Urban Discoveries Baltimore

I’d meant to write a post tonight about where to go sledding in Baltimore, but then this weekend, the answer to that question appeared to be: the ground. Small, cackling children skidded down every street and sidewalk in my neighborhood, gurgling a blend of real and imaginary languages, trailed by their proud, apologetic parents. The [...]

Week by week here we promote largely the parts of Baltimore’s charm that alter week by week. Facing down what might become a heartless winter, though, I find comfort in considering the city’s less frequently updated offerings. More than any other art, architecture preserves the daily experiences of the dead by maintaining the spaces in [...]

You’ve certainly heard them holler, and chances are you got a good deal on that apricot. For the first couple years I lived in Baltimore, I didn’t even know what they were called, and I suspected that the guys hawking fruits and vegetables from elaborate horse-drawn carts were part of an anachronistic MICA thesis project. [...]

Few events occasion more excitement among Baltimore’s subcultural elite than the arrival in town of a truly self-obscuring celebrity. Successful enough to have caught the attention of many and creepy enough to have turned off most, Crispin Hellion Glover is a Baltimore kind of movie star. Achieving mainstream popularity with a supporting role as George [...]

This show we’ve mentioned before, and its recurrence tonight should serve as proof of its success so far. The fourth installment of Ignite Baltimore, an attention-deficit networking event imported from Seattle, goes up at 6:00 p.m. tonight, October 22, at the Walters Art Museum in Midtown (600 N. Charles Street).
Tonight also marks a year (give [...]