This weekend offers multiple opportunities to celebrate your culture or learn about a different one, including festivals honoring Caribbean, German and Latin American cultures. Plus, enjoy summer fun with watermelons, bubbles and more. Check out the events lineup and make some weekend plans:
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Closing Sunday, the ‘John Waters: Pope of Trash’ museum exhibit paid tribute to the filmmaker and his hometown, Baltimore
“John Waters: Pope of Trash,” an exhibit dedicated to the Baltimore filmmaker, will close Sunday at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
Posted inHot Plate
The Year in Food: Baltimore’s Biggest Bites of 2022
Though 2022 started slowly in Baltimore’s culinary world, by midyear, the local restaurant scene had returned to pre-COVID levels of energy and excitement.
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Tuesday Afternoon Headlines: NTSB finds loose wire on Dali led to ship’s collision with Key Bridge; Library CEO faces backlash after librarian firings and rehiring; Maryland GOP declines invitation to secede counties to West Virginia; and more.
Loose wire on ship led to Baltimore Key Bridge collision and collapse, per NTSB — WJZ Baltimore County library CEO faces backlash after abrupt librarian layoffs and rehiring — The Baltimore Banner Maryland GOP leaders reject secession suggestion: ‘We’re not giving up a single county’ to West Virginia — The Baltimore Sun Maryland board moves […]
Posted inOn a Marble Stair
Home on the Page
Skip the hook. The intro. The topic sentence. Skip the subject. The thesis. Skip all supporting evidence. Enter only, conflict: I don’t want to be a writer anymore. In July, when I first felt this, I could almost literally feel the wall going up. Less a metaphor for writer’s block; more a metaphor of writer’s […]
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Maryland Center for History and Culture to host “The Wire” creator David Simon for virtual conversation about dialogue on Oct. 22
The Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC) will host former Baltimore Sun journalist and “The Wire” creator David Simon for a virtual conversation about dialogue on Oct. 22.
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Dali owners suing ship manufacturer for Baltimore’s Key Bridge crash
The owners of the Dali, the ship that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March 2024, are suing the builders of the vessel for defective design. In a case filed on July 31, Grace Ocean Private alleges that Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) “defectively designed the switchboard in such a manner that wiring connections were […]
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Thursday Morning Headlines: The motivations of Md.’s bear hunters; Deadly I-83 crash; A look at the Baltimore ballot questions; and more.
The motivations behind Maryalnd’s bear hunters – The Sun A look at the questions on the Baltimore City ballot – WYPR News No bail for John Callis, man charged with assaulting Commanders fans – WBAL-TV Two dead, four injured after crash on I-83 – WMAR-TV Dead rodents and gnawed wires at Baltimore parks and rec […]
Posted inHealth and Science
Almost 6,000 Dead in 6 Years: How Baltimore Became the U.S. Overdose Capital
In the past 6 years, nearly 6,000 people have died from overdoses in Baltimore, a rate never before seen in a major American city. The city’s initial response was hailed as a national model, but as other crises unfolded, some efforts to fight overdoses stalled, an examination by The New York Times and The Baltimore Banner has found.
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Thursday Afternoon Headlines: City worker who died on job didn’t receive extreme heat training; Amazon Fresh grocery store to open first Baltimore-area location; Rodents and exposed wires found at Rec and Parks facility; and more.
DPW employee who died on the job received no training for extreme heat, report finds — The Baltimore Sun Amazon Fresh grocery store coming to Glen Burnie — WMAR Rodent infestation, exposed wires and more at a Baltimore Recreation and Parks facility — Baltimore Brew Excessive speed, unsafe lane changing caused deadly I-695 work zone […]
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Big Fish: Max Weiss, Editor-in-Chief of Baltimore Magazine, Tells Almost All
While Max Weiss was an undergrad at Bennington College in Vermont, studying music and literature, her parents moved from Long Island to Timonium. So after she graduated, she came home to a new hometown — Baltimore. It immediately felt right to her in a way Long Island never had. And as warmly as she embraced […]
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Baltimore City warns against scammers targeting planning applicants
Baltimore City is warning against scammers who are impersonating Planning Commission officials to extort money from planning applicants and disrupt city processes.
Posted inEnvironment
‘OOPS Tag’– Do it again! DPW launches effort to improve residential recycling habits
Baltimore City’s OOPS Tag Recycling Initiative aims to reduce contamination of truckloads of recycling materials.
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‘The Wire’ actor Idris Elba tests positive for COVID-19
English actor Idris Elba, best known in Baltimore for his role as Russell “Stringer” Bell on David Simon’s HBO television series “The Wire,” has tested positive for the new coronavirus. Elba announced the test results Monday afternoon in a video he posted to Twitter.
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From squeegee workers’ kindness to run-ins with John Waters, residents share their ‘most Baltimore’ stories
After Mariya Strauss asked Baltimoreans on Twitter “What is the most Baltimore thing that’s ever happened to you?” the stories poured in. Responses ranged from accounts of neighbors helping each other out in a bind, to tales that embody Baltimore in all of its wonderful oddness. Here’s a selection of some of those responses from […]
