Baltimore's not bad!! I'll admit I thought it was gonna be like NYC when I first went, and THAT was a bad notion to go down there with. But it's not empty! There's a few music venues ranging from intimate to convention center size, there's a bunch of good restaurants especially in little italy, the inner harbor has lots of stuff going on during the year, Powerplant Live has alot of bars and clubs in a block radius. There's a few really cool museums right in the area if you're into that sort of thing. If you have a car you're like 10 minutes away from an outlet mall. Fells Point is around the area and that's alot like philly with all the little shops and whatnot, and they also have even more bars and clubs, spread out a little more. There's an indie theater north a little and a few cool shops up in that area by Mt Vernon. And yeah, only an hour to DC and an hour and a half to philly if that's not enough. Hehe, sorry, I feel I need to stick up for Baltimore. It's an ingrained thing with me cuz I've been sticking up for jersey all my life 😛