After 50 years, The Center Club celebrates its diversity.
Marc Broady, a young, dapper employee of the city school system, visited The Center Club for the first time in 2008 to support a friend participating in a Baltimore magazine “Top Singles” event. He was so impressed by the upscale club that he decided to join. He liked the idea of belonging to a private bar and restaurant, and the many opportunities to network with influential club members. As...
How The Park School made Baltimore history, 100 years ago this month.
It’s Friday morning rush hour at The Park School of Baltimore, as sunlight—and students—stream into the lower-school lobby. With the school day about to begin, the mood is something akin to “rope drop” (or opening hour) at Disney World, as an eager crowd of students waits for the clock to strike 8:10 a.m., the time they are first allowed down the hallway into their classrooms. To bide time, two...
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—...
Firsthand Accounts Of What's Happening in Baltimore
JULY 14, 2012NO. 22, BRONZED: EUTAW & CAMDEN STS.
The picnic area by the Camden Yards bullpen is fancier than ever: waiters in bowties, drinks on silver trays. It’s obvious today is special. The audience resembles an Orioles Who’s Who—Brooks Robinson, Eddie Murray, Cal Ripken Jr., Rick Dempsey, Earl Weaver. As the legends take their seats, the current roster files in. (Buck Showalter and Adam...
One local teenager’s ripple effect makes waves in other young people’s futures in Rwanda.
Emily Golden is a beautiful teenager from Timonium. She is tall and leggy, with long hair the color of thick honey, eyes flecked with the green and brown of autumn grasses, a quick smile, and she sings like an angel. She’s beginning her senior year at G.W. Carver Center for Arts and Technology, a magnet high school in Towson, where she studies vocal performance. ¶ But even with all of her...
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...
We speak with Kevin Young, co-editor, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010.
Editing the work, what surprised you about it? What did you take away from the experience?Seeing Lucille Clifton’s work all together, I was amazed at the sheer breadth of it—both in terms how much work she made, but also the ways in which it all adds up to something greater. I knew this instinctively, but it’s another thing to read so much Clifton: it has the weight of what I call in my afterword...
Tatyana McFadden, Howard County resident and Paralympic track star.
Can you tell me about your childhood and adoption?
I was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with spina bifida in 1989. At that time in Russia, people just didn’t believe that people with disabilities should be acknowledged. I lived for my first six years in an orphanage. My mom worked as a government commissioner for disabilities, and she happened to stop by my orphanage, and we just made a...
Chefs and farmers forge bonds to bring fresh, local products to your table.
Order a steak and a salad at a Baltimore-area restaurant these days, and chances are the greens and beef were raised nearby—probably the goat’s cheese, tomatoes, and green beans, too—as more and more restaurants embrace the popular locavore trend. In fact, it seems you can’t read a menu these days without learning the pedigree of your food. Woodberry Kitchen goes so far as to include the farm...
Welcome to the inaugural column of Talking Points, in which we take a man-on-the-street approach and ask people a simple question every issue. This month, in light of the record-breaking temperatures this summer, we wanted to know how everybody is keeping cool.
Rob Fetner, 24, store manager, South Moon Under: I wait until the sun goes down so I can go out to the bars, like Souris Saloon in Towson...
