The Place Everyone Is Talking About...

It has been written up in this month's Baltimore Magazine as a very important lever in the machine of Baltimore's Renaissance. Our office is having a happy hour there next Thursday, and I am excited to go. I've heard that the space is a wonder, and reason enough to enter the doors. The architect of this event that is Pazo is also featured in this month's "Baltimore," and when asked what he saw as the number one problem facing the city today, he said "Low self-esteem." Apparently patrons of his retail store keep telling him that he belongs in SoHo or Georgetown. To quote him, "What? Baltimore doesn't deserve nice things?" Exactly.

If you want your finger on the pulse of what's cool before it becomes cliche, then I beg of you, consider the city you've probably been scoffing at. Baltimore. If you're hip, happening, and "Now," New York doesn't need you. You'd never stand out there. Come to Charm City, be on the front row of the debut of the Eastern Seaboard's Pearl that is being born again after years of gritty irritation.