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A Travel Guide to Exploring Route 40, America’s First Highway

Sorry Route 66, but no other national highway is as consequential as U.S. 40, known as “Main Street of America," which celebrates its 100th birthday this year.

On The Town

Weekend Lineup: Oct. 2-4

The best ways to spend your weekend in Charm City.

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The List: October 2026

From the New/Next Film Festival and Blaq Pride to Doors Open Baltimore and Halloween at the MD Science Center, here are the happenings to mark on your calendar this month.

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Arts & Culture

Like Dreaming: Valerie Maynard Reflects on a Legendary Lifetime of Art

Prior to her passing, we spent time with the 85-year-old artist—a significant figure of the pioneering Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s—to delve deeper into her undaunted creative spirit.