Firsthand accounts of what’s happening in Baltimore.
Kosher Soul
A warm February sun beams through the skylight above the entry hall of the Jewish Museum of Maryland. On most Sundays, the building is bustling with Baltimoreans exploring various Jewish...
The Incredibly True Adventures of the Baltimore Bachelorette
Recently a coworker and I attended a seminar on time management. The speaker posed a thoughtful question to the group. “What is one thing that you haven’t done yet in your life that you really want...
Hard to believe, but this year is the 20th birthday of one of modern Baltimore’s most important edifices—Camden Yards—and associate editor Jess Blumberg celebrates with a retrospective on the ball...
Barry Burnett is clean-cut, gainfully employed, and has a single-family house—hardly the image of someone who was once homeless, a convict, and an alcoholic.
Out of jail and feeling desperate in...
The Incredibly True Adventures of the Baltimore Bachelorette
I would hardly consider myself a fairy-godmother type who is out to save every tortured and damaged guy she meets. But in my past, I have definitely found myself looking beyond what everyone else...
I always take a special interest in the annual Best Restaurants feature, because fine food is close to my heart and one of the things Baltimore is known for.
When I see the list come out and one of...
The Incredibly True Adventures of the Baltimore Bachelorette
So here is a fun fact I just learned about myself: I suck at playing hard to get. It turns out, when I have interest in someone I practically gift wrap myself and sit on their doorstep. It’s an...
If you did a survey every year of the region’s employers, such as our Best Places to Work effort, you might expect to see only gradual change in the corporate landscape from one year to the next. But...
Firsthand accounts of what’s happening in Baltimore
Start Your Engines
The Shops at Kenilworth would have been crowded on Black Friday no matter what. But the Towson mall’s managers traditionally compound the madness by opening its legendary holiday...
It was 2004 and the idea came to Christina Antonini, as so many brilliant ones do, at a Macaroni Grill in Edgewater. The tsunami had just hit Indonesia and Antonini and her fellow Girl Scouts wanted...
