Looking back over a year of Hot House columns, searching for some rhyme or reason to the local real estate market, the Baltimore Fishbowl ran a quick check to see which dream houses have sold and which ones are still hanging around. What’s moving — sleek condos or charming cottages? Old estates or giant McMansions? […]
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Posted inHampden, Real Estate & Home
Rent or Buy? Author Jane Hodges Gives the Answers at Atomic Books
It’s an age-old question “Should I rent or should I buy?” Once considered an integral part of the American dream, owning a home is a different reality than it was just 50 years ago. Despite tempting prices and low mortgage rates, it’s no longer right for everyone. Enter Rent Versus Own: A Real Estate Reality […]
Posted inBeaches, How Does Your Garden Show?, Lifeline, Real Estate & Home
Beach Season: Around the Corner and Over the Bridge
Every year in early May my husband and I head to the Maryland-Delaware shore. After a flurry of spring activity and before the final stretch of graduations, weddings and end-of-the-year activities, we soak up the solitude. This spring’s beach retreat was cool, sometimes sunny, sometimes foggy and drizzling, sometimes down right cold. The weather never […]
Posted inBohemian Rhapsody, Featured, Lifeline
Our Big Fat New Orleans Graduation
University of Baltimore Asst. Prof. and Bohemian Rhapsody Columnist Marion Winik celebrates her son’s college graduation alongside her ex-mother-in-law. Though I have neither superpowers nor a signature form-fitting costume, I do have something in common with comic book heroes. I have a historic nemesis. Mine is a 72-year-old Italian lady from Philadelphia. This defender of […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, How Does Your Garden Show?, Lifeline, Real Estate & Home
Baltimore’s Newest Tradition: Cylburn Arboretum Market Day
Cylburn Arboretum has never looked better. Sunny weekend weather made this green oasis in the city sparkle for the 44th annual Market Day Saturday and for the preview party Friday evening. For once I was ahead of the curve, and ahead of voracious plant buyers. Buying plants at Market Day is becoming as much of […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Will Balimore Get Another Arts District?
Captain Isaac Emerson, the inventor of the Bromo-Seltzer headache remedy and builder of the iconic Bromo Seltzer Tower on Baltimore’s west side, was said to “interest himself thoroughly in everything tending to advance our city, and [be] a patron of all worthy enterprises seeking to push Baltimore to the front.” So I bet he would […]
Posted inBohemian Rhapsody, Columns, Featured, Lifeline
Overnight Parenting Adventure: Spring Break Mega-Challenge
University of Baltimore Asst. Prof. and Bohemian Rhapsody Columnist Marion Winik experiences spring break 2012, with all three of her kids in the picture, which may or may not involve the breaking of her house. If you have reached this level, you have worked your way through decades of preparation. This challenge will require all […]
Posted inHot House, Mt. Vernon, Real Estate & Home
Family Living (Really) In Mt. Vernon
HOT HOUSE: 719 Park Avenue, Baltimore 21201 Mount Vernon Federal style town home, circa 1885, in good condition. First two stories are owner’s suite, (2447 sq. ft.) and three large rental apartments (roughly another 6,000 sq. ft.) on three additional floors. Original carved moldings, mirrors, mantles. In all, nine bedrooms, five and one half baths, […]
Posted inCanton, Clipper Mill, Guilford, Real Estate & Home
Recreational Residential Real Estalking
Our house obsessed writer scrolls through the week’s open houses and gives you a heads up on the standouts…
Posted inPolitics & Business
Historic Carousel Kicked Out of Inner Harbor
“This city keeps losing things. They lost the Colts. They lost the ice rink at Rash Field. They lost the trapeze school. How many more things can we lose? This ride is an icon.”
Posted inReal Estate & Home
SoBo Grocery Sort
Will the new Harris Teeter change South Baltimore for better or worse?
Posted inLifeline
Baltimore’s Proactive Food Policies Make a Good Impression
California usually gets to claim innovator status for all things foodie — which makes it doubly satisfying that the West Coasters were taking notes when Baltimore representatives spoke at the recent Community Food Security Coalition in Oakland. “[City programs] show how an active, involved city government and willingness to try new ideas can change the urban food landscape for the better,” writes Vanessa Barrington in Grist, the popular environmental news site.
Posted inLifeline, My Real Life Modern Family
I’ll Be Dead by Then
A fiction writer tells the amusing truth about aging.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Baltimore Unearthed: Shirley Temple Was Here (Sort of)
Only the fetid mind of a Hollywood producer could conceive of casting the perpetually perky Shirley Temple in the role of a proto-feminist. In the 1949 dramedy Adventure in Baltimore, a twilight-of-her-film-career 20-year-old Shirley, a decade and a half removed from her dimply child-star apogee in The Little Colonel and Curly Top, appears as determined, […]
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Dan Deacon on How Baltimore Became a Bright Star in the Indie Music Galaxy
It’s Baltimore 2005. Two hundred college age kids pack a dimly lit space in Station North while three-piece band Blood Baby cycles through aggressive guitar and drum riffs. The band’s frontman, Adam Endres, wears his hair like Captain Lou Albano. Several kids crowd surf as Endres shouts subversive repetitive lyrics like “Stab my face!” and […]
