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For some of us it was Judas Priest and Ted Nugent and for others it was The Cars and Depeche Mode. But the music of our lives and the stories of the bands, shows and songs add some color to our lives four decades later. Leonard Raskin joins Nestor for a 28th Anniversary retrospective at Costas Inn in Dundalk on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour for the backstage tales from the Ratt Poison Tour that went...

It's always a pleasure to welcome NFL historian and lifer sports writer Howard Balzer from the desert back to get Nestor ready for another Baltimore Ravens season with a deep conversation about the changes coming to the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection system and the long road to Canton for Lamar Jackson and any of the other current players starting another long season with Super Bowl hopes and...

There's a new Powerball game with an NFL theme and John Martin of The Maryland Lottery is here to explain the X's and O's of the Sunday game plan and offers some hard facts and fun offers as the kickoff to a fun new season is underway with lots of ways to win. The post John Martin of Maryland Lottery gets Nestor ready for more football and ways to win with Powerball first appeared on Baltimore Pos...

The confident groundwork laid by the Baltimore Ravens in Indianapolis has buoyed spirits here that the home team will be a solid favorite and expected to win every week for the next month. Luke Jones and Nestor get ready for the New Orleans Saints, who are first up into the Charm City to see Lamar Jackson and the defense of Jesse Minter. The Ravens will 2-0 by 4 p.m. on Sunday, right? The post Luk...

It all started with KISS Alive. And here we are five decades later telling rock and roll stories, concert tales and how the music we love still keeps us going. Former Section 513er and fellow rocker Ed Stylc drops by our 28th Anniversary music celebration for a little KISS and tell with a side of Cheap Trick and modern ways to enjoy the old concerts and the best daze of our childhood. The post For...

It's the end of a long season and the Pete Alonso performance in Queens this week was as bizarre as anything Luke Jones and Nestor have seen in Major League Baseball. This season is about to fade away but before it does, we're here to try to figure out where it goes after next weekend... The post Luke Jones and Nestor discuss Pete Alonso visit to Queens and Orioles offseason hopes for roste first...

Since he's departed his role at Baltimore County Executive and become our local representative in Congress, John Olszewski sits with us several times a year to answer questions and clarify his positions in Washington, D.C. To begin the fall on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour, Johnny O joined Nestor (and his AI clone) for a full rundown of issues from the Key Bridge to Trump, Iran to Venezuela and Capi...

This one started out as a legit, total Week 1 on-the-field review and our faux "Power Rankings" but inevitably led to Luke Jones and Nestor discussing the Baltimore Ravens' latest fashion "Next Flight" assemblage and a full inspection of the colors, serifs and markings of the new brand assemblage all around the NFL as we get our rosters set for a long season ahead. The post Luke Jones and Nestor g...

Nestor Aparicio wanted the best and he got the best! As a kid who worshiped all things KISS in the 1970s musical coming of age, he interviewed Paul Stanley twice as a music critic – once at The News American as a 16-year old in 1985 and again in a late-night, by-invite personal sit down with the legendary leader of the hottest band in the world at a makeup free 1990 chat on the "Hot In The Shade"...

The stories we can tell five decades later about our lifetime passion for rock and roll and chasing great music in general. Musician Ron West of The Cultivated and The Duran Band joins Nestor for their mutual Dundalk childhood memories of camping out for concert tickets at Hecht Company from Golden Ring to Reisterstown Road Mall. Seventh row at Journey. Second row at Styx. And that time at Merriwe...

With the Baltimore Orioles circling the drain the next two weeks and then watching the postseason once again from the outside, Luke Jones and Nestor begin to wave goodbye to any reality of a normal offseason in Birdland or anywhere MLB is played with the pending offseason labor war. The decisions about everything will fall to owners David Rubenstein and Michael Arougheti, who have proven hapless a...

As the X's and O's and the Jimmies and Joes line up on the football field, the NASCAR folks are racing to the finish line and John Martin of The Maryland Lottery brings the spring promotion around the final turn with local folks getting a chance to win a Homestead trip to watch the cars circle the track for the championship in Florida. The post John Martin of Maryland Lottery gets Nestor ready for...

With the Baltimore Ravens returning to Indianapolis to start a 31st season in the Charm City, Nestor reached to longtime […] The post Longtime St. Louis sportswriter Jeff Gordon returns to Baltimore to discuss night Colts for Indy first appeared on Baltimore Positive WNST .

So far, so good through the first 60 minutes of the Jesse Minter era, not just as the head coach but also as the defensive play caller and chief accountability officer. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the first look of this Baltimore Ravens defense and a domination of the Colts in Indianapolis to start the season with a 41-23 win. The post Luke Jones and Nestor discuss defense of Minter and Ravens d...

We knew the Baltimore Ravens had some great football players and other veterans of repute but until we see it on the field, we can't evaluate the differences between this year and last year. Luke Jones and Nestor give praise to new head coach Jesse Minter and the entire operation of the men of purple after a thorough 41-23 beating of the Colts in Indianapolis to start a season with the promise tha...

It's Super Bowl or bust for the Baltimore Ravens. We all know that but there's been a lot of change to navigate and Sunday is just start of a long journey for the men of Jesse Minter. Luke Jones and Nestor get ready for Indianapolis and beyond as another purple season with Festivus on the brain arrives just in time for the leaves to change and the kids to go back to school. The post Luke Jones and...

As the baseball season winds down and the Orioles continue to flop at the bottom end of a weak AL Wild Card chase, Luke Jones and Nestor discuss all of the pending baseball issues in Birdland and question why in the world Mike Elias would be allowed to continue to run the operation. The post Luke Jones and Nestor discuss pending baseball issues for Orioles now that season sinks first appeared on B...

Guitarist Mark Bryan and childhood friend Steve Lipton rock Nestor through the Hootie and The Blowfish story and their original Montgomery County high school band The Screaming Trojans, who are playing a fun reunion gig at The Starboard in Dewey Beach on September 24th before the big Oceans Calling show in Ocean City, Maryland the next night. Two kids had a band once... The post Mark Bryan and chi...

Oh, we always have fun with those guys in Indianapolis! It's been 42 years since the people of Indiana pilfered the Colts away in the middle of the night. But the ESPN Indy guys still ask about the legend of Beanie Bob (via Ricig) and Nestor still reminds them that there have been two Ravens parades in Baltimore. But does the next one down Pratt Street begin with Lamar Jackson heading to the frien...

The Ravens are a favorite on the road to start the season in Indianapolis and there's no finer voice from the friendly heart of the Midwest than longtime columnist and Colts insider Bob Kravitz, who joins Nestor for a primer on Colts past, present and future as Baltimore at Irsay doesn't mean what it used to anymore. The post Bob Kravitz joins Nestor from Indianapolis for a primer on Colts past, p...

As the Ravens return to Indianapolis and begin their 31st season in Baltimore with a roadtrip to an old nemesis on and off the field, longtime Indy sportswriter Mike Chappell gives Nestor a Hall of Fame primer on the modern Colts, owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon and how Daniel Jones will be counted on again to lift a mediocre franchise out of its malaise since Peyton Manning departed. The post Indianapo...

This lengthy preview of the Ravens season opener in Indianapolis is chock full of the mystery that always comes with a September kickoff game. How much can we possibly know with so much change? But, as Luke Jones and Nestor get ready for the new look of Jesse Minter and the offense of Declan Doyle against the Colts, we all know it's about Lamar Jackson and the quest for a Super Bowl that will defi...

Sure, Luke Jones talked about the lousy baseball over the weekend and the four-game sweep by the Boston Red Sox at Camden Yards. But Nestor lost his mind in this one about the lack of respect this new ownership group had regarding "honoring" the surviving members of legendary 1966 Orioles World Series on their 60th anniversary. Imagine a guy named "Aparicio" living in Baltimore losing his freaking...

With plenty of games in progress, we know that the NFL is kicking off this week and John Martin of The Maryland Lottery is here to give Nestor the Xs and Os of a new Powerball game kickoff just in time for the season. Plus, plenty of big winners all over the state this week as the Maryland State Fair concludes. The post John Martin of Maryland Lottery gives Nestor the Xs and Os of new NFL Powerbal...

It is certainly not a brand of baseball that is attractive or of high quality but "pennant race" MLB action is unfolding at Camden Yards as the Cleveland Guardians come to town with October on the brain. Our Cuyahoga insider Munch Bishop pitches in from Ohio as the sub-.500 Baltimore Orioles circle the drain and limp toward the finish line in a less-than-optimal baseball season in Birdland. The po...