The latest social-media tool du jour is Instagram, a photo-sharing app that allows users to edit pictures with various style “filters.” Here are a few local favorites.
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Josh Flynn This local photographer offers a dazzlingly unique perspective on Baltimore streetscapes, musical acts, and his roving dog Bailey.
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Amy LangrehrAs a food blogger and creator of Charm City Cook Salted Caramel Brownies, Langrehr documents all things food——from her backyard chickens to gourmet meals.
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Soccer Without Borders helps refugee boys adapt to life in Baltimore.
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Just a minute or so remained in the contest when Yoppe Kalasa intercepted a pass at midfield. His under-16 team, made up entirely of refugees new to Baltimore playing their first-ever Central Maryland Soccer Association match, hadn’t scored a goal all game. In fact, they trailed 6-0 in the waning moments at Perry Hall’s Honeygo Park...
Three years after the death of Yeardley Love, her family works tirelessly to honor her memory.
With wooden bird feeders swinging from the trees and a pair of well-worn Adirondack chairs perfectly positioned on her front lawn, Sharon Love’s Cockeysville home is a beacon of pastoral quietude. And yet, this peaceful place is the very same spot where her life was shattered early in the morning of May 3, 2010, when Baltimore County Police parked their patrol cars in the circular driveway,...
Jockey with local ties could shine in this year's Triple Crown.
Now that Orb has won the Kentucky Derby, hopes are high that his hooves will grace the Pimlico track on Preakness Day, too. But many eyes will also be watching a two-legged star with a local tie, jockey Rosie Napravnik.
Pimlico is Napravnik’s old stomping ground where she first cut her teeth as a teenager working with local trainers like Dickie Smalls, and much hay has been made over her stellar...
A vibrant 5K race comes to Baltimore this month.
At first it may sound like a crazy fever dream: a 5K event where runners get doused with colored powder as they go along the course. But it’s real and extremely popular. In its first year, The Color Run became the largest 5K event series in the nation, with 600,000 finishers in 2012. And this month, May 11, the rainbow race comes to Baltimore. “It really took off like wildfire,” says Amanda...
Firsthand accounts of what's happening in Baltimore.
Hoop Dreams
March 2, 2013, Osler Drive, TowsonAfter 16 games on a half-dozen different pinball machines—including a wooden-rail, Art Deco beauty from 1958—the National Pinball Museum’s “old” pinball machine tournament comes down to the final ball of the last game. Greg Giblin, a 56-year-old Baltimore plumber, jostling the machine for good caroms, and Mike McGann, 37, a Zen-like, software...
Mother’s Day is May 12, and plenty of restaurants around town are planning special brunches in honor of Mom. Here are some of the places we like best for celebrating the day.
1. B&O American Brasserie: The restaurant will be hosting a bountiful brunch that includes citrus-and-coriander-cured gravlax, pepper-and-thyme roasted prime rib, buttermilk biscuits and chorizo gravy, and a dessert display with house-made pastries, cakes, and pies. Price: $30 per person; $12 for children 12 and under. Bottomless mimosas and bloody Marys are available for an additional $10...
For the storied Janney family of Butler, a horse named Orb is just the latest steed to jockey for a berth in racing history.
Sure, 64-year-old Stuart Janney III of Butler is the chairman of a successful Manhattan-based wealth-management firm. And he’s from one of Maryland horse racing’s most important families. But he’s not the boastful type. Nor is he prone to overstatement. Yet, talking to him, you get the sense that he really thinks his partnership’s 3-year-old colt, Orb, could win the Kentucky Derby on the first...
How a family of six keeps happy and busy while living in Canton.
I am a city dweller. I am a mama. I live in a row house. I have four wee ones. I have a minivan. I have no backyard. I have a double stroller. My brood (Milo, 6, Willa, 4, twins Zeke and Gideon, 2) has spent all their years, thus far, as city kids, under the glow of a winking Natty Boh. It’s not perfect, but neither is suburbia. Here’s how we’ve (happily) lived almost a decade in the city,...
Why Dark Side of the Moon? Why Baltimore? Why now?
Why Dark Side? It’s an album that still speaks to people and still feels emotionally relevant across the decades. For me as an improvising musician and arranger, it began haunting me in 2009, daring me to mess around with it, to reframe the songs in a way that simultaneously reconstructed and honored them. When I proposed the idea to ellen [cherry], she saw immediately how flexible and...
