Want to know the tending topic among punk rockers and artists around Charm City over the last week? #SuperArtFight.

What’s a Super Art Fight, you ask. We had the same question.

The self-proclaimed “greatest live art competition in the known universe” combines the talents of edgy and innovative artists, creativity, and the parameters of a wall-sized canvas to produce artwork right before the audience's eyes. The competition features four bouts, as they call it, during which artists compete against each other for the title of Super Art Fight Champion. 

The Ottobar will undoubtedly provide the ideal atmosphere for the punk-rock-themed and art demonstration, as it has for previous demonstrations from the Baltimore-based group, which has toured from Virginia to Connecticut to California, performing in similar venues. Tonight, doors open at 8 p.m. It's $15. For those of you familiar with the crew, here is tonight's lineup, which will also feature musical performances by Beefy and Paul & Storm:...

According to citybizlist Baltimore, Michael Phelps is trying to unload the Fells Point condo that he bought in 2007 for $1,699,900 for somewhere between $1.1 and 1.5 million. It sounds just lovely, with "honey-colored hardwood floors," a "rooftop terrace" and "a tee-vee nook with curving back wall tiled floor-to-ceiling with a bold and completely unexpected mottled orange tile." (!)

Alas, it looks like even someone as fast as Phelps can't outswim the economy.

Photo from Real Estalker

It's Friday. Do you want to hear about animals being cute? Of course you do. 

Earlier this week a rare-for-this-area harp seal was spotted just chillin on a dock in Edgemere. The owner of the house called the Maryland Department of Natural Resources who told him he must be mistaken. But he wasn't, and a team from the National Aquarium in Baltimore came out to verify the seal existence.

They said it seemed healthy and active and not distressed.

Harp seals' home waters are in the North Atlantic and Artic, but they do migrate south during along the Eastern Seaboard during the winter. They can sometimes be seen off Ocean City, but it is rare that they venture up the Chesapeake.

More info, plus a picture of the roly-poly little seal, can be found at the Baltimore Sun's environment blog.  

[Above Pic: AP Photo/Jonathan Hayward, CP] |

For the first time since 1994, Loyola University made it into the NCAA tournament with their win last night over Fairfield. In the MAAC championship game, held in Springfield, MA, the second-seeded Greyhounds trailed by four at the half, but opened the second half on an 11-1 run. Loyola ended up winning 48-44 in a defensively tough, low-scoring match.

Junior forward Erik Etherly, who finished with 10 points, seven rebounds, and three blocked shots, was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player, while teammates Robert Olson and Justin Drummond made the all-tournament team.

Perhaps the game was most exciting for coach Jimmy Patsos, who served as an assistant to Maryland's Gary Williams for 13 years and is known primarily for his over-the-top antics on the court. Last night was no different, as he pointed fingers closer to players' faces...