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Weekend Lineup: Dec. 12-14

The best ways to spend your weekend in Charm City.

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Bodega & Vino Forges Community Connection in Locust Point

At the neighborhood's first Brooklyn-style bodega, owners Rob and Angela Wainwright want you to grab what you need, or stay a while with wine and tapas.

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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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Arts & Culture

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.