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Baltimore Highlands native Tim Young is Arbutus Patch senior cultural correspondent and a stand-up comic. You can learn more about him on www.timyoung.com or www.hungovernews.com, and follow him on Twitter @timrunshismouth.
One of the more interesting, and I’d love to say unexpected, things that I found at Sundance were the plethora of B- and C-list celebrities who were there to network just like I was.  When I say B- and C-list, I am purposefully excluding reality TV stars, who we will get to in a bit. One of the coolest guys that I met at Sundance was Bruce Thomas, best remembered for his role as The UPS guy in Legally Blonde. I personally didn’t know that when I met him, but the women in the area certainly did, as he had recounted being accosted by a few just before we ran into each other.  Thomas was …
Four exclusive video reports from Sundance Film Festival by local celebrity elbow-rubber Tim Young. In the first piece, Young reports upon his arrival at Sundance. Subsequent segments take the viewer up ski slopes and down Main Street. Hey, is that Hercules?
Hi. I’m Tim Young, and I’m Arbutus Patch’s correspondent at the Sundance Film festival. How did I get here? Funny you should ask. You know how people sometimes say they had a whirlwind year? I never understood that until now. I went from obscurity to being stopped on the streets by people in my new hometown, Washington, DC, by fans of my comedy. I don’t say “fans” to brag, but rather because underneath what is a snarky persona on stage, I still see the nerdy kid who grew up in Baltimore Highlands and was supposed to be a doctor or a lawyer, not an entertainer.  Over the past 12 months, I have…

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