—finally—make me a man?
*Regular season, that is. I once went to a Patriots exhibition game, right around the time the changed the logo.
Posted by: Patchen | November 21, 2008 12:52 PM
This evening I will be passing through "THE DIZZ" after work and having a beer. Then I will go home and have a beer. Then I will go to a different bar or seven and have a beer.
Tomorrow night I'm treating my dear mother to dinner at Grille Art Cafe. I figure if we get there by 5:30 we'll have our food by 7! I kid, I kid.
Posted by: Evan | November 21, 2008 2:01 PM