(Left to right) Will Mester at The Wren pub; Conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall; Mayor Brandon Scott announces details about Artscape 2025.
(Left to right) Will Mester at The Wren pub; Conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall; Mayor Brandon Scott announces details about Artscape 2025.

Last week, we shared news about Baltimore’s Artscape festival, conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall’s upcoming visit to Baltimore, and allies of President Donald Trump smearing Baltimore-based Global Refuge and other humanitarian aid organizations.

Revisit the stories here:

A rendering depicts the footprint for Artscape 2025, which is shifting from midtown to downtown Baltimore. Credit: Raunjiba Designs.
A rendering depicts the footprint for Artscape 2025, which is shifting from midtown to downtown Baltimore. Credit: Raunjiba Designs.

“Baltimore’s Artscape festival is moving from midtown to downtown for 2025, with Fantasia Barrino and Robin Thicke as the headliners“: Baltimore’s Artscape festival is moving from midtown to downtown for 2025, with Fantasia Barrino and Robin Thicke as the headliners.

Dr. Jane Goodall, who nearly 50 years ago observed that chimpanzees make and use tools, will speak at Lyric Baltimore on March 23. Courtesy photo.

“Jane Goodall, conservationist known for chimpanzee studies, to speak in Baltimore“: Dr. Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most preeminent primatologists, will visit Baltimore next month to reflect on her decades-long career of observing chimpanzees and advocating for conservation.

Global Refuge, formerly Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, has its headquarters in the Lutheran Center near Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
Global Refuge, formerly Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, has its headquarters in the Lutheran Center near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

“Dan Rodricks: Trump allies smear Baltimore-based Global Refuge’s history of humanitarian work“: Allies of President Donald Trump, including Mike Flynn and Elon Musk, have publicly smeared Baltimore-based Global Refuge and other humanitarian aid organizations.

Man behind a tap pouring a beer, wearing a blue shirt and dark vest
The Wren’s Will Mester behind the bar. Photo by Gabriel Valladares.

“Comptoir du Vin owners spread wings to open The Wren, a new pub in Fells Point“: A new Fells Point pub called The Wren will operate in the space occupied for four decades by Birds of a Feather.

The Harborplace pavilions. Photo by Ed Gunts.
The Harborplace pavilions. Photo by Ed Gunts.

“Liquor board gives Harborplace developer ‘hardship extension’ to find a replacement for Hooters; grants licenses for Checkerspot Brewing, Hampden Yards and 3900 Roland Avenue“: Baltimore’s liquor board on Thursday gave the owner of Harborplace extra time to find a replacement for Hooters, a chain sports bar and restaurant that abruptly vacated a space on the second floor of the Light Street pavilion last June.