Board OKs $27M to tear down old Baltimore jail buildings — Associated Press
Excitement builds ahead of Gervonta Davis’ big fight in Baltimore — WJZ-TV
Y in Central Maryland, Google team up for ‘Be Internet Awesome’ workshops for parents –Technical.ly Baltimore
Alicia Wilson departs Port Covington team for Johns Hopkins — Baltimore Business Journal
Gin Blossoms, the band behind such “MTV Buzz Bin” staples as “Hey Jealousy,” “Found Out About You” and “Til I Hear It From You,” is headlining this year’s Fells Point Fun Festival, organizers announced today.
The free concert is on Oct. 12, the first day of the two-day festival in the waterfront neighborhood.
With a lockout taking effect earlier this week, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians are facing a paycheck-less summer as they remain in a deadlock with management over proposed schedule reductions.
A supporter has stepped in to start a meal fund for the players, raising more than $2,300 on GoFundMe in one day. Organizer Tee Mitchell wrote she wanted to support the musicians as they protest and fight “to raise awareness of the egregious management problems that led to this.”
By Jeff Ernsthausen and Justin Elliott
ProPublica
Under a six-lane span of freeway leading into downtown Baltimore sit what may be the most valuable parking spaces in America.
Lying near a development project controlled by Under Armour’s billionaire CEO Kevin Plank, one of Maryland’s richest men, and Goldman Sachs, the little sliver of land will allow Plank and the other investors to claim what could amount to millions in tax breaks for the project, known as Port Covington.
Motorcyclist collides with MTA bus, dies in southwest Baltimore — WBAL-TV
Safe Streets opens Brooklyn location — WMAR
Clearly, Brandon Hyde’s patience with Orioles pitching staff stretched to the limit — The Sun
Different focus, same result for Calvert Hall boys’, McDonogh girls’ lacrosse — PressBox
Police investigate fight at Tiki Lee’s Dock Bar that left several injured — WBAL-TV
Dr. Sonja Santelises, Baltimore City Schools CEO, on Progress and the Challenges Ahead — WYPR
Baltimore Police investigating photo that appears to show officer asleep in patrol car — The Sun
A local’s guide to Baltimore — The Washington Post
Back on Track — Baltimore magazine
Maryland is testing out the license plates of the future, though they won’t be available to the general public just yet.
Coming soon to North Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood: A spot where you’re not only permitted, but encouraged to break things in search of emotional catharsis.
Joyce Scott’s “Inkisi #2” is one of her sculptural works that sneakily knocks you out. It’s a wooden figurine from Nigeria that Scott clad in a billowing tiered skirt made of cast glass, beads of clay, plastic, thread and wire. Scott sewed some of the beads together to become faces on large medallions that hang among the skirt’s folds. Strings of beads end in some relic—a hand, an animal shape—that suggest some aspect of a spiritual practice.
Interspersed among the folds are columns of coke-bottle green glass that end in a bell-shaped bulge. Stare into the face of the figurine and you start thinking its features suggest a knowing smile. Phalluses, icons, prayer, wit, “Inkisi #2” hits the eyes like a totemic relic even though it vibrates with a contemporary tension. Past and present converge in an object that feels like it has something to say to you about the here and now.
Slyly funny, sexually frank, historically complex, politically astute and above all, visually striking, “Inkisi #1” greets visitors to the intimate gallery space at the Baltimore Museum of Art where a small assortment of Scott’s works are paired with those of her mother, Elizabeth Talford Scott. Titled “Hitching Their Dreams to Untamed Stars,” the exhibition spotlights the artistic potency of a creative family.
