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Review: The Wren Perfects the Pub in Fells Point

From the team behind Le Comptoir du Vin, The Wren is warm, intimate, and in many ways, out of time—which is what makes it so transportive.

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The Orange Crush is Officially Maryland’s Drink of Summer

On June 1, the citrusy refresher will formally become our state cocktail. But it has been unofficially for at least 40 years now—with Ocean City, in many ways, being where it all began.

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Jesse Dortzbach Shares the Magic of Making a Good Cigar

Meet the proprietor of Dortzbach Cigars, a one-man operation that sells custom-made, hand-rolled stogies and offers classes in Baltimore County.

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Arts & Culture

Wendel Patrick Brings a Hip-Hop Degree to the Peabody Institute

The new program overseen by the multi-hyphenate musician, pedagogue, and producer bridges the two worlds of his musical life.

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Composer Judah Adashi Combines Passions for Arts and Activism in New Peabody Course

There was a time when Adashi briefly flirted with quitting music altogether to become a full-time activist. Then he realized that he could do both.

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The Mount Vernon Virtuosi is Much More Than a Chamber Orchestra

How Peabody professor Amit Peled is changing the community through classical music—while also working to keep his students in town after graduation.

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‘Round Midnight: Baltimore’s Jazz Scene Comes Alive at Night

Through his black and white images, photojournalist J.M. Giordano captures not only the performers, but the spaces they inhabit, the city around them, and the streets that inspire their sounds.