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...
After Maryland’s highest court finds pit bulls “inherently dangerous,” the breed’s supporters take their fight to the General Assembly.
Still carrying his Nerf dart gun, 10-year-old Dominic Solesky ran outside and down the alley behind his family’s East Towson row home after hearing his friend, Scotty Mason, screaming.
“We’d played baseball earlier in the day, and we were playing tag,” Dominic recalls five years later. “Two of our other friends met me at the gate on the side of the alley and said they saw him get attacked. I ran...
A local meteorologist creates an app with his son.
It was last January, Friday the 13th no less, when meteorologist Justin Berk was let go from WMAR-TV. Though he was initially upset, it gave him an opportunity to start focusing on a new passion for developing apps. But he was surprised when his son Brendan, now 7, wanted to get involved. “I had about five apps I wanted to develop,” Berk says. “While I read them off, Brendan said, ‘I have an idea...
The new Baltimore County Public Schools superintendent isn’t satisfied with the status quo.
When S. Dallas Dance was hired as the Baltimore County schools chief, the conversation among parents, educators, and staff revolved around his age and his experience—or more accurately, his lack thereof. In fact, he was one year shy of the three years of teaching experience that Maryland requires of its superintendents and the Baltimore County Public Schools’ school board needed a waiver from the...
Getting personal with the top 20 bachelors and bachelorettes in Baltimore.
There’s only so much a first date, online dating profile, or Facebook page can tell you about potential suitors. Maybe what they do, where they went to school, some of their favorite bands, perhaps an inspirational quote or two. But we wanted to delve a little deeper—to see what makes the 20 top singles in Baltimore tick. We reveal their hidden talents, quirky collections, dream jobs, and traits...
