Did we mention we got “Best New Website” in Baltimore Magazine’s “Best of Baltimore” issue on stands now? We did? Oh. Okay. Well, a few BFB writers and editors went to the big party at the Hippodrome last Thursday night to celebrate. None of us had been before. It was packed. Nearly every restaurant in […]
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Pit Bulls Get Another Chance in This Week’s Special Session
This week’s special session will consider, in addition to expanding gambling in the state, a bill to overturn the Maryland Court of Appeals ruling that found dogs of the pit bull persuasion “inherently dangerous” and threatened to increase liability for pit bull owners and landlords who rent to them.
Posted inCanton, Eastern Shore, Featured, Greenspring Valley, Mt. Vernon, Real Estate & Home, Roland Park, Ruxton
Off The Market: Which Houses Are Selling in Baltimore
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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Are Beer-Guzzling Innertubers Ruining Gunpowder Falls?
Four hundred. That’s how many people police estimate are tubing down the Gunpowder every day. Most of them are assisted by Gary Kloch’s Tube N Taxi business, where they rent an innertube and hop on a shuttle to the river. Critics of the business argue that a continuous parade of noisy, littering innertubers is less […]
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It’s Beach Week and Thank God for Apps
It is day seven of Beach Week (aka Senior Week), and the only way I know our child is alive and not in jail is SnapChat. It’s an app on my iPhone. Emily can send a quick photo of whatever she’s doing or whoever she’s with, and it comes up on my phone, but disappears […]
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Is Wegmans Above the Law in Howard County?
We know Columbians are excited — even fanatical — about their new Wegmans. But is that irrational popularity enough to bend state law, zoning rules, and the Howard County General Plan to allow the grocery behemoth to sell booze? Wegmans certainly seems confident that they’ll get a pass from the Alcohol Beverage Hearing Board — […]
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 […]
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Are Unregulated Valet Parking Services the Scourge of Fells Point and Little Italy?
If you asked me to name the most blatantly lawless group on the roadways in Waverly and Station North, I’d say it was the scooter and four-wheeler riding, wheeling popping “go-gangs,” speeding through red lights in groups sometimes forty riders deep. But apparently, in the restaurant-ridden neighborhoods of Fells Point and Little Italy the vehicular […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Springdale
10577 Gateridge Road, Cockeysville – 4 bedrooms, 3 baths: $319,000 Why rent when you can buy this four bedroom, three full bath single family home in Springdale? Home has an open floor plan and has been tastefully updated with plantation shutters, neutral decor and two brand new baths. Covered rear porch leads to level back yard. […]
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Annapolis Legislates Lead Poisoning
Statewide, more than 500 children were found to have “harmful levels” of lead in their blood as recently as 2010. The effects of lead poisoning are wide-ranging and long-lasting. And right now there is a whole bunch of lead poisoning legislation up for debate in Annapolis right now. Eight different bills seek variously to expand […]
