Editor’s note: This article won second place (Division O) in the Arts/Entertainment Reporting category of the Maryland, Delaware, and D.C. Press Association’s 2021 Contest. Read our other award-winning pieces here. Immortalized in bronze, Billie Holiday sings in the Upton neighborhood, her hair adorned with gardenias. Across the striking statue once stood the Royal Theatre, the famed […]
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Kickball and connections: Baltimore’s social sports leagues are back
Crowds now swarming kickball fields and bocce courts are the latest signs of Baltimore’s reemergence from the pandemic. Rising temperatures and vaccination rates have meant that one of the city’s signature activities – organized adult leagues followed by a drink and nosh at a neighborhood spot – is back. Restaurants and bars did what was […]
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Baltimore Children & Youth Fund commits $5.5M to nonprofits serving youth
The Baltimore Children & Youth Fund has committed $5.5 million on initiatives that will connect young people with work and learning opportunities, the organization announced on Thursday. As part of a new $5.5 million commitment, the organization will support four initiatives.
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Baltimore Writer’s Club: Q&A with Justin Fenton, author of “We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption”
The truth of policing in Baltimore can feel like fiction. Pick up the Sun or scroll through social media on any given day, and you could be experiencing a production from Barry Levinson or David Simon. Baltimore streets have served as a backdrop for law-enforcement morality tales – real and fictionalized – for decades. In […]
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Baltimore City Council committee questions BOPA head over Artscape, use of funds, staff changes and more
Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts (BOPA) Chief Executive Officer Donna Drew Sawyer will return to answer questions from the Baltimore City Council’s Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday after a contentious committee budget hearing June 2 about funds requested for Artscape and other events.
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10 Virtual Events in Baltimore This Weekend: Restaurant Relief Gala; Ceasefire Weekend
There’s no question: Virtual events aren’t the same as an in-person experience. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of being in the room with others, and having a chance to chat with some of those fellow attendees before and after the program. One advantage of the virtual format, however, is that local organizations can host […]
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Art exhibit curated by security guards draws widespread attention to the Baltimore Museum of Art
Christopher Bedford remembers the day when board member Amy Elias “barged” into his office at the Baltimore Museum of Art with an idea for a different kind of exhibition. Why not let the museum’s security guards curate an exhibit showing what they’d like visitors to see? Elias suggested. From that initial meeting came “Guarding the […]
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Maryland leaders support Chauvin conviction, call for systemic change
Maryland’s elected officials voiced strong support for the guilty verdict handed down Tuesday against the former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd, although some said the conviction was just one step in a long journey toward justice. Derek Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after the white […]
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State lawmakers take up 15 proposals to reform policing
Statewide efforts to reform policing will be the focus of a three-day marathon of hearings that begins Tuesday before the state Senate’s Judicial Proceedings Committee. The hearings will consider issues related to body cameras, police discipline, and use-of-force policies.
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Study: Community-driven Ceasefire weekends effective in reducing violence in Baltimore
A report published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) dispelled some previous criticisms of the Baltimore Ceasefire movement’s effectiveness, instead finding there was an estimated 52 percent reduction in gun violence during Ceasefire weekends. The study, headed by Dr. Peter Phalen of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, examined the 6,024 […]
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Consent decree monitoring team taking feedback on drafts of BPD policies
The Baltimore Police Department is taking public input on drafts of policies that have been mandated by a federal consent decree. Today is the last day to submit feedback on a draft of a policy regarding patrol staffing shortages.
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Grinch or Merrymaker? Our list for the holiday season
As 2020 comes to a close, Baltimore Fishbowl has made a list of holiday Grinches and Merrymakers worth remembering:
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Rawlings-Blake responds to Hogan, saying governor ‘devalues the Black community’
Following news accounts of Gov. Larry Hogan’s memoir and his critical view of Baltimore leadership during the 2015 uprising, former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake responded in a Baltimore Sun op-ed, saying the governor “devalues the Black community” through his words and actions. While Hogan paints “himself as a different politician,” the governor “has brought little more […]
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Q&A with Morgan State’s Dr. Lawrence Brown, Author of ‘The Black Butterfly’
After the tragic death of Freddie Gray in 2015, Dr. Lawrence Brown fired off a bunch of tweets; as @bmoredoc, he connects with over 15,000 Twitter followers. He could clearly see what the issue was and he had to research to prove it. It was not long after that that the Acquisitions Editor for Johns […]
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Baltimore photographer Devin Allen captures second Time magazine cover
Five years after his photo from the Baltimore Uprising appeared on the front of Time, Baltimore photographer Devin Allen’s work is back on the magazine’s cover, now depicting one of the city’s recent protests against police brutality and racial injustice. Allen’s new cover photo shows a protester raising a megaphone as other demonstrators lie on […]
