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...
How the Pratt Street Riot determined the course of the war.
On the morning of April 19, 1861, the 6th Massachusetts Infantry arrived at Baltimore's President Street Station on its way to defend the nation's capitol in Washington City. Seven days earlier, South Carolina forces had fired on Fort Sumter, moving President Lincoln to call for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the rebellion. The soldiers aboard the train, which had left Boston two days earlier,...
The inside scoop on 10 great Baltimore 'hoods
Baltimore has always been a city of neighborhoods, every one a universe unto itself. Each section of our city has its own history, culture, and personality—an identity that can only be truly understood after years or generations of experience. For this story, we combined our own expertise with that of dozens of residents to create insiders' guides to some of our greatest neighborhoods. So dog-ear...
<p>Don’t believe everything you read—there are dozens of great places to work that are hiring.</p>
If you believe the experts, the economy is returning to health in almost every way. The ways that it’s still anemic? Well, housing would be one of them. And, unfortunately, jobs is the other.
So plenty of people are still thankful to be holding onto any job, much less a great one. But, believe it or not, good companies are hiring out there, and we went looking for them.
Whatever your reason for...
Can Gregg Bernstein make Baltimore safer?
It was a blazing Saturday morning in July when Gregg Bernstein, a 55-year-old, Jewish defense attorney, began knocking on doors in the predominantly black neighborhood where Memorial Stadium once stood. After a while, the just-declared, unknown candidate for City State's Attorney—Baltimore's top prosecutor—sent his wilting volunteers home and pressed on alone.
"I'm a bit of a workaholic,"...
Who has it. Who's lost it. And how to get it.
Delegate Keiffer Mitchell Jr. is at a cafe, being interviewed for this story, when his cell phone rings. "Hang on a sec, I've got to take this," he says. He leans away and answers the phone. He's discussing the Baltimore Grand Prix —the upcoming Indy car race that Mitchell was a key player in bringing to Baltimore. All of downtown will be affected by the race, and whomever Mitchell is talking to...
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...
