This is serious. The amazing Senator Theatre is thisclose to being fucked over & closed. Their move to nonprofit has been stalled, & they need people to write the "elected officials" to tell them to come to the table & help. Yeah, i know, "elected official"= politician= person who sits on their ass doing nothing. But people getting that kind of thing done are doing more than the lame-ass media, who was there sighing, swearing, rolling their eyes. I came so close to killing the little indie poser sitting behind me from The Sun. DON'T READ HIS ARTICLE. He was being a total annoying fool. Keifaber said that if The Senator doesn't get help ASAP, closure is imminent. The Sun jerk was all, "What's 'imminent'?" An older man said, "Does it matter?" Sun jerk says, "Well, yeah--" "No, it doesn't." Nobody knows WHEN, you thick-headed cretin, just that if help doesn't come it. Will. HAPPEN. We don't know when exactly the world will end, but we know it is imminent; it WILL come. Get a clue. Idiot.

In 2007, the crisis was financial. The internet helped then. Sweden, Switzerland, & the UK sent money to help. (You have. No idea. How happy. This made me. I tried to hide my idiotic grin at the mere thought of it.) People from everywhere helped, saying things like, "This can't happen," & "If it's going to happen to The Senator, then what chance would our own little theatre have?"

The Senator ran itself into debt helping out the surrounding area, & now the city is going to let it fail? People have to just write people & make them listen; grab O'Malley by his ears & tie him down & make someone do something. This theatre has been around since the late 1930s & is the last single screen theatre left in Baltimore, if not Maryland as a whole. I've been there for Trilogy Tuesday, for the midnight & final shows of The Revenge of the Sith; i've seen Goblet of Fire & Order of the Phoenix's midnight shows there. Simply put: You will not have the same experience at a lame multiplex theatre chain. You won't have people waiting in the Line, you won't have the person running the theatre getting into it. The community needs this theatre as much as the theatre needs the community. This theatre helped the surrounding community get back on its feet, & it got into debt as its reward.

People may say, "Well, the economic crisis..." Um, excuse me. The Great Depression. People went to see movies. It was an escape, it was something they could do for a while. Not only that, but the above mentioned midnight shows are literally geek fests. People drive by & hurl ice & sling insults; they're the immature ones; who cares. In an economic crisis, what better time to keep something like this alive? Not only will it help the community & the surrounding economy, it might even help boost people's spirits. Only the "historical facade" is protected; if The Senator is lost, anybody can come in & completely & utterly ruin it in anyway they like. Keifaber (the owner) put it pretty well when he said, "And if you're a Star Wars fan: The Rebel base is under attack."

So, seriously, people: "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."

Mayor Sheila Dixon 410-396-3835 mayor@baltimorecity.gov
Council Pres. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake 410-396 4804 councilpresident@baltimorecity.gov
Gov. Martin O'Malley 410-974-3901 governor@gov.state.md.us
US Congressman John Sarbanes 202-225-4016 http://sarbanes.house.gov/federal.asp
US Congressman Elijah Cummings 202-225-4741 http://house.gov/writerep/
US Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger 202-225-3061 http://dutch.house.gov/writedutch_za.shtml
US Senator Barbara Mikulski 202-224-4654 http://mikulski.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm
US Senator Ben Cardin 202-224-4524 http://cardin.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm
Sen. Joan Carter Conway- MD 43rd District 410-841-3745 joan.carter.conway@senate.state.md.us
Delegate Maggie McIntosh- MD 43rd Dist. 410-841-3990 maggie.mcintosh@house.state.md.us
Del. Ann Marie Doory- MD 43rd Dist. 410-841-3746 annmarie.doory@house.state.md.us
Del. Curt Anderson- MD 43rd Dist. 410-841-3291 curt.anderson@house.state.md.us
Robert Curran- 3rd Dist. City Council 410-396-4812 robert.curran@baltimorecity.gov
MJ "Jay" Brodie, Baltimore Development Corporation 410-837-9305 info@baltimoredevelopment.com

1:19 p.m. | January 22, 2009

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