Author Archives: almosthipguy

G-Stringers

Posted on October 7, 2013 by almosthipguy

Editor’s note: Cleaning out my house after a recent move, I came across a box’s worth of old “Go Go Gazettes” I collected back in the ’90s when the old Atomic Books on Read Street carried this strip club trade … Continue reading →

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Whaddya mean you don’t know George & Ben

Posted on October 1, 2013 by almosthipguy

By Tim Perlich (The Perlich Post, 5/30/2012) Back in 1968, Baltimore’s George Figgs and Ben Syfu recorded a brilliantly bent psych curio called Boa Constrictor & A Natural Vine for the Vanguard label’s newly minted Apostolic subsidiary. At the time … Continue reading →

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John Coltrane’s last-ever gig was at Baltimore’s Famous Ballroom

Posted on September 30, 2013 by almosthipguy

May 7, 1967 The Famous Ballroom 1717 N. Charles Street John Coltrane: tenor/soprano sax Pharoah Sanders: tenor sax & piccolo Jim Garrison: bass Rashid Ali: drums Algie DeWitt: bata drums On May 7, 1967, the ‘Trane made his last stop … Continue reading →

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Denise Koch, Experimental Film Star

Posted on September 25, 2013 by almosthipguy

by Tom Warner (Baltimore Or Less) Last Saturday, the Enoch Pratt Free Library partnered with the local experimental cinema group Sight Unseen to screen an hour-long program of eight experimental shorts selected from the Central Library’s celebrated collection of over … Continue reading →

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