Martin O'Malley is on the short list of Democratic presidential contenders. Can he win?
Another body cannot possibly squeeze into the packed house at James Joyce’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, an early anchor in Harbor East when it served its first Guinness pint and plate of corned beef and cabbage a decade ago. Leading the pub’s 10th anniversary party on stage this November night, in his familiar-to-Baltimoreans tight black T-shirt, Gov. Martin O’Malley strums his guitar and...
Each year, we notice that Baltimore’s restaurant wine lists get more interesting and progressive as a genuine enthusiasm for good juice increases. Here are three delicious finds we sampled while working on this month’s “Best Restaurants” issue.
How Loyola’s lacrosse team surprised everyone by winning the national championship.
On the final day of 2011’s fall practice for Loyola University Maryland’s men’s lacrosse team, the players figured the coaches might go easy on them. It was a chilly Friday in November, right before break, and Inside Lacrosse’s pre-season polls had just come out. Loyola—consistently ranked in the Top 10—was slotted at a measly number 21. “I thought it was maybe going to be an easier practice,”...
The young homeowner’s guide to a cool, colorful garden.
Younger homeowners, especially, often ask how they can create a small, colorful garden of low-maintenance shrubs, flowering trees, and healthy shade grass without a lot of knowledge—or money. And the answer is, it’s pretty easy and doesn’t cost that much.
Among some of the hardiest flowering trees are weeping cherries, which create a great focal point in a small garden in either the back or front...
Firsthand Accounts of What's Happening in Baltimore.
Baltimore vs. Brooklyn
January 5, 2013, West North Avenue
“I have been here once or twice and, for some reason, I like Baltimore,” deadpans Matthew Zingg as he steps on stage at The Windup Space. “It sort of has a small, nondescript place in my heart.”
Outside, artfully disheveled twenty- and thirtysomethings, mostly in knit caps, plaid shirts, jeans, and eyeglasses, stand near bicycle racks...
Baltimore County’s cold case unit hasn’t forgotten the victims and families of unsolved crimes.
Sandy Bauer’s fingers tremble, the light bouncing off her red nail polish as she clenches her hands together. Her eyes well with more than two decades of grief, frustration, and longing as she recalls the worst day of her life. It’s not often that she talks about her younger sister, but when she does, the emotion and the loss jar her as if it were still 1989. That year someone savagely murdered...
100 years after her death, Harriet Tubman continues to inspire artists.
Harriet Tubman left Dorchester County without a trace, covertly returning again and again to shepherd away slaves, so maybe it’s appropriate that such an underground legend still casts something of a fleeting image in her native region. There are, in fact, no elaborate memorials to Tubman in Dorchester, just a storefront museum in downtown Cambridge, a mural off Route 50 near the Food Lion, and a...
Goldberg Variations
Can you say a little about the eureka moment when you realized Swagger and the Kennedy assassination were a great match? I was sitting exactly where I'm sitting now, but I was drinking something far more powerful than the tepid coffee I presently have before me. I was riffing with my pal Gary Goldberg and performing some solos bits that I had developed over the years concerning the JFK...
Our full interview with Jason Winer: Producer/director of Modern Family and co-creator of 1600 Penn
Where did grow up exactly?I grew up in Pikesville, specifically Stevenson, but I went to high school at Friends School of Baltimore
I know Julie Bowen went to RPCS. Do you ever compare notes on the set of Modern Family? We do! Occasionally, we’ll lapse into Baltimore accents to make each other laugh.
Your parents still live in Baltimore. How often do you visit?Probably twice a year. Always...
The 25 Best Places To Work In Baltimore.
People, you need to face the ugly truth: You haven’t won the lottery yet and, silly you, didn’t marry a Rockefeller, so you’re doomed to, you know, work for a living. But now that we’ve grasped that painful reality, why not work someplace where you really enjoy what you’re doing?
Our mission: Find out where those work places are. This year, though, we approached our task a little differently. In...
