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For the love of the extinct Luv Ya Blue magic of the Houston Oilers

Baltimore Positive

Back in 1992 when Nestor Aparicio began doing his own radio show on WITH-AM 1230 and Baltimore didn’t have an NFL team, he reached to then-Houston Oilers public relations man Chip Namias for a helping hand with the Love Ya Blue blood running through his young veins after leaving The Baltimore Sun. And here we are 30 years later telling the tales.

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Hot dogs and crab cakes with Andy

Baltimore Positive

Telling the G&A Restaurant family story from Highlandtown to White Marsh with Andy Farantos. And, yes, french fries and gravy were on the menu!

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Is Purple Festivus still a thing?

Baltimore Positive

What happened to all of the purple lights and flamingos on the lawns of Baltimore? Have the Ravens lost their January mojo with the people of the Charm City? Bill Cole and Nestor discuss the most unusual Festivus in Baltimore football history.

A Ted Talk: Lying Leonsis and abandoning The District with “accountability”

Baltimore Positive

When Nestor read his business journalist pal Liz Farmer had written from the heart about the Caps and Wizards leaving Washington, D.C. for Virginia, it was time to move beyond the Baltimore fiasco with Angelos and Camden Yards to discuss even more local stadia and arena civic cash grab madness amongst billionaires in The DMV with an expert on government fiscal policy.

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Shaking the history of Milkshake and legend of Beyond Words and the New Wave 80s

Baltimore Positive

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour celebrated its final stop of the year under the Christmas lights of Costas Inn with old friends telling music tales. Your kids might know Milkshake but Nestor knew them as a kid music critic in the 1980s as Beyond Words and went back to the New Wave 80s with Lisa, George and Mikel in his dreams for his 31st Anniversary celebration.

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Going Beyond Words to Scratch n’ Sniff and history of Gina Schock in Dundalk

Baltimore Positive

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour final stop of the year brought old friends together for the holidays at Costas Inn. John Allen joined Nestor in welcoming their old Dundalk High art teacher Joyce Bucci on to discuss her role with the band Beyond Words (and the Child’s Play logo) and how it tied back to the first punk rock band of Gina Schock before The Go-Go’s.

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Rocking the Hammerjacks documentary for the holidays

Baltimore Positive

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour presented by The Maryland Lottery, Goodwill and Window Nation celebrated Nestor’s 31st Anniversary at Costas Inn in Dundalk with old music friends and stories of bands and clubs. And some hairspray! A history of Hammerjacks with Nestor Aparicio and John Allen from Costas at Dundalk as the new documentary is released.

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Maryland Crab Cake (and Brewery) Tour Day 24: Eldersburg love of 1823 and old friends at Liberatore’s

Baltimore Positive

The 22nd day of the Maryland Crab Cake Tour presented by The Maryland Lottery, Goodwill, Window Nation and the Restaurant Association of Maryland was spent in Eldersburg with an incredible local journey with old friends. Mike McKelvin and Dante Liberatore own a restaurant and brewing company and shared their Carroll County life with Nestor. And John Maroon stopped by for three decades of sports tales about Cal Ripken Jr. and walking the Great Wall of China and the streets of Beijing together. Lots of delicious 1823 beer here and a toast to the late, great Vince Bagli and Chris Thomas.

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The story and emotions behind the story of “Baltimore, You Have No Idea”

Baltimore Positive

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour returned to Faidley’s at Lexington Market for a holiday visit with legendary columnist Dan Rodricks from The Baltimore Sun discussing Eric Bogosian, storytelling and taking his incredible career memoirs and the Baltimore characters met along the way to the stage at The BMA and his incredible stage production. And breaking news: it’s coming back in the spring! Go see it!

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Bringing good jobs back to Sparrows Point

Baltimore Positive

Aaron Tomarchio of Tradepoint Atlantic joins Nestor and John Allen to discuss the Dundalk work history of Bethlehem Steel and the future and jobs coming tomorrow at the new ‘Point.

The Drug City crab cake of the people at The Fountain in Dundalk

The Drug City crab cake of the people at The Fountain in Dundalk

Baltimore Positive

Who says you can’t go home? Nestor takes the Maryland Crab Cake Tour presented by The Maryland Lottery, Window Nation and Goodwill back to his childhood favorite Drug City in Dundalk, where the place is all grown-up. The Fountain crab cake and handspun milkshake combo bring home the modern love.

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The Schock of a Dundalk homecoming for a rock and roll queen

Baltimore Positive

The Go-Go’s legendary drummer came home to visit with Nestor on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at The Tasting Room above The Fountain at Drug City in Dundalk. As serendipity would have it, John Allen of Stone Horses made his way home, too, and took a Schocking tour of East Baltimore and Highlandtown music, cymbals and two rock stars who have seen the world.

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Remembering legendary Dundalk English professor and gentleman Allen Stockett

Baltimore Positive

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour was already placed at Drug City in Dundalk before we lost beloved English professor Allen Stockett. Nestor gathered a few different folks from his space, CCBC professor Jay Trucker and lifer Dundalk ’85 pal Stan Jablonski to honor the late, great Shakespeare meets Bogart, non-digital old-school man of words who taught us a lot about life in those S.A.T. prep classes.

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Drawing it up for Baltimore with a sports smile

Baltimore Positive

Legendary sports cartoonist Mike Ricigliano continues his chat about a New York transplant and his love of Baltimore life from a Buffalo beginning on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour from Gunpowder Lodge in Kingsville.

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For the love of soccer and country

Baltimore Positive

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour made a stop at Gunpowder Lodge for a catch-up between owner and former soccer star Danny Santoro and Nestor about all things local, the feet of Pete Caringi and Sonny Askew and finding space in Kingsville for a legit United States and World Cup celebration during Thanksgiving week to support the red, white and blue.

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From Buffalo to Italy to Baltimore with sports cartoon love

Baltimore Positive

Old old Italiano sports cartoonist Mike Ricigliano discusses his recent soujourn to the motherland and catches up on a lifetime of friendship and sports and their 1984 meeting as colleagues at The News American on Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Gunpowder Lodge.

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Getting ready for a new downtown arena and entertainment venue in Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

The former Baltimore Civic Center that became The Baltimore Arena that became First Mariner and then Royal Farms Arena changed names but never could shake its image or, simply, just what it was: an old building that was outdated the day it opened in 1961. That’s about to change. Let our Chief Digital Officer Mike Rosenfeld tell you what he learned recently on a trip to Austin, Texas.

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World Series history and memories that last a lifetime

Baltimore Positive

New York Times baseball writer and author Tyler Kepner has penned a book on the history of October lore. “The Grandest Stage: A History of The World Series” chronicles the most enduring showcase in our country’s history with the grand old game but Nestor wanted to discuss a personal history of his Baltimore Orioles and Kepner’s childhood Philadelphia Phillies and some 1983 and 1993 magic in pretty fare baseball towns.

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Purple Reign 2: Chapter 17 “The Last Ride of 52”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 17 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing the 2013 book chapter by chapter daily. This is the last dance downtown for Ray Lewis in purple.

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Maryland Crab Cake (and Brewery) Tour Day 1: Conrad’s Seafood Market in Towson and Red Brick Station in White Marsh

Baltimore Positive

The first day of the Maryland Crab Cake Tour presented by The Maryland Lottery, Goodwill, Window Nation and the Restaurant Association of Maryland was a busy local Towson and White Marsh day. Dr. Steve Elliott from Elliott Chiropractic and Gregg Landry of Towson Transfer have been friends with Nestor for three decades and shared the local business and community love to kick off 31 crab cakes and 31 breweries in 31 days to celebrate 31 years on Baltimore airwaves and to promote local business and Restaurant Week all over the state from September 16th through 25th.

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Purple Reign 2: Chapter 10 “The sad loss of a great work of Art”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 10 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing it chapter by chapter daily to get #RavensFlock ready for NFL season. Hear Art Modell tell his life story here.

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For the love of the extinct Luv Ya Blue magic of the Houston Oilers

Baltimore Positive

Back in 1992 when Nestor Aparicio began doing his own radio show on WITH-AM 1230 and Baltimore didn’t have an NFL team, he reached to then-Houston Oilers public relations man Chip Namias for a helping hand with the Love Ya Blue blood running through his young veins after leaving The Baltimore Sun. And here we are 30 years later telling the tales.

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Hot dogs and crab cakes with Andy

Baltimore Positive

Telling the G&A Restaurant family story from Highlandtown to White Marsh with Andy Farantos. And, yes, french fries and gravy were on the menu!

Screen Shot 2023 01 13 at 7.02.02 AM

Is Purple Festivus still a thing?

Baltimore Positive

What happened to all of the purple lights and flamingos on the lawns of Baltimore? Have the Ravens lost their January mojo with the people of the Charm City? Bill Cole and Nestor discuss the most unusual Festivus in Baltimore football history.

A Ted Talk: Lying Leonsis and abandoning The District with “accountability”

Baltimore Positive

When Nestor read his business journalist pal Liz Farmer had written from the heart about the Caps and Wizards leaving Washington, D.C. for Virginia, it was time to move beyond the Baltimore fiasco with Angelos and Camden Yards to discuss even more local stadia and arena civic cash grab madness amongst billionaires in The DMV with an expert on government fiscal policy.

Screen Shot 2022 12 21 at 10.46.00 AM

Shaking the history of Milkshake and legend of Beyond Words and the New Wave 80s

Baltimore Positive

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour celebrated its final stop of the year under the Christmas lights of Costas Inn with old friends telling music tales. Your kids might know Milkshake but Nestor knew them as a kid music critic in the 1980s as Beyond Words and went back to the New Wave 80s with Lisa, George and Mikel in his dreams for his 31st Anniversary celebration.

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Going Beyond Words to Scratch n’ Sniff and history of Gina Schock in Dundalk

Baltimore Positive

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour final stop of the year brought old friends together for the holidays at Costas Inn. John Allen joined Nestor in welcoming their old Dundalk High art teacher Joyce Bucci on to discuss her role with the band Beyond Words (and the Child’s Play logo) and how it tied back to the first punk rock band of Gina Schock before The Go-Go’s.

Screen Shot 2022 12 21 at 10.43.19 AM

Rocking the Hammerjacks documentary for the holidays

Baltimore Positive

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour presented by The Maryland Lottery, Goodwill and Window Nation celebrated Nestor’s 31st Anniversary at Costas Inn in Dundalk with old music friends and stories of bands and clubs. And some hairspray! A history of Hammerjacks with Nestor Aparicio and John Allen from Costas at Dundalk as the new documentary is released.

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Maryland Crab Cake (and Brewery) Tour Day 24: Eldersburg love of 1823 and old friends at Liberatore’s

Baltimore Positive

The 22nd day of the Maryland Crab Cake Tour presented by The Maryland Lottery, Goodwill, Window Nation and the Restaurant Association of Maryland was spent in Eldersburg with an incredible local journey with old friends. Mike McKelvin and Dante Liberatore own a restaurant and brewing company and shared their Carroll County life with Nestor. And John Maroon stopped by for three decades of sports tales about Cal Ripken Jr. and walking the Great Wall of China and the streets of Beijing together. Lots of delicious 1823 beer here and a toast to the late, great Vince Bagli and Chris Thomas.

Screen Shot 2022 12 10 at 2.07.45 PM

The story and emotions behind the story of “Baltimore, You Have No Idea”

Baltimore Positive

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour returned to Faidley’s at Lexington Market for a holiday visit with legendary columnist Dan Rodricks from The Baltimore Sun discussing Eric Bogosian, storytelling and taking his incredible career memoirs and the Baltimore characters met along the way to the stage at The BMA and his incredible stage production. And breaking news: it’s coming back in the spring! Go see it!

24Tradepoint1440x400

Bringing good jobs back to Sparrows Point

Baltimore Positive

Aaron Tomarchio of Tradepoint Atlantic joins Nestor and John Allen to discuss the Dundalk work history of Bethlehem Steel and the future and jobs coming tomorrow at the new ‘Point.

The Drug City crab cake of the people at The Fountain in Dundalk

The Drug City crab cake of the people at The Fountain in Dundalk

Baltimore Positive

Who says you can’t go home? Nestor takes the Maryland Crab Cake Tour presented by The Maryland Lottery, Window Nation and Goodwill back to his childhood favorite Drug City in Dundalk, where the place is all grown-up. The Fountain crab cake and handspun milkshake combo bring home the modern love.

Screen Shot 2022 11 06 at 10.07.33 AM

The Schock of a Dundalk homecoming for a rock and roll queen

Baltimore Positive

The Go-Go’s legendary drummer came home to visit with Nestor on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at The Tasting Room above The Fountain at Drug City in Dundalk. As serendipity would have it, John Allen of Stone Horses made his way home, too, and took a Schocking tour of East Baltimore and Highlandtown music, cymbals and two rock stars who have seen the world.

Screen Shot 2022 11 06 at 9.38.21 AM

Remembering legendary Dundalk English professor and gentleman Allen Stockett

Baltimore Positive

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour was already placed at Drug City in Dundalk before we lost beloved English professor Allen Stockett. Nestor gathered a few different folks from his space, CCBC professor Jay Trucker and lifer Dundalk ’85 pal Stan Jablonski to honor the late, great Shakespeare meets Bogart, non-digital old-school man of words who taught us a lot about life in those S.A.T. prep classes.

Screen Shot 2022 10 30 at 12.33.52 PM

Drawing it up for Baltimore with a sports smile

Baltimore Positive

Legendary sports cartoonist Mike Ricigliano continues his chat about a New York transplant and his love of Baltimore life from a Buffalo beginning on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour from Gunpowder Lodge in Kingsville.

Screen Shot 2022 10 30 at 12.40.17 PM

For the love of soccer and country

Baltimore Positive

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour made a stop at Gunpowder Lodge for a catch-up between owner and former soccer star Danny Santoro and Nestor about all things local, the feet of Pete Caringi and Sonny Askew and finding space in Kingsville for a legit United States and World Cup celebration during Thanksgiving week to support the red, white and blue.

Screen Shot 2022 10 30 at 12.33.34 PM

From Buffalo to Italy to Baltimore with sports cartoon love

Baltimore Positive

Old old Italiano sports cartoonist Mike Ricigliano discusses his recent soujourn to the motherland and catches up on a lifetime of friendship and sports and their 1984 meeting as colleagues at The News American on Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Gunpowder Lodge.

Screen Shot 2022 10 20 at 9.16.43 AM

Getting ready for a new downtown arena and entertainment venue in Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

The former Baltimore Civic Center that became The Baltimore Arena that became First Mariner and then Royal Farms Arena changed names but never could shake its image or, simply, just what it was: an old building that was outdated the day it opened in 1961. That’s about to change. Let our Chief Digital Officer Mike Rosenfeld tell you what he learned recently on a trip to Austin, Texas.

Screen Shot 2022 10 18 at 6.05.36 AM

World Series history and memories that last a lifetime

Baltimore Positive

New York Times baseball writer and author Tyler Kepner has penned a book on the history of October lore. “The Grandest Stage: A History of The World Series” chronicles the most enduring showcase in our country’s history with the grand old game but Nestor wanted to discuss a personal history of his Baltimore Orioles and Kepner’s childhood Philadelphia Phillies and some 1983 and 1993 magic in pretty fare baseball towns.

Screen Shot 2022 07 02 at 4.42.36 AM

Purple Reign 2: Chapter 17 “The Last Ride of 52”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 17 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing the 2013 book chapter by chapter daily. This is the last dance downtown for Ray Lewis in purple.

Screen Shot 2022 08 11 at 5.54.50 AM

Maryland Crab Cake (and Brewery) Tour Day 1: Conrad’s Seafood Market in Towson and Red Brick Station in White Marsh

Baltimore Positive

The first day of the Maryland Crab Cake Tour presented by The Maryland Lottery, Goodwill, Window Nation and the Restaurant Association of Maryland was a busy local Towson and White Marsh day. Dr. Steve Elliott from Elliott Chiropractic and Gregg Landry of Towson Transfer have been friends with Nestor for three decades and shared the local business and community love to kick off 31 crab cakes and 31 breweries in 31 days to celebrate 31 years on Baltimore airwaves and to promote local business and Restaurant Week all over the state from September 16th through 25th.

Screen Shot 2022 07 02 at 4.51.33 AM

Purple Reign 2: Chapter 10 “The sad loss of a great work of Art”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 10 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing it chapter by chapter daily to get #RavensFlock ready for NFL season. Hear Art Modell tell his life story here.

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