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★ Cover Story

African American Festival 2011

July 6, 2011

Glenford Nunez · Music, Performance

Photos by Glenford Nunez Every year the African American Festival hosts a half a million people in Baltimore. Photographer Glenford…

★ Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance

A Baltimore pear orchard could feed thousands

August 8, 2013

Peter Jackson · Charm City

Teachers and parents are always telling kids to “strive for five” and that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” But for kids living

To Wed

July 13, 2011

Brooke Hall & Justin Allen · Love, Video

On Saturday July 9th, I hatched a plan to surprise the love of my life with a party to commemorate her birthday and to surprise

Fiction: 2 Stories by Meg Pokrass

February 21, 2013

Timmy Reed · What Lit

By Meg Pokrass Keds I had a strange awake-dream during labor. It started with Barney, checking out holes in my Keds. Suggesting they were a

Baltimore’s Fav ‘Scape’ Returns :: Scapescape IV

June 4, 2015

Kelly Louise Barton · Festival, Music

Scapescape 2013 was one of the first shows I went to when I moved to Baltimore. Trudging through the nauseating heat of late summer and the

One Minute Play Festival

February 13, 2013

Sarah Weissman · Performance

“I think we all need to get each other’s diseases,” EMP Collective member and one of the directors of the One Minute Play Fest, Brad

Max

Interview with Magician Max Major

January 30, 2014

Ezra Winter · The Hustle

I was recently lucky enough to sit down and talk with my friend Max Major.  He is a very talented magician and mindreader in the

Top 5 Events :: April 24th, 2014

April 24, 2014

Gatsby · Charm City

Top 5 Events (in no particular order) Each week we bring you the goodness. Submit your event to our calendar if you’d like to see yourself here!

Station North Fall Music Festival

October 20, 2010

Philip Laubner & Matt Kelley · Art, Charm City, Music, Station North

Station North Fall Music Festival 2010 When Kaki King picks up a guitar, lots of things start to happen that you wouldn’t expect. The sky

Urban Dating :: Bravery

February 6, 2014

Charmed and Dangerous · Charm City

Anonymous Asked: How are you so brave with online dating? I’m always scared that someone in real life will recognize me or that my bosses

The Most Relaxing Comedian in the World?

June 16, 2014

Ezra Winter · Charm City

Our own Ezra Winter is perhaps the most relaxing comedian in the world?

Ode to the Bazaar

September 21, 2011

Lee Boot · Who We Am

Just off the main street in the part of Istanbul where you'll also find Hagia Sophia and the Blue Masque, you enter the Grand Bazaar

Ascending Beyond Meru with Sundance Film Festival Award Winner :: Renan Ozturk

February 2, 2015

Ivan Petrov & Isaiah Williams · Art, Festival, Film

Photos by Isaiah Williams During the creative process, you can’t always anticipate how events will unfold. This is an important lesson I learned from my recent

Photo courtesy of Paul De Los Reyes

Why Oprah Should Buy the LA Clippers

May 7, 2014

Chris Hudson · Sports

Now that Donald Sterling has been banned from the NBA for his racist comments, it’s very likely he’ll be forced to sell his beloved Los Angeles

Caleb Stine CD Release Party: I Wasn’t Built for a Life Like This

October 6, 2010

Philip Laubner · Music

Program director Megan Hamilton introduced singer-songwriter Caleb Stine to a full house at the Creative Alliance. The room swelled with the feeling you get when

Animal Modern

June 20, 2013

Fred Scharmen & Theresa Keil · Art Criticism

Thinking about the visual culture of Baltimore, Fred Scharmen takes a time machine ride, with giraffes. Photographs by Theresa Keil.  The other week I got an

Downtown Hotel :: Brookshire Suites

February 12, 2014

Ezra Winter · Charm City

The Brookshire Suites, a 96 room hotel on Lombard St. just re-opened with a series of murals by our friend Micheal Owen from the Baltimore

Moneyhorse Developing Kim Jong Un Videogame ‘Glorious Leader’

May 15, 2014

Nik Oldershaw · Charm City

It’s everything we’ve ever wanted. Atlanta based game developer Moneyhorse is working on a 16-bit shooter about the glamorous life and accomplishments of Our Supreme

nightlife

Murder Ink at Single Carrot Theatre

On the fifth of January participants in Single Carrot Theatre’s recitation of Anna Ditkoff’s City Paper column, Murder Ink, entered…

Shodekeh at The Meyerhoff

Sick Weapons Last Show at Golden West

Infernoland

Nina Simone: Baltimore set to scenes from The Wire

Gateway at Ruintown

social innovation

Treating Others

Despite that the data on the cost-benefit ratio for using vaccines to stall pandemics is overwhelmingly in favor of vaccines—those…

Peace Spore

Station North: Thinking Big!

Araminta Freedom Initiative

The “Mad Women” of the 307 Collective

Create Baltimore, Take 2

artist profiles

Britt Olsen-Ecker

The first time I saw Britt Olsen-Ecker was from the audience of the Strand Theater in 2010. She was playing…

Shocked and Amazed

Exclusive Video Interview with CEDA and DUME

Robert Marbury

The Tailor at Hour Haus

Jeramie Bellmay

sustainability

Small Time

A couple of years ago, while I was reporting on a redevelopment plan in Buffalo, New York, I met up…

Strange Folks at Ash Street Garden

Fixing The Future

Baltimore Free Farm

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore

Big Green Pirate Party