If Best Places to Work entries are an economic indicator, things are looking up, Baltimore.
Calvert School
Baltimore Employees: 112 What they do: Private, coed education for grades pre-K through eight. Why we like them: They understand that education isn’t just for students, but for faculty, staff, and their families, too. Best benefits: Calvert pays 100 percent of heath and dental for employees (90 percent for dependents); access to Kiddie Calvert on-site day care; tuition...
It's a new year, so our thoughts are naturally turning to the future. And despite the economic downturn felt here and elsewhere, things are looking pretty bright in Charm City.
It's a new year, so our thoughts are naturally turning to the future. And despite the economic downturn felt here and elsewhere, things are looking pretty bright in Charm City. The thing we're most excited about? The infusion of fresh ideas, both from newcomers and mainstays alike—everyone, it seems, has a stake in the future of Baltimore. What are the best and boldest of those ideas? We went in...
Weather was weird. Cars went fast. We lost some people we loved. A look back on the year that was. . . .
Number One: Baltimore Bids Farewell To Its Forever Mayor
Who would have expected greatness from a small-time real-estate lawyer who lived most of his adult life with his elderly mother in a humble row house? Despite all that, William Donald Schaefer, who died April 18 at 89, rose from freshman city councilman to a political ringmaster for nearly 30 years, first as City Council president, then as...
Baltimoreans reflect on the day that changed America, 10 years ago this month.
Parris Glendening
Governor of Maryland on September 11, 2001
When you run for office you think about all the things that can happen. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined the circumstances that we had on September 11. You could imagine and think through how you would handle other tragedies that are serious—tornado, flood, blizzard, stuff like that—but to have that attack happen during...
The Grand Prix comes roaring into the Inner Harbor next month. But when the exhaust clears, will the headaches have been worth it?
Seconds before the green flag drops on the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix, one of the most famous female athletes on earth will steer her bright-lime-and-black race car onto Pratt Street, then hit the gas.
As Danica Patrick crosses the start line, she'll flatten her size-seven right foot onto the pedal, propelling her No. 7 GoDaddy.com Indy car to speeds most of us only fantasize about while in...
125 years after the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened, the egalitarian mission of its founder remains.
In 1831, 22-year-old Enoch Pratt, a former Boston hardware store clerk, moved to Baltimore, launching a wholesale hardware business at 29 S. Charles Street. Proving a successful merchant, he expanded his business interests to iron and coal, as well as horseshoe and nail manufacturing. A decade and a half later, Pratt built a family home at Monument Street and Park Avenue, walking to work and to...
101 things you should do from May through September.
Summer in Baltimore appears like a revelation. After a long cold winter with seemingly endless snow, we are suddenly beset with sunshine, flowers, orioles, and Orioles! It's almost too much to bear. Don't worry—we're here to help. This month-by-month guide takes you through what we consider to be the area's most crucial events of the season, from Preakness to the state fair, and reacquaints you...
We found 188 dentists who will work hard for your healthy smile.
If you're looking for a dentist, or maybe just looking for a different dentist, we've done the homework for you.
We surveyed 2,500 DDSes in Baltimore and the five surrounding counties over the course of three months to find out whom they would send a member of their family to. Then, we broke the results down into geographic areas because, you know, nobody's going to drive an hour for a cavity....
The Maryland Historical Society’s documents, weapons, and personal items offer a glimpse of the Civil War the way Marylanders lived it.
Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Shiloh . . . on and on go the names of unforgettable Civil War battles. The seemingly endless list of destruction that spanned 1861 to 1865 left 600,000 men dead and a landscape forever scarred by the blood of brother against brother. In Maryland, a border state, the tale of division and disunion was writ large. One contemporary described Maryland during the Civil...
Our mission: Find out who would go to a museum of dentistry—and why.
If you have a serious phobia about that guy with the drill, you might want to sidestep the Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry.
Located in the University of Maryland Medical Center complex on the hallowed grounds of the world's first dental school (founded in 1840), its 40,000 objects tell a history rich with painful trial and error.
There's the 13th-century English stained-glass...
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