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1. The west side of the city is almost completely uninhabitable. Don't bother.
2. The Inner Harbor is overrun with tourists seeking the Rouse Company's version of a good time. It's worth an occasional visit, but not much more.
3. The Mencken Room at the Enoch Pratt Free Library (corner of Cathedral & Mulberry Streets) will be open on 9/14 for the annual Mencken Day festivities. Check it out if you have time.
4. The best crabcakes in the city are not actually in the city, but at a restaurant called Angelina's on Harford Road, in Parkville. They're about the size of a softball and contain no filler that I can discern. Worth the drive.
5. Good housing values can still be found in the Butcher's Hill area, above Canton, and in areas adjacent to the west side of Patterson Park. Not bad if you're an adventurous spirit, handy with a hammer AND a shotgun. Move quickly before yuppie vermin invade and destroy yet another neighborhood.
6. If those areas don't suit you, check out the Charles Village corridor above 25th Street. Social entropy in this area has been artificially postponed by the presence of Johns Hopkins University.
Further bulletins as they occur to me.
Welcome to Bawlamer, hon.
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