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On The Town

Memorial Day Weekend Lineup: May 23-26

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

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Get a Pistachio Latte, Adopt a Kitten at Fells Point’s New Cat Café

At Affogatto, owner Tony Cusimano offers a place where you can sip local coffee while playing with rescued, adoptable felines.

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Review: The Undefeated is a Key West-Themed Cocktail Bar Hemingway Would Approve Of

With seven signature drinks and a monster rum list, the Fells Point spot makes you feel like you're drinking in Bermuda or the Bahamas instead of Baltimore.

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After the Fire

In February 1904, downtown Baltimore was utterly destroyed by a ravenous fire that burned for two days. Just two years later, a new city—the one we live and work in today—had risen from the ashes. We look back at the rebirth of a great American city, and hear the echoes of the present in the voices of the past.