When House of Cards producers sent a letter to Gov. Martin O’Malley and House Speaker Michael E. Busch demanding an unspecified increase in tax incentives to keep the Netflix series filming in Maryland, it caused a minor tumult. The state Senate generally favored appeasement (even if it meant sacrificing state arts funding), while the House […]
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Former “Wire” Writer Rafael Alvarez at the Ivy Bookshop Thursday, Dec. 5
Join local writer Rafael Alvarez at The Ivy Bookshop Thursday, December 5 at 7 p.m. as he launches his new collection of short stories, Tales from the Holy Land. The stories in Tales from the Holy Land take place along the narrow streets and alleys of Alvarez’s heartbreaking hometown, Baltimore, charting secret histories of the last 100 […]
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Artist Turns Each Episode of ‘The Wire’ into a Beautiful Typographic Poster
In case you wanted to lose yourself on the Internet for a little while, take a moment (okay, several) to scroll through these gorgeous Wire posters designed by New York artist Oliver Munday. Each poster features an episode-opening epigraph from the award-winning HBO series in graphic, kinetic typography.
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The View From Halcyon Farm: Simple Flower Arranging From the Garden
If you’ve been reading this column for more than a few weeks, you might have picked up the fact that Halcyon Farm grows a lot of flowers. We have a big cutting garden, plus swathes of peonies, hydrangeas, zinnias and in the late summer, dahlias. There are always flowers in the house. Always. But the […]
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Accomplished Educator Abandons Jet-setting Retirement to Lead BDS
This year, the city’s four-year-old Baltimore Design School hired Dr. Melissa Patrylo as its new principal. Located in the heart of Baltimore’s burgeoning arts and entertainment district, Station North (more specifically, Greenmount West), the school currently enrolls students in grades six through ten, with plans to expand through twelfth grade within two years. It’s housed […]
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Talking Food, Culture and Baltimore with Dinner Lab CEO Brian Bordainick
Supper clubs are becoming more and more popular across the country…and now we have a new one, Dinner Lab. And it sounds pretty cool. I had the chance to speak with Dinner Lab CEO Brian Bordainick last week and it was one of those conversations where you’re so into what you’re talking about you almost […]
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Saving Baltimore One Brain at a Time: A Conversation with John Cammack, Baltimore Entrepreneur and Neuro-Optimist
From Citybizlist – Many of us have read Tracy Halvorsen’s lament on Baltimore. The post has been read by hundreds of thousands of people. It struck a nerve, or awakened some reflexive sinew we have numbed. It doesn’t really matter whether we look at Baltimore’s chronic violence as somehow not affecting our lives – whether we live […]
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Baltimore’s Jail Guard/Cell Phone/Drug Scandal Gets the New Yorker Treatment
After the relentless coverage of last year’s scandals at the Baltimore City Detention Center, I thought I’d read all I needed to on the topic. But an in-depth New Yorker article on all the drama? Yeah, I’ll read that. In a heartbeat. If you’ve followed the case, you’ll already know many of the juicy details–like […]
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SRB Proud of Grand Prix, Embarrassed by ‘The Wire’
The Grand Prix of Baltimore is cancelled definitely for the next two years and almost definitely for every year following. But in an Op-Ed piece for the Baltimore Sun, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake stands by her statement three years ago that the annual street race would be a “game changer” for the city. Rawlings-Blake characterizes the […]
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Animal Control Seizes 14 Arabber Horses
Over the past few months, Baltimore’s arabbers have been the subject of a number of feature articles on national websites.Writers and editors, it seems, love Baltimore’s horse-powered vegetable sellers.
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Sassanova’s 12 Days of Christmas, Day 11: Wire World Bracelets from A.V. Max
Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Christmas at Sassanova! Each day we’ll delight you with a piece of eye candy from the store as we lead up to Christmas. Check in each day for the latest special treat. On the eleventh day of Christmas, Sassanova celebrates the season’s hope, love and dreams with A.V. […]
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Variety Looks at Baltimore as Stand-In for DC
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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Pigtown Design: Talk Talk
I was asked by one of my old schools to give a talk in October. The school, Roland Park Country School, has a continuing education program called Kaleidoscope which has a wide range of courses. As part of the series, they usually do several talks about Baltimore. And as you may know, I think that Baltimore is […]
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Baltimore Design School is Up for an Architecture Award
Our local Baltimore Design School, is up for an Architizer.com A+ Design Award. Designed by Ziger/Snead Architects, and one of the most watched public school projects in Baltimore, the building has been lauded as an architectural marvel. Check out below the story about the renovation of the BDS in Fast Company by sometime Baltimore Fishbowl contributor Marianne […]
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Baltimore School for the Arts Gala this Weekend Brings Back Famous Alums
Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA) has plenty in store for their annual fundraiser, Expressions, this year themed “The Places You’ll Go” and chaired by BSA alums Antonio Hart and Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. The celebration will kick-off with the Expressions Gala on Saturday, March 1 at 6:30 p.m. and will feature performances and exhibits by BSA’s most talented students in art, music, […]
