Category Archives: Baltimorons

Marty Bass Recounts The Loss Of His Toupee

(Stoop Storytelling Series, 2/9/2006) WJZ-TV morning host Marty Bass recounts his story of failure: the loss of his toupee. Listen to “Legends of the Fall” at Baltimore’s Stoop Storytelling Series.

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Snow Day in Baltimore

This photo made the Baltimore Facebook rounds during Snowpocalypse 2010. That’s a Maryland license plate on the van.

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Babe Ruth Injected Sheep’s Testicles and Shilled for Tobacco

Excerpt from “Welcome to the Terrordome” by Dave Zirin “Scientists have attempted to use testosterone to build muscle going back more than 1,000 years, but the modern era of steroids starts in 1889 when prominent French scientist Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard … Continue reading

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David Simon: ‘The Wire’ Has Nothing To Apologize For

Show was not a ‘smear’ but a realistic depiction, its creator says By David Simon (The Baltimore Sun, 1/24/2011) (“The Wire” creator David Simon was invited by The Sun to respond to comments made recently by Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick … Continue reading

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