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This Essay Collection by Catonsville Native Humorist Maeve Dunigan Should Be Your Next Local Read
'Read This to Look Cool: Essays and Overthinkings' assembles coming-of-age stories that are vulnerable, witty, and especially relatable for millennials and Gen-Z.
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Fall Arts Preview: The 23 Cultural Experiences You Have to Catch in Baltimore This Season
Pull out your calendar and pencil in everything from film and music festivals to open studio tours and powerful theater performances in the coming months.
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Unique Robinson’s New Book Was Inspired by Being “In Transit”—Literally and Figuratively
New poetry collection, '(Not) In Service,' sheds light on Robinson's experiences relying on Baltimore's public transportation, while also navigating love, work, identity, and her place in the world.
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Meet the Baltimore Mother and Daughter-in-Law Who “Make Up” Hollywood
Emmy-nominated makeup artists Debi Young and Ngozi Olandu-Young got their starts at the Baltimore Police Department—between shifts fielding emergency calls—and behind the cosmetics counter at Nordstrom in Towson, respectively.
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Fall Arts Preview: Can’t-Miss Cultural Events to Experience in Baltimore This Season
Over the next few months, brand-new seasons of cultural programming begin again at venues all across the city—bringing with them fresh exhibitions, plays, performances, and much more.
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Street Art in the Heart of the Shenandoah
How Waynesboro, Virginia, is becoming the hip hub for muralists from around the world
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Best of Baltimore 2024: Arts and Culture
From our top creator to watch to the best exhibit of the year, here's our ode to the city's excellence in the arts.
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Katie Pumphrey Reflects on Her Epic Swim and How the Water Influences Her Art
In June, the marathon swimmer and multidisciplinary artist set a record as the first person to ever complete a 24-mile, open water swim from Sandy Point State Park to the Baltimore Harbor.
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How HFStival Got Ready to Rock Again
After nearly two decades, the iconic all-day concert will return on September 21 at D.C.’s Nationals Park, featuring bands many of its original festivalgoers grew up on.
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Movie Review: It Ends With Us
Film about domestic violence wants to have its cake and eat it, too.
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Best of Baltimore Readers’ Poll Results 2026
You voted, and now, here are your picks for the best that Baltimore has to offer.
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Photos: Artscape After Hours 2024
Attendees sought shelter from the weekend's downpours at all-night dance parties throughout Station North.
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Big Artscape Events You Won’t Want to Miss This Year
Plan your weekend around these exhibits, vendors, performances, and parties—all held in celebration of the festival's 40th anniversary.
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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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Our Exit Interview with The Walters’ Outgoing Executive Director Julia Marciari-Alexander
Under her direction, the museum launched innovative exhibits, shed light on the Walters family’s difficult history, navigated through COVID, and unionized its staff—with Marciari-Alexander becoming a pillar of the city’s arts scene along the way.
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Pikesville Native Adelle Waldman Talks New Novel, an Ensemble Portrait Set in a Big-Box Store
‘Help Wanted’ reveals working-class characters’ personalities and precarious economic lives.
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Baltimore Thespians Unite to Honor to August Wilson, “Theater’s Poet of Black America”
As part of the Baltimore August Wilson Celebration, several of the city's theaters will perform works from the prolific playwright's 10-part American Century Cycle series.
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Your Ultimate Summer Concert Guide
Here are some of the hottest shows hitting area venues this summer.
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Pipe Dreams: Baltimore Was a 19th-Century Hub of American Organ Building
This month, the Organ Historical Society convention comes to town. With the Archdiocese of Baltimore church consolidation plans underway, it may be the last time several historic organs are heard.
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A Guide to Exploring The Brilliance of Bucks County
Just two-and-a-half hours northeast of Baltimore, Pennsylvania’s “Genius Belt”—a nickname dubbed by author James Michener—still casts its creative spell.
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Mark Hendricks’ Latest Photo Book Celebrates the Mountainous Areas of the DMV
The Baltimore native photographer's images are not only beautiful, but they also deepen our understanding of the iconic eastern mountain range and its environmental importance.
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A New Leader Takes Over the Young Vic
Brian Goodman—longtime general manager of Roland Park's summer musical theater group—turns over the reins to his daughter, Fallon.
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Movie Review: Thelma
You'll delight to June Squibb in the performance of a lifetime—literally.
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Movie Review: The Bikeriders
Film about a '60s biker gang looks cool but doesn't quite have enough horsepower.
