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Food & Drink
The Baltimore Museum of Industry Celebrates the City’s Historic Corner Bars
In the museum's latest permanent exhibition, curator Rachel Donaldson taps into the history of Baltimore watering holes from the Industrial Revolution until Prohibition.
Events
The List: February 2024
From The Walters' annual Lunar New Year Celebration to Max's Belgian Beer Fest, here are the events to pencil in this month.
Travel & Outdoors
Angela Crenshaw Has Big Ideas to Make Our State Parks More Accessible and Inclusive
With the Great Maryland Outdoors Act ushering in new parks, staff, and funding, plus record-high visitation still lingering from the pandemic, the new Maryland Park Service director arrives at a pivotal time.
Arts & Culture
New ‘Ghost Rivers’ Public Art Installation Honors a Long-Lost Landscape in Remington
In hopes of bringing forgotten history back to the surface, Bruce Willen's self-led walking tour follows the original path of the Sumwalt Run.
GameChangers
Through Peabody’s Tuned-In Program, Daniel Trahey Empowers Students to Stick with Music
The year-round program creates a free, formalized framework for musically inclined city school students, pre-K through grade 12.
Food & Drink
A Love Letter to The Local Oyster
The beloved seafood restaurant will close its doors in Mt. Vernon and Locust Point this weekend, but live on with pop-ups and catering.
Food & Drink
The City Celebrates a Decade of Devouring the Baltimore Deviled Egg Pageant
The quirky and quintessentially Baltimore competition returns Sept. 10 at Charm City Meadworks.
Arts & Culture
The Big Dreams of Derrick Adams
The Baltimore artist conjures a canvas out of his hometown.
Travel & Outdoors
For Better or Worse, the Spotted Lanternfly is Now Maryland’s Most Popular Bug
Move over cicadas—this highly invasive, non-native species is now spreading across the state.
Food & Drink
Let There Be Garlic Bread
With plenty of booze and butter, Peter’s Inn is quintessential Baltimore.
News & Community
Ellen Frost is Changing Baltimore, One Bloom at a Time
Frost's Waverly shop Local Color Flowers is known for the community it fosters, and its commitment to the first and last words of its name.
Arts & Culture
RoVo Monty’s Debut Album Could Be the Spark That Turns Baltimore Into a Dance Town Again
Inspired by fashion, dance, and disco, 'Water Sign' features electronic melodies you can’t help but move along to.
Arts & Culture
Baltimore Honky Tonk Dance Parties Are a Source of Down-Home Joy
Once a month, Hampden's Waverly Brewing Company transforms into an accessible country-western bash headlined by regional favorites.
Arts & Culture
Music Review: Mowder Oyal Might Be One of the Most Baltimore Bands to Ever Baltimore
The unexpected supergroup's self-titled album fuses jazz, funk, hip-hop, and hardcore punk, plus a throughline nod to our hometown genre of Baltimore Club.
News & Community
At Camp Small, City Foresters Give Local Trees a Second Life
The zero-waste reclamation site in Cold Spring transforms fallen city trees into everything from lumber and mulch to tables and playgrounds.
Health & Wellness
GameChanger: Nicole Baumgarth
We catch up with the director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute.
News & Community
Deer Park, MD Was Once an Elite Vacationland—Thanks in Part to its Famous Water
Now little more than a sleepy whistle-stop, it’s part of an unlikely tale intertwined with the Baltimore railroad, the Appalachian Mountains, and Maryland history.
Arts & Culture
Review: New Horse Lords Album is a Masterpiece of Creative Freedom and Contradictions
Released last fall, 'Comradely Objects' is described by the band as “a thrilling portrait of revolution underway.”
Food & Drink
Woodberry Kitchen to Reopen as Woodberry Tavern
We speak with chef-owner Spike Gjerde about the second act of his James Beard Award-winning restaurant.
Arts & Culture
Micah E. Wood’s ‘Ring Ring’ Features Some of His Most Expansive Songwriting and Versatile Vocals Yet
After spending the better part of the last decade honing his sound, the 31-year-old singer-songwriter has officially hit his stride.
