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Eviction crisis gets attention from Baltimore City Council
A Baltimore City Council committee heard from housing advocates and officials Tuesday to discuss the scope of the city’s eviction crisis and strategies to overcome it. Tisha Edwards, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Children and Family Success, said that just before the pandemic — in March of 2020 — one in 10 city residents […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Tinkering with an ‘absolute masterpiece’: $3.5 million plan to keep the ball inside Oriole Park wins approval despite questions from fans and state officials
Editor’s note: This article won second place (Division O) in the Sports Story category of the Maryland, Delaware, and D.C. Press Association’s 2022 Contest. Read our other award-winning pieces here. One of the best-kept secrets in Baltimore has been the Orioles’ plan to change the left-field dimensions at Oriole Park at Camden Yards to make it […]
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Abell report: More than 85,000 Baltimore homes estimated to contain lead hazards
More than 85,000 Baltimore homes are estimated to contain lead hazards, such as lead-based paints and lead dust, and it could cost billions to contain or remove those hazards, according to a new report published by the Abell Foundation.
Posted inArt
The Magic of Matmos: Electronic duo delights with echoes of the future, joys of now
The experimental electronic band Matmos has made galactic waves in a genre where most artists exist like agoraphobic monks for the pleasure of other cool kids in back rooms. They made their way to Baltimore in the late aughts from San Francisco, where rent seemed to double every time they returned from tour. Given their […]
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After 14 years, Ukazoo Books announces plans to close permanently
One week after Starbucks temporarily closed its branch at Loch Raven Boulevard and Joppa Road, another well-known business is closing near the same intersection. Ukazoo Books announced that it’s closing its store at 8641 Loch Raven Blvd., one block south of the Loch Raven Starbucks branch.
Posted inAlong the Patapsco
Far, Far West of Charles Street: Baltimore reunions in Tinseltown
I spent a long week in Tinseltown last month visiting my daughter Amelia and her family. She is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts, an actress and the mother of a toddler named Lake.
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Area 405 arts hub sold to local partnership that plans to upgrade it, keep it affordable
Area 405, an artist hub and maker space in Baltimore’s Station North arts district, has been sold to a partnership that plans to upgrade it and continue operating it as an affordable artist community. The new owner is 405-417 East Oliver Street Partners, a limited liability corporation formed by the nonprofit organization Central Baltimore Partnership […]
Posted inBohemian Rhapsody
When I’m Sixty-Four
Editor’s note: This column won first place (Division O) in the Local Column: Feature or Humor category of the Maryland, Delaware, and D.C. Press Association’s 2022 Contest. Read our other award-winning pieces here. A couple of weeks before my John-Lennon-never-celebrated-this birthday, my baby sister and I were out walking our dogs on Dewey Beach in the […]
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All or nothing: Two-thirds of Baltimore restaurants get zilch from federal relief fund
Editor’s note: This article won second place (Division O) in the Wild Card: Coronavirus in Communities category of the Maryland, Delaware, and D.C. Press Association’s 2021 Contest. Read our other award-winning pieces here. After a shutdown in the spring of 2020, the Golden West Café in Hampden muscled through the pandemic by adding outdoor seating, increasing […]
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Baltimore County Council approves first director of housing and community development
The Baltimore County Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Terry Hickey to serve as the county’s first director of housing and community development.
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Happy Hills: A writerly family preserves a history of caring, and shares a story
Right off Falls Road in Baltimore’s North Roland Park, between an auto mechanic and a chiropractor’s office, sits Poplar Hill Road, a narrow, serpentine stretch of pavement barely wide enough for two side-by-side cars.Broken concrete gives way to gravel, and then a visitor arrives at a stately country house that serves as the grand dame […]
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Urban Landscape: Baltimore’s first heavy timber office building rises in Canton; TouchPoint Empowerment Center advances; Patagonia opening in Fells Point; Goats return to Wyman Park Dell
At first glance, the construction site along Boston Street may look like others in Canton or elsewhere in the city – crane in the sky, columns and beams rising from the ground. But there’s one trait that sets it apart from others in Baltimore: the method of construction. The four-story structure is the first office […]
Posted inNeighborhood Spotlight
Keeping It Weird: Hampdenfest, ever-enchanting in an ever-changing world
The weather is suspiciously lovely on this late summer day in Hampden when an imposing sandy-blonde haired woman who looks like she could give Dog The Bounty Hunter a wedgie and get away with it gruffly asks “Do you make shirts”? My reply is scattered and incoherent. She cuts to the nitty gritty: “Do you […]
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Baltimore Unity Hall, a center for arts, education and job training, opens on Eutaw Place
A former union hall is now a unity hall, after civic leaders on Friday cut the ribbon for a new center for arts, education and job training at 1505 Eutaw Place. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott joined about 100 area residents and others to open the three-story community center, which was designed to break down barriers […]
