
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.
Comments
When did Howard Stern buy those bars?
"Disclaimer" - Howard Stern doesn't own either bar. It was a joke. That is all.
Posted by: eeyore | March 27, 2009 4:25 PM
JetSetMafia = meat head d-bags with cameras!
Terrible affiliation for Cosmetic Sergery Center of Maryland!
Posted by: D-Bag | March 27, 2009 4:34 PM
Voila! These types of events are why Power Plant Live gets a bad rap, just a guess
Posted by: Neighbor | March 27, 2009 5:23 PM
Shouldn't the grand prize be awarded to the girl that needs it the most??
Posted by: Mike | March 27, 2009 5:36 PM
Once you get passed the new low in bad taste, aliening normal patrons and bad press for the bars, it would be a great event for Howard Stern to M.C.
A pity that it wouldn't make a great radio tie in for Howard.
Posted by: GDA | March 27, 2009 6:23 PM
Not my style of event but I will say its a good enough gimmick that I've heard more people talk about this event than any other events in the area.
Sam, has it been 6 months since Rock Bar's exile from the blog?
Posted by: Evan of Steez Promo | March 27, 2009 6:32 PM
I hope Screech wins!
Posted by: CJ | March 27, 2009 9:58 PM
i think the jet set website just gave me an std.
Posted by: bill | March 28, 2009 12:58 AM
Oh snap! I forgot about the exile. Hmm ... I'm going to have to check the archives ...
Posted by: Sam Sessa | March 28, 2009 1:02 PM
Didn't know it costs six grand for saline (or silicone) boobs. The winner better pray she doesn't leak in a decade or two, esp if they're silicone.
Glad I'm happy with the small ones God gave me. I've got a healthy self-esteem and confidence that comes from having a high IQ...not fake body parts to please shallow men.
Posted by: Courtney B. | March 28, 2009 1:27 PM
Bill, that was priceless! Hahahaha
Posted by: chris | March 28, 2009 4:29 PM
just sounds like boobs for boobs by boobs
Posted by: karlosi | March 28, 2009 5:29 PM
Courtney ... you don't even need high IQ to be disgusted by men with spray tans and hair gel. I think I would get a boob reduction if it would keep them away from me. Can't they all be exiled to the Jersey shore or something? :-)
Posted by: Victoria | March 28, 2009 5:36 PM
Courtney B.,
It is perfectly spendid that you have the confidence in your value as a person as you are and not been manipulated by anyone into changing your body or anything else purely to please them.
Victoria,
How come you need slag any state when the breed of person you're talking can be found anywhere including natives born and raised in Baltimore and may not even be male. Your remark betrays a different kind of shallow, maybe you should compete for the boob job as a donor.
Posted by: GDA | March 29, 2009 1:05 PM
GDA ... I suppose it because I live in such close proximity to Towson State and have to drive a half hour to escape the meatheads from said offended State who have over-run the once friendly, laid-back, and down to earth burg. I know I am giving away my age but about twenty years ago, before the invasion, it was such a different place :-( now you may get run down by a BMW with NJ plates while trying to cross the street!
Posted by: Victoria | March 29, 2009 10:12 PM
No, Victoria has a point. Send em' back to Jersey. If you take longer to get ready to go out than my girlfriend does, and insist on wearing your button down shirt, 4 buttons open, then we've got a state where you'll fit right in.
Posted by: Allan | March 30, 2009 11:02 AM
Mosaic used to be about booking international touring house music DJs like Mark Farina and Miguel Migs -- how far they have sunk with gimmics.
Yuk.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 30, 2009 11:57 AM
I actually interviewed these dbs (promoters) who say they're xtian as like 5 girls roll out of what must be the bedroom, yuck.
Posted by: Molly | March 30, 2009 4:14 PM
Victoria, You're not going to convince that y'all don't have more than enough homegrown "talent" on this front. You probably don't even regiater any of the Maryland plates putting you in the same peril.
Allan,
You've proved on other occasions that slagging New Jersey doen't need any reason beyond talking a lot of trash ala Tim Lumber with better grammar.
Posted by: GDA | March 30, 2009 5:16 PM
And all of this barely hidden hatred of my wonderful Baltimorons and other native Marylanders from a self professed fan of Howard Stern? Need I say more? Though slayest thy own self ... :-)
Posted by: Victoria | March 30, 2009 9:26 PM
Victoria,
Accuse me of many things but a Howard Stern fan I'm not.
That remark was meant as sarcasum.
No hidden hate, just defense of my home state and it's residents which are given more negative credit than due. Not always charitable to being, unwaranted, the the Rodney Dangerfield amongst the of states. I'm still of the opinion that you give your native Marlanders more slack than due or maybe blind to oblvious.
At this point we need not a say more.
Posted by: GDA | March 31, 2009 9:14 AM
GDA,
I'm sure we can all appreciate the great strain it must take to remove your monocle and top hat, whilst you write your, "ever so clever" replies.
P.S. I bet you wear a cape, don't you?
Posted by: Allan | April 1, 2009 9:43 AM
Allan,
While there is an occasionally some attraction to the formality of top hat and monocle without the cape, of course, too theatrical and impractical for the reasons akin to those given by Edna B. Mode (basically a caricature of designer Edith Head) in "The Incredibles". If that truly was my self image we wouldn't be spending this quality time in print as I never would have discovered the virtual meeting place.
I would think we all would like some of our comments to be clever as it makes even the informative entertaining reading, but mostly we excel at it's evil twin, sarcasm, both stepchildren to being witty.
Enter New Jersey as a target of cheap remarks by several of present company in general, you in specific. Unless I have selective memory, you have made the most, largely to be a ball buster, including the crass statement as it being the armpit of the country, all the drop of the proverb, and previously referred to, hat.
I bow, tip my fedora of choice, and exit stage right.
Posted by: GDA | April 1, 2009 1:16 PM
And yet you keep coming back whenever I post.
Posted by: Allan | April 1, 2009 2:18 PM
Allan,
You forgot "BWAHAHAHAHA"
Posted by: RayRay | April 1, 2009 3:18 PM
Ah, the famous "and furthermore!..."
Posted by: GDA | April 1, 2009 4:04 PM
RR- I totally did. Thanks!
GDA - thanks for proving my point. now i, being the bigger man, shall walk away from this post, and never comment on it again.
Posted by: Allan | April 2, 2009 9:02 AM
Allan would have been the bigger man if he didn't make his NJ comments, GDA has got to stop taking the bait.
Posted by: Stebbin | April 4, 2009 6:22 PM