What are you up to this weekend?

Should Americans be allowed to start drinking earlier than age 21?

That’s the question that signatories to the Amethyst Initiative want answered. They say the drinking age of 21 isn’t working and they want an open debate as to whether the age should be lowered. Oh, in case you haven’t heard, the people signing on to the initiative are not college-aged students, but college presidents.

Presidents from some of the area’s most well-known college are on the list. They include presidents from Towson University, the state’s university system, Goucher College, Johns Hopkins and the College of Notre Dame in Maryland.

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Hey kids. I am curious to know, where do you think is the best place to watch the Ravens play?  Is it from your couch in the comfort of your own home, the 50 yard line at M&T Bank Stadium, or the corner bar?

The b Street Team is planning on heading out during football season to some local hangouts and we’d love to know where you’re going to be so that we can hang with our readers!!!

From today’s b, the paper

This is our motto: If it’s summer, what’s the point in eating indoors? And there’s plenty of good choices all over Baltimore, from chill burger and crab joints to trendy tapas. Here are some of our favorites, because al fresco really is the way to go.

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Meeting someone at a bar may not always be the best idea, depending on how many drinks you’ve had. But you’d be surprised how much you can find out about that guy or girl across the room. Just check out what kind of drink is being quaffed. Are you a suave, debonair, Manhattan kind of man? Or have you seen one too many episodes of “Sex and the City,” and ordering a cosmopolitan is second nature? Maybe you’re laid-back and easy-going while sipping your mojito. Baltimore’s bartenders throw in their expertise on your favorite drinks. Here’s what they reveal about you.
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Today, you may be grilling kabobs, lounging around a pool and, perhaps, knocking back a mojito or Miller Lite too many. It’s for your health and enjoyment that I recommend Joan Acocella’s thoughtful, useful and at-times hilarious meditation on the hangover. It gets scant research yet is hazardous in the workplace, disruptive to the economy and incredibly common around the globe (you are not alone!). She explores traditional and newfangled remedies as well as literature on the subject, the highlight being Kingsley Amis’ description of the “metaphysical hangover”:

“When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. . . . You have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s— you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is.”

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I know it’s a bit last minute but I just got back from Embassy Day in Washington. All (or at least a bunch/few) of the embassies in the district are having open houses and serving drinks and small food tidbits. An excuse to drink in the middle of the day — what more can you ask for?

That’s pretty much all I have to say for this post. Happy hunting…