The media interpretation of Baltimore hasn’t always been flattering (or accurate). This Variety article, irritatingly titled House of Cards: Spicy Locales at Lo-Cal Costs helps illustrate some of the ways in which Hollywood gets our fair city wrong. While Variety describes DC as “glossy and rich,” the bulk of the article discusses House of Cards […]
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Baltimore Picks Up D.C.’s Slack with Last-Minute ‘House of Cards’ Shoot
Recently, much has been made of the differences between Baltimore and a certain stateless city 40 miles southwest. Some of those differences are legitimate, some only imagined. Well, here’s a pretty stark contrast for you. After D.C. police reneged on the permit for a presidential motorcade shoot for Netflix’s House of Cards the day of, […]
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Modern Townhouse of Architectural Note, For Sale (Or Rent) In Federal Hill
Hot House: 132 E. Montgomery Street, Federal Hill, Baltimore, 21230 Brick townhouse, circa 1875, completely modernized 2005, with exterior glass wall and balconies overlooking street and harbor. 3,588 sq. ft. with three bedrooms, four baths over three levels. Custom gourmet kitchen with extensive built-ins, office with built-ins, gas fireplace, master suite with dressing room and […]
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Dilemma: “Does My Life Have Direction?”
University of Baltimore MFA student Ellen Hartley has a few questions for her readers…and herself. But she doesn’t take any of them too seriously! DILEMMA Does my life have direction? What is direction? Do I have a purpose? Is purpose direction? Is direction linear? Is linear 2-dimentional therefore without depth? Can direction be linear yet […]
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Will Redevelopment Boost Baltimore’s Food Economy?
Courtesy Bmore Media – Hampden resident Kate Nolan Bryden caters about a dozen weddings, baby showers and dinner parties a year. But she is holding off upgrading her Graceful Gourmand website because she hasn’t been able to find a nearby commercial kitchen for rent that would give her more room to work. Baking 140 cookies would take […]
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Polluted Stormwater Runoff to Blame for Milky, Fish-Killing Jones Falls
It’s like a low-rent biblical plague. As if to put an exclamation point at the end of Tom Zolper’s recent post defending the stormwater fee and warning of the threat to the environment and public health posed by polluted storm runoff, the Jones Falls turned technicolor and killed around 200 fish, which floated, belly up, into […]
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No More, I Refuse: On the Failure of Victim Services in Baltimore
There are many things I love about this city – so many, in fact, that I haphazardly keep a blog all the things that were essential in transforming Baltimore into my home. Put plainly, I am quite fond of this city. That being said, I don’t walk around with rose-tinted glasses. Baltimore has its fair […]
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1901 S. Charles Apartments Earn Baltimore’s First Gold Leed Cert.
Chesapeake Realty Partners knew they were building to meet the Leed Certification standards of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), but were even more surprised to find out that their own standards actually earned them the first Gold Certification awarded to a wood-framed residential rental community in the City of Baltimore. Managed by WPM Real Estate Management, 1901 […]
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St. John’s Has Left the Building: Congregation Puts Church Up For Sale
It’s 10:30 on Sunday, and a small gathering has convened upon the Wesley Chapel in Springwell Senior Living Community. There are about 40 people on hand, a goodly number of whom are elderly residents. Some are in wheelchairs. This is St. John’s Mt. Washington Episcopal Church, which used to be housed in a stately 1928 Romanesque […]
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Car Talk: A Memoir
UB grad student Ellen Hartley watches her wild life race past from behind the wheel. 1956: The Chrysler When I was 15, my mother drove me to the doctor’s to have a growth removed from my neck. I was old enough to get my learner’s permit but hadn’t gotten around to it yet. So I […]
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Roommate Horror Stories – Shoe Stealers, Gun Nuts, and Worse
Daniel Ewald’s roommate pulled a gun on him; Shana Challmes’s roommate stole their rent — and her shoes; another commenter’s roommate “went to the bathroom” in the bathtub — multiple times. There are plenty more roommate horror stories where that came from, thanks to your friendly local city promotion non-profit, Live Baltimore. The “worst roommate […]
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Point2: Online Marketing Tools Real Estate Agents Need
The Internet has dramatically changed the way marketing is done, and this certainly rings true for the real estate business. For realtors, expanding their real estate marketing efforts online means capturing new and valuable leads that they can later convert into sales. Point2 is a leader in the development of real estate marketing tools, and has […]
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We’re on a 7,000-Year Mission: The “Stupidly Huge” Rise of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society
In 2009, the Baltimore Rock Opera Society staged their first original production, Gründlehämmer, which “takes place in the mythical land of Brotopia, a once prosperous agrarian Kingdom where the melody of an electric guitar wields power enough to tend a field of crops, to heal the sick, or to smite an enemy.” Janky but grandiose, the show […]
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Bolton Hill: Engaged Urban Living
Welcome to our new series “Neighborhood Watch,” which reveals the character of a city neighborhood through the eyes of residents who live there. All photos by Tyler Merbler. It was a damp February Friday and I was out of breath by the time I reached Mount Royal Tavern. I had just missed the Circulator downtown […]
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Smooth Operator: Entrepreneur to Open 10 Smoothie Kings in Baltimore
Courtesy Bmore Media – Locust Point residents will have a spot to fill their craving for fruity drinks like Mangosteen Madness and Celestial Cherry High when Baltimore City’s first Smoothie King opens next month. Franchisee Minseok Yu will open the Smoothie King at 851 East Fort Ave. by April. Yu says he plans to open 10 Smoothie […]
