New restaurants, upstart chefs, and visiting actors are drawing attention to our dining scene.
It didn’t take long for noted chef Michael Mina to assess Baltimoreans’ taste buds. Soon after Wit & Wisdom: A Tavern by Michael Mina opened a year and a half ago at the Four Seasons Hotel in...
Actor John Astin enjoys a second act, playing professor at The Johns Hopkins University.
Wearing a gray newsboy cap and carrying a leather organizer, John Astin looks like the very model of a Johns Hopkins professor as he strides across the Homewood campus en route to lunch at the Brody...
Don’t look now, but a world-class opera singer is living in Baltimore.
The sounds of tuning violins, deliberate piano notes, and operatic singing bounce through the corridors of Peabody’s Leakin Hall on a Monday afternoon. The singing comes from a spacious, high-...
Anthony Bourdain spills his guts at the Hippodrome.
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain has been known to push the envelope in his best-selling books and popular Travel Channel shows. So expect a no-holds-barred approach when the rebellious foodie comes...
<p>Local chocolatier finds a recipe for success.</p>
First, Oprah. Then, Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Next, Diane Sawyer. The elegant chocolates made at The Velvet Chocolatier (10403 Stevenson Rd., Stevenson, 410-365-9883) have been creating quite a stir....
Shoes from an Owings Mills company are becoming celebrity favorites.
When Chad Birenbaum was 12 years old, he wasn’t doodling superheroes and dragons, he was drawing shoes. “I had a friend who was a big sneaker-head,” he says. “And I would always draw his Air Jordans...
After leaving WMAR-TV, Mary Beth Marsden chose to take on a new cause—the fight for her daughter and other children with autism.
On December 2, 2009, and after 21 years as anchor at WMAR-TV, Mary Beth Marsden signed off for one final time at the end of the 6 p.m. newscast.
It was a bittersweet moment for the Emmy Award-...
Thirty years after its release, Baltimore gives its most famous film the respect it deserves
Earlier this year, when Vanity Fair marked the 30th anniversary of Diner by proclaiming the Baltimore-set movie, written and directed by native son Barry Levinson, “the most influential movie of the...
Baltimore isn’t like New York City for a lot of reasons (we’re okay with that), like when we see movie trailers on the side of the road, we’re taken aback and we usually ask someone on set, “What’s...
