Old Major

Old Major Old Major is an eclectic and casual bar and event space located in Southwest Baltimore

😱🎥🎨 This evening,  returns to OM to host you for arts and crafts and screen Director Sam Raimi’s horror film “Evil Dead ...
11/08/2024

😱🎥🎨 This evening, returns to OM to host you for arts and crafts and screen Director Sam Raimi’s horror film “Evil Dead 2.” Activities kick off at 6 p.m. with food, drinks and art (supplies provided). The screening begins after 7:30 p.m. 🍽️🍺

🗓️ Mark your calendars! Small Doll is back on Friday, November 22 for a double feature screening of two horror short films created by Baltimore-based indie filmmakers (Majestic Behavior Productions). The screening will include a director talkback! 🎬

🎞️ About tonight’s movie:

Ash Williams once again battling horrifying demons at a secluded cabin in the woods. After discovering an audiotape left by a college professor that contains voices reading from the Book of the Dead, Ash’s girlfriend becomes possessed by evil spirits that are awakened by the voices on the tape. Ash soon discovers there is no escaping the woods.

Feel like having some words today? Perfect—OM has a few events this evening that invite you to express yourself and also...
11/07/2024

Feel like having some words today? Perfect—OM has a few events this evening that invite you to express yourself and also share your thoughts in a safe environment. If you just feel like hanging out, that’s fine too 👋 OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m. 🍴🍷

🎤 6:30 p.m.: Read the Room, our prose and poetry open mic, is open to everyone who wants to read aloud any written material that they find moving, thought-provoking or soul-stirring. Don’t be shy—we encourage you to not just attend the event but to be a reader.

📝7 p.m.: Write Night! This meetup is for writers of all levels of aspiration and achievement. We invite you to network and bring your writing projects! We’ll have some prompts if you need inspiration.

🗣️7 p.m.: Spanish Meet & Speak Language Exchange. Come use, practice or improve your Spanish!

It’s been an intense week. If you plan to visit OM to dine or to also attend an event, we ask that you come in peace and treat everyone—staff and guests alike—with respect and decency. Today and always ✌️

Highwire Improv is at OM tonight for their   Major Laughs comedy show!🔥 It will be a fun night of fast-paced comedy game...
11/02/2024

Highwire Improv is at OM tonight for their Major Laughs comedy show!🔥 It will be a fun night of fast-paced comedy games with very hilarious local performers! Arrive at OM early for a pre-show meal—our bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.🍻🍛

🎟️ The show starts after 7 p.m. Tickets are available in advance online (https://tinyurl.com/3yc4vt73) and also at the door.

At an improv show you’ll see a wide range of creative and fascinating humans perform a highwire act by making comedy out of thin air! A Highwire Improv show is truly a once in a lifetime performance, never done before and never to be done again!

Here’s the lineup:

😆 Breakfast Schnitzel is a short-form team whose games have high audience interaction.

😆 Mohan and Millie is a duo who focus on connection, emotion, and delve into the dreamlike worlds that improv can create!

😆 Figuring it Out is a duo who performs a Harold-inspired set.

About Highwire Improv:

Highwire Improv’s mission is to steward a community of artists committed to growth, collaboration, joy, and justice—in Baltimore and around the world—through improvisational theater. Learn more at https://www.highwireimprov.com

Check out our public events for November👆On event days, our bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.🍽️🍹Today at 6 p.m., we’ll hold...
11/01/2024

Check out our public events for November👆On event days, our bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.🍽️🍹

Today at 6 p.m., we’ll hold a Friday Night Smörgåsbord, which is a drop-in night for karaoke, board games, reading, painting, and movie! Tonight’s movie is the 1978 psychological horror film, “Magic.”

Other November highlights:

😂 Comedy
Sat. 11/2 | 7 p.m.: is back with their hilarious Major Laughs Comedy Show! A link for tickets is in our bio.

📖 Literature
Thu. 11/7 | 6:30 p.m.: Read the Room: It’s a literature open mic! We encourage you to read aloud any written material (poetry or prose)🎤

Thu. 11/7 | 7 p.m.: Write Night! Writers of all levels of aspiration and achievement are invited to network and work on writing projects! ✍️

Thu. 11/14 & 11/21 | 6:30 p.m.: Baltimore Silent Book Club meeting. Bring your own book! We’ll eat, drink, mingle AND read 📚

🎬Film
Fri. 11/8 | 7:30 p.m. S.Carey Films is screening Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead 2.” Come in deadite makeup!

Fri. 11/15 | 8 p.m.: Bmore Horror Club Meetup & Movie Screening. is back to hangout and watch horror film, “Idle Hands.”

Fri. 11/22 | 7:30 p.m.: Indie Horror Double Feature. S.Carey Films will screen two films from local production company, Majestic Behavior. A director talkback will follow.

We’ll also hold a Spanish language meetup (11/7) and other movie screenings during the month 😄

👉If you’re interested in holding an event in our space, email us: [email protected]👈

🚨Note that OM is closed the last week of November.

As always, we’re thankful for our friends and supporters! 🙏 Be safe ♥️

Seeking a calmer Halloween? We invite you to spend a chill evening with us on  ! 🎃 We’ve got some candy and fun activiti...
10/31/2024

Seeking a calmer Halloween? We invite you to spend a chill evening with us on ! 🎃 We’ve got some candy and fun activities for you 👋🍫🍬

📚First, Baltimore Silent Book Club kicks off at 6:30 p.m.! Bring any book of your choosing and join us for eating, drinking, mingling AND reading! We encourage you to bring some spooky literature or dress as one of your favorite literary characters!

📽️ Also, after 7 p.m., we’re screening action/horror flick, Dawn of the Dead (2004), a gruesome remake of the cult horror classic. Plot: the undead walk the earth as flesh-eating zombies, trapping a disparate group of desperate people in a suburban shopping mall. 🧟‍♂️

In addition, you can also just hang out and shoot the breeze at the bar in-costume or not. Whatever you choose, just be clothed! 🙏😅

Halloween came early to OM! Last Friday, we held our 6th Annual Boo-Bee Halloween Party and Fundraiser (with spelling be...
10/31/2024

Halloween came early to OM! Last Friday, we held our 6th Annual Boo-Bee Halloween Party and Fundraiser (with spelling bee, trivia, costume parade and karaoke!) to raise proceeds for patients at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center 🎀 The Boo-Bee is one of the most special events we hold here at OM, and we appreciate everyone who attended! 🐝 🙏

We send the hugest thanks to our friend (Oli Turner) for serving as our stupendous host for the Boo-Bee festivities! Oli knows a thing or two about horror as one of the co-founders of the .careyfilms filmmaking collective—be sure to check out their many cool events, involving screenings, art and director’s talks they have planned in partnership with us! All night, they were the three-eyed that will haunt us forever—but in the best possible way 😅 Thank you so much, Oli!👏💚👁️

Two of three possible winners were named! Our Boo-Bee trivia winner was of Harwood, and the spelling bee winner was Steve of Pigtown—congratulations to both of them 🥇🏆👏 As for our intended costume contest, there was a lot of multi-event activity in the building, and this year’s winner will forever be undetermined—but there were some impressive looks! 🤭🙃

October 31 is the final day for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There’s a sad likelihood that we all know someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer 👉 If you would like to learn more about the UMD Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and to perhaps make a donation of your own, visit https://tinyurl.com/4akj2427 👈

Good things come in threes! We invite you to get in where you fit in this Thursday, October 24, as we hold our Write Nig...
10/24/2024

Good things come in threes! We invite you to get in where you fit in this Thursday, October 24, as we hold our Write Night!, Spanish Meet & Speak language exchange and Catastroflix movie screening in their respective locations within the OM footprint 👋

OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.—enjoy food and/or drinks during your chosen activity! 🍻🍽️

📝 Write Night! (Starts at 6:30 p.m.)
Writers of all levels of aspiration and achievement are invited to network and work on writing projects! ✍️

🗣️Spanish Meet & Speak Language Exchange (Starts at 7 p.m.)
Improve your Spanish and/or English and learn about different cultures in this language exchange meetup.

📽️ Screening: “When Worlds Collide” (Seating at 7 p.m.)
Plot: As a new star and planet hurtle toward a doomed Earth, a small group of survivalists frantically work to complete the rocket which will take them to their new home 🚀

Celebrate National Book Month with us at Baltimore Silent Book Club at 6:30 p.m.! Held in October, National Book Month p...
10/17/2024

Celebrate National Book Month with us at Baltimore Silent Book Club at 6:30 p.m.! Held in October, National Book Month promotes reading, writing, and literature📚Bring your current reading material and join us for an evening of eating, drinking, mingling AND reading! 👋 Feel free to bring a book to swap, too 😄

OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.! Grab your seat and a meal early! 🍷🍽️

🚨Season 17 from Highwire Improv just kicked off, and we’re holding the first Major Laughs comedy show of the season! 🙌 Y...
10/05/2024

🚨Season 17 from Highwire Improv just kicked off, and we’re holding the first Major Laughs comedy show of the season! 🙌 You’ll be in for a treat with a lively night of fast-paced comedy games and very funny local performers! Get to OM early—our bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.🍻🍛

🎟️ The show starts after 7 p.m. Tickets are available in advance online and also at the door. Major Laughs: Improv Comedy at Old Major https://www.eventbrite.com/e/major-laughs-improv-comedy-at-old-major-tickets-1029168840707?

At an improv show you’ll see a wide range of creative and fascinating humans perform a highwire act by making comedy out of thin air! A Highwire Improv show is truly a once in a lifetime performance, never done before and never to be done again!

Here’s tonight’s lineup:

😆 Human Magnet is a Washington, D.C. based team - they start with a made-up story that inspires a series of increasingly fun, silly, & connected scenes.

😆 BaybEEEEEEEE is a very weird, very close group of friends, who do very weird, very close, very interesting improv!

😆 Ready, Set, No! () is the school assembly you wish you had! With big characters, these professionally trained actors will warn you about the dangers of...something!

About Highwire Improv:

Highwire Improv’s mission is to steward a community of artists committed to growth, collaboration, joy, and justice—in Baltimore and around the world—through improvisational theater. Learn more at https://www.highwireimprov.com

Black Yield Institute is holding a Friday night Trivia, Poetry & Comedy Open Mic at OM! Everyone is welcomed to attend a...
10/04/2024

Black Yield Institute is holding a Friday night Trivia, Poetry & Comedy Open Mic at OM! Everyone is welcomed to attend and participate. It will be a night of creativity, fellowship and collective learning!

OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m., and the open mic begins at 7 p.m.—grab a meal or drink before the event! Non-alcoholic and vegan items can be found on our menu, if those are your jam (meat and booze are on there, too, of course) 😊

Black Yield Institute is a Baltimore-based Pan-African power institution, serving as a think tank and collective action network that addresses food apartheid. Black Yield recently held a mutual aid market in the neighborhood in .

👉To learn more about the organization, their events and how to support with a donation or as a volunteer, visit blackyieldinstitute.org👩🏾‍💻

Do you have a book that you absolutely treasure? Baltimore Silent Book Club attendee Shannon, above, brought in her of c...
10/03/2024

Do you have a book that you absolutely treasure? Baltimore Silent Book Club attendee Shannon, above, brought in her of copy of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “Lovely One: A Memoir,” which was autographed by the Justice herself! We loved hearing about her experience attending the book signing event and meeting the first black woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court ♥️

Join us this evening for at 6:30 p.m.! We’ll eat, drink, mingle AND read—just bring your own book! 📚

OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.—come grab a seat! 🍷🍛

Hey, not everyone’s afraid to mix politics and drinking! 🍻🇺🇸 A lively and good-natured crowd gathered at OM to watch Tue...
10/02/2024

Hey, not everyone’s afraid to mix politics and drinking! 🍻🇺🇸 A lively and good-natured crowd gathered at OM to watch Tuesday night’s Vice Presidential Debate! We appreciate everyone’s company and enjoyed listening to your commentary and reactions 🤣🤭

And because we’re “focused on the future,” we want to let you know we’re showing the Maryland Senatorial debate on October 10 🦀 As always, our bar and kitchen will open at 6 p.m. The debate starts at 7 p.m. 📺

Special thanks to .ey._ for inspiring this fun night! 😉🙏

There is lots happening on   in October 👻 Check out OM’s public events for the month!👆On event days, our bar and kitchen...
10/01/2024

There is lots happening on in October 👻 Check out OM’s public events for the month!👆On event days, our bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.😋

Today at 6 p.m., we’re holding a Vice Presidential Debate Watch Party. At 8 p.m., we’ll screen the premiere of the new documentary, “The American Vice President.” The debate starts at 9 p.m. 📺 By the way, we’ll screen the Maryland Senate Debate on Oct. 10.

More October highlights:

🐝 6th Annual Boo-Bee Spelling Bee & Costume Contest
Thu. 10/25 | 8 p.m.: It’s our wacky spelling bee, costume competition and karaoke fundraiser that benefits breast cancer patients at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center 🎀

😂 Comedy
Sat. 10/5 | 7 p.m.: is back with the super funny Major Laughs Comedy Show! A link for tickets is in our bio.

📖 Literature
Thu. 10/3, 10/17 & 10/31 | 6:30 p.m.: Baltimore Silent Book Club meeting. Bring your own book! We’ll eat, drink, mingle AND read 📚 On Halloween night, come dressed as your favorite literary character!

Thu. 10/24 | 6:30 p.m.: Write Night! Writers of all levels of aspiration and achievement are invited to network and work on writing projects! ✍️

🎤 Open Mics
Fri. 10/4 | 7 p.m.: is partnering with us for a Trivia, Poetry and Comedy Open Mic. Come share your talents!

Thu. 10/10 | 6:30 p.m.: Read the Room: It’s a literature open mic! We encourage you to read aloud any written material (poetry or prose)

🎬Film
Fri. 10/11 | 7:30 p.m.: Scarey Films Collective will screen the “Bride of Chucky” 🔪

Sat. 10/19 | 6-11 p.m.: As part of , Scarey Films Collective is holding the Baltimore Horror Film Festival! The festival will feature films from local filmmakers and artists!

Also note our many scheduled karaoke, movie, reading, painting and board game nights on most Fridays and the last Saturday!

👉If you’re interested in holding an event in our space, email us: [email protected]👈

🚨Note that OM is closed Saturday, October 12.

Enjoy the 🎃 Be safe ♥️

Join us for a few rounds of spelling and trivia after 7 p.m. at OM’s Bar Bee—you just might be the night’s winner! 🐝 Thi...
09/26/2024

Join us for a few rounds of spelling and trivia after 7 p.m. at OM’s Bar Bee—you just might be the night’s winner! 🐝 This is the last Bar Bee before our 6th Annual Boo-Bee Halloween spelling competition and fundraiser on October 26! 🎃

August’s spellers were top notch! 🔥In the end it was David of , a very confident, fast speller, who was victorious! Congratulations, David, on winning🥇👏🎉 Thank you also to the other strong spellers from Downtown and Hollins Market!

📝Also happening earlier around 6:30 p.m. is Write Night! Bring a writing project with you! Whether you’re a seasoned writer or just starting out, this event is for anyone looking to connect with fellow wordsmiths. We invite you to share your work and give or receive feedback.

🍽️ OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m. Be sure to get a drink or some food🍻 Non-alcoholic beverages and vegan food options are available, too!

Several things are happening tonight at OM, but we are most pumped for Small Doll Productions to jump start the official...
09/26/2024

Several things are happening tonight at OM, but we are most pumped for Small Doll Productions to jump start the official beginning of spooky season here on with their special screening of Director Chris LaMartina’s award-winning “WNUF Halloween Special”! 😱

Old Major’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m. Get in early to enjoy dinner and drinks at leisure before the film rolls after 7:30 p.m.! 🍛🍹

Attendees are in for a treat, as .lamartina, who studied film at and co-wrote the movie, will give a director talkback after the screening! will also have merch available and will hold a Halloween raffle with cool filmmaking prizes! 🤗

🎬 About the movie:

WNUF Halloween Special is a 2013 analog comedy-horror film. Its plot follows a television personality that decides to investigate strange supernatural occurrences at a house purported to be haunted.

Oh, yes—we will always remember the 21st night of September! The OM team had the pleasure of hosting a birthday/murder m...
09/24/2024

Oh, yes—we will always remember the 21st night of September! The OM team had the pleasure of hosting a birthday/murder mystery party for Hank on Saturday! 🎉🕵🏾🎈

Party guests arrived decked out in 1920s garb 🤩 They spent the evening figuring out whodunnit and enjoying a special menu of OM’s cuisine! 🥃🧆🥂

Special thanks to Andrea for celebrating your husband’s birthday with us and to for an unforgettable night! 🙏🔍

That look when you’ve found your people…☺️ Do you also love reading? If so, join us for Baltimore Silent Book Club at OM...
09/19/2024

That look when you’ve found your people…☺️ Do you also love reading? If so, join us for Baltimore Silent Book Club at OM this Thursday at 6:30 p.m.! 📚 It’s a great way to meet like-minded friends and discover new books to read! If you’ve never attended, it’s easy—just bring any reading material of your choosing. We’ll eat, drink, mingle AND read! 👋 Feel free to bring a book to swap, too 😄

OM’s bar and kitchen open at 6 p.m.! Grab your seat and a drink or meal early! 🍷🍽️

🎬 After 7 p.m., we’re also screening the award-winning drama-musical, “I’m No Longer Here” for our cinephiles. Plot: In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.

“‘I’m No Longer Here’” offers a vivid vibrant slice of life—it’s a hangout movie about asserting your own identity but also wanting to belong.” — RogerEbert.com

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