Did we mention Valentine’s Day is coming? Not the cynical, “what a bogus, trumped-up, retail event” Valentine’s Day, but the “she makes me so happy” day that acknowledges the scientific truth that gifts are important factors in every relationship. Flowers and chocolate are always wonderful, but maybe this year you want to try something different, something […]
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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 inLifeline
Living in a Boomerang World
What happens when kids move back home with their parents? Many different things, it turns out.
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 inSchools
Better Than a Dorm Room: Students Rent McMansions in California
It’s a recession-era story if we’ve ever heard one — the area was overbuilt during the real estate boom, and now dozens (if not hundreds) of McMansions sit empty in overdeveloped subdivisions. At the same time, the school grew more quickly than dorm space did; UC Merced has 5200 students, but dorm space for only 1600. Enterprising students looked at these two facts and figured… why not? And so these days five students renting a swanky five-bedroom house pay around $200 to $350 each for the privilege of enjoying pool tables and granite countertops.
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, […]
Posted inPolitics & Business
Someone IS Making Money on the Internet!
The University of the Maryland proved it.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
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 […]
Posted inLifeline
Lease Agreement, the Movie
Well, despite how expensive housing has been getting in Baltimore, and despite the difficulty of navigating craigslist, my wife and I have found an apartment that fits our budget, and it’s right in Charles Village. Now for the lease agreement. Time was, I was so disempowered and desperate for an apartment I would sign whatever […]
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The Perils of Craigslist
My family and I find ourselves suddenly in the market for a new dwelling. As mentioned previously, finding a cheap apartment in Baltimore isn’t as easy as it once was. But when you’re combing craigslist for a potential home, it isn’t just the scarcity of reasonably priced apartments that makes it difficult. There are at […]
Posted inPolitics & Business
Is It Just Me, or Is It Getting Expensive in Here?
When I moved to Baltimore in 2008, the city’s legendary cheap rent was a major draw. Live in an artistically thriving community within a mid-size city for 200 bucks a month (in an apartment with four of my friends)? Sign me up. Three years later, faced with the prospect of moving out of my foreclosed […]
