Local teen makes and sells dolls to help her family’s finances.
When 15-year-old Arriel Turner was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2009, she decided to fight it in her own way. “Coming out of my [first] surgery, it was kind of a recovery thing. I wanted to get...
<p>With the right species and a little TLC, your rose garden can be the envy of the ’hood.</p>
Anybody who’s tried to grow roses knows they can be frustrating, plagued by everything from once-a-season blossoms and black spot to beetles, mites, yellowing leaves, and more.
Unless you’re a purist...
A new 5K race has participants fleeing from zombies.
So, how's this for motivation? As you're running a race through the woods, flesh-eating zombies are right on your heels.
That's the concept for the first ever "Run For Your Lives" 5K race October 22...
A Lauraville woodworking shop is proving that tools are for everyone
In a room full of power tools, table saws, and drill presses, you don't expect to find a Girl Scout troop making birdhouses, a group of girlfriends creating decorative mosaics, or a grandmother...
Don't worry parents, those otherworldly Otakon costumes are just a fun part of growing up.
Sixteen-year-old Anna Hiser has been planning her costume for this month's Otakon since last October. It's only her second time attending the annual Japanese anime (or animation) conference, but the...
When Stephanie Murdock was a student at Towson University, she started skateboarding. Problem was, she couldn't find many legal, safe places to do it.
"Carroll Park in Pigtown was pretty much the...
Knitting groups are getting younger, and hipper, every day.
Walking into a knitting club, you might expect to see grannies in their rockers stitching ugly reindeer sweaters. But not so at various local knitting groups, which are swiftly becoming the new book...
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...
Reports of colony collapse and notions of sustainability have locals swarming to bee suppliers.
Dennis Miller—who likes to say that his day job fixing TVs found him "behind the set, not on it"—has been selling bees and apiary supplies from his home in Chase for the past 15 years. The native Tar...
The North Baltimore Aquatic Club has produced champions—and they've done it their own way.
On an early Monday afternoon in mid-April, Paul Yetter strips naked, showers, and then lies on his back, floating like a cork in the pitch dark atop four feet of heavily salted water heated to skin...
