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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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Colette Shade’s Darkly Funny Collection of Essays is a History Lesson in the Y2K Era
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.
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The Baltimore Old Time Music Festival Celebrates the City’s Americana Past and Present
The two-day gathering of roots musicians from across the country returns April 18-19 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry—a fitting venue to showcase the genre's local history.
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Movie Review: The Friend
A woman loses her best friend and gains his grieving 150-pound dog.
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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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CityLit Festival Readings and Panels You Won’t Want to Miss This Weekend
In its 22nd year, the community literary celebration aims to bring back the thrill of discovery.
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The Maryland Daffodil Society—The Oldest in America—Prepares for its 100th Show
The display is one of the nation’s largest, with as many as 210 horticulture classes, as well as others for design and photography.
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Author Carole Boston Weatherford is Reclaiming Maryland History
This year’s One Maryland One Book pick—Weatherford's novel-in-verse titled 'Kin: Rooted in Hope'—celebrates generations of Black excellence.
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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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Movie Review: Mickey 17
Robert Pattinson shines in Bong Joon Ho’s uneven follow-up to Parasite.
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New Earl Weaver Biography Examines How the Fiery O’s Manager Reinvented Baseball
Journalist John W. Miller discusses his new book, 'The Last Manager,' an enlightening examination of one of baseball’s most successful and colorful leaders.
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Early Bird Special: The Winners and Losers From Last Night’s Oscars
Conan killed it and, all told, the show was pretty great.
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Camp: Where Summer Builds Character
A guide to help your child have the best summer ever.
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Why This Year’s Oscar Race is So Hard to Predict
Adrien or Timothée? The Brutalist or Anora? Don't put any money on my guesses.
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Micah E. Wood’s New Book Radiantly Documents the Baltimore Music Scene—and the City Itself
We chat with Wood about the printed page and the power of color in ‘Scene Seen’—his latest photography collection that captures local artists across multiple genres.
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Station North Community Reacts to Artscape’s New Downtown Footprint
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the festival won't be held in the city's first officially designated Arts & Entertainment district.
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Stevie Walker-Webb is Already Creating a Lasting Impact at Baltimore Center Stage
In his first full year as the theater's artistic director, Walker-Webb has launched an electrifying lineup of productions and introduced innovative community outreach programs. He’s just getting started.
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The Traveling Bookstore on Wheels That Found a Home Base in Baltimore
Creative force Rita Collins left Baltimore after graduating high school. Now, after exploring the world and launching a mobile book van in Montana, she’s spreading her love of reading in the city she left behind.
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Into the Groove: Baltimore’s Vibrant Dance Scene in Photos
On any given evening, Baltimoreans are two-stepping, lindy-hopping, crazy-legging, and moshpitting their way around town at a range of recurring dance nights, dance parties, and even dance classes.
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Six Works We Loved at MICA’s ‘LAYERS’ Exhibition
On view through March 9, the collection features impressive collage works from contemporary artists, both local and worldwide.
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Former Raven Trevor Pryce Has Built a Live-Action Animation Studio in East Baltimore
After struggling to find his post-football footing, the former All-Pro and Super Bowl champion is now the creator of a successful Netflix series, directing actors like Mark Hamill.
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The Undeniably Wonderful Throwback Pleasures of the Westminster Dog Show
"I’ve been watching the Westminster Dog Show since I was a little girl," writes editor-in-chief Max Weiss. "All little kids have things they are obsessed with—whether it be trains or dinosaurs or Pokémon. For me, it was dog breeds."
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Jack Burkert’s New Book Explores 20th Century Baltimore One Decade at a Time
The accessible story builds upon Burkert's 14 years of hosting tours and programs as an educator at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
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Tom Miller Week Celebrates the Local Artist’s Enduring Legacy
Artist and activist Deyane Moses honors the late Baltimore icon—beloved for his magical murals, screenprints, furniture, and distinctive Afro-Deco style—with community programming Feb. 15-22.
