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Colorful screened windows go up in the city

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:11:00 -0400

They are installed in commercial district of Highlandtown

It sounded like a Baltimore-themed idea that made sense. To celebrate a century of screen painting, 100 new, colorful window screens would be installed along the commercial district of Highlandtown, in the very heart of the neighborhoods where this summertime tradition flourished.

A peek inside the H&H building

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 7 Jun 2013 21:19:00 -0400

I went in search of a place recently named the Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District and found myself inside one of its most prominent addresses. But like so many places in Baltimore where artists live and work, you have to be introduced or know a password, as if it were some sort of an arts speakeasy.

Change coming along Southeast waterfront

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:18:00 -0400

Apartments, shopping and parking are being developed in Fells Point and Canton

There's both energy and change moving along Southeast Baltimore's waterfront in Canton and Fells Point.

Baltimore Cemetery a little-known and dignified site

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:47:18 -0400

118,000 are buried at well-tended cemetery

A letter from a reader in Ruxton recommended a visit to a place guarded by entry gates and stone walls. Juliana C. Watts made her first trip to Baltimore Cemetery this month. She and a nephew were searching for ancestors interred there.

Roaming the neighborhoods around Pimlico

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:06:31 -0400

Mount Washington has many quirky subsections

Roaming the streets that encircle Pimlico Race Course , I discovered so many places that I had trouble going back to the same locale twice. Outer Northwest Baltimore is a fascinating, at times geographically bewildering, place.

Renaissance for North Avenue as arts district

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:33:00 -0400

Red Emma's bookstore to move to old North Avenue Market building

When Christa Daring was a student, she rode a bus from her Waverly home and crossed North Avenue on her way to classes at the Baltimore School for the Arts.

With FlowerMart as backdrop, Mount Vernon is thriving

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 3 May 2013 19:38:00 -0400

11 E. Chase St. being converted into Algonquin apartments

As many times as it rolls around, I never outgrow the FlowerMart, which opened Friday and runs through Saturday. It's held in May and timed to take advantage of the best part of Maryland's spring. Any event that draws so many families, especially babies in strollers, mothers and grandmothers, to a hallowed Baltimore neighborhood gets my vote, even if, truth be told, I am not much of crab cake fancier.

'Sprat' Reeves shares his history, and Guilford's

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:22:29 -0400

Neighborhood celebrates its centennial Sunday

I showed up at the door of a Greenway home I've admired for years. Charles B. Reeves — who goes by "Sprat" — greeted me with his enthusiastic welcome: "Delighted." For the next 90 minutes I tried to take notes about his version of the history of North Baltimore's Guilford.

Cool potential for former icehouse

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:01:13 -0400

Owner exploring possibilities with architects for West Baltimore building

As many times as I have stood on the MARC station platform in West Baltimore, I never considered there was a fantastic, Jules Verne-like interior just across Franklin Street. I assumed the fire-damaged brick building alongside the rail tracks was just another derelict structure. After a visit there this week, I learned that one of Baltimore's fascinating industrial archaeological sites endures in the Midtown Edmondson neighborhood.

Lexington Market is in desperate need of a change

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:55:16 -0400

Neighborhood needs improvements

I laughed at a news report quoting an official who lamented that Lexington Market lacked a French bakery. The Lexington Market I know is a place that has a thriving bakery, but it sells red velvet cake by the slice and at a price to fit its customers' pocketbooks.