Sizzlin Summer 2015

City Paper's Sizzlin' Summer staff picks

Sizzlin' Summer event calendar

Music MAY All Time Low. The local pop-punk heroes return home to play a show in support of their sixth album, “Future Hearts.” May 24, 6:30 p.m., Pier Six Concert Pavilion, 731 Eastern Ave., (410) 783-4189, piersixconcertpavilion.com, $22-$35. Maryland Deathfest. The annual festival returns with...

Goiter Rock

The Eastern Shore breweries road trip

Blackwater Distilling (Sloop Betty) Address: 184 Log Canoe Circle, StevensvillePhone: (443) 249-3123Distillers: Andy Keller and Jon BlairFood: NoTours: Yes Description: This small distillery produces Sloop Betty vodka and also Picaroon Maryland Rum, in white and gold varieties. Things to do that...

The High Life: The days of a summer weed drought are no more

The cop asked if he could search my car. Though I later learned not to consent to searches, I knew he wasn’t going to find shit because I was driving two hours away in the hopes of finding a quarter bag. It was the great weed drought of 1991. I had just finished high school and there was no grass...

Clifton Park Golf Course turns 100

After an impossible 6-iron into the green on the par-5 18th, I nervously miss a straight ten-footer for birdie, but it’s a kick-in par. The putt drops. Seventy-one! That’s par for the course at Clifton Park and the best round of golf—maybe even the best day—of my life. My playing partners that...

In praise of boozy shakes

Considering that booze and milkshakes are well known to be two of the best things there are, it’s a wonder it took so long for combining them into delicious summer goodness to become a thing. The thing has become pretty common now and it’s one of the things we look forward to most about the dog...

Will Holman's 'Guerilla Furniture Design' is full of practical DIY projects

For my first 10 years of independence I made a point of saying that I could strap everything I owned to the top of my ’67 Nova and haul down the road. It was almost true. When I went off to college I borrowed an old Sears jigsaw from my uncle and a roof rack from my neighbor. With a set of Craftsman...

Towson's All Time Low climbs the charts

The Baltimore area’s music scene is, for all its underground legends and critical darlings, light on unit-shifting Billboard chart fixtures. But local music’s biggest sales triumph in recent memory went by with little notice: Baltimore County-based pop-punk band All Time Low’s sixth album “Future...