On my way to the Current Space to attend a Q&A for the unveiling of a new public art project initiated by Market Center CDC, I am lost. As I negotiate rush hour traffic in my old Reeboks, too stubborn to look up directions, I suddenly spot Takia Ross’s stunning “Concrete Beauty” mural on the […]
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The Maryland film industry honors Vince Peranio for his contributions to the business
Because of the coronavirus, Vince Peranio and his wife Dolores Deluxe, owners of The Palace on Dallas, never got to have a farewell party before they moved to Portugal last month. But before he left, Peranio was honored for his contributions to the Maryland film industry at a gala at the Lord Baltimore Hotel. Peranio […]
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Fell’s Point ‘Palace on Dallas’ hits market for the first time
Dolores Deluxe and Vincent Peranio are rescuers. She rescued stray animals. He rescued quirky objects and put them in John Waters movies. And the biggest thing they rescued together is the “Palace on Dallas,” a series of Fells Point alley houses that they’ve combined, renovated, decorated and entertained in over the past four decades.
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Q&A with Stephen and Alexa Kinigopoulos, local sibling filmmaking team behind the thriller/drama “Fishbowl”
In the town of Bishop, people either talk or get talked about. After the mysterious disappearance of their mother, the Simon sisters — Belle, Rachel and Jessa (Belle Shickle, Emily Peachey and Caroline Coleman) — and their father, Rick (Rick Kain), find themselves ostracized at school, at church and in the county that has been […]
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Holiday magic in Baltimore 1963 (A Christmas tale in fiction)
He called himself “Pickle the Prodigious,” a magician of middle-age, middling talent and, for the past week, while others wrapped presents and hung lights, sick with resentment.
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Baltimore is one of four cities in USPS postal banking pilot program
The United States Postal Service has begun offering financial services in four cities, including Baltimore, in the first step towards a potential return to a postal banking system.
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Sonja Sohn arrested in Outer Banks on drug charges
Actress Sonja Sohn, best known locally as Det. Kima Greggs on “The Wire” and for her more recent HBO documentary “Baltimore Rising,” was arrested over the weekend on drug charges in the Outer Banks.
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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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Literary News of 2021: Charm City Edition
Okay, this is sad. The literary news site LitHub has been counting down the “Fifty Biggest Literary Stories of the Year.” They have made it from 50 to 31, and Baltimore has not been mentioned even once. It may not have been the biggest and most exciting year in local literary history, but there are […]
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Urban Landscape: A plan to bring back ‘Big Pink’; John Waters Restrooms get a national nod; Madison Park North groundbreaking; Cheryl Casciani retires; Bolton Hill’s ‘dragon stairwell’ house sells
Hampden is a little more ordinary this month after the giant pink Flamingosaurus disappeared from in front of the former Café Hon restaurant on West 36th Street. Artist Randall Gornowich said he and several others took down the last section of the 30-foot sculpture — its torso – around 6 a.m. on July 30. He […]
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Q&A with Baltimore’s Laura Lippman About Her New Short Story Collection
Baltimore’s Laura Lippman is renowned for best-selling crime novels and for her iconic heroine PI Tess Monaghan. A journalist with The Sun for over a decade, she has written for a slew of publications including The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and […]
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Q&A with Laura Bogart, Goucher grad and local author of ‘Don’t You Know I Love You’
“The best thing that ever happened to my writing life was breaking my ankle,” Baltimore author Laura Bogart proclaimed in 2015. At the time of the accident, Bogart, now 37, was writing mainly nonfiction, and she’d already met with success as an essayist. Her personal reflections on a range of hot-button topics—sizeism and feminism, politics […]
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Local artists selected for Lexington Market
Three teams of local artists have been selected to create major works of public art, including two outdoor sculptures and one two-dimensional work, for the $40 million renovation of Lexington Market scheduled to open in mid-2022.
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Come What May
Every year, once a year, it happens. Outside my window, the birds begin to sing the blue light’s rise into yellow. The flowers begin to open themselves up like hugs. And the rain comes down in beautiful blankets covering all of us in life’s most critical resource: water. May makes everything feel different; even more: […]
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Q&A with local writer Ron Tanner, author of Far West
Ron Tanner’s fifth book, a story collection titled Far West, was awarded the Elixir Press 2020 Fiction Prize. Covid-related monkey wrenches delayed its publication until earlier this month, but supply chain issues have not constrained its ability to find readers and pitch them headfirst into amazing fictional worlds west of the Rockies: Reno, Spokane, Baja […]
