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Colin Marshall

Baltimore

Host and Producer, Notebook on Cities and Culture and Contributor at Freelance

Co-founder, Diamondback Beer // working on what’s next

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  • 2 weeks ago | openculture.com | Colin Marshall

    Most of us would go out of our way not to set foot anywhere near a place the local natives refer to as “Dead Mountain.” That didn’t stop the Dyatlov Hiking Group, who set out on a sixteen-day skiing expedition across the northern Urals in late January of 1959. Experienced and intrepid, those ten young Soviet ski hikers had what it took to make the journey, at least if nothing went terribly wrong.

  • 3 weeks ago | openculture.com | Colin Marshall

    Soon after the first election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four became a bestseller again. Shooting to the top of the American charts, the novel that inspired the term “Orwellian” passed Danielle Steel’s latest opus, the poetry of Rupi Kaur, the eleventh Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, and the memoir of an ambitious young man named J. D. Vance.

  • 3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Colin Marshall

    NowThis Idea Explains a Lot About What Has Happened in Trump 2.0Elon Musk may be swapping insults with President Trump after pivoting away from politics and stepping down from the Department of Government Efficiency, but the broader initiative, driven by what he described as a mission to end the “tyranny of the bureaucracy,” will soldier on.

  • 3 weeks ago | openculture.com | Colin Marshall

    It’s been said that the United States won the Cold War without firing a shot — a statement, as P. J. O’Rourke once wrote, that doubtless surprised veterans of Korea and Vietnam. But it wouldn’t be entirely incorrect to call the long stare-down between the U.S. and the Soviet Union a battle of ideas.

  • 3 weeks ago | openculture.com | Colin Marshall

    It would be a worthwhile exercise for any of us to sit down and attempt to draw up a list of our 100 favorite paintings of all time. Naturally, those not professionally involved with art history may have some trouble quite hitting that number.

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Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall @_WeAreMarshall
14 Jan 21

“Buffalo @stefondiggs Baltimore”

Baltimore Business Journal
Baltimore Business Journal @BaltBizOnline

President Trump has been impeached for a second time by the House as #DC begins shutting down in preparation for protests around next week's #inauguration. Also, a #Baltimore and #Buffalo brewery have made a friendly wager around Saturday's #Ravens game.​ https://t.co/NlwiMuhv1y

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall @_WeAreMarshall
7 Nov 20

And on that note, ill be drinking a beer and eating an entire baguette

Omar Jimenez
Omar Jimenez @OmarJimenez

There you have it. CNN has now projected that Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States.

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall @_WeAreMarshall
4 Nov 20

#CountEveryVote Fight the fight, Tom! But a hot dog is not a sandwich

Governor Josh Shapiro
Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro

Let’s be clear: This is a partisan attack on Pennsylvania’s elections, our votes, and democracy. Our counties are working tirelessly to process votes as quickly AND as accurately as possible. Pennsylvania will have a fair election and we will count every vote.