As gadgets invade every aspect of our home lives, the concept of together time takes on a whole new meaning.
Something out of the ordinary—and truly remarkable—happened to Sarah Schweizer a few months ago.
The Monkton architect had a meaningful conversation with her 16-year-old son Whit. Better yet, he initiated the chat about how best to map his high school and college goals. It was the kind of conversation mothers crave. One with give and take, depth, and resolution.
And it happened via text.
Now,...
The city’s booming Latino community makes itself at home.
Nicolás Ramos left Coahuila, Mexico to come to the United States in the '70s, when he was 16, picking broccoli and cauliflower on a Texas farm, and loading boxes of cucumber, squash, cantaloupe and watermelon into refrigerated trucks.
Ramos, his brother Carlos, and five other friends, each saved $100, enough money to buy a wood-paneled Ford station wagon from a nearby junkyard. The group of seven...
A new space opens for tots to play and learn.
Move over Chuck E. Cheese's. There's now a spot in town (sans pizza) that's specifically geared toward child development, education and a healthy dose of playtime. Charm City Kids Club (CCKC) in Lutherville was started by Lindsay Klatsky and Stacy Bekman Radz after they moved from New York City to Baltimore and couldn't find an all-in-one place for their kids. "We wanted to bring to Baltimore...
After his drug arrest and rehab, Keith Mills climbs back to top sportscaster status—while trying to make amends with his kids.
In the darkest hours before dawn, Keith Mills—Baltimore's personable, ebullient sportscaster—is juggling his usual three morning gigs at WBAL on Television Hill.
He dashes into the AM-radio room on the third floor and tells early risers about the Orioles' latest loss. Then, he tosses his headset and sprints down the steps to the second-floor TV studio, where meteorologist Tony Pann greets him as...
A new principal raises the bar back up at Baltimore’s historic public high school.
Baltimore City College graduated its first coed class the same year Cindy Harcum, the school's new principal, started junior high. In love with literature and the humanities, she wanted to go to the school known as "The Castle on the Hill." Not that it would be easy. There were admission standards and, even worse, the commute from West Baltimore to Waverly.
"It took three buses and an hour and a...
Yak, python, bear: Chef Bernard Dehaene at Corner BYOB gives Baltimoreans a taste of the wild.
When chef Bernard Dehaene held a "Flintstone Dinner" at his restaurant Zot in Philadelphia, he served guests such rarities as lion and Thai waterbugs, all the while dressed as the cartoon character Fred Flintstone. For his first Exotic Meat Club meal at Corner BYOB in Hampden, he may just don a loincloth, he says—or something in a leopard print. He hasn't decided.
Both the dress and the type of...
The Incredibly True Adventures of the Baltimore Bachelorette
It's easy for people to see my life as simply a non-stop party. But I'm a career woman, too, with a list of professional goals—I'm currently working on a series of comedic dating books—that's ambitious, to say the least. I frequently skip out on things that I know I should do for myself like working out or getting enough sleep. And as expected, it's beginning to take its toll on me—especially...
For the 16 years I've owned Baltimore, I've been a tireless booster not just of the Baltimore region generally, but of the downtown, in particular, which has rightfully received ongoing national and international attention for its rebirth. Its transformation from a grimy smokestack town in the 1970s is not only a big tourism draw but is also now wooing back residents from the suburbs to its...
<p>Coming from a football family and bringing the Ravens to the playoffs every year he's been here, John Harbaugh was clearly born to lead.</p>
Nine-year-old John Harbaugh strapped on his helmet, slid into his shoulder pads, laced up his cleats, and stared at the mirror. Scowling back, he saw the world's toughest football player. His father saw things differently.
"My dad was right behind me," Harbaugh recalls. "'John boy, you're not a football player,' he says, 'until you make your first tackle.'"
The Ravens coach is recounting his...
Robert McClintock puts his art out there any way he can
When Robert McClintock first pursued art, he was realistic. "I was a good photographer, but not the greatest."
Then one day, he was playing around in Photoshop and started to digitally paint on top of his photographs. "I realized I could develop my own exclusive style," he says.
That style—which he calls "photo-digital illustration"—has since taken off: McClintock has been creating scenes of...
