Baltimore to Saratoga streets. Park Avenue to Howard Street. Names of jewelers like Samuelson’s, Fetting, Arminger’s and Booke used to pepper the Midtown area. Today they’re just empty storefronts, with a few newer jewelry shops thrown in.
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What We Make Now: Old Line Spirits
It’s been about three years since Arch Watkins and Mark McLaughlin opened Old Line Spirits in East Baltimore, an area rich in distilling history with Seagram’s in nearby Dundalk and Standard Distillers on Lombard operating back in the day. Baltimore’s distilling industry is now bouncing back, as Baltimore Spirits Co. and Sagamore Spirit are populating […]
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What We Make Now: G. Krug & Son Ironworks
The mills are long gone. The furnaces produced steel and iron for the last time around 2012, when the Bethlehem Steel mill in Sparrows Point shuttered for good and was torn down. But the art of making things with those metals is still alive in the city. G. Krug & Son, which has been operating […]
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What We Make Now: Monument City Brewing Co.
If you were living on Baltimore’s Eastside 60 years ago, you would have woken up and smelled yeast from one of the city’s big breweries nearby: Gunther, National Premium and, of course, National Bohemian. Those places are now long gone and have been replaced with condos and chain retail space. But over the past three […]
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What We Make Now: Silversmith Henry ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins III
Henry “Hoppy” Hopkins III is a second generation silversmith. He’s also one of the last in a city where names like Stieff, Kirk and Schofield used to be known throughout the country as makers and maintainers of the silver trade. Some, like Stieff, remain only as words on the building the company once occupied. “I’m […]
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Baltimore Fishbowl wins MDDC Press Association awards for news, features and more
I am pleased to report that Baltimore Fishbowl won nine awards in the Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia Press Association Contest this week for stories published in 2019. It is Baltimore Fishbowl’s first year competing in the contest, which included nearly 1900 submissions from 52 member organizations. Baltimore Fishbowl entered the contest in Division O, […]
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Young Leaders Speak Out
This year, The Associated celebrated six leaders who have made an impact on Baltimore’s Jewish community. We spent time with them to find out what it takes to be a leader and where they go from here. Here is what some of them had to say:
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Navigating the Holiday Season as an Interfaith Family
This year, Chanukah and Christmas will overlap once again. For many interfaith families, that means navigating two different religious traditions. For the Jewish spouse, it also means making sure their children feel connected to their Jewish heritage this time of year. We spoke to two Jewish parents in an interfaith marriage about raising their children […]
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Gov. Wes Moore’s inauguration showcases Maryland’s diversity
By Greg Morton, Capital News Service With the historic inauguration Wednesday of the state’s first Black governor and Asian lieutenant governor, a diverse group of Marylanders arrived at the State House inspired by Wes Moore’s message of a more equitable state.
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Mount Vernon Records opens as a ‘community store’ for all
West Read street retains a quiet mystique which harkens back to early Baltimore days. While walking past the cozy brick and mortar buildings, I spy an old-fashioned pub, a barber shop, a deli, a bakery, and a cafe. This little Mount Vernon enclave feels like something from Rick Steves’ Europe and less like any place […]
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Orioles outfielder Austin Hays creates $20,000 scholarship for Maryland students
Baltimore Orioles outfielder Austin Hays will award a $20,000 scholarship to one Maryland high school or college student.
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Click Here to Relive this Memory
Baltimore-based poet Elizabeth Hazen reflects on the “complicated gift” of nostalgia. When I am overwhelmed with adult life, I think of childhood days home from school with a cold, cozy in bed. My mother moves the living room TV into my room, and I spend hours watching syndicated episodes of I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched and reading Sweet Valley […]
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‘No Wire, No Hon’: Behind the Scenes of The Baltimore Anthology
Everyone wants to know about Harriet Tubman’s city. Whose is it, what happens here, and how we live it. How on the spectrum from “The Wire” to “Hairspray,” we birthed artists and thinkers as canonical as Edgar Allan Poe and Benjamin Banneker. But how does one capture Baltimore? A city as diverse and as tough […]
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Woodberry Kitchen reinvents itself as Woodberry Tavern
After Woodberry Kitchen was reimagined and reopened as Woodberry Tavern, the restaurant is continuing to serve Chesapeake Bay ingredients with farm-to-table flair but with more of a focus on events.
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Board candidates praise school resource officers – but there’s no proof they make schools safer
By Emily R. Condon and Colin McNamara, Capital News Service Amid nationwide concern about school shootings and other violent incidents, all 24 Maryland school districts have employed school resource officers at some time since the 2016-2017 school year, and all but one retain them still. But now, at least five years on, the state says […]
