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Maryland Institute College of Art

SCENE AND HEARD

February 08, 2009|By sloane brown , sloane@sloanebrown.com

"I don't think he was trying to be mean," Dietz explains. "I think he was just eager to talk to Doug."

Dark Humor The Baltimore Architecture Foundation never lets an empty, unheated building stand in the way of a good party. In fact, that's part of the criteria for its annual Groundhog Day celebration. Last weekend, the group threw the bash at the Gaslight Square development in Carroll Camden Industrial Park. John Gutierrez says he and fellow organizers hauled in heaters, set up food buffets and brought in a band. Some 150 friends and supporters showed up.

Gutierrez says the event committee also decided they might as well have a little fun with the economic downturn. So, they designed Depression-era style signs above the food stations - each of which was sponsored by different members.

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You had "Ed Hord's Chicken Shack" and "Walter (Schamu) Gets the Gout Out Oysters." And then there was Gutierrez's offerings of soup and starch: "Architect's Hard Times Bread Line."

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