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Tonight at bluehouse, Christopher Gutierrez spoke to a packed cafe. If you haven’t heard of Christopher, you will. That is, you will if you are a teenage girl, or have a teenage girl in your family. Christopher is VERY popular with teenage girls. And tonight, he was alone, in the dark, with quite a few of them.

As a straight-edge writer, spoken-word artist, and dreamboat, Chris has toured with the Vans Warped Tour, and tonight’s gig with us is his last before leaving to tour England. He enthralled a large crowd of, well, of teenage girls, and was a fabulous sport, despite our building experiencing a massive power outage(!) during his set. Luckily, Christopher demonstrated himself to be an experienced showman, with a voice that can travel, even without a PA system.
Here he is in bluehouse:

Chris’s two new books are entitled, “A Life Deliberate: Memoirs of an Unbreakable Boy,” and “On the Upswing of Life, Love, and Regret.” They are available here. If you, too, find yourself as smitten as the gargantuan gaggle of teen ladies to pack our humble home tonight, you can friend Chris on myspace, here. Hopefully, he’ll come back and visit with us again. And if you’re very lucky, maybe the lights will go out again.

1. Using materials in their simplest form so intrinsic qualities show through.

2. A rigorous design efficiency that strives to get the most impact out of the fewest moves.

Experimenting with the connections between form and function, these products question the nature of structure and space. Drop by the store to see the “eggflat,” pictured above, the “winepocket,” or our favorite pieces, the “um bags.” “Ums” transform from inspired handbags to flat surfaces with one zip, making storage and cleaning a breeze.

(View the original page from Baltimore’s City Paper here)

Best Wi-Fi Café

Bluehouse

1407 Fleet St., (410) 276-1180

Man, we’re clickety-clickety-clickety on the keyboard here. We get our stuff done. The internet juice is strong at bluehouse; it’s like we’re surfing from tree to tree up in the canopy of a beautiful unspoiled rain forest. Maybe it’s the fair-trade coffee that makes us feel like that. The café part of Harbor East’s eco-friendly home store serves up fresh salads and tasty snacks like empanadas to sustain users through the long spells they tend to hang out there. Usually there are enough tables to accommodate everyone and their laptops, but only the tables near the wall have access to outlets. Something about bluehouse’s clean environment, those healthy floors and walls, we’re convinced, is good for concentration, because we’re on fire at bluehouse.

photo courtesy of simply-primitive.com

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