The ultimate hep cat swings into the 21st Century, with honors.
If Cab Calloway were still alive, he'd be 100 now. He'd be able to celebrate his centennial at this month's Artscape Festival during the second annual Cab Calloway Vocal Competition, created as a...
America’s first English colony gets ready to turn a whopping 400 years old.
What does a historic landmark have to do to get some respect? When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, they were not, as many still mistakenly believe, the first settlers to sow the seeds...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
To explain what is meant by “Baltimore Seals Its Borders,” we need to go back to the election season of 1948—by any measure, one tumultuous affair. With the nation transfixed by a Dewey-Truman...
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...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
In the midst of the red-brick canyons of UMBC's suburban Baltimore campus stands an elegant sculptural tableau consisting of three polished granite benches and a life-sized bronze statue, all...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
Just over a generation ago, tens of thousands of Baltimore workers were set for life (or so they thought) with well-paid unionized jobs and benefits at leviathan companies like Bethlehem Steel and...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
On November 26, 1996, Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke stood at a podium at downtown's federal courthouse and choked back tears. "I can tell you from the bottom of my heart, everything tells me this...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
The trial that took place in the courtroom of Judge Eugene O'Dunne on Tuesday, June 18, 1935, barely registered on Baltimore's radar. It didn't draw much attention that day, or the day after, when...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
William Donald Schaefer, the Michelangelo of Baltimore's renaissance, first ran for public office under the guidance of Alvie Unglesbie, an earnest but thoroughly unschooled friend from the local...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
The first plate-glass window was smashed around 5:30 p.m. at the Fashion Hat Shop in the 400 block of N. Gay Street.Half an hour later, roving bands of black teens, itching for more action, looted...
