Colette Shade - Baltimore Magazine

Home April 2025 Section Colette Shade

Colette Shade

Pride Guide: Spectacular Events Celebrating 50 Years of Baltimore Pride

All month long, the city will be awash with a rainbow’s array of parties, performances, and fundraisers paying homage to Pride’s humble beginnings in Mt. Vernon in 1975.

On The Town

Weekend Lineup: June 6-8

The best ways to spend your long weekend in Charm City.

Colette Shade

Puerto 511 Chef Unveils Peruvian Empanada Spinoff in Fells Point

At Empa511, Jose Victorio Alarcon incorporates his family recipe into seven empanada varieties with a focus on quality and sustainability.

Find the Best in Baltimore

Colette Shade

Arts & Culture

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.