Hamilton-Lauraville Tuesday Market at the Connection

On Tuesday, Bobbie and I decided to hop on over to the 4500 block of Harford Road for the Hamilton-Lauraville Tuesday Market at the Connection. The Market has grown quite a bit since its first days just about a month ago. Now there are about 20 to 30 vendors offering all kinds of local food and products. We decided to skip out on the dinner we had planned to enjoy some of these local flavors. Not only was the food tasty, but it was pretty cheap. We had 21 dollars and were able to have these meals:

Bobbie:
- Fresh Mint Lemonade
- 2 Chorizo Tacos from one of our favorite area restaurants, Clementine (we also hear their expanded restaurant should be open sometime in the next week or two)
- Frozen Fresh Fruit Slushy thing

John:
- Fresh Mint Lemonade
- Chilled Cream of Asparagus Soup
- A Killer Brisket Sandwich from Chef Mac’s Louisiana Cuisine.

I was very excited to hear from Mac himself that he would be opening a Louisiana style restaurant where the Alabama Bar B Que used to be.


With all the food purchases done, that left me with $5 left over to donate to the true highlight of the Market: the talented St. Veronica's Youth Steel Orchestra pictured here:

I wish I would have had my flip camera to film them, but I was able to track down this video. Good stuff. The band, as detailed on their website, is a program called Pan in Community and it “uses the medium of the steel drums to re-direct the young people of our community into positive social and behavioral ideals.” Find out more about these guys at http://www.paninthecommunity.org/

Good times had - we hope to catch you out at the next Hamilton-Lauraville Tuesday Market at the Connection. It happens everyweek between the hours of 4pm and 8pm.

Our Dog Sleeps on Our Kitchen Table

Twice Bobbie and I have come home from a date night to find Chelsea sleeping on our kitchen table. Thanks to Bobbie's iPhone we were able to catch a shot of this.

I am not sure what to do about this. Maybe this guy can help.

Orange Sky on Strathmore

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Adventure on Strathmore: Public Enemy + Roots!

I don’t usually use this blog to do any music/concert reviews, but I was so excited about The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia and had talked about it so much that I though I would share some pics and videos of our time there. And no hate to any of the great artist that where there like TV on the Radio, Santigold, Black Keys, Asher Roth, and more – BUT my true love at the festival was getting to see Public Enemy backed by The Roots and Antibalas performing one of my all time favorite albums “It Takes A Nation Of Millions to Hold Us Back” so that is what our pictures and videos are of. But let’s start with a picture of the concert crew:


There is Bobbie, John, Grubb, and Laura

Now on to the Show

Here is Chuck and Flav back to back as they kick into "Party for your right to Fight"

Here is where I couldn't believe my eyes. Chuck D, Blackthought(Roots MC), ?uestlove (Roots drummer) and Flavor Flav

How about some videos? Starting here with a clip of my favorite Public Enemy song "Prophets of Rage"

Another favorite of mine - "She Watch Channel Zero?!" which, I was excited to hear what the guitar part would sound like, but was more impress with the sound of the Antibalas horns who I try to feature in this video

And I wanted to finished with this video. It's the end of the night and the Roots are closing off the evening with a killer mix of thier favorites. Not only did they start the set with a 25 minute version of "You Got Me" which also included a version of "Sweet Child of Mine" in the middle of it, but at some point they break into the Curtis Mayfield classic

BEST SHOW EVER!