Very attractive older people - actors, as it turns out, not Charlestown residents - were filmed in a hip-looking bar toasting hip-looking cocktails. (And no, their underwear was not visible.)
A real Pazo bartender served up the drinks. And they were real Pazo drinks, even though the director wanted colorful, said Allison Parker- Abromitis, marketing director for the Wolf-Foreman restaurants.
"We don't do the umbrella-in-the-drink thing," she said. "We still have to stay within our branding because it's important that what we serve here is a particular style."
Not that the Pazo name will appear in the commercial.
Said Parker-Abromitis: "We opted not to have a credit."
Not a judicial favorite
There's something of a judicial rogues gallery on the fourth floor of Baltimore's Mitchell Courthouse, with photos of the city's Circuit Court judges on display near the elevator.
Where's the one of Judge Charles Bernstein?
Turned up recently in the men's room, smashed to bits.
The sheriff's office is investigating.
"Not all of our customers are always satisfied with the service they receive," the judge said.
"I'm sure more than one or two felt like doing that, particularly the lawyers."
Teamwork! Service! Access to the list!
Gov. Martin O'Malley and Comptroller Peter Franchot have teamed up. Really. I'm not kidding.
The two pols, both Dems but often at odds, are working together get the word out about the expansion of Medicaid to parents with higher incomes.
(Save the Welfare State outrage. Now covered: families of three making a whopping $20,500 a year.)
Together, O'Malley and Franchot are mailing out nearly 500,000 letters to eligible Maryland families.
What accounts for this sudden burst of cooperation, especially as slots - one of the big issues that divides them - comes to a head?
"This is an important outreach effort to make sure people who are eligible for health coverage know it and can enroll," said O'Malley spokesman Rick Abbruzzese.
Yeah, there's that.
And the fact that O'Malley couldn't have sent the letters without Franchot's help. The comptroller has the income data that determines eligibility.
That's kept confidential, even from the gov.
