Ron Cassie is a senior editor for Baltimore, where he’s has worked since 2012, covering the environment, education, medicine, politics, and city life. Before becoming a journalist, he swung a hammer, poured drinks, and pedaled a bike for a living. He’s still slightly uncomfortable sitting at a desk and needs to get outside every day.
On Nov. 2, 1965, the Baltimore Quaker and father of three doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire at The Pentagon, below the office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
Filmed before a Judas Priest show at the Capital Centre in Landover in 1986, the 16-minute cult classic has been referred to as both the “seminal anthropological study of beer-swilling teenage metalheads” and “one of the greatest rock documentaries ever.”
“It’s a Great White and we don’t want to accidentally hook it. We’d never get it on board,” recalls Capt. Mark Sampson, of his run-in with a massive shark off Ocean City in 2020. A YouTube clip of the encounter received some 500,000 views.
Maryland researcher Andrew Holter—who recently released an anthology of the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist's work—discusses how Baltimore impacted Kempton's craft.
The noisy colony in Fells Point—which neighborhood resident Kevin Marshall works to protect and document on Instagram—are not the regular sort of birds you typically find in a dense urban environment.
In her new biography, author Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson explores McCardell’s rise in the male-dominated midcentury New York fashion industry—ultimately giving us pockets, mix-and-match separates, and modern-day athleisure.
Launched in September 1970, the three-day, county-style fair downtown set the stage for modern favorites like Artscape and the Baltimore Farmers Market.
Neighbors, faith leaders, and city officials showed up to Casa de Maryland's march throughout Southeast Baltimore to express opposition to the recent uptick in ICE arrests.
In 'The Trouble of Color,' the Johns Hopkins University professor blends a legacy of enslavement, passing, Jim Crow, and colorism into a complex portrait of an American family in an all-too-often racist land.
The Hollins Market nonprofit, which has presented thousands of shows and workshops at schools and festivals throughout the region, turns 45 this summer.
He was only the third amateur photographer to ever land the front page, but Allen didn’t care about the acclaim. What mattered was that his pictures had not been reframed to fit some pre-existing reputation of his hometown.
Touching on everything from AIM to MTV, the Towson resident's first book, 'Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything,' explores how the utopian dreams of the early digital age instead became a dystopian, neoliberal reality for Millennials.
To honor the holiday—commemorating the 1634 landing of the Ark and the Dove in what is now St. Mary’s County—UMBC's Institute of Politics polled residents about why they love living here.
How the volunteer-run nonprofit—which provides outreach to 12,000 foreign seafarers a year—assisted the Dali's 21 seamen as they were stranded in the middle of the Patapsco.
Maryland—whose last witch trial was held in 1712—never saw witch hunts on the scale of Massachusetts, but early court cases around slander and witchcraft are a part of the state’s legal history.
In coordination with the “No Kings on Presidents Day” rallies around the country, Baltimoreans braved the cold to protest the policies of President Donald Trump and the dismantlement of the federal government by billionaire Elon Musk.
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