Category Archives: Nightlife

Baltimore As It Was: The Work Of Photographer Tom Scilipoti

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Scott Huffines

Photographic Memory: Tom Scilipoti has been documenting Baltimore for over 50 years By Rafael Alvarez (Baltimore City Paper, 10/23/2013)“…In 1966, Scilipoti was taking his camera everywhere, capturing images of a once-thriving and long-gone manufacturing city: coal-fired tugboats, burly stevedores unloading … Continue reading →

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G-Stringers

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Tom Warner

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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Blaze Starr’s Wild Animal Acts

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Tom Warner

I’ve been reading Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America by Leslie Zemeckis, who also directed the hit documentary film of the same title. It’s an oral history of American Burlesque “as told by the performers who … Continue reading →

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