If you find yourself in the Midtown Baltimore neighborhood of Mount Vernon looking for a place to indulge in some serious food and even more serious beer, go to the Brewer’s Art. Named Esquire Magazine’s “Best Bar in America” for 2009, it also made the list of Draft Magazine’s 100 Best Bars in America 2015, […]
The centerpiece of the Mount Vernon neighborhood is the Washington Monument. The 178-foot-high Neoclassic structure is in the form of a doric column topped by a statue of George Washington, proffering a scroll in his right hand, as he resigns his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. Friends who live in upper floor apartments […]
A high school project that required seeking out mythological iconography in architecture is what originally led me to the B & O Railroad Building in downtown Baltimore. This H-shaped Beaux Arts structure features a larger-than-life-sized figure of Mercury, Roman god of many things including commerce, communication, and travelers. He’s holding the caduceus, a short staff […]
LISTEN UP Y’ALL. THIS IS IMPORTANT BELOW. I GOT SOME THINGS TO SAY ABOUT EKIBEN. Those of you that love Ekiben will recognize the all caps nature of the way they announce themselves on social media. It’s bold, playful and hip which is also a good way to describe their food. I’ve eaten at Ekiben […]
I spent the first 19 years of my life in Fells Point on the diversely populated 500 block of South Ann Street. At the time, there was a smattering of elderly Polish and Ukrainian immigrants living there, several families from Puerto Rico, and a good handful of folks who had moved up from West Virginia […]
Editors Note: One thing we like to do when launching in a city is to partner with local writers. This is a key part to the City Walker experience, we don’t only want our app (iOS and Android) to have a local prospective, we want our blog to have it too! This gives the authentic personal […]
Editors Note: One thing we like to do when launching in new city is to partner with writers local to that market. This is a key part to the City Walker experience, we don’t only want our app to have a local prospective. We want our blog to have it too! This gives the authentic personal prospective that no […]
Editors Note: One thing we like to do when launching in new city is to partner with writers local to that market. This is a key part to the City Walker experience, we don’t only want our app to have a local prospective. We want our blog to have it too! This gives the authentic personal prospective that no […]