Local artist launches a crusade to ease Arab-American tensions with just one word.
While working on a novel in 2007 about survivors of the Iraq War, Baltimore resident Justin Sirois posted a request on an international website for Iraqis to answer his questions about the country's...
Business leaders help families in need in a local TV series.
There is a trend in reality TV, where business leaders help those less fortunate (Secret Millionaire, Undercover Boss). And now Baltimore is on the bandwagon with a new show called Good Fellas of...
Baltimore was William Donald Schaefer’s one true love—and we loved him right back.
On one of his earliest days as mayor of Baltimore, William Donald Schaefer marched into City Hall and offered cheerful greetings to the veteran WJZ-TV reporter George Baumann.
"You're looking well...
The city debuts a new local-only currency this month.
The greenback may make the world go 'round, but another kind of currency will soon be spinning around Charm City—the BNote.
The money is modeled after similar concepts tried in dozens of other areas...
Five local watershed groups unite to form a stronger voice.
Five of the city's watershed groups have taken a cue from the rivers they steward. Just as the waterways they look after converge in the Chesapeake Bay, so are the groups coming together to protect...
After 30 years, the wheels keep turning at Baltimore Clayworks.
Deborah Bedwell’s first encounter with a potter’s wheel was less than auspicious. The West Virginia native was a recent transplant to Maryland in 1969 when she signed up for a ceramics class at...
Richard Pryor’s daughter finds a home— and happiness—in Baltimore.
In early 2006, still reeling from the loss of her father, groundbreaking comedian Richard Pryor, and the dissolution of her six-year marriage, actress-singer-writer Rain Pryor packed up her Prius and...
Baltimore makes national media lists all the time—for both good and bad reasons—but the October issue of Money magazine included, we believe, a first. That issue named the 35 best retirement...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
Mention the much-ballyhooed renaissance of Baltimore's downtown, and what names come to mind? The guess here is that in most any roomful of random Baltimoreans, the two names most likely to pop up...
When AMB Property Corporation, an industrial real estate developer, sold Hampden's aging Rotunda to New Jersey-based developer Hekemian & Co. in 2005 for $29 million, there was reason for...
