Local piano legend Lafayette Gilchrist and his 10-piece band, The New Volcanoes, head to New Orleans next week to represent Baltimore in what’s being billed as a Wire vs. Treme battle of the bands....
Talk about a DIY project. I love this story about Hampden residents creating their own crosswalks on The Avenue after growing frustrated waiting for the city to install them. This reminds me of...
The news that the Inner Harbor's New Year's Eve fireworks could be canceled due to money woes certainly put a damper on the city's pre-holiday mood this week. But it seems that all hope is not lost....
Get the handkerchiefs ready because tonight is going to be a doozy on ABC's hit reality program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Pretty much every episode of the show, which provides dream-house level...
Yesterday, someone told me about GiveCorps, which, at first glance, appeared to be just another online fundraising site along the lines of Kickstarter. But it's geared towards local non-profits, and...
On Thursday, residents of Reservoir Hill, with help from the Baltimore Ravens and national non-profit KaBOOM!, built a glorious playground in a previously blighted part of German Park in a single...
Spotted on the streets of Harbor East: These cool new trash bins that contain a regular litter side and a side for recycling. Yay! If we could becomes "fans" of the Baltimore Bureau of Solid Waste...
Speaking of freak weather occurrences (see previous post about the heat), tonight offers an opportunity to help the victims of one of the most horrific weather disasters in recent memory. I'm...