We check out some of the newest chariots of fun with 10 cars, 10 drivers, and 10 neighborhoods.
Ask any veteran Realtor how to size up the demographics of a neighborhood, and he'll tell you to check out the cars parked outside the homes. Hey, sometimes cliches work. If you see a bunch of minivans, it's probably Soccerville. Old Volvos and Priuses: the haunts of liberal tree-huggers. Versas and Fits: affordable for gen-Ys, but make sure you sleep with earplugs.
Taking a lesson from our long-...
They're smart. They're successful. And they're taking over Baltimore.
Meet Baltimore's Future
"What's Howard County going to look like in 20 or 40 years?" muses Ken Ulman. Good question, Ken. As Howard County Executive, he's going to be playing an active role in determining that future. Ask the same question about the future of Baltimore City or Baltimore County, and look no further than the names on this list for your answers. Our selections for 40 Under 40 are...
We unveil Baltimore’s best salons and spas.
Though it may seem simple, choosing the best salons is hardly a cut-and-dried job.
These days, Maryland has almost 4,000 full-service salons (and that doesn’t even include the hundreds of barber shops and nail salons). These salons come in all shapes and sizes—from super centers with the square footage of several football fields (Robert Andrew in Gambrills at 22,000 square feet is the mid-...
A Look at the State of Real Estate--and the Info You Need on Great Neighborhoods and Towns!
The Boom Is Done. . . . Now What?
By Christianna McCausland
Well, it was fun while it lasted. After year upon year of rising values and sales numbers, the great real estate boom of the early 21st century is now officially over. And not only is the boom over—in a lot of areas of the country and the region, it’s turning into a full scale bust.
But here in the greater Baltimore area, everything...
A decade of losing hurts. We asked experts, fans, and other passionate observers how the Birds should get themselves out of this mess.
As Joe Angel, voice of the Orioles, might say, "Here are the not so lovely totals": Ten straight losing seasons, 25 years since our last World Series win, attendance down by 1.5 million over the past decade, and a 2007 season that featured a humiliating 30 to 3 home defeat to Texas on the same day that the Orioles signed interim manager Dave Trembley to a fulltime contract.
It hasn't been...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
To explain what is meant by “Baltimore Seals Its Borders,” we need to go back to the election season of 1948—by any measure, one tumultuous affair. With the nation transfixed by a Dewey-Truman presidential race so tight that some media outlets predicted the wrong winner, Marylanders also juggled a combustible array of controversial bond issues and referendum questions. Citizen interest in...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
Mention the much-ballyhooed renaissance of Baltimore's downtown, and what names come to mind? The guess here is that in most any roomful of random Baltimoreans, the two names most likely to pop up are those of politician William Donald Schaefer and developer James Rouse.
This is fair enough, as far as it goes. As Mayor in the 1970's, Schaefer pushed the Inner Harbor project forward with a...
What happens when physicians fall ill? Here are three local doctors who ended up on the other side of the examination table.
Thomas Smyth, M.D. habitually fiddles with his wedding ring. But one day this July, the 48-year-old urologist with Chesapeake Urology Associates, P.A. realized he couldn't get the ring off his finger. He also felt weaker and more tired than he should, and so he thought he might have injured a cervical disk; he scheduled an MRI for the next day. At home that night, his weakness and fatigue...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
In the midst of the red-brick canyons of UMBC's suburban Baltimore campus stands an elegant sculptural tableau consisting of three polished granite benches and a life-sized bronze statue, all arranged in a tight circle. The statue depicts Baltimore businessman/public servant extraordinaire Walter Sondheim Jr. wearing a suit, a bow tie, and a smile, while each of the benches has been...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
Just over a generation ago, tens of thousands of Baltimore workers were set for life (or so they thought) with well-paid unionized jobs and benefits at leviathan companies like Bethlehem Steel and General Motors.Yet by the 1980's, as industrial jobs and corporations withered, employment opportunities for many of the region's residents began to vanish, too.At its peak in 1959, Beth Steel...
