Tailgate Party

Wil Peifley stood in the Naval Academy parking lot and shaved. Smackin the middle of the tailgate party, he plugged his electric razor into a portable generator and cut the whiskers from his face.It all makes perfect sense to the six-year veteran of Navy Fest. He drove his recreational vehicle 200 miles, all the way from Allentown, Pa. And he arrived the night before the pregame bash started.Camping out in the stadium parking lot overnight beats a hotel, he says, and saves money to boot. "It's very convenient.

The Ravens - our champions! They are still topics of discussion as are those Super Bowl parties. Mary Lee and Dick Hilgartner divided their time between parties. They had great fun with friends from St. Pius X, out in Phoenix, for the first half and a happy time with each other at home, in Rodgers Forge, for the second half due to an early call on Monday morning. Kristy and Pete Knuppel and children ( Lindsey, Emmy and Augie ) had a front yard tailgate party on Jan. 29 with fellow Gaywoodites, Ira and Dawn Katz ( Cole, Landon and Blake )

IT'S BEEN about 20 minutes since handsome Hansel, the Derby Dud, made a shambles of the Preakness.In the parking lot beside Barn 33, little groups of people are forming between the stables and the rows of white Chryslers, company cars from the sponsor of the Triple Crown.This is the barn where the eight Preakness horses are stabled, the runners that prompted racing fans nationwide to part with about $18 million.There is some chatter, but these people don't seem to be lamenting the money they lost or slow horses.

Take out your slutty nurse and Pocahontas outfits ladies and gents, Halloween is upon us yet again. I'm sorry for making that line kind of rhyme, but it's hard not to harmonize about the best holiday of the year. Later this week, we'll be putting up a round-up of Halloween parties around Baltimore. If you're throwing something, let me know and soon. Elsewhere this week: shows by Odd Future, Jacuzzi Boys, Ani DiFranco, and Sting. On Monday , Odd Future gets more press, they probably have more Tumblr followers, and generally make a much louder ruckus than Jacuzzi Boys , but the fresh from CMJ Miami trio will be the more lighthearted show.

The North Carroll Democratic Club will meet at 7 p.m. today at North Carroll Senior Center. Heather Mizeur, Maryland director of John Kerry's presidential campaign, will speak. Mizeur also is Kerry's domestic policy director in Washington and a veteran of many political campaigns. She has state and federal experience in legislative, regulatory and public affairs. She is director of state affairs for the National Association of Community Health Centers. A tailgate party, with food available, will be held at 6:30 p.m. The public is welcome.

It's football season, you have tickets to the big game and for once you'd like to throw a tailgate party that involves something more than beer, Doritos and a few hotdogs withering on the hibachi. For tips on throwing a first-class tailgate party, we headed to the legendary bash hosted before every Ravens home game by the Poe Brothers, who are really affable brothers Marc and Gary Scher. Held in parking lot G at M&T Bank Stadium, this is the Mount Everest of all tailgate parties, a lavish, but not pretentious, affair for some 50 guests highlighted by a Maryland crab soup so good you'd push your mother out of the way for the last bowlful, and a crab dip delicious enough to make grown men weep.

It's football season, you have tickets to the big game and for once you'd like to throw a tailgate party that involves something more than beer, Doritos and a few hotdogs withering on the hibachi. For tips on throwing a first-class tailgate party, we headed to the legendary bash hosted before every Ravens home game by the Poe Brothers, who are really affable brothers Marc and Gary Scher. Held in parking lot G at M&T Bank Stadium, this is the Mount Everest of all tailgate parties, a lavish, but not pretentious, affair for some 50 guests highlighted by a Maryland crab soup so good you'd push your mother out of the way for the last bowlful, and a crab dip delicious enough to make grown men weep.

Model-train show They're doing the locomotion this weekend at the Maryland State Fairgrounds. The Great Scale Model Train Show, the largest juried show of its kind in the country, features elaborate operating displays and layouts in a variety of scales, model-railroad accessories and scenery, building supplies, train books, videos, kits and more. There will be train movies and educational exhibits aimed at children. Demonstrations and clinics will be presented. And an exhibit on starting a model-train hobby at any age and with any budget will be showcased.

The Maryland Hunt Cup is a different event to different people. First of all, it is a horse race, one of the two premier steeplechase contests in the world. Second, it is the centerpiece for some of the major social events in the horse country of Baltimore County. Finally -- and most important in terms of numbers -- it is the occasion for what must be the largest picnic and tailgate party anywhere near here. The race is 100 years old today, and not much has changed except for the automobiles that now carry the throng to witness it.Not many events cut across so many socio-demographic lines as the Hunt Cup. At its heart is the preserve of the relatively few families in the Valleys section of Baltimore County who breed horses and ride to hounds, with all the social trappings that go with those activities.

As Amber Freeman bit the head off a gummy troll, she explained that what looked like a candy festival at her table was really math.The youngsters were graphing the color distribution of the candies before devouring them. Each child was coloring his or her own graph, which in turn would feed into a larger graph for everyone at the table and eventually a wall-mounted graph for the third grade.Nearby, other groups of third graders were rounding the bases on a baseball diamond or planning a tailgate party.

Asked and answered. I was only the other day complaining about Saturday night fundraisers and benefits. Why, I asked, don't more organizations throw their events on Mondays, when chefs and restaurant owners have the time and can spare the resources to participate. The Biggest Little Tailgate Party , scheduled for Monday, Oct. 17 at M&T Bank Stadium is a perfectly conceived event. Produced by the Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Maryland Mentoring Partnership, it sounds like actual fun. Guests at the family friendly event get to play games on the field of M&T Bank Stadium, take an exclusive tour of the Ravens' locker room, mingle with cheerleaders and even meet Ravens #93, Cory Redding.

Eighth-grader Collin Hoofnagle placed a witch tattoo on 6-year-old Victoria Erisman's cheek and dabbed it with a damp sponge. Mallory Lyon and her mother, Terri Lyon of Street, decorated a small pumpkin with black foam stickers. And dozens of children wrapped their parents with toilet paper in a mummy-wrapping contest. The activities were part of a Halloween tailgate party with 182 families at St. Margaret School in Bel Air. The party was one of dozens of events catering to families seeking nonscary Halloween activities in the county.

It's football season, you have tickets to the big game and for once you'd like to throw a tailgate party that involves something more than beer, Doritos and a few hotdogs withering on the hibachi. For tips on throwing a first-class tailgate party, we headed to the legendary bash hosted before every Ravens home game by the Poe Brothers, who are really affable brothers Marc and Gary Scher. Held in parking lot G at M&T Bank Stadium, this is the Mount Everest of all tailgate parties, a lavish, but not pretentious, affair for some 50 guests highlighted by a Maryland crab soup so good you'd push your mother out of the way for the last bowlful, and a crab dip delicious enough to make grown men weep.

It's football season, you have tickets to the big game and for once you'd like to throw a tailgate party that involves something more than beer, Doritos and a few hotdogs withering on the hibachi. For tips on throwing a first-class tailgate party, we headed to the legendary bash hosted before every Ravens home game by the Poe Brothers, who are really affable brothers Marc and Gary Scher. Held in parking lot G at M&T Bank Stadium, this is the Mount Everest of all tailgate parties, a lavish, but not pretentious, affair for some 50 guests highlighted by a Maryland crab soup so good you'd push your mother out of the way for the last bowlful, and a crab dip delicious enough to make grown men weep.

PHILADELPHIA - If you're an Eagles fan and you're going to Lincoln Financial Field for this afternoon's NFC championship game against the Atlanta Falcons, you might want to keep an eye out for the guy in the picture to the right. He might be standing next to you at your tailgate party (if he gets there while you're still standing) or behind you in the concession line where they sell the chains and the studded dog collars. He'll look like your brother, or - in some extreme cases - your sister.

A once-promising Ravens season teetered on the brink yesterday morning. Entry into the postseason depended on a seemingly impossible dream: a win for Baltimore and losses for three other NFL teams. What was a worried football fan to do? In a word, tailgate. Outdoor oases filled with beer, burgers and banter popped up again yesterday morning for the last time this season. On the well-tended Ravens stadium parking lots and in hard-bitten industrial corners of South Baltimore, football aficionados spent time trashing their team's embattled offensive coordinator, pitying the Ravens' high-performing defense and looking with hope to next season.

Take out your slutty nurse and Pocahontas outfits ladies and gents, Halloween is upon us yet again. I'm sorry for making that line kind of rhyme, but it's hard not to harmonize about the best holiday of the year. Later this week, we'll be putting up a round-up of Halloween parties around Baltimore. If you're throwing something, let me know and soon. Elsewhere this week: shows by Odd Future, Jacuzzi Boys, Ani DiFranco, and Sting. On Monday , Odd Future gets more press, they probably have more Tumblr followers, and generally make a much louder ruckus than Jacuzzi Boys , but the fresh from CMJ Miami trio will be the more lighthearted show.

Eighth-grader Collin Hoofnagle placed a witch tattoo on 6-year-old Victoria Erisman's cheek and dabbed it with a damp sponge. Mallory Lyon and her mother, Terri Lyon of Street, decorated a small pumpkin with black foam stickers. And dozens of children wrapped their parents with toilet paper in a mummy-wrapping contest. The activities were part of a Halloween tailgate party with 182 families at St. Margaret School in Bel Air. The party was one of dozens of events catering to families seeking nonscary Halloween activities in the county.

The North Carroll Democratic Club will meet at 7 p.m. today at North Carroll Senior Center. Heather Mizeur, Maryland director of John Kerry's presidential campaign, will speak. Mizeur also is Kerry's domestic policy director in Washington and a veteran of many political campaigns. She has state and federal experience in legislative, regulatory and public affairs. She is director of state affairs for the National Association of Community Health Centers. A tailgate party, with food available, will be held at 6:30 p.m. The public is welcome.

Model-train show They're doing the locomotion this weekend at the Maryland State Fairgrounds. The Great Scale Model Train Show, the largest juried show of its kind in the country, features elaborate operating displays and layouts in a variety of scales, model-railroad accessories and scenery, building supplies, train books, videos, kits and more. There will be train movies and educational exhibits aimed at children. Demonstrations and clinics will be presented. And an exhibit on starting a model-train hobby at any age and with any budget will be showcased.