Expanded gambling is coming to Maryland, including live blackjack, poker, and roulette, and soon, a Las Vegas-style casino will open in South Baltimore. So, who wins?
Huge empty swaths of gray pavement in the vast parking lot don’t bode well for Perryville’s Hollywood Casino on a warm November Saturday night. Inside the VIP valet parking area, for example, sit exactly 14 cars. Past the front doors and the flashing lights, bells, and whistles, three-quarters of the plush, deep-cushioned chairs at Hollywood’s slot machines are empty as well.
In the casino’s...
Saying Goodbye To The Notable Baltimoreans We Lost Last Year.
Judy Agnew, 91. Met her future husband, Spiro——later, Baltimore County executive, Maryland governor, and vice president of the U.S.——while working locally as an $11-per-week insurance company clerk. She maintained a decidedly below-the-radar public persona, focusing instead on her family.
Gregory Barnhill, 59. Successful Brown Advisory investment banker invested equally in the community, devoting...
1. Orioles Magic Returns
So this is what it feels like. It had been so long since there’d been winning baseball in this town, we’d almost forgotten what it was like. When Camden Yards was packed––with a sea of orange, not Yankees pinstripes or Red Sox red and blue. When people in line at the grocery store were all talking about the O’s, not the latest Hollywood gossip. When baseball was fun. It...
Firsthand Accounts of What's Happening in Baltimore.
A Dream Un-deferred
East Fayette Street, August 16, 2012
“He vivido en Estados Unidos de América salir por mas de seis meses des del el 15 de junio de 2007?,” (Have you lived in the U.S. since 2007 without leaving for more than six months?) Gustavo Andrade, megaphone in hand, asks several hundred Latino students and young adults outside East Baltimore’s CASA de Maryland.
Andrade then asks those...
The Insider's Guide To Local Schools
Sure, the current job market remains frustrating for many recent college graduates, but the long-term benefits of earning a college degree are clear: Over the course of a lifetime, college graduates can expect to earn almost twice as much as those with high-school diplomas. And in today’s increasingly digitized, engineered, and information-based global economy, the importance of a college degree—...
Why We Love To Hate The Steelers
Eight seconds and a tiny sliver of pigskin.
That’s all that separated Torrey Smith from infamy.
He’d just let a sure touchdown pass dance off his fingertips, and Ravens fans in bars and living rooms everywhere could taste another soul-crushing defeat to the Steelers in their Natty Bohs.
But Smith never wavered. His team trailed by four when, on its final snap, he streaked down the right side of...
More than 300 years after its founding, business at the Port of Baltimore is booming.
Mark Schmidt, who keeps a pair of binoculars on his file cabinet, jokes that he has “the best view of the harbor in the city.” On a recent afternoon, his sunny water’s-edge office offers the perfect vantage point. But the 22-year Port of Baltimore veteran isn’t admiring tall ships or checking for pretty girls aboard the water taxis. As manager of the Seagirt Marine Terminal, he’s focused on seven...
<p>As Michael Phelps embarks on his final Olympic lap, we chronicle his training leading up to London, his life in Baltimore, and his future outside of the pool.</p>
One-hundred-and-five days before the beginning of the end, Michael Phelps appears as relaxed as a man whose every move is being recorded by cameras and curious eyes can be.
Wearing a three-piece black suit with a purple tie that fits the venue, the tallest, richest, and most famous guy in the club level of M&T Bank Stadium fetches his mother, Debbie, a glass of white wine from the bar, and...
<p>Baltimore City College’s first class with women celebrates a 30th reunion.</p>
Anita Allen was about five years old when her big brother, Alton, a student at Baltimore City College, came home in his marching-band uniform.
“I remember him wearing that big top hat and playing the saxophone, and I thought that was just so cool,” she says. A few years later, when Alton became the first of Allen’s 15 siblings to graduate from college, she thought, “I need to go to that high...
For 35 years, House of Ruth has been giving voice and hope to victims of domestic violence.
Sitting in an office at House of Ruth Maryland, Christina Laumann takes a deep breath as she begins her story. It’s the one that started in 1993 when she was 14 and first fell in love with a 16-year-old boy she knew from the neighborhood, and ended in 2008 with an emergency divorce after a middle-of-the-night assault that still haunts her.
“It seemed like he wanted to give me the world, and I...
