Happy days are here again.
Well, actually, they’ve been here all along in the cozy booths of Baltimore’s many diners. You don’t have to drive far before stumbling on one of these chrome, neon-glowing...
The venerable festival enters its fourth decade brimming with populism and newfound energy, thanks to its expansion into Station North.
It's too hot, too crowded, the parking is awful, but still we go every year. Because each time we're tempted to skip Artscape, we remember something special that happened at the last one, and we find...
For nearly a century, Baltimoreans have been painting window screens, a tradition that is alive and well.
John Oktavec likes to say that he leaves his body when he paints pictures on window screens. In the after-dinner quiet of his Pasadena home, Oktavec brushes color on a wire screen. "Painting takes...
For hotels old and new, fear of the 13th floor endures.
Thanks to the multi-million-dollar renovation of the Tremont Park Hotel, the staid, traditional, aesthetic is long gone. Now there are 58 modern, well-appointed suites with down comforters, fully...
It’s oddly comforting, in our low-fat, low-salt era, to see beefy people lined up to buy pork sausage.
Before any major food holiday—but especially Easter, which falls on March 23 this year—...
Tony Shore’s black velvet paintings render down-to-earth, working-class Baltimore as high art.
In a windowless space inside the old Crown Cork and Seal complex in Highlandtown, Tony Shore works amid a post-industrial landscape—a labyrinth of hulking brick buildings. Amid walls shedding...
For many Baltimoreans, it's not your job or your car or your clothes that matter. The most important thing about you is where you went to high school.
You don't have to be born-and-bred Baltimore to have been asked The Question, much less posed it to someone else—the mark of a true Baltimorean lies in the answer. The Question is, of course, "Where'...
