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While there were more than 1,000 applicants over several years of audition tapes, resumes, interns, producers, gophers and wannabes, we knew back in 2008 that Luke Jones was the real deal when he rolled in sporting that Haloti Ngata jersey, a stocked notebook and showed he was far more serious than anyone we’d ever met then – or since!
WNST-AM 1570 was originally leased by Nestor Aparicio from May 1998 through October 1999 and he had to bid farewell on the airwaves before being syndicated by One On One Sports and Sporting News Radio out of Chicago to return back to the local airwaves in September 2000 the same weekend the Ravens caught fire as a franchise against the Jacksonville Jaguars. That team would win Super Bowl XXXV four months later in Tampa. It was a special time to be the first and only station on the dial doing sports radio in the Charm City.
Many OG Baltimore sports fans would tell you this was the greatest day of their lives. The National Football League came back to Baltimore and we won Super Bowl XXXV on a glorious night in Tampa, Florida. But before the game, we threw a party so big that WJZ asked if they come and broadcast from it. The legend of Whiskey Joe’s and Super Bowl Sunday, January 28, 2001. Ask anyone who was lucky enough to be there…
His father Kevin served as Baltimore County Executive and was on the campaign trail with an attempt to become Governor of Maryland when he tragically died in 2018, so it’s not a huge surprise that youthful Karson Kamenetz would be dipping his toes into the political realm with a run at the county council seat at stake in the 4th District on the northwest side of the beltway. We discuss what is important to contituents in our area right now like traffic, crime and affordability. And the power and expectations of his family name.
Will Barrios of Dundalk sees the need for change on the east side of Baltimore County and brings his platform forward focusing on cleaner, safer streets and community engagement. He tells Nestor why there’s another Venezuelan-heritage fellow in the old neighborhood coming forward to lead as a potential councilman.
If we were “branding” this, we’d call it ‘Korman’s Korner’ but since all we have to sell is local journalism and facts and truth in reporting, Executive Sports Editor Chris Korman of The Baltimore Banner returns for another free-form round at Costas Inn in Timonium on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour. Some spring sports cleaning and cleansing with Nestor about the Ravens, Orioles, Terps and local coverage of the college NIL world and high schools sports. And how it all ties together with club teams and the recreation Little League world, where he hangs his hat and leadership. We made this one for the “stick to sports” crowd…
Back at The Beaumont in Catonsville for the Maryland Crab Cake Tour with Councilman Pat Young, who gives Nestor his views on the state of Baltimore County and why he’s running for County Executive.
As our friend Dan Rodricks opens his latest sold-out Baltimore-themed theatre project, we welcomed Vanessa Eskridge and Chris Riehl from the cast of “No Mean City: Baltimore 1966” for a Maryland Crab Cake Tour stop to discuss the theme and background of the project at Gertrude’s at The Baltimore Museum of Art where the show plays this week.
After witnessing and opining on the entire state of horse racing and the sport in Maryland over the past 35 years on the radio regarding its complete deterioration, Nestor Aparicio only really trusts one voice about the sport of kings: Dick Jerardi. His one time colleague in 1984 has gone off to Philadelphia to become one of the legendary horse racing insiders in the sport and attempts to calm his now-much-older-and-more-cynical friend down about very rational Preakness and Triple Crown concerns as Pimlico goes to war with Churchill and Belmont, and NBC and Fox square off and Wes Moore is holding press conferences. Get the truth here…
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Legendary UMBC soccer head coach Pete Caringi joins Nestor on The Maryland Crab Cake Tour at McFaul’s Oyster and Reel in Essex and tells Nestor about why he left and what he plans to do now that he’s handed the reigns to longtime assistant Anthony Adams in Catonsville.
Mandy Snyder gives Nestor latest updates on Baltimore Homecoming community progress at Koco’s Pub on “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl Week” in Lauraville for the Maryland Food Bank. And Nestor shares the time they made him and his wife into a pancake for breakfast in 2019.
Crab Cake Row: Trish Woodward tells us about Camp Opportunity for kids who need a summer to remember at Costas Inn on “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl Week” in Dundalk. Always The Artful Dodger, Nestor sings “Oliver” show tunes from 1982 in this one!
Our forever pal James Bond of the Living Classrooms Foundation gets Nestor ready for Maritime Magic in Fells Point on October 4th. Come down and eat and drink and dance and learn and support one of the great groups that is working to lift and grow Baltimore!
The eighth day of the Maryland Crab Cake Tour presented by The Maryland Lottery, Goodwill, Window Nation and the Restaurant Association of Maryland featured a crystal clear morning at Deep Creek Lake and an adventure into West Virginia searching for the highest point in Maryland. Beer and cheer at Mountain State and a tasty bar crab cake at crowded Ace’s Run on the lake.
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Our lifelong pal and local musician Ron West of The Cultivated reunites with Nestor at Drug City in their childhood homeland of Dundalk to discuss the days of Ace Frehley, music of the 1980s and their Ridgemont High band days together at the turn of the century.
Calvin Statham entered the life of Nestor Aparicio in September 1979 as his 7th grade chorus teacher at Holabird Junior High School. The 83-year old legend and veteran of 58 incredible years of teaching children on both sides of Baltimore County returns to Costas Inn on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to talk about his love of children.
It’s the greatest cocktail party story that Nestor Aparicio has in a lifetime journey that has exceeded all expectations. Back in March 1999 while in Havana, Cuba covering the Orioles historic baseball visit and Fidel Castro, he ran into Woody Harrelson and Andy Summers in La Bodeguita del Medio and convinced the legendary Hall of Fame guitarist from The Police to join a local band. Summers insisted that Nestor play the role of Sting in the band. Let the trio who were there tell you about it…
It is always a pleasure to talk rock and roll, sports and life in the great rock and roll band in the world with the great Maryland native and one time “Bullets Fever” author. Life in E Street and The Rising with the affable Lofgren on Radio Row in January 2003.
You owe it to yourself to own this one…
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The stories we can tell five decades later about our lifeline passion for rock and roll and great music in general. Musician Ron West of The Cultivated and The Duran Band joins Nestor for their mutual Dundalk childhood memories of camping out for concert tickets at Hecht Company from Golden Ring to Reisterstown Road Mall. Seventh row at Journey. Second row at Styx. And that time at Merriweather in the front row with Ben Orr and The Cars. And the artifacts that mark the date, place, seat and every memory that we treasure in these ticket stubs we earned the hard way! Or, the fun way…
As the X’s and O’s and the Jimmies and Joes line up on the football field, the NASCAR folks are racing to the finish line and John Martin of The Maryland Lottery brings the spring promotion around the final turn with local folks getting a chance to win a Homestead trip to watch the cars circle the track for the championship in Florida.
With the Baltimore Ravens returning to Indianapolis to start a 31st season in the Charm City, Nestor reached to longtime St. Louis sportswriter Jeff Gordon, who was a colleague at The News American in March 1984 when the Mayflower vans came to Owings Mills. It left quite an impression on a young sportswriter from Detroit, who was in Baltimore learning the craft of local journalism under the fire of an Orioles World Series parade and an NFL team disappearing in the middle of the night. Let Gordo educate you…
The Ravens certainly haven’t won a lot of games in the friendly heart of the Midwest over these 30 years so a thorough beat down of the Colts in a comfy dome in downtown Indy to start the season is something any purple Baltimore football fan with a true blue soul should appreciate as just a little more special. I know this: my Pop would’ve greatly enjoyed that one on Sunday. All hail Minter!
At 29 years old, entering your ninth NFL season carrying two MVP trophies, with John Harbaugh gone, Jesse Minter installed, another offensive coordinator designing another offense around your extraordinary abilities and Steve Bisciotti and Eric DeCosta spending every available dollar trying to keep this championship window open, there really isn’t much left to discuss. It’s time.
We knew the Baltimore Ravens had some great football players and other veterans of repute but until we see it on the field, we can’t evaluate the differences between this year and last year. Luke Jones and Nestor give praise to new head coach Jesse Minter and the entire operation of the men of purple after a thorough 41-23 beating of the Colts in Indianapolis to start a season with the promise that comes with Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry and Zay Flowers touching the ball.
It’s Super Bowl or bust for the Baltimore Ravens. We all know that but there’s been a lot of change to navigate and Sunday is just start of a long journey for the men of Jesse Minter. Luke Jones and Nestor get ready for Indianapolis and beyond as another purple season with Festivus on the brain arrives just in time for the leaves to change and the kids to go back to school.
Steve Bisciotti didn’t fire John Harbaugh after 18 years to get younger at the podium or friendlier in the hallway. Big-Schotti did it because two-time NFL MVP Lamar Jackson is in his prime and this franchise and its owner believes the Baltimore Ravens should be playing winning football in mid-February. So, welcome to Baltimore, Coach Minter. No pressure or anything…
Baltimore Positive and WNST are celebrating 28 years, and instead of giving you another list of football players, baseball games, favorite sports somethings or places where I’ve eaten a crab cake – and I’ve got plenty of all of those – I’m going back to where a lot of this really started for me: the music. My Almost Famous youth as a teenage music critic…
I’ve blessed myself with time to give your rather abrupt departure here some time to fully decant – like a hair-raising, pellet gun plum Ravens vintage – and smelling that musty, stale aroma and a hint of that rancid taste in the mouth you get when someone leaves town wearing a smile that doesn’t quite match the damage they did on the way out. “What do you want me to tell the other humans I know when they ask me about you?”
Oh, we always have fun with those guys in Indianapolis! It’s been 42 years since the people of Indiana pilfered the Colts away in the middle of the night. But the ESPN Indy guys still ask about the legend of Beanie Bob (via Ricig) and Nestor still reminds them that there have been two Ravens parades in Baltimore. But does the next one down Pratt Street begin with Lamar Jackson heading to the friendly heart of the Midwest to start the season? He offers a full preview of what he thinks of the new Jesse Minter operation here to the good people of Indy.
As the baseball season winds down and the Orioles continue to flop at the bottom end of a weak AL Wild Card chase, Luke Jones and Nestor discuss all of the pending baseball issues in Birdland and question why in the world Mike Elias would be allowed to continue to run the operation.
Nestor wrote this at the Indianapolis Super Bowl in March 2011 and 15 years later stands by it. It took a long time to get over the Colts leaving Baltimore for Indy but this Sunday it’s just another football game and the horseshoes are in the way. It’s been 42 years…
Mark Bryan and childhood friend Steve Lipton rock Nestor through the Hootie and The Blowfish story and their original Montgomery County high school band The Screaming Trojans, who are playing a fun reunion gig at The Starboard in Dewey Beach on September 24th before the big Oceans Calling show in Ocean City, Maryland the next night. Two kids had a band once…
The Ravens are a favorite on the road to start the season in Indianapolis and there’s no finer voice from the friendly heart of the Midwest than longtime columnist and Colts insider Bob Kravitz, who joins Nestor for a primer on Colts past, present and future as Baltimore at Irsay doesn’t mean what it used to anymore.
Sure, Luke Jones talked about the lousy baseball over the weekend and the four-game sweep by the Boston Red Sox at Camden Yards. But Nestor lost his mind in this one about the lack of respect this new ownership group had regarding “honoring” the surviving members of legendary 1966 Orioles World Series on their 60th anniversary. Imagine a guy named “Aparicio” living in Baltimore losing his freaking mind over the indignity of the whole shoddy performance? When is this nightmare season over?
This lengthy preview of the Ravens season opener in Indianapolis is chock full of the mystery that always comes with a September kickoff game. How much can we possibly know with so much change? But, as Luke Jones and Nestor get ready for the new look of Jesse Minter and the offense of Declan Doyle against the Colts, we all know it’s about Lamar Jackson and the quest for a Super Bowl that will define another NFL season in Baltimore.
As the Ravens return to Indianapolis and begin their 31st season in Baltimore with a roadtrip to an old nemesis on and off the field, longtime Indy sportswriter Mike Chappell gives Nestor a Hall of Fame primer on the modern Colts, owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon and how Daniel Jones will be counted on again to lift a mediocre franchise out of its malaise since Peyton Manning departed.
It is certainly not a brand of baseball that is attractive or of high quality but “pennant race” MLB action is unfolding at Camden Yards as the Cleveland Guardians come to town with October on the brain. Our Cuyahoga insider Munch Bishop pitches in from Ohio as the sub-.500 Baltimore Orioles circle the drain and limp toward the finish line in a less-than-optimal baseball season in Birdland.
With plenty of games in progress, we know that the NFL is kicking off this week and John Martin of The Maryland Lottery is here to give Nestor the Xs and Os of a new Powerball game kickoff just in time for the season. Plus, plenty of big winners all over the state this week as the Maryland State Fair concludes.
The legendary guitarist reflected on Kiss’s merchandising over-commercialization and his past substance abuse issues. Frehley expressed his openness to a Kiss reunion if given equal production control. The band would reunite five years later for a world tour.
Nestor Aparicio wanted the best and he got the best! As a kid who worshiped all things KISS in the 1970s musical coming of age, he interviewed Paul Stanley twice as a music critic – once at The News American as a 16-year old in 1985 and again in a late-night, by-invite personal sit down with the legendary leader of the hottest band in the world at a makeup free 1990 chat on the “Hot In The Shade” tour. It was a great chat when the groupies weren’t beating on Stanley’s hotel room at the Dulles Hyatt.
Our favorite rock star Rik Emmett returns to tell Nestor what he’s learned about life during this second act and leg of his band’s reunion, and how his beautifully inspirational words and their meaning flows along for a lifetime. Along with Gil Moore and a trio of incredible musicians, Triumph returns to Baltimore for the first time in four decades on November 21st. The simple truth lies waiting here for everyone to share…
The preseason nonsense has ended. “Final” cuts have been made. And the 53 current Baltimore Ravens have been selected. Now, it’s time to get ready for the Indianapolis Colts and get a real in-season clock working in Owings Mills. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the Ravens week ahead in preparation for a Super Bowl-run that will begin with many questions left to be answered on the field in the friendly heart of the Midwest.
Max Weiss and Ron Cassie of Baltimore Magazine return to the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Koco’s Pub with a long-form chat about the reinvention of “Nasty Nestor” as well as their “magazine” brand and their annual selection, soiree and salute to the “Best of Baltimore” businesses, ideas and what makes the Charm City go and evolve.
The big war in Major League Baseball is a percolating and longtime baseball insider and writer Dave Sheinin has seen it all before. In his new role with NOTUS in Washington, D.C., the longtime Post sportswriter gives Nestor and Ricig a primer on life after newspapers and the handbook for the battle ahead between owners and players at Koco’s Pub on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour. Billionaires vs. millionaires. We’ve seen this before…
The losses are mounting and Luke Jones and Nestor discuss another Orioles loss to the Boston Red Sox at Camden Yards as Labor Day weekend heats up and the Birds don’t look up to the challenge of a pennant race.
Considering how sensational Flowers looked in Week 1, the last thing Baltimore wants is him being less than 100% for the bulk of the season.
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Luke Jones offers his purple musings after the Jesse Minter era started with a bang.
We knew the Baltimore Ravens had some great football players and other veterans of repute but until we see it on the field, we can’t evaluate the differences between this year and last year. Luke Jones and Nestor give praise to new head coach Jesse Minter and the entire operation of the men of purple after a thorough 41-23 beating of the Colts in Indianapolis to start a season with the promise that comes with Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry and Zay Flowers touching the ball.
Zay Flowers had a career day in only 25 minutes of play before aggravating a hamstring injury he’s managed since last month.
It’s Super Bowl or bust for the Baltimore Ravens. We all know that but there’s been a lot of change to navigate and Sunday is just start of a long journey for the men of Jesse Minter. Luke Jones and Nestor get ready for Indianapolis and beyond as another purple season with Festivus on the brain arrives just in time for the leaves to change and the kids to go back to school.
Luke Jones shares his purple musings ahead of the long-awaited start of the Jesse Minter era.
As the baseball season winds down and the Orioles continue to flop at the bottom end of a weak AL Wild Card chase, Luke Jones and Nestor discuss all of the pending baseball issues in Birdland and question why in the world Mike Elias would be allowed to continue to run the operation.
Two-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike hit the sled extensively during Wednesday’s practice.
Blaze Alexander had only returned from a fractured hand late last month.
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Considering how sensational Flowers looked in Week 1, the last thing Baltimore wants is him being less than 100% for the bulk of the season.
Luke Jones offers his purple musings after the Jesse Minter era started with a bang.
Considering how sensational Flowers looked in Week 1, the last thing Baltimore wants is him being less than 100% for the bulk of the season.
Luke Jones offers his purple musings after the Jesse Minter era started with a bang.
As the X’s and O’s and the Jimmies and Joes line up on the football field, the NASCAR folks are racing to the finish line and John Martin of The Maryland Lottery brings the spring promotion around the final turn with local folks getting a chance to win a Homestead trip to watch the cars circle the track for the championship in Florida.
With the Baltimore Ravens returning to Indianapolis to start a 31st season in the Charm City, Nestor reached to longtime St. Louis sportswriter Jeff Gordon, who was a colleague at The News American in March 1984 when the Mayflower vans came to Owings Mills. It left quite an impression on a young sportswriter from Detroit, who was in Baltimore learning the craft of local journalism under the fire of an Orioles World Series parade and an NFL team disappearing in the middle of the night. Let Gordo educate you…
The Ravens certainly haven’t won a lot of games in the friendly heart of the Midwest over these 30 years so a thorough beat down of the Colts in a comfy dome in downtown Indy to start the season is something any purple Baltimore football fan with a true blue soul should appreciate as just a little more special. I know this: my Pop would’ve greatly enjoyed that one on Sunday. All hail Minter!
At 29 years old, entering your ninth NFL season carrying two MVP trophies, with John Harbaugh gone, Jesse Minter installed, another offensive coordinator designing another offense around your extraordinary abilities and Steve Bisciotti and Eric DeCosta spending every available dollar trying to keep this championship window open, there really isn’t much left to discuss. It’s time.
We knew the Baltimore Ravens had some great football players and other veterans of repute but until we see it on the field, we can’t evaluate the differences between this year and last year. Luke Jones and Nestor give praise to new head coach Jesse Minter and the entire operation of the men of purple after a thorough 41-23 beating of the Colts in Indianapolis to start a season with the promise that comes with Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry and Zay Flowers touching the ball.
Zay Flowers had a career day in only 25 minutes of play before aggravating a hamstring injury he’s managed since last month.
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888The stories we can tell five decades later about our lifeline passion for rock and roll and great music in general. Musician Ron West of The Cultivated and The Duran Band joins Nestor for their mutual Dundalk childhood memories of camping out for concert tickets at Hecht Company from Golden Ring to Reisterstown Road Mall. Seventh row at Journey. Second row at Styx. And that time at Merriweather in the front row with Ben Orr and The Cars. And the artifacts that mark the date, place, seat and every memory that we treasure in these ticket stubs we earned the hard way! Or, the fun way…
As the X’s and O’s and the Jimmies and Joes line up on the football field, the NASCAR folks are racing to the finish line and John Martin of The Maryland Lottery brings the spring promotion around the final turn with local folks getting a chance to win a Homestead trip to watch the cars circle the track for the championship in Florida.
Steve Bisciotti didn’t fire John Harbaugh after 18 years to get younger at the podium or friendlier in the hallway. Big-Schotti did it because two-time NFL MVP Lamar Jackson is in his prime and this franchise and its owner believes the Baltimore Ravens should be playing winning football in mid-February. So, welcome to Baltimore, Coach Minter. No pressure or anything…
Baltimore Positive and WNST are celebrating 28 years, and instead of giving you another list of football players, baseball games, favorite sports somethings or places where I’ve eaten a crab cake – and I’ve got plenty of all of those – I’m going back to where a lot of this really started for me: the music. My Almost Famous youth as a teenage music critic…
Nestor wrote this at the Indianapolis Super Bowl in March 2011 and 15 years later stands by it. It took a long time to get over the Colts leaving Baltimore for Indy but this Sunday it’s just another football game and the horseshoes are in the way. It’s been 42 years…
Nestor first had the Hall of Famer on the show at the Ed Block Courage Awards in 1997 but this is a more modern chat about what happens after you win a championship and the level of involvement in maintaining greatness after achievement.
We all know about cheating in baseball and the biggest scandal in the history of the World Series. Now over a century later, baseball historian David Fletcher tells Nestor everything he did not know about Shoeless Joe Jackson and Black Sox scandal and his new book
There is a plague in progress. Please listen to science and doctors and show love to each other by wearing a mask and social distancing. But eat well and order some ice cream…
Mickey Cucchiella joins Nestor to discuss all of the old Preakness memories that we don’t talk about anymore. What happens in the infield stays in the infield…
Transforming the lives of young men in Baltimore City by supporting and advancing their academic, athletic and social development.
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Longtime civic leader Barry Williams returns for “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” to educate Nestor about the future of the Pikesville Armory Project, designed to serve the community for generations to come after being an historic piece of the area recently abandoned and unused. Always looking to the future…
It’s the biggest week of the year on campus at Coppin State as the Eagles hail home all of the alumni and folks all over the country (and world) to come back to West Baltimore to celebrate the legacy and impact of the university. Kimberly Nelson invites Nestor on campus for Homecoming Week and the alumni legacy of education and spirit of the tens of thousands of proud graduates.
As the X’s and O’s and the Jimmies and Joes line up on the football field, the NASCAR folks are racing to the finish line and John Martin of The Maryland Lottery brings the spring promotion around the final turn with local folks getting a chance to win a Homestead trip to watch the cars circle the track for the championship in Florida.
Now that The Fishmonger’s Daughter is serving folks for lunch and dinner in Catonsville, it was time to sit down with Damye Hahn and talk about her incredible vision and passion to get the Faidley’s family from Lexington Market to a full-service restaurant in their hometown on Frederick Road. Bill Cole joins Nestor to talk fresh seafood, local dining and the family touch that only four generations in Baltimore can bring.
It’s going to be quite a trip ahead for Leonard Raskin and many Baltimore Ravens fans who are not only getting their passports stamped in Brazil this month, but also better have their visa! And their credit card and security for their phones. Nestor, who did the Copacabana, Ipanema and Corcovado run in 2006 with the Rolling Stones in the biggest concert in the history of the planet, asks our resident financial expert what he’s hoping to find in Rio de Janeiro – other than Dallas Cowboys fans.
Longtime civic leader Barry Williams returns for “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” to educate Nestor about the future of the Pikesville Armory Project, designed to serve the community for generations to come after being an historic piece of the area recently abandoned and unused. Always looking to the future…
It’s the biggest week of the year on campus at Coppin State as the Eagles hail home all of the alumni and folks all over the country (and world) to come back to West Baltimore to celebrate the legacy and impact of the university. Kimberly Nelson invites Nestor on campus for Homecoming Week and the alumni legacy of education and spirit of the tens of thousands of proud graduates.
Now that The Fishmonger’s Daughter is serving folks for lunch and dinner in Catonsville, it was time to sit down with Damye Hahn and talk about her incredible vision and passion to get the Faidley’s family from Lexington Market to a full-service restaurant in their hometown on Frederick Road. Bill Cole joins Nestor to talk fresh seafood, local dining and the family touch that only four generations in Baltimore can bring.
It’s going to be quite a trip ahead for Leonard Raskin and many Baltimore Ravens fans who are not only getting their passports stamped in Brazil this month, but also better have their visa! And their credit card and security for their phones. Nestor, who did the Copacabana, Ipanema and Corcovado run in 2006 with the Rolling Stones in the biggest concert in the history of the planet, asks our resident financial expert what he’s hoping to find in Rio de Janeiro – other than Dallas Cowboys fans.
As the X’s and O’s and the Jimmies and Joes line up on the football field, the NASCAR folks are racing to the finish line and John Martin of The Maryland Lottery brings the spring promotion around the final turn with local folks getting a chance to win a Homestead trip to watch the cars circle the track for the championship in Florida.
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Did you know that Tom Davis was once in a movie scene in Baltimore with the legendary Al Pacino? We did and Max Weiss has promised Nestor a full treatment of all memorable local movie history in the next edition of Baltimore Magazine. They continue their holiday chat about bad referees, big money Orioles signings and what’s on the table at Di Pasquale’s in Canton on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.
Our favorite reformed baseball writer and historian Tim Wendel has moved on to a life as a professor at Johns Hopkins and author of novels. He’ll be back in Baltimore on Saturday signing his most recent book, “Rebel Falls,” and joins Nestor here to discuss the book’s historical context, including a Confederate plot to seize a Union warship and bombard northern cities. They also delve into the state of the Baltimore Orioles, expressing concerns about the team’s payroll, involvement in free agency and the kinds of fan engagement that will grow the franchise into a mid-market brand.
Author Brad Balukjian returns to discuss the aftermath of his best-selling book on what happened to old baseball players – and his buggy tales of Tahiti and real science discovery beyond Rick Sutcliffe.
Ron Cassie tells Nestor about the epic Baltimore Magazine gathering of local legends and trailblazers for the January 2023 cover.
Nestor did a Rock N Jock Baseball Preview in the 1990s and his music pals called in to talk sports. Geddy Lee checked in from Toronto to discuss the 1997 Orioles and Blue Jays.
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Everyone who has ever met Nestor knows that Amicci’s in Little Italy is his favorite restaurant on earth. And everyone knows about the world famous Pane Rotundo. But it’s time to share his favorite personal pairing – the meatball and ricotta marinara appetizer sliced and assembled across bubbling, toasty garlic cheese bread and served open faced. (This isn’t a real menu item. But if it was they’d call it “The SloppyNes” because this ain’t your father’s Sloppy Joe and it’s certainly no ordinary “meatball sub.”) Get a fork and a bib!
When owner Harold Xeconimos took over Sorrento of Arbutus during 2020 and the lockdown period, he knew he wanted to elevate the menu yet keep all of its neighborhood glory and charm with the pizza and cheesesteak subs that always delivered. On his first visit to Arbutus on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour, Nestor gets the tale of another Dundalk native coming from Loafers on Route 40 and continuing the great tradition of the food and hospitality in Southwest Baltimore.
The sign on the door says: ONLY NICE PEOPLE ALLOWED! And somehow Marcella Knight and the awesome folks at Koco’s Pub were still nice enough to allow us to celebrate their 40th Anniversary that required some #TastyNes Koconut Shrimp along on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour from the heart of Lauraville with tales of our favorite things to eat in Baltimore along with our favorite Ko-Host, sports cartoonist Ricig.
Damye Hahn of Faidley’s Seafood reminds Nestor at Lexington Market on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour about how and why we’re eating lots of catfish this summer here in the land of pleasant living.
The website at Fuji San says: “Best drunken noodles and pad thai in Maryland” and we’re not here to argue that as a gastronomic fact. If you love Thai food, make a stop on York Road in Cockeysville and see why we rarely go anywhere else when we’re craving a passage to Bangkok.
Local author and Towson media professor Ron Snyder shares more memories from his book on the Baltimore Stallions and the two CFL Grey Cup years in the mid 1990s and invites folks to his new documentary screening and discussion on the team’s football impact on Baltimore sports history. It premiers at Towson University on September 24.
It’s never easy replacing a singer in a classic rock band but it’s even harder for the singer to be accepted by the fans.
We always use our time with Senator Chris Van Hollen wisely and this sit down at MACo in Ocean City covered all things federal money, Key Bridge, housing costs, AI realities and who is paying for Trump’s illegal war in Iran. Democracy and the future of the United States is always front and center when Nestor gets time with our representative in Washington, D.C. to ask hard questions.
Everyone loves a night of Pink Floyd music. These guys do it as well as anyone in the world outside of Roger and David at this point.
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