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Highlandtown, arguably the very quintessence of Baltimore, was once a small town outside the city limits. The look and feel of the area still reflects these beginnings. Much like the surrounding areas of Canton and Fells Point, Highlandtown feels like a small town trapped in a big city. The brick rowhouses with their marble stoops are typical of the architecture seen in Baltimore City. The corner bars, no matter how much they look like dives, are always populated by locals. Although Highlandtown had been seen as "going downhill," the area is now resurgent -- many young couples are buying and fixing up homes, and many businesses (both small and big) are moving in along the main drag on Easter...
Highlandtown, arguably the very quintessence of Baltimore, was once a small town outside the city limits. The look and feel of the area still reflects these beginnings. Much like the surrounding areas of Canton and Fells Point, Highlandtown feels like a small town trapped in a big city. The brick rowhouses with their marble stoops are typical of the architecture seen in Baltimore City. The corner bars, no matter how much they look like dives, are always populated by locals. Although Highlandtown had been seen as "going downhill," the area is now resurgent -- many young couples are buying and fixing up homes, and many businesses (both small and big) are moving in along the main drag on Eastern Avenue.
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John S. "Bud" Linz, engineer
John S. "Bud" Linz, a retired engineer and World War II veteran, died Wednesday of pneumonia at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 90. The son of a grocer and a homemaker, John Sebastian Linz was born in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown. After...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Parkville, Christianity, Timonium, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland)
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Colorful screened windows go up in the city
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...
Tags: Arts, Fine Artists, Artists, Chiropractic, Customs and Tradition
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Braciole retains Depression-era charms in some restaurants, home kitchens
Like the best Italian mothers, Rose Savalino Uddeme spent a lot of time cooking for her kids when the family lived off the corner of Central and Eastern avenues on the edge of Little Italy in the 1960s. One of her go-to meals was a staple of hard times:...
Tags: Salads, Tomatoes, Johnny Unitas, Dundalk, Patterson Park
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Religious groups pushing for city stormwater fee reduction
The two Catholic parishes led by the Rev. Robert Wojtek could pay more than $6,000 in new city stormwater fees later this year — an amount equal to an entire Sunday collection at his Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Highlandtown. To Wojtek, that...
Tags: Harford County, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, Howard County
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Rehab 'model' homes are emerging in Baltimore
There's a brick home in Highlandtown, on a prominent corner of Eastern Avenue, that has become a contradiction. Parts of it are more than 100 years old — varying shades of brick and mortar show where additions have been hewn to the primary...
Tags: Calvert County, Real Estate Buyers, Homes, Realty, Property
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Change coming along Southeast waterfront
There's both energy and change moving along Southeast Baltimore's waterfront in Canton and Fells Point. It's become the neighborhood boom of 2013, involving more than 800 new apartments and the construction of a shopping plaza along Boston Street in...
Tags: Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Harbor East, Target, Harris Teeter, Inc., Bars and Clubs
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$200,000 grant to bring European artists to Baltimore
European artists will help transform Baltimore bus, train and light rail stations to be more attractive, better designed and more user-friendly as part of a $200,000 grant from ArtPlace America, a consortium of banks and foundations that gives money to...
Tags: Arts, Public Transportation, Station North, European Union
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Emerging Technology Center to move to Highlandtown
Baltimore's Emerging Technology Center will relocate from Canton to Highlandtown when its lease expires this fall. The city's technology incubator announced Friday that it chose new digs at 101 N. Haven St., a former King Cork and Seal Co. facility. The...
Tags: Canton (Baltimore, Maryland)
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City firefighter sustains knee injury in early morning blaze
A firefighter sustained a minor knee injury in a two-alarm blaze at a home in Southeast Baltimore early Thursday morning, according to the Baltimore Fire Department. Firefighters responded to the 3700 block of East Pratt Street — near the border of...
Tags: Fires, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Pratt Street
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Dr. Paul Lietman
Dr. Paul S. Lietman, a retired Johns Hopkins professor of medicine, pharmacology, molecular sciences and pediatrics, died of congestive heart failure April 20 at his Ruxton home. He was 79. "He was a gifted educator and was beloved by generations of...
Tags: Columbia University, Family, Viral Diseases and Infections, Cleveland Clinic, Medical Research
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311 complaints ignored, communities fight bars themselves
Black scuff marks line the staircase at 922 N. Charles St., left there by frustrated tenants kicking the wall in a vain attempt to make their neighbor, the Museum Restaurant and Lounge, quiet down. Most nights, tenants say, the sound of DJs hyping up...
Tags: Charles Street, Rental Service, Punishment, 311 (music group), Bars and Clubs
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Liver and onions dinner recalls old times in Baltimore
"Liver and onions — the poor man's gourmet delight." — Stevens Bunker, retired Baltimore sea dog The taste sensation of beef liver is like licking a piece of smooth, shiny metal. To the bite, the texture is akin to corduroy — wide...
Tags: Safeway Inc., Chicken Wings, Bacon, Potatoes, Gravy
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