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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Recent posts
- Goodbye, you wretched Movable Type
- Baltimore man sues Live Nation for "exorbitant" Jackson Browne tickets
- Don't Know Tavern lawsuit settled for $115K; in shocker, lawyer grabs most of it
- African American Heritage Festival in images and video
- 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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not bad Sideburn Sessa!!!
Posted by: anon;) | May 5, 2011 11:01 AM
Whoops ... the web site that shows doesn't jive with the web site that's mentioned. But hey, at least this one had more than 1 weekend event.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 5, 2011 11:12 AM
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Posted by: Kenneth Adrian Ellis | May 10, 2011 7:08 PM