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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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Art Space: Local Artist Spotlights Black Maternal Health
Through lush, acrylic portraits, Lauren J. Turner creates positive images of childbirth for Black people.
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Deirdre Aikin Has Artistic Designs on the Baltimore County Seat
The owner of Towson's Triple Crown Tattoo & Piercing sets her sights on beautifying the county hub with local artwork.
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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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WYPR’s ‘Essential Tremors’ Celebrates 50 Episodes This Month
We talk to hosts Matt Byars and Lee Gardner about the series, which asks musicians about the three songs that have impacted them most.
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Dean Bartoli Smith’s ‘Baltimore Sons’ Captures City’s Struggles, As Well As His Own
Smith discusses the new collection, which ultimately forms a broad story of acceptance and empathy.
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Nineteen of Baltimore’s Best Bookshops
Visit any one of these neighborhood stores to find your next read.
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The City that Writes
The mysterious death, general strangeness, and undeniable genius of a certain macabre poet casts a large shadow over the city’s literary legacy. But Baltimore’s writing tradition is as rich and diverse as the city itself.
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Visit Middletown, Maryland
History and charm meet right around the corner in Frederick County.
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Movie Review: Parallel Mothers
Almodóvar has done it again with pitch-perfect melodrama about the ties that bind us.
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Crankies Artist Katherine Fahey Inspires Baltimore With the All-But-Lost Folk Art
How the 19th-century practice that combines storytelling and a hand-cranked scroll of illustrated images became Fahey's niche.
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Jerrell Gibbs Aimed to Capture Elijah Cummings’ “Presence and Aura” in Official Portrait
We chat with the West Baltimore native, whose painting of the late civil rights leader will be on view at the BMA through Jan. 9 before heading to the U.S. Capitol.
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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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Sorry, My Weekend’s Fully Booked
Nothing stacks up to starting your own Little Free Library.
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Movie Review: The Beatles: Get Back
Behind-the-scenes Beatles doc is like a dream come true for fans.
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Movie Review: Don’t Look Up
Heavy-handed climate change satire is more exhausting than enlightening.
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Art Space: Sarah Manley’s Bubbly Illustrations Boast the Power of Song
Meet the local artist, and musician by trade, whose drawings have gone viral on Instagram.
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Black Creatives Pay Cinematic Homage to Baltimore With ‘A Black Girl’s Country’
The film, inspired by Nia June's poem of the same name, was recently acquired by the BMA.
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I Lost It On My MacBook: My Favorite Films of 2021
No matter the size of your screen, the movies were good this year.
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Phoenix Art Yard’s Latest Exhibit Celebrates Survival and Rebirth
As its name suggests, the local collective rises from the ashes to establish a burgeoning arts haven in Pigtown.
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Movie Review: Being the Ricardos
Nicole and Javier are great, but the film feels very Sorkin-y.
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Eight Baltimore Street Murals You Need to See In Person
We chat with @Baltimurals creator Maria Wolfe about the city’s stunning street art.
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‘Breathing Black’ Explores Healing and Black Joy Through the Eyes of Baltimoreans
Filmmaker Tina Canady discusses her debut documentary, premiering at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum Friday.
