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The deviled egg is in the details and the future of downtown Baltimore

Some folks only attend the Maryland Crab Cake Tour when deviled eggs are involved. Our pal Bill Cole returns to join Mac Campbell of the Baltimore Convention Center in a wide-ranging discussion on the progress of downtown Baltimore and how to get the community to buy into the positive changes and leadership.

Welcoming any convention to Baltimore with open arms

As the Maryland Crab Cake Tour gets back on the road for the holidays, Mac Campbell of the Baltimore Convention Center joins Nestor at Faidley’s to discuss future of downtown, its vibrancy and bringing folks to the Charm City in all sorts of creative ways.

Tracking down millions of dollars of local winners this month

Sometimes when folks don’t win the jackpot, they think they didn’t win at all. Seth Elkin of the Maryland Lottery tells Nestor about tracking down million dollar winners this month – including a ticket in Snow Hill that is still unclaimed.

What will Baltimore look like when we’re done?

As we all await the Angelos Family signing a long-term lease at Camden Yards and the Orioles offseason spin will begin, Bill Cole and Nestor wonder exactly what the teams want and what the city needs to build a better future footprint for the Inner Harbor and the future of downtown Baltimore. SUMMARY KEYWORDS talk, years, game, roof, baseball, baltimore, city, good, orioles, phillies, john, winning, maryland crab, stadium, buying, built, tickets, team, put, philadelphia SPEAKERS Nestor Aparicio, Bill Cole Nestor Aparicio  00:01 What about W and st Towson? Baltimore? Baltimore positive. I wish I had some crabcake tour dates to give you right now, but they’re in flux. I’m working on about eight of them. between now and Christmas. They’re all gonna be brought to you by the Maryland lottery. We did have some winners. The two last week were Hollywood casino on Sunday, had a bunch of winners up there had a really good time and a victory for the Ravens as well. Our friends at weathernation 866 90 nation they well we’ll install them and make it happen for you 0% financing it by two you get two free that’s going on all month long October as

Only nice people allowed: It’s the local Lauraville family love that makes Koco’s Pub perfect

Our Maryland Crab Cake Tour will be making more stops with Marcella and her gang on Harford Road in Lauraville as we continue to the take the show on the road, presented by The Maryland Lottery, Window Nation and Jiffy Lube. The familiar faces of the place and the parrots, margaritas and Koconut shrimp extend behind the bar and into the kitchen with a great family story. Meet Liz and Sea Bass. They’ve got Orioles Fever, too!

See it, sniff it, play it and cash in for the Holidays

Yes, that gingerbread man on the Maryland Lottery ticket smells just like your Aunt’s holiday kitchen! And the peppermint is minty and could be worth a mint! John Martin of Maryland Lottery makes Nestor smile with some holiday reasons for scratch and sniff tickets and fun ways to win. SUMMARY KEYWORDS ravens, tickets, week, jacksonville, snow globe, good, win, john, fun, winners, maryland, holiday, year, peppermint, lottery, plane, enjoy, play, william jennings, game SPEAKERS John Martin, Nestor Aparicio Nestor Aparicio  00:02 We are wn St. am 1570, Towson Baltimore. It is a Baltimore positive. We’re getting Maryland crabcakes. We’re back out on the road. I’m going to have the full schedule next week. I had to put some things together. We have the governor on November the 28th. That’s going to happen down in Annapolis. We have the mayor of Baltimore Coco’s working on that but it did get a a side carry out order for Marcella over Coco’s, we’re gonna be back at Costas in as well. And we’re going to be giving away the Raven scratch offs. We were very lucky batch we had up in Hollywood casino in the sports book two weeks ago, as well as

Big jackpots hit elsewhere still bring home big local winners

With Ravens scratch-off jackpot prizes still in play and holiday games set to launch, John Martin of The Maryland Lottery tells Nestor that the massive jackpots hit in other states often provide big local winners who don’t have all of the numbers – but still cash in with a large check. SUMMARY KEYWORDS win, people, maryland, ticket, ravens, scratch, winners, sports wagering, lottery, game, pitching, baltimore, good, tour, word, week, md, talk, delaware, prize SPEAKERS John Martin, Nestor Aparicio Nestor Aparicio  00:01 Welcome home we are W en st Towson, Baltimore. And Baltimore positive. We are taking the Maryland crabcake tour back out on the road. I am working on like a bunch of dates in the November December we have the governor coming on amongst others as well as the Mayor of Baltimore, Brandon Scott for the holidays, putting it all together, getting it all out. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery. We were up at Hollywood casino as well as last week at drug city celebrating where my truck city shirt celebrating 55 years of my life and even more than that a drug city up at the tasting my son stopped

Supporting the Greater Baltimore Chamber of Commerce and celebrating your dog

Beth Rheingold of Greater Baltimore Chamber of Commerce invites Nestor to Heads & Tails 5K & Doggie Dash on October 29th at Garrison Forest and educates him on the modern state of local community business groups and holding neighborhoods together. SUMMARY KEYWORDS dog, baltimore, business, people, owings mills, chamber, nestor, work, good, beth, doggie, eating, commerce, ravens, road, community, small business, tour, event, jerry SPEAKERS Nestor Aparicio, Beth Rheingold Nestor Aparicio  00:01 W n s t, Towson Baltimore. And Baltimore positive we’re celebrating 25 years of all of this madness at wn St. Our 25th anniversary brought to you by our friends at curio wellness and foreign daughter. We have been providing some educational segments on cannabis with our our friends Wendy and Rebecca over at the cure curio and in foreign data we’ll be doing more of that. We’re also gonna be doing the Maryland crab cake tour. Now look all this Oriole madness kind of put me on a little bit of a hiatus we did do the show for my birthday. I truck sitting in the front last week always brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery gateway some winning scratch offs on Sunday

Finally getting Free to tell the history of Baltimore house music with the great Ultra Nate´

Our Maryland Crab Cake Tour, presented by The Maryland Lottery, Window Nation and Jiffy Lube is always filled with serendipity. Roz Lane was coming by Koco’s Pub to help us give away from Ravens scratch-offs and wound up Ko-hosting our segment with the Baltimore diva of the dance floor and celebrating 20 years of Deep Sugar grooves. Let Roz tell you about all of those all night dance parties at the Paradox while Ultra schools Nestor on the roots of house music and her amazing international success as an artist.

Christian Horton of Hollywood Casino joins Nestor to pick Week 7 and talk NFL matchups

Now 50-40-3 against the spread for the season, Nestor Aparicio and Christian Horton of Hollywood Casino in Perryville try to figure out teams like Philadelphia and San Francisco after tough losses and how Ravens will fare against stout Lions defense. SUMMARY KEYWORDS ravens, week, play, good, points, teams, hollywood casino, lions, game, road, watched, home, christian, bad, bet, niners, pick, patriots, jiffy lube, rams SPEAKERS Nestor Aparicio, Christian Horton Nestor Aparicio  00:01 Welcome home we are W and st Towson Baltimore and Baltimore positive it’s been a pretty good week Ravens won I mean last year the Orioles losing was so last week ago. We’re gonna get to Maryland crabcakes we’re back out of the row presented by our friends at the Maryland lottery I gave some ravens scratch offs way up at Hollywood casino in parallel on Sunday we had a nice party. Also our friends at window nation 866 90 nation you buy to you get to free 0% financing in October as well as our friends at Jiffy Lube multi care my little orange light went on that’s not the orange shirt that I have on from curio or the orange light in my car. It said

One night, in Havana…

Nestor Aparicio tells Dennis Koulatsos about that night in Havana with Woody Harrelson and Andy Summers. And about sitting at the kids’ media table in Arlington, Texas for the ALDS Game 3 exit of the Baltimore Orioles.

Recalling the night I sang three Police songs with Andy Summers in Havana

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…

Andy Summers of The Police returns to Nestor’s life 25 years after the Havana duet

Legendary guitarist Andy Summers of The Police reunites with Nestor nearly a quarter of a century after their 1999 duet in Cuba, which you can hear at Baltimore Positive as well. His current tour brings him through York, Pennsylvania on Thursday, October 12th with a full multimedia show: “A Cracked Lens + A Missing String.”

Comedian Lewis Black on going orange and black and never looking back

When his usual comedic rants were softened by the Orioles fandom in his heart on the internet, we needed to reach to our favorite comedian Lewis Black to investigate his baseball soul from the D.C. suburbs to a life making jokes about Peter Angelos and Daniel Snyder. The man has suffered with Baltimore baseball and Washington football. Let him come clean on why Camden Yards in October is what heaven will feel like…

How high can the dough go? It’s a lotta, lotta money

The Powerball jackpot continues to climb and Maryland Lottery Executive Director John Martin tells Nestor about all of the other fun ways to win as Fall brings back some Hall-O-Win fun in Pick 3, Pick 4 and Pick 5 games.

October is a time for the Orioles brand to grow

Sports business professor Marty Conway and Nestor discuss upcoming orange tide in Baltimore and Orioles chance for big growth of the brand of the Bird. As the Ravens go on the road for most of the month, it’s the first time in a long time that the boys of summer will own the days and nights of Fall.

Once again, the Orioles have Magic to do

For two decades Charles Steinberg worked for the Baltimore Orioles and can recite the history of Orioles Magic because he was there when it happened. Checking in from his gig running the Worcester Woo Sox after a long trail of success with the Boston Red Sox, the native Baltimorean had some thoughts on the kindness of Brooks Robinson, warm memories of 33rd Street and the resurgence of the Oriole Way with the 2023 Birds.

A weekend to remember ahead in Baltimore

Dennis Koulatsos and Nestor discuss the huge weekend ahead for Orioles and Ravens and city of Baltimore in what we used to call “Pittsburgh Week” here in the Charm City. Instead, it’s a schedule-making nightmare for sports fans and concert goers but we’ll take more of it!

Ain’t the beer cold in Baltimore!

His brilliant art appears all over Baltimore because sports cartoonist Mike Ricigliano has been drawing ’em up since Bob Irsay took the Colts to Indianapolis. Now, after decades of drawing losing images of Orioles baseball, Ricig joins Nestor at Koco’s Pub on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to talk about his 40 years of cartoon Birds fandom and playoff fever in Baltimore.

How much room do we have on the Orioles Bandwagon?

Our favorite Editor-In-Chief and social critic Max Weiss of Baltimore Magazine joins Nestor and Ricig at Koco’s Pub for a pre-October chat about the history and relevance of Orioles baseball in Baltimore. And her essay wondering just how many folks are coming back to Orioles Magic as postseason bunting looms at Camden Yards and the excitement grows.

WNST STORY OF GLORY No. 25 – Showing Baltimore our signs of life

If you are familiar with the beginnings of WNST, it probably came back on that first kickoff at Memorial Stadium on September 1, 1996 when the Baltimore Ravens were born and our DUMP TRUMPY placards made national news after NBC broadcaster Bob Trumpy wished the Charm City empty roads, warm beer and cold hot dogs. And of course, the GET NASTY flip sides took off and launched what would become WNST-AM 1570 on August 3, 1998. We will countdown our WNST Top 25 “Stories of Glory” every week through the football season. If you have pictures from this era, please email: nes@baltimorepositive.com and share and tag us on social media. We’d love to see your side of our 25 WNST Stories of Glory. And if you have a story to tell, let’s tell it. Gratitude for all of the years of your support keeping us strong and alive and thriving into our 26th year of doing it better than anyone’s ever done it!

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The Itch of a new solo album from Kix legend Steve Whiteman

With M3 looming and the return of live music to the Symphony Woods of Merriweather Post Pavilion, Nestor welcomed his personal vocal coach and the greatest frontman in local music history from Hagerstown to discuss “You’re Welcome” and his new music.

Getting the itch to give Kix a beautiful rock and roll sendoff

A lifetime of friendship brought Stone Horses frontman John Allen back to his Dundalk homeland at Costas Inn join Nestor Aparicio for the WNST 25th Anniversary celebration in a wide-ranging discussion of the history of Baltimore rock music. From Child’s Play roots in East Baltimore to the farewell of legendary vocalist Steve Whiteman, let two good ol’ boys tell you about growing up loving Sarah Fleischer, Hammerjacks and the dream of living a music life.

Kicking off and knowing your limits with sports wagering

Executive Director of Maryland Lottery and Gaming John Martin discusses the beginning of the first full football season with mobile wagering here with excitement and caution as September also kicks off a month of gambling awareness and knowing how to slow your roll and having a plan.

Getting to that one particular harbour while you still can

The death of Jimmy Buffet hit so many people so hard over the Labor Day weekend. So many shows. So many memories. Our financial advisor Leonard Raskin says it’s another reminder to have another boat drink and lose yourself in Margaritaville by living your best life. Just like Jimmy would’ve wanted.

Scratching the surface of football season

John Martin of Maryland Lottery gets Nestor ready for football season and Ravens scratch-offs for Labor Day. Plus, the big $5 million chance hits the Maryland State Fair in Timonium as we get ready to kickoff the fall fun.

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The great Nils Lofgren talks about being in the E Street Band

Nestor Aparicio chats about all things E Street with the great Nils Lofgren who plays guitar in Bruce Springsteen’s legendary Hall of Fame band from Tampa on January 27, 2009 just days before the infamous Super Bowl halftime performance with Clarence Clemons.

Time to win and fly away with the Ravens

John Martin of Maryland Lottery preps the purple kingdom for the return of Ravens Scratch-Off season and all of the cool purple prizes and giveaways during football season.

Adding up the numbers of the Maryland Lottery

As the Maryland Crab Cake Tour rolled east to Ocean City for MACO chats with state leaders, John Martin and Seth Elkin of the Maryland Lottery join Nestor to discuss the big picture of revenue and the future of mobile wagering in our state.

The beauty of Baltimore when both teams are winning

Now 25 years into talking about sports around the clock, it’s rarefied air when the Orioles are in first place and the Ravens are expected to join them in the fall. Long time public relations executive John Maroon and original WNST producer Andy Mueller join Nestor at Drug City to discuss how much fun sports can be for a community like Baltimore.

Mr. Statham and Ricig celebrate WNST 25th on the street where Nestor lives

Our favorite segments are the ones when we mix and match guests who’ve never met. For the 25th Anniversary celebration at Costas Inn on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour, sports cartoonist Mike Ricigliano surprised Nestor with typical flair and legendary music teacher Calvin Statham tickled the ivories with an impromptu “My Fair Lady” show tunes singalong.

The deviled egg is in the details and the future of downtown Baltimore

Some folks only attend the Maryland Crab Cake Tour when deviled eggs are involved. Our pal Bill Cole returns to join Mac Campbell of the Baltimore Convention Center in a wide-ranging discussion on the progress of downtown Baltimore and how to get the community to buy into the positive changes and leadership.

Welcoming any convention to Baltimore with open arms

As the Maryland Crab Cake Tour gets back on the road for the holidays, Mac Campbell of the Baltimore Convention Center joins Nestor at Faidley’s to discuss future of downtown, its vibrancy and bringing folks to the Charm City in all sorts of creative ways.

Tracking down millions of dollars of local winners this month

Sometimes when folks don’t win the jackpot, they think they didn’t win at all. Seth Elkin of the Maryland Lottery tells Nestor about tracking down million dollar winners this month – including a ticket in Snow Hill that is still unclaimed.

Only nice people allowed: It’s the local Lauraville family love that makes Koco’s Pub perfect

Our Maryland Crab Cake Tour will be making more stops with Marcella and her gang on Harford Road in Lauraville as we continue to the take the show on the road, presented by The Maryland Lottery, Window Nation and Jiffy Lube. The familiar faces of the place and the parrots, margaritas and Koconut shrimp extend behind the bar and into the kitchen with a great family story. Meet Liz and Sea Bass. They’ve got Orioles Fever, too!

Finally getting Free to tell the history of Baltimore house music with the great Ultra Nate´

Our Maryland Crab Cake Tour, presented by The Maryland Lottery, Window Nation and Jiffy Lube is always filled with serendipity. Roz Lane was coming by Koco’s Pub to help us give away from Ravens scratch-offs and wound up Ko-hosting our segment with the Baltimore diva of the dance floor and celebrating 20 years of Deep Sugar grooves. Let Roz tell you about all of those all night dance parties at the Paradox while Ultra schools Nestor on the roots of house music and her amazing international success as an artist.

One night, in Havana…

Nestor Aparicio tells Dennis Koulatsos about that night in Havana with Woody Harrelson and Andy Summers. And about sitting at the kids’ media table in Arlington, Texas for the ALDS Game 3 exit of the Baltimore Orioles.

Recalling the night I sang three Police songs with Andy Summers in Havana

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…

Andy Summers of The Police returns to Nestor’s life 25 years after the Havana duet

Legendary guitarist Andy Summers of The Police reunites with Nestor nearly a quarter of a century after their 1999 duet in Cuba, which you can hear at Baltimore Positive as well. His current tour brings him through York, Pennsylvania on Thursday, October 12th with a full multimedia show: “A Cracked Lens + A Missing String.”

Comedian Lewis Black on going orange and black and never looking back

When his usual comedic rants were softened by the Orioles fandom in his heart on the internet, we needed to reach to our favorite comedian Lewis Black to investigate his baseball soul from the D.C. suburbs to a life making jokes about Peter Angelos and Daniel Snyder. The man has suffered with Baltimore baseball and Washington football. Let him come clean on why Camden Yards in October is what heaven will feel like…

How high can the dough go? It’s a lotta, lotta money

The Powerball jackpot continues to climb and Maryland Lottery Executive Director John Martin tells Nestor about all of the other fun ways to win as Fall brings back some Hall-O-Win fun in Pick 3, Pick 4 and Pick 5 games.

October is a time for the Orioles brand to grow

Sports business professor Marty Conway and Nestor discuss upcoming orange tide in Baltimore and Orioles chance for big growth of the brand of the Bird. As the Ravens go on the road for most of the month, it’s the first time in a long time that the boys of summer will own the days and nights of Fall.

Once again, the Orioles have Magic to do

For two decades Charles Steinberg worked for the Baltimore Orioles and can recite the history of Orioles Magic because he was there when it happened. Checking in from his gig running the Worcester Woo Sox after a long trail of success with the Boston Red Sox, the native Baltimorean had some thoughts on the kindness of Brooks Robinson, warm memories of 33rd Street and the resurgence of the Oriole Way with the 2023 Birds.

A weekend to remember ahead in Baltimore

Dennis Koulatsos and Nestor discuss the huge weekend ahead for Orioles and Ravens and city of Baltimore in what we used to call “Pittsburgh Week” here in the Charm City. Instead, it’s a schedule-making nightmare for sports fans and concert goers but we’ll take more of it!

Ain’t the beer cold in Baltimore!

His brilliant art appears all over Baltimore because sports cartoonist Mike Ricigliano has been drawing ’em up since Bob Irsay took the Colts to Indianapolis. Now, after decades of drawing losing images of Orioles baseball, Ricig joins Nestor at Koco’s Pub on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to talk about his 40 years of cartoon Birds fandom and playoff fever in Baltimore.

How much room do we have on the Orioles Bandwagon?

Our favorite Editor-In-Chief and social critic Max Weiss of Baltimore Magazine joins Nestor and Ricig at Koco’s Pub for a pre-October chat about the history and relevance of Orioles baseball in Baltimore. And her essay wondering just how many folks are coming back to Orioles Magic as postseason bunting looms at Camden Yards and the excitement grows.

WNST STORY OF GLORY No. 25 – Showing Baltimore our signs of life

If you are familiar with the beginnings of WNST, it probably came back on that first kickoff at Memorial Stadium on September 1, 1996 when the Baltimore Ravens were born and our DUMP TRUMPY placards made national news after NBC broadcaster Bob Trumpy wished the Charm City empty roads, warm beer and cold hot dogs. And of course, the GET NASTY flip sides took off and launched what would become WNST-AM 1570 on August 3, 1998. We will countdown our WNST Top 25 “Stories of Glory” every week through the football season. If you have pictures from this era, please email: nes@baltimorepositive.com and share and tag us on social media. We’d love to see your side of our 25 WNST Stories of Glory. And if you have a story to tell, let’s tell it. Gratitude for all of the years of your support keeping us strong and alive and thriving into our 26th year of doing it better than anyone’s ever done it!

Screen Shot 2021 06 23 at 6.05.18 AM

The Itch of a new solo album from Kix legend Steve Whiteman

With M3 looming and the return of live music to the Symphony Woods of Merriweather Post Pavilion, Nestor welcomed his personal vocal coach and the greatest frontman in local music history from Hagerstown to discuss “You’re Welcome” and his new music.

Getting the itch to give Kix a beautiful rock and roll sendoff

A lifetime of friendship brought Stone Horses frontman John Allen back to his Dundalk homeland at Costas Inn join Nestor Aparicio for the WNST 25th Anniversary celebration in a wide-ranging discussion of the history of Baltimore rock music. From Child’s Play roots in East Baltimore to the farewell of legendary vocalist Steve Whiteman, let two good ol’ boys tell you about growing up loving Sarah Fleischer, Hammerjacks and the dream of living a music life.

Kicking off and knowing your limits with sports wagering

Executive Director of Maryland Lottery and Gaming John Martin discusses the beginning of the first full football season with mobile wagering here with excitement and caution as September also kicks off a month of gambling awareness and knowing how to slow your roll and having a plan.

Getting to that one particular harbour while you still can

The death of Jimmy Buffet hit so many people so hard over the Labor Day weekend. So many shows. So many memories. Our financial advisor Leonard Raskin says it’s another reminder to have another boat drink and lose yourself in Margaritaville by living your best life. Just like Jimmy would’ve wanted.

Scratching the surface of football season

John Martin of Maryland Lottery gets Nestor ready for football season and Ravens scratch-offs for Labor Day. Plus, the big $5 million chance hits the Maryland State Fair in Timonium as we get ready to kickoff the fall fun.

mq1

The great Nils Lofgren talks about being in the E Street Band

Nestor Aparicio chats about all things E Street with the great Nils Lofgren who plays guitar in Bruce Springsteen’s legendary Hall of Fame band from Tampa on January 27, 2009 just days before the infamous Super Bowl halftime performance with Clarence Clemons.

Time to win and fly away with the Ravens

John Martin of Maryland Lottery preps the purple kingdom for the return of Ravens Scratch-Off season and all of the cool purple prizes and giveaways during football season.

Adding up the numbers of the Maryland Lottery

As the Maryland Crab Cake Tour rolled east to Ocean City for MACO chats with state leaders, John Martin and Seth Elkin of the Maryland Lottery join Nestor to discuss the big picture of revenue and the future of mobile wagering in our state.

The beauty of Baltimore when both teams are winning

Now 25 years into talking about sports around the clock, it’s rarefied air when the Orioles are in first place and the Ravens are expected to join them in the fall. Long time public relations executive John Maroon and original WNST producer Andy Mueller join Nestor at Drug City to discuss how much fun sports can be for a community like Baltimore.

Mr. Statham and Ricig celebrate WNST 25th on the street where Nestor lives

Our favorite segments are the ones when we mix and match guests who’ve never met. For the 25th Anniversary celebration at Costas Inn on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour, sports cartoonist Mike Ricigliano surprised Nestor with typical flair and legendary music teacher Calvin Statham tickled the ivories with an impromptu “My Fair Lady” show tunes singalong.

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