Baltimore Club

The city liquor board on Thursday ordered the owner of a Northeast Baltimore club where a triple shooting occurred last month to sell his liquor license, a ruling that drew cheers from about a dozen residents. Vincent Arosemena has agreed to turn over the license of Club Uzo, in the 4800 block of Belair Road, to Regal Bank and Trust. He also was fined $2,500 for a variety of violations, including the March 18 shooting that shook the Gardenville neighborhood, along with a series of fights in November inside and outside the bar. Arosemena had agreed to sign over the license to the bank before the hearing and did not protest any of the charges.

In July 2008, Angel Carpenter, better known as DJ AngelBaby, fulfilled her lifelong dream of earning an on-air position at 92Q, the city's hip-hop radio station. On one of her first days at the job, Carpenter spotted the source of her inspiration - Khia Edgerton, the beloved and ubiquitous queen of Baltimore Club music known as K-Swift. "There's a window right there, where you could see her on-air," remembered Carpenter, now 28 and a lover of Club music her entire life. "I was so weird and so scared.

In July 2008, Angel Carpenter, better known as DJ AngelBaby, fulfilled her lifelong dream of earning an on-air position at 92Q, the city's hip-hop radio station. On one of her first days at the job, Carpenter spotted the source of her inspiration - Khia Edgerton, the beloved and ubiquitous queen of Baltimore Club music known as K-Swift. "There's a window right there, where you could see her on-air," remembered Carpenter, now 28 and a lover of Club music her entire life. "I was so weird and so scared.

History's throwaways and discards emerged as coveted attractions Sunday when bottles, vials and flasks that spent decades buried in dumps and privies returned in translucent glory. Billed as the "largest one-day bottle show in the world," the Baltimore Bottle Club's 33rd annual sale and exhibit, held in Essex, drew container connoisseurs who didn't flip a cork over paying $750 for a rare cobalt-blue poison bottle produced at Carr-Lowrey, a factory on the Middle Branch of the Patapsco in Westport.

The Howard County Striders and Montgomery County Road Runners Club have their annual Brighton Dam challenge, in which the neighboring clubs vie for bragging rights in a 7-mile road race.And the Renaissance AllSports Athletic Club annually issues a challenge to running clubs across the state in the JFK 50-Miler in Boonsboro.But come the last Sunday in February, Road Runners Club of America affiliates in Maryland and the District of Columbia stage the area's most prized club competition -- the 10-mile Maryland-District of Columbia RRCA Challenge.

Hammerjacks, Baltimore's shrine to big hair, loud dresses and heavy metal, is plotting a comeback. An Anne Arundel County man has bought the trademark to sell Hammerjacks-related merchandise. And, he said he's negotiating with developers for a new branded club near the planned Baltimore slots casino off Russell Street. His plans are the second time a revival of the iconic megaclub has been attempted since it closed in 1997; a 2000 reincarnation failed to win over the original's legions of fans, which included, over the years, the likes of Bret Michaels and the classy lady pictured above.  Kevin Butler, a 47-year-old mortgage executive from Anne Arundel County, was a regular at the Howard Street location of Hammerjacks; the club originally opened in 1977 on South Charles Street, but it was the club under an Interstate 395 overpass that became iconic.

Khia Edgerton, a pioneering DJ who as "K-Swift" became one of Baltimore's top radio personalties and a major player in the local music scene, died early yesterday morning after a pool accident at her home. She was 29. Through her popular radio show, which attracted thousands of listeners each night, and frequent live performances, Ms. Edgerton helped reinvigorate and reintroduce the aging genre of Baltimore Club music to a younger generation of listeners. For local artists, a spin on K-Swift's 92Q radio show meant instant recognition.

To the surprise of few connected with the Carroll County Boys' Soccer League and to the consternation of even fewer, the Baltimore Football Club will not return next season.Several weeks ago, the league's team representatives voted unanimously not to invite Baltimore back.The action was unprecedented, said league president Steve Maloff."This is the first time there's ever been anything derogatory said (about a team) by one person, let alone the entire body," he said.During its one campaign, Baltimore Club was a dominant force in the league's under-10 division and two under-12 divisions.

It was a normal night at Philadelphia's 700 Club until DJ Low Budget whipped out a set of frantic, banging Baltimore club music. Out on the floor, most of the crowd was overwhelmed. Charm City native Naeem Juwan went nuts. "I completely flipped out," Juwan said. "I was on the floor dancing real hard. I was one of the only people in the spot that was dancing real hard. You have that nostalgic moment where the stuff that you grew up with never really leaves you. You still hold it close to your heart, regardless of where you decide to go."

Washington's bottle club has published a list of old bottles that is already in its third edition.The Ohio Bottle Club's book -- oversized -- contains 8,933 listings and is 438 pages thick.Even the Little Rhody Club now has a book out -- "over 1,000 Rhode Island bottles listed."And the Baltimore Antique Bottle Club, founded in 1970?For years, the kind thing has been not to ask. Poor, listless BABC.But all this is about to change."It's a formidable undertaking," says Rick Lease, club president, "but our members are pooling their information, a committee is at work, by late next year we hope to publish a comprehensive, standardized list of the Baltimore area's known old bottles."

Ramon "Ray" Santamaria Jr., a retired tennis pro and captain of the 1954 Johns Hopkins University lacrosse team, died of cancer Dec. 9 at Union Memorial Hospital. The Cockeysville resident was 80. Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, he was the son of Ramon Santamaria Sr., who came to Baltimore in 1938 as consul for the Republic of Honduras. His mother, Ramona, was a homemaker. He lived on Keswick Road in Roland Park and was a 1950 graduate of Polytechnic Institute, where he was class president all four years, played lacrosse and wrestled.

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Linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo says 10 Baltimore Ravens were inside a Baltimore club early Monday when a man was shot outside, according to the player's Twitter account. In a message that was up for about 16 hours but has since been deleted, Ayanbadejo described Baltimore as a "violent city" and referred to a violent incident "at a club last weekend with 10 Ravens in the building. Scary. " The message was an apparent reference to a shooting outside Club Mirage, across from the Hippodrome Theater, where two people were shot at about 1 a.m. Monday.

Over the course of Olympic competition in London, keen observers have noticed Michael Phelps' mother, Debbie, sporting a duct-tape flower. The flower is in apparent honor of Alec John Cosgarea, a 17-year-old McDonogh School swimmer who died July 9 after he lost control of his Ford Fusion on Greenspring Avenue and hit a tree. He was driving back to his home in Owings Mills after competing at a North Baltimore Aquatic Club meet at Meadowbrook pool in Mount Washington. Mr. Cosgarea was the 2012 state champion in the 100-meter and 200-meter butterfly, The Sun's Fred Rasmussen reported in Mr. Cosgarea's obituary . In addition to being a committed swimmer, Mr. Cosgarea had artistic talent, Fred reported: As a middle school art student, he started making wallets out of duct tape, including a "hot pink duct tape jacket" that he wore to a friend's bar mitzvah, according to a McDonogh School profile.

Alec John Cosgarea, a champion McDonogh School swimmer who also competed for the North Baltimore Aquatic Club, died Monday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after being injured in an automobile accident. The McDonogh senior and Owings Mills resident was 17. Mr. Cosgarea was on his way home Monday evening after participating in a NBAC competition at the club's Meadowbrook facility in Mount Washington when he lost control of his 2006 Ford Fusion on Greenspring Avenue and hit a tree.

Rapper and actor DMX stopped in Baltimore and checked out Norma Jean's gentleman's club. The Custom House Avenue strip joint on Monday evening Tweeted pictures of DMX posing in the club. He's got his arm around a woman who looks to have a mohawk. He's wearing one of his signature polo shirts and at least a few of his trademark chain necklaces. Folks are seen behind him drinking and gawking. The shot was probably snapped over the weekend when DMX was scheduled to perform at Club Dubai, an upscale downtown nightclub.

Gone are the Monday Club, the Baltimore Club, the Columbus Club, the Gramercy Club and even the Handsome Young Men's Club. All were on the rollicking itinerary of Mayor Ferdinand Latrobe on New Year's Day, 1892, as he and other city notables made the rounds. The first stop on his all-day celebration, which he assured his wife was abstemious except for one whiskey punch, was at the white marble palace the Maryland Club had just opened at Charles and Eager Streets.Today the Maryland Club still stands at the same location, a bulwark of the whole Mount Vernon area.

What if they had a meteor shower and no one could see it through the light pollution?Some lessons should be learned from the Vincent Foster tragedy. None will be.Any league that calls a Baltimore club the Rhinos will pick the wrong cities for expansion.

Orioles left fielder Nolan Reimold will be sidelined for at least two more games with a bulging disk in his back, but the club is hopeful that the diagnosis explains the health problems the 28-year-old has been experiencing this season. Including Tuesday night, Reimold has missed six of the club's past 12 games, including four consecutive April 21-25, because of severe neck spasms. Although he was dealing with lingering neck discomfort, Reimold had started the Orioles' past five games, but after getting to the team hotel after Monday's contest, Reimold experienced tingling in his hands and contacted head athletic trainer Richie Bancells . Reimold "had some tingling and numbness in his fingers, which is common with a bulging disk," manager Buck Showalter said.

As a player and manager, Frank Robinson represented seven major league organizations in eight cities. These days, he lives about 2,700 miles away in the Los Angeles area and makes it back to Baltimore only about two or three times a year. But when Robinson gets stopped in the street, wherever he is, there's one team people almost always ask him about. "People will say, 'I remember you, you played with the Orioles,'" Robinson said. "I'll say, 'Well, I played 10 years with Cincinnati first.' "'Oh, you did?