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Federal Hill (or just Fed Hill, if you like), is idyllic for families, teenagers, the college crowd and young professionals. Older people find it appealing, too, with its simple and inviting pleasures independent of the hustle and bustle of nearby downtown. A stroll through the park is relaxing and offers an attractive view of Baltimore's skyline and maritime vistas. However, if something more invigorating is your style, there is a potpourri of bars and restaurants on Charles and Light streets suitable for every wallet and palate. Hearing live music at any number of taverns is a popular Federal Hill pastime, as is attending one of the several street fairs happening throughout the year. The v...
Federal Hill (or just Fed Hill, if you like), is idyllic for families, teenagers, the college crowd and young professionals. Older people find it appealing, too, with its simple and inviting pleasures independent of the hustle and bustle of nearby downtown. A stroll through the park is relaxing and offers an attractive view of Baltimore's skyline and maritime vistas. However, if something more invigorating is your style, there is a potpourri of bars and restaurants on Charles and Light streets suitable for every wallet and palate. Hearing live music at any number of taverns is a popular Federal Hill pastime, as is attending one of the several street fairs happening throughout the year. The very active and tight-knit neighborhood association keeps residents and visitors occupied with events and gatherings on a regular basis. The neighborhood is a perfect example of urban renewal and modern gentrification. Polished rowhouses primarily made of old-fashioned brick stand next to more contemporary dwellings, some of them rehabbed from existing structures and others built from scratch over the last few decades. Case in point is the Cross Street Market; once a 19th century marketplace, its recent makeover reaffirms its place as the neighborhood's social and commercial core.
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Progressive dinners at your favorite neighborhood restaurants
Dining@LargeOnce again this fall Harbor East is the setting for a progressive dinner, which I'll tell you about first and then suggest a couple of other possibilities. I actually got a review of the one last year from one of......Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Fells Point, Ellicott City, Food and Dining Culture, Harbor East
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On house hunt, it paid to get lost
Special to The Baltimore SunLike many of us, Susan Clayton wished for a home near enough to her job so that she could walk to work every day. A co-owner of the Clark Morley Salon in downtown Baltimore, she had been driving from her home several miles north of the Inner Harbor....Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Sizzling on 'Top Chef'
A few months back, Jill Snyder, executive chef at the Red Maple tapas lounge in Mount Vernon, wasn't a big fan of Bravo's Top Chef.
"I hadn't really watched many episodes," she admits, a little sheepishly.
That's probably about to change: Snyder, 28,...Tags: Television Industry, Top Chef, Mount Vernon, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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The artist paints, and he also multiplies
What makes an artist assemble 193,000 toothpicks?" PeteHilsee, spokesman for the American Visionary Art Museum, mused the other day. The Baltimore museum boasts a 16-foot scale model of the ocean liner Lusitania made with something the uninspired...Tags: Mental Illness, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Long Term Care, Medical Services, Edgar Allan Poe
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Running things was simpler in City Hall
In an article titled "Stat Governor," the latest issue of Governing magazine ponders this: "Martin O'Malley ran Baltimore by the numbers. Can he make it work for all of Maryland?" Author Jonathan Walters observes O'Malley wresting stats out of criminal-...Tags: Family, Festive Event, Landforms, Government, Robin
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Stone to return to former city school board post
A former Baltimore school board member got his old position back in an appointment announced yesterday by Mayor Sheila Dixon and Gov. Martin O'Malley. David Stone, 45, served on the board from 2002 to 2004, when he resigned to work as the school system's...Tags: Roland Park, Government, National Government, Charter Schools, Regional Authority
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WiMAX Watch: Buying the Devices That Bring You WiMAX
baltimoresun.comThanks to Mario Armstrong , I learned yesterday around 5:30 p.m. that Computer Harbor, a computer store in Federal Hill, is one of the first places in Baltimore to offer the little plug-in device and the home modem that you can use to connect to Sprint'... -
Defining American cuisine
Dining@LargeFederal Hill Jim has put forth the proposition that there is no such thing as American cuisine. I disagree, but not strongly enough that I've got all sorts of persuasive arguments at my fingertips. And I was struck by the......Tags: Food and Dining Culture
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Of western Maryland and processed calamari
Dining@LargeI don't get out as far as Cumberland to review restaurants, but Federal Hill Jim was there recently and had this to say: 'Not much to report on our Western Maryland trip, other than we enjoyed Rocky Gap very much.......Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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The restaurant scam of the week -- maybe of the year
Dining@LargeUnfortunately for Patrick Rocko, he didn’t know that one of the best things about Baltimore is that it’s a small town disguised as a city. A Federal Hill restaurant got a very negative e-mail from him through the contact page of......Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Burger King
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Events today prompt road closures in city
Baltimore transportation officials are warning of road closures and heavy traffic in two areas of the city today because of weekend events. From 9 a.m. until 9 p.m., the Street Beat Festival will be held in Federal Hill. From 3 a.m. until 10 p.m., Charles...Tags: Patapsco
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A lesson in incivility
THE PROBLEM A sign in a Federal Hill school parking lot has been vandalized so that it includes obscene language but has remained in place for more than two years. THE BACKSTORY Thanks to a prank more common to The Simpsons' Springfield than Baltimore,...Tags: Frank Murphy
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