Something I wrote about The Entrance Band.

Friday Night Noise: Hearts of Animals and Telecult Powers, plus an Ascites update.

Friday Night Noise: Tchrite & Ascites.

Friday Night Noise: Pechuga & Robert Inhuman.

MY REJECTED, MOSTLY INCOHERENT BEST-OF-BALTIMORE PITCHES FOR BALTIMORE CITY PAPER

Best Sit-Down Chinese Restaurant: The Orient (Towson)

Best Place To Get Up Close And Personal With Runaway Pollution: the spaces between docked ships at Harbor Place

Best They're-Originally-From-Here-But-Now-Belong-To-The-World-At-Large Rock Phenom: Animal Collective

Best Place To Witness A Street Brawl Randomly Break Out: Oh, man. I suck at identifying places in explicitly specific terms. But I can tell you this: it was an ATM near that historic port building where they filmed The Wire (or maybe Homicide: Life on The Street) - just around the corner from Soundgarden, on the same block as that historic hotel. The ATM - which was a BoA ATM for a bit - is cattycorner to Max's bar and faces out into the brick-paved "park" full of benches that used to be home to a sort of tiered pyramid thing before the merchants teamed up to have it torn down because skaters were doing tricks on it and kids liked to congregate there. I think there used to be a piercing/tattoo place a few feet away from the ATM, maybe it's still there. I don't know if all of that confused the issue further or what :)

Best Chill Coffee Joint: The Daily Grind

NODIN, PRE-SURGERY AND POST-"LOOPY JUICE"

Some of you knew that Nodin was going to undergo adenoid surgery this week; some didn't. In any event, I wanted to let you know that he got through it fine! Sure, the surgical team was like two and a half hours behind, but what the hey: all's well that ends well, right?