<p>Crabaret offers eating and altruism for the 10th year.</p>
Held in The Baltimore Museum of Art’s Sculpture Garden, Crabaret gives the grubby Eastern Shore crab-feast tradition a total makeover: trading out brown paper towel rolls for linens and cheap beer for locally crafted microbrew.
Celebrated chef John Shields, pictured on far right, returns as the in-house chef, and, if menus from past affairs are any indicator (crab-and-curry stir-fry, crab...
<p>A Hopkins dean commits to East Baltimore’s renewal.</p>
When David Andrews became dean of The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education in late 2010, he and his wife, Marti, packed up their stuff and moved from a 15-acre horse farm in Ohio to Baltimore. Initially, they settled in a rented Guilford manse while they looked for a full-time place. They considered buying in Guilford or other neighborhoods that could replicate the peace and quaintness...
A local designer creates an on-the-go desk.
A few years ago, Mike Rice was trying to use his laptop to sketch some drawings outside of his family’s summer home in Canada. But he needed a workspace. So he went to his woodshop and carved out a desk. “My family kept asking me to build more for them,” Rice says. “So after a brainstorming session, we decided to sell it.” And, the Belly Bean was born. The wooden desk is shaped like a bean, able...
<p>Patrick Russell turns up the heat at home.</p>
Patrick Russell grew up enjoying the fried pork chops, meatballs, and meatloaf of his mother’s Pikesville kitchen, but it wasn’t until purchasing Thames Street Tavern (now Kooper’s Tavern) in 1997 that he really learned the joys of cooking.
“I hired my friend [former Cork’s chef] Jerry Pellegrino to help me cook,” recalls Russell, who got his restaurant start as a busboy at The Mt. Washington...
<p>A group of Catholics finds a local bar blasphemous.</p>
A priest walks into a bar. . . . No, it’s not the start of a joke, but closely mirrors a dispute between some Catholics and a Fells Point watering hole.
Recently, a group of religious devotees claimed that bar and restaurant Ale Mary’s was blasphemous because of its name and church-themed décor. The bar owners, in turn, said there was nothing irreverent about it, and that most of the objects were...
<p>Park School graduate Sam O’Keefe is a bike-race champ.</p>
Everyone bike rides as a kid, but Sam O’Keefe turned it into a competitive passion. “When I was 11, my mom signed me up for a camp at Joe’s Bike Shop,” he says. “Eventually, the shop guys encouraged me to race.” They introduced O’Keefe to Cyclo-cross, a multi-terrain bike race with obstacles. “It’s the cycling equivalent of steeplechase,” he explains. O’Keefe won his first race at Charm City...
<p>Police K-9 units have become an increasingly essential law-enforcement tool in and around Baltimore.</p>
On a clear, crisp March day, Officer Christopher Davies prepares the second floor of a long-abandoned building at Rosewood State Hospital to go to the dogs—or, more specifically, to the Baltimore County K-9 unit.
Earlier in the day, Davies had signed out dangerous controlled substances stored in a safe at Essex headquarters (many of which were seized during local drug busts) as well as an arsenal...
<p>Why do so many of us find our way back to Charm City?</p>
About four years ago, my wife Brenda and I were driving back to New York City, where we lived at the time, from Baltimore, where I grew up, when she did something that truly shocked me.
“We should move to Baltimore,” she said, staring dreamily at the Harford County farmlands along Interstate 95.
If I had been drinking something, I would have done a spit-take. “Really?” I asked. “Why?”
I grew up...
<p>Dr. Al Luckenbach, Anne Arundel County Archaeologist</p>
“It’s not unusual for young kids to be interested in dinosaurs and Indians. I just never outgrew it. When I was in seventh grade, my father started taking me out into the fields to look for arrowheads. I remember thinking it was so cool to be looking for things the Native Americans had dropped hundreds of years ago. Later on, we joined the Maryland Archaeological Society, and I went on my first...
<p>Taking time between high school and college has become increasingly common among Baltimore teens.</p>
In the fall of 2011, as The Park School graduate Jamie DeMarco’s classmates packed their duffel bags for colleges across the country, a freshly immunized DeMarco (rabies, Yellow Fever, Typhoid) filled his R.E.I. backpack with six bottles of insect repellant, a hand-filter pump, and some mosquito netting and boarded a Miami flight bound for Quito, Ecuador.
“I had been going to class my entire...
