How a family of six keeps happy and busy while living in Canton.
I am a city dweller. I am a mama. I live in a row house. I have four wee ones. I have a minivan. I have no backyard. I have a double stroller. My brood (Milo, 6, Willa, 4, twins Zeke and Gideon...
Why Dark Side of the Moon? Why Baltimore? Why now?
Why Dark Side? It’s an album that still speaks to people and still feels emotionally relevant across the decades. For me as an improvising musician and arranger, it began haunting me in 2009,...
Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director Center Stage/playwright Beneatha’s Place.
Through June 16, Center Stage presents The Raisin Cycle—two plays (performed in rotating repertory) inspired by A Raisin in the Sun. The first, Clybourne Park, is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning play...
As the neighborhood celebrates 100 years, the Maryland House & Garden Pilgrimage offers an inside look at 12 homes and sites on April 28.
1 | Garden of Mr. and Mrs. Judson Flanagan. This French Country-style home has several gardens and more than 100 rose bushes.
2 | Home of Dr. Anne Barone. This 1923 Colonial Revival home is the only...
Trohv owner Carmen Brock shows off her passion for industrial design in the dining room of her Charles Village row home.
A little bit country: I grew up in Kentucky on a cattle farm and tobacco farm. We’ve lived here since 2002—this is our first house. It takes a village: I love living in Charles Village. We’ve met so...
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...
Our own Beach House performs with Yo La Tengo at The Lyric.
Who says you can’t go home again? While in the midst of a world tour, dream-pop duo Beach House, pictured, stops by its native Baltimore to play the Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric on...
Spring is your classic “good news, bad news” scenario. Good news? The weather is warming! The flowers are blooming! Bad news: Bathing-suit season approaches. To get the latest fitness trends and tips...
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...
CityLit Festival has been bringing literary stars to Baltimore for 10 years.
During its first two incarnations, CityLit Festival conferred a curious Midas touch: Book a writer as headliner, and, whammo, he or she wins the Pulitzer Prize. Ten days prior to the 2004 inaugural...
