14 slices of local nightlife, from clubs to galleries and everything in between.
Not every night owl is created equal.
And we understand that. Some want to nurse a $12 cocktail over stimulating conversation, while others prefer to dance under neon lights to whatever the DJ is spinning. Some like watching the big game on a Monday night, while others might want to catch a gallery opening. Some are wine snobs, others are music snobs. And, deep down, we always have room for the...
From Snowmageddon to slots, we look back on the biggest stories of the year that was. . . .
Number 1: Mother Nature Shows Who's Boss What was your favorite nickname for the pair of crippling blizzards that touched down in Baltimore in early February? Were you a snowmageddon fan? Or did you prefer snowpocalypse? No matter what you called them, the two blizzards—which came within three days of each other and combined to drop a record-breaking 50 inches of snow on the Greater Baltimore...
A look at life and death in the world’s most advanced emergency room.
Allie Gold remembers being in the golf cart. She doesn’t recall falling out. Having completed her sophomore exams at the Maret School in Washington, D.C., the 16-year-old spent Memorial Day weekend with a girlfriend’s family on Gibson Island. The girls weren’t drinking, weren’t horsing around. It was the middle of a lovely day and Allie just fell out somehow.
An emergency room physician, by...
Inside Baltimore’s booming health-care tourism industry.
In 2004, Kuwaiti businessman Adel Alzankawi received word that his wife had a malignant tumor. Concerned that local doctors would not be able to remove the growth and save her life, he went to the Internet.
“I typed in ‘best hospital in the world,’” he recalls. “It came back ‘Johns Hopkins.’”
Months later, Alzankawi and his wife traveled to Baltimore to have her tumor removed. Six years later,...
Here’s a short list of peer-recommended physicians in or near the Ocean City and Rehoboth areas. Survey sampling was smaller than the Baltimore-area survey, and some specialties were omitted if results were inconclusive.
MethodologyWe followed the same methodology and collected the results of this Eastern Shore survey concurrent with our main Top Doctors list. For full information on the survey...
Baltimore sizzles with prime-time restaurants devoted to beef.
No matter what the economy, we still like to have our steak and eat it, too. Maybe we’re channeling our inner Mad Men and need to indulge, or maybe there’s just nothing like a hunk of beef to soothe the belly. While most steakhouses adhere to a formulaic décor—you know, dark wood, leather booths, dim lighting—they carve out their own personalities with preparation, presentation, and service...
From bone-crushing sacks to game-winning TDs, what it feels like to be a Raven.
Football. Passion for it runs through our veins. Yet, when we peel ourselves off the couch Sunday night after 10 hours of worshipping at our flat-screen altars, few of us (hopefully) have actual blood on our jerseys.
For the Ravens—players, coaches, announcers, and owners—Sunday is a workday, one that involves painful hits, heartburn-inducing decisions, and, occasionally, gut-wrenching outcomes....
The right high school for every kind of student.
Once was, choosing where you went to high school was as simple as finding the closest one. But families have more choices today than ever before. In recent years, local public school systems seem to have recognized that not every school works for every student, and have introduced a wide range of charter and magnet schools, emphasizing everything from technology to the arts. At the same time, the...
Some of the best rock bands of the 1970s recorded at Blue Seas Recording Studios, until it sank, under mysterious circumstances, into the harbor.
It’s not every day you see a guitar floating in the Inner Harbor.
But on Christmas Day 1977, a Martin D-28 guitar drifted past Pier 4, along with reels of audiotape, microphones, speaker monitors, a recording console, and a 1906 Steinway grand piano.
As the items scattered, an old barge lay almost fully submerged near its moorings at the pier, not far from where the Hard Rock Cafe stands today....
We've found 23 great spots to satisfy your cravings.
Sometimes, you just have to get down and dirty. And when it comes to our beloved steamed crabs, we wouldn't have it any other way. For months, we've been picking and clawing our way through local crabhouses searching for the best. The blues, in many cases, came from other waters, but it didn't really matter. As we found out, it's really the steaming and seasoning that makes the hard shells...
