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The Biggest Literary Festival in the Country Is Happening in Baltimore This Week
A neighborhood guide to partying with the poets and writers descending on the city for the annual AWP Conference & Bookfair.
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Baltimore Artists Shine in the National Portrait Gallery’s ‘Outwin’ Exhibit
A look at the four local talents featured in the prestigious Smithsonian show on view through Aug. 30.
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Kent County High’s WKHS Radio Has Been Spinning the Hits for More Than 50 Years
With a signal that stretches from the Eastern Shore to Southern Maryland to Baltimore and Wilmington, WKHS is not just some small, in-house-only school station.
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Local Art Books to Gift This Holiday Season
From Derrick Adams to Amy Sherald, artists with Baltimore ties release coffee-table publications just in time for the holidays.
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The Largest Jane Austen Collection in North America is, Surprisingly, Right in Our Backyard
In some ways, the collection is as much about its founder Alberta Hirshheimer Burke, the intrepid Goucher College alumna who pursued Austen with a nearly messianic fervor, as it is about Austen herself.
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Women Who Move Maryland 2026
Women are an essential part of the engine that makes our region thrive. In our annual section that follows, Women Who Move Maryland, we spotlight women professionals who play a leading role in Baltimore and beyond.
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Movie Review: Jay Kelly
George Clooney essentially plays his own doppelganger in this meta character study.
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Holiday Light Shows and Drive-Thru Displays to Check Out in December
From the harbor to Hampden, the Baltimore area is aglow with festive family fun.
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The Creative Alliance’s ‘Die Hard’ Movie Night Has Become a Baltimore Holiday Tradition
Hosts Jen Marsh and Heather Keating will present their wildly popular interactive screening of the cult-classic action film on Dec. 6.
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Movie Review: Hamnet
Film about the origin of Hamlet is curiously uninterested in Shakespeare himself.
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Experience the Northern Outer Banks
Corolla, North Carolina is where wild beauty meets coastal luxury this vacation season.
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For Baltimore-Born ‘Wicked’ Performer Melissa Victor, There’s No Place Like Home
The Baltimore City College graduate plays ShenShen in the national touring production coming to the Hippodrome in December.
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Inviting Light’s Latest Installation “Soft Gym” Transforms the New YNot Lot
An inside look at Station North’s community gathering space reimagined by artist duo Wickerham & Lomax, which is meant to be a place of reflection and vulnerability.
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The Wedding Party 2026
Connect with some of Baltimore’s top planners, venues, caterers, photographers, and more on Sunday March 1 at the American Visionary Art Museum.
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The Big Baltimore Playlist: November 2025
Five local songs you should listen to right now.
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The BMA’s ‘Turn Again to Earth’ Series Digs Deep Into the Realities of Climate Change
Chief curator Kevin Tervala discusses three new exhibitions and how they align with the series' environmental focus.
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Two Maryland Film Festival Selects You Need to See This Week
The city’s OG film festival runs through Nov. 9 with an exciting program—including features, docs, shorts, and experimental works, many with Baltimore roots.
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Magoobys Joke House is a Hub of Top-Notch Comedy
For the past 15 years, the Timonium club has hosted stand-ups of all ilk, from heavyweights—like Tracy Morgan, Nate Bargatze, and Richard Lewis—to up-and comers and down-and-outers.
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Six Works You Can’t Miss at the BMA’s Amy Sherald Exhibit
On view Nov. 2 through next April, ‘American Sublime’ is a landmark retrospective featuring the former Baltimore-based artist’s most iconic works—thus far.
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Inside Carmelo Anthony’s ‘House of Melo’ at The Pratt
The Central Library has become a canvas for the NBA icon’s Baltimore story, told through sneakers, soundtracks, and the spirit of the city. Here's what you can't miss.
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The Kids Are Alright: ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ Approaches Its 40th Anniversary
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.”
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The Big Baltimore Playlist: October 2025
Five local songs you should listen to right now.
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Photos: New/Next Film Festival 2025 After Dark
Photojournalist J.M. Giordano stayed out late with filmmakers and fans to capture all of after-party energy on his Kentmere 400 and Olympus Stylus—out of respect for the medium of film, of course.
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Turnstile Takes Off: How Baltimore Shaped The World’s Biggest Hardcore Band
Turnstile is living out their wildest dreams around the world. But they'll always be Baltimore kids at heart.
