Brian Lawrence Live

Week of June 22-28
Lots of stuff going on around town as people scurry to cram things in before it seems everyone leaves during the months of July and August. I started the week by meeting my pal Sloane Brown for dinner on Monday night at Talara. As two folks who make it to a lot of… read more
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Wed. June 17
Pat & Jeanine Turner, along with Eric Turner, hosted a VIP preview party tonight to celebrate the opening of the Tower at Silo Point. After rounding up with some friends at Corvino in Federal Hill, we headed over to the Locust point site. Drinks and hors d’oeurve were being served in the recently furnished… read more
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Mon., June 15
The newest restaurant at Harbor East, Talara, was the setting tonight for a 40th birthday bash for Ayda Said. A gang of friends gathered to toast the birthday gal, sip mojitos and nibble on tapas. The group included Andy Segall, Jill Goldberg, Andy Berman, Patrick Sutton and Tracy Kwiatkowski. An hour (and three mojitos)… read more
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June 12-14
Started the weekend as a guest at a wine-tasting dinner at the home of local chef Jerry Edwards and his wife Julie. A multiple-course dinner and about 40 wines or so awaited us on the back patio. It was a beautiful evening for this gathering of 11 friends, old and new, to sip wines and… read more
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Tues., June 9
I’m not really a big fan of Broadway musicals— I actually like the idea of these shows way more than the experience of sitting through them. But after all the talk last year about about ‘Spring Awakening,’ I was eager to see what the buzz was about. Prior to the show I ran into… read more
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Friday, June 5
I’m always happy to pitch in and volunteer for bartending duty each year at the Evening of Traditional Beverages to benefit Homewood House on the Johns Hopkins campus; this year’s beverage was Scotch. Two hundred and twenty people (a record for this event) bought tickets this year, and enjoyed tasting 5 different unblended malts.… read more
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Wed., June 3
I met up with my media gang for dinner at the new Velleggia’s this evening, now located downtown on Water Street. It was a bit strange to be dining there the same day that the beloved original restaurant was being auctioned off in Little Italy as part of foreclosure proceedings (it didn’t sell). My… read more
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Thursday, May 28
I made plans to meet my friend Edie Brown at Tark’s Grill at Green Spring Station this evening and after meeting up in the bustling bar and saying hello to several other friends, we settled into a booth. Our server let it slip that Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti had booked the back room for… read more
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Wed., May 20
I received an invitation to Morton’s Steakhouse for their “Green Wine Experience” to benefit the American Red Cross. Events manager Judy de Joia greeted me warmly and welcomed me to the gathering. Throughout the evening, wines supplied by Charmer Sunbelt were served to demonstrate organic, sustainable and biodynamically farmed wines. I also got to… read more
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May 15-16
The weather turned out to be great for this year’s Black-Eyed Susan Race, held on Friday, May 15. As I’ve said in the past, this day-before-Preakness event is an even better day to be at Pimlico than Preakness Day itself. The bonus this year was that we met Chip Woolley, the trainer to Derby champion,… read more
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