28 Days Of Black Comedy: Butterbeans and Susie

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For Black History Month we celebrate the innovative comedy duo of Butterbeans and Susie who predated Burns and Allen by a decade, yet never got the same level of fame.

Married in 1917 they performed together until the 60s and worked with other famous members of The Chitlin’ Circuit including Louis Armstrong and a young Moms Mabley

You can find a small sample of their work here and below!

Drop Three Presents: A Nightmare On Ann Street!

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Poster credit Kevin Whewell
1…2… AMP is coming for you
3…4… All the jokes are brand new
5…6… Hurry up and get your tix
7…8… It’s perfect for a date
9…10… Come and laugh with us again

In what has become a Halloween tradition, Drop Three is putting on a spooky fun night of sketch and improv comedy in the haunted Fells Point Corner Theatre*. Friday, October 25th at 8pm you’ll laugh yourself right out of your seats. If the poltergeists don’t move you first, that is. Tickets are only $10, so you’ll still have plenty of money to buy the candy to bribe the local goblins into not TPing your trees.
Fright Reads Book Festival Photo Credit @ lcessnaphotography
Join Drop Three at Fells Point Corner Theatre on Friday, October 25th at 8pm for some air conditioned sketch & improv comedy goodness! Drop Three is back at Fells Point Corner Theatre, October 25th at 8 PM. Tickets are only $10 and can be purchased here or by emailing us at d3improv@gmail.com.

Come for the scares, stay for the laughs, Friday, October 25th at 8 PM at Fells Point Corner Theatre!
Photo credit @lcessnaphotography

You can find Drop Three, named one of the best comedy troupes in Baltimore and DC, in person at Fells Point Corner Theatre, home of diverse, multicultural, live theatre. Join them for their new season here! 

Join the improv group CBS Baltimore calls one of the best improv comedy nights in the Baltimore/DC area, on Friday, October 25th at Fells Point Corner Theatre! Tickets are just $10. Show starts at 8 PM, doors open at 7 PM. You can order online or email us at d3improv@gmail.com! 
Photo credit @lcessnaphotography

*We have no idea if FPCT is actually haunted, but it’s an old building and we’re pretty sure like 90% of the buildings in Baltimore are haunted, so it’s a safe bet.

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AV Brew: It Ain’t Over

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@arrpeebee checks out #ItAintOver the amazing #YogiBerra doc from @sony!

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There’s a decent chance that more than a few people reading this have never heard of Yogi Berra and clicked on this article by mistake. If you’re Gen-X, like me, you more than likely remember Berra from his appearances in Miller Lite commercials. If you’re a baseball fan like me, you know he played for the New York Yankees and he managed/coached some teams after he retired. You might know that he was on a bunch of Yankees teams that won the World Series.

If you take the 99 minutes it takes to watch It Ain’t Over, the documentary of his life, well, you’ll realize you don’t know a heck of a lot of what you don’t know (a layman’s attempt to craft a Yogi-ism).

From his hardscrabble, working family upbringing in St. Louis to his military service: getting injured on D-Day and being awarded a Purple Heart…

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AV Brew: Top Gun: Maverick Spoiler-Free Review

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By Chuck Valley

Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and Miles Teller plays Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

In the run-up to watch “Top Gun: Maverick,” I prepared myself like anyone else would by watching the original “Top Gun.” And while, granted, this is not a review of the 1986 classic, there is something to be said about the impression I got from watching it now, firmly ensconced in my adulthood, and how it compares to Maverick. For context, I hadn’t seen Top Gun in a good 20 years (with the exception of a snippet here and there on network tv while channel surfing faster than Hamm in Toy Story). Also (for context-slash-disclaimer) I was never the biggest Top Gun fan – the formula for the movie relies on tropes, clichés, a Deus Ex Goose to violently thrust…

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