Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott on Tuesday named Tonya Miller Hall to the new position of Senior Advisor for Arts & Cultural Affairs in the Mayor’s Office, effective immediately.
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Posted inFood & Drink
As Baltimore Pride weekend approaches, LGBTQ-friendly Central Bar and The Manor in Mount Vernon are closed and their liquor licenses have expired; Stable & Saloon still awaiting new concept; fundraiser set for Clifton Pleasure Club
Two Baltimore LGBTQ-friendly gathering spots have had their liquor licenses expire ahead of Pride weekend. Meanwhile, other local businesses have updates on their plans.
Posted inBaltimore Writers Club
Don’t Be So Quick to Throw Things Away: Q&A with Robert Kanigel, Author of ‘Young Man, Muddled’
Author of ten books ranging from literary criticism to biography and founder of the Science Writing program at MIT, Robert Kanigel has spent much of his career finding engaging, human perspectives on fields as diverse as mathematics, urbanism, and classical studies. Writing from his Charles Village rowhouse since 2011, Kanigel has turned his lens inward […]
Posted inHampden
The Wine Source’s proposal to demolish dwellings to build a parking lot sparks debate in Hampden
A long-simmering debate about parking in Hampden will get a public airing this week when Baltimore City Council members hold an in-person hearing about legislation that would permit demolition of two semi-detached dwellings on Elm Avenue to make way for a parking lot.
Posted inReal Estate & Home
Claiborne hearing brings out a wide range of views about development in North Roland Park
A recent zoning board hearing about the proposed Claiborne Senior Living community showed the wide range of opinions people have about development in North Roland Park, and the development process in Baltimore in general. In a two-part meeting, members of the city’s Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals indicated they could support plans for The […]
Posted inBohemian Rhapsody, Columns
Rescued from the Slush Pile: Two Truths and Lie
Last spring I took an online storytelling class with Mike Daisey, thinking that somehow it might help me figure out how to write fiction. This was not the intended direction of the class— Mike is a well-known Spalding Grey-type monologist — but one of the assignments he gave did seem to lend itself toward my […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Inner Harbor, Sponsored Post
Rethinking Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for Enduring and Dynamic Success
With a potential new developer named to acquire and revitalize the two Harborplace pavilions at Pratt and Light streets, many city planners, business leaders and others are suggesting ways to improve Baltimore’s downtown waterfront and draw tourists and area residents back to the Inner Harbor shoreline. In the following article, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger offers one […]
Posted inArt
Start, end, begin again: Baltimore rapper Height reflects on his time in Charm City, the weight of death, and where music has taken him.
It’s around dinner time as I sit down with Dan Keech, also known as Height, a Baltimore rapper who’s played every basement, community center, legion hall, and comic book store between here and Santa Monica for the better part of the last 20 years. We ordered a couple pizzas and drinks while waxing nostalgic about […]
Posted inPolitics & Business
The candidates on Baltimore’s challenges and their solutions: Brooke Lierman
Baltimore Fishbowl asked candidates running in this year’s election to share their views on the three most important challenges facing Baltimore and the region, and solutions they support to make progress. We asked candidates to submit a video answering that question, so you can hear their ideas and goals in their own words. Brooke Lierman, […]
Posted inHealth and Science
In Baltimore’s Senior Homes, Overdoses Plague a Forgotten Generation
Baltimore has endured one of America’s deadliest drug epidemics over the past six years, and
overdoses have fallen hardest on Black men currently in their mid-50s to early 70s. They are just 7% of the city’s population but account for nearly 30% of drug fatalities — a death rate 20 times that of the rest of the U.S.
Posted inArt
Arts advocates ask Mayor Scott to consult them before making any more moves that will affect the local cultural community
Worried that recent decisions at City Hall will contribute to turmoil and uncertainty within Baltimore’s cultural community, arts advocates are asking Mayor Brandon Scott not to make any more major moves in that area without consulting them first.
Posted inHealth and Science
Moore signs clean air bills; environmentalists cheered by General Assembly action
By Dorothy Hood, Capital News Service Gov. Wes Moore signed four key environmental bills Friday, attacking air quality and setting the stage for more approvals on the host of environmental legislation approved by the General Assembly this session.
Posted inUrban Landscape
Urban Landscape: Revitalization of Harborplace, Camden Yards, Station North and west side of downtown led real estate and development news in 2023
Before 2024 gets under construction, here are some of the projects that either changed the urban landscape in Baltimore over the past year or promise to do so.
Posted inSchools
Maryland educators eye better pay following Baltimore County deal
By Timothy Dashiell, Capital News Service Teachers, their unions and school systems across the state are taking note of the deal to give Baltimore County gives teachers a raise as they consider their own local education systems. Baltimore County’s $76 million compensation package plan looks to improve teacher pay and increase teacher retention rates , […]
Posted inBaltimore Writers Club
Women Who Do It All: Q&A with Frances Altman, Author of ‘Destiny’s Daughter’
Frances Altman, author of “Destiny’s Daughter,” shares her process of researching and writing about the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, one of America’s first female physicians.
