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The List: August 2026

From the 10th-annual Love Groove Festival to the return of Baltimore Fashion Week and the Maryland State Fair, here are the happenings to mark on your calendar this month.

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Travel & Outdoors

Meet Ocean City’s Shark Whisperer

“It’s a Great White and we don’t want to accidentally hook it. We’d never get it on board,” recalls Capt. Mark Sampson, of his run-in with a massive shark off Ocean City in 2020. A YouTube clip of the encounter received some 500,000 views.