Our ongoing exploration of the city has again yielded adventures that traverse the spectrum of the spacetime continuum and uncover evidence that there is a black hole the size of Rhode Island 40 kilometers west of Essex. In a single evening, we mingled with director of ‘this’ and the chairman of ‘that’ at the finest museum in the city and ended up dancing with real Romanian gypsies (and their immense Romanian family), sipping on slivovitz at a bar on North Avenue.

Did I mention that this same evening entailed avant garde improvisational music at a church housing the ongoings of anarchists? Did I ever tell you about how we learned that Baltimore was once The Umbrella Capital of the World while enjoying a fashion show at The Baltimore Museum of Industry? And how about the good people at Spur Design who make being wildly successful, incredibly creative and humble look so easy, while giving away thousands of dollars to help Haiti?

Don’t you wish that you could pull off super fly dance moves on the cat walk in front of hoards of adoring fans just waiting to get a glimpse of you in all your glory at The Charm City Fashion Show? Yeah, this guy does too, but he’s doing the best he can anyway. Do your thing, my man. We love it.

The one thing that we’re learning more than anything else is that this city is full of motivated people. The good folks at Boulevard Boutique, Fortune5Fifty, Irregular Exposure, Whimsy and PEDX got together with artists Samuel Tefcon, Marshall Adams and Jonathan Blake to listen to music by Damn Right!, Shook, and B Cos. They also decided that it would be cool to invite a few hundred of their closest friends to The Baltimore Museum of Industry where they put up a cat walk, stocked the bar, brought in lights, cameras, sound and dressed up a few dozen attractive people to walk back and forth for the hell of it. Good times.

Go ahead Austin, get down wit yo bad self. Dyn-o-mite!

This week’s winner of our highly coveted and prestigious ‘Best Domain of The Week’ award goes to Jonathan Blake for crazyredbeard.com. That’s right crazyredbeard.com. Most of our time with Jonathan was spent trying to avoid the wild flailing of his crazy red beard, which at times would talk to itself and rock back and forth while reciting lines from Stanley Kubrick films. “This is my rifle this is my gun, this is for fighting this is for fun!”

For a moment his crazy red beard calmed down long enough for us to snap this photo and to talk to him briefly before his crazy red beard resumed behaving inappropriately.

Jonathan’s paintings are bursting with positivity, which is reflected in his demeanor and we’re glad to have met him and introduce him to you. Take a stroll through his website when you find time and invite him to your show if you’re into the live painting thing. As a matter of fact, he’d probably fit in well at the upcoming Solstice Gathering at Sonar.

Casey Berry, Marshall Adams, Hank and Chappy at The Baltimore Museum of Industry. What’s interesting about this photo is that we met Marshall in Austin at Baltimore House Studios during South By Southwest and ran into him again here. Enough with the synchronicity. It’s definitely worth taking a trip to marshalladams.com to admire the amazing murals he’s been painting all over the country and other visual treats.

Ben Shugarman has a Robert Palmer-esque way about him when he’s onstage with his band, Shook. The band is reminiscent of Morris Day and The Time, which would be like Robert Palmer and The Time. But then, that would make Morris Day irrelevant and we all know that’s utterly preposterous. With that being said, here’s Ben Shugarman from Shook with Megan O’Brien and Genna Mongillo.

Candace Wade, Tara Ross, Laura Brunner, Matt Kalman, Tracy Edwards, Stormie and Donavon Israel. I bet you didn’t think I would actually get all of your names right, did you?

Give a big hand to Blake Mobley who had a lot to do with putting the Charm City Fashion Show together. The night ended with him on stage in one of the two hundred and thirty seven bands he plays with on a regular basis, ‘Damn Right!’

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