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If you want to feel the enormity of a film on a gigantic screen or be transported back to Hollywood's golden age, catch a movie at Baltimore's treasured Senator Theatre. The 900-seat, single-screen theater plays 1940s jazz tunes before screenings of first-run and classic movies. The 1939 art deco movie house is an architectural gem with a two-story lobby adorned with murals and black and white photographs. A "walk of fame" on 70 sidewalk blocks in front of the theater has celebrity signatures, including Charles Dutton and Barry Levinson, and logos from movies such as "Liberty Heights," "Hairspray" and "Gone With The Wind." It is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Senator has be...
If you want to feel the enormity of a film on a gigantic screen or be transported back to Hollywood's golden age, catch a movie at Baltimore's treasured Senator Theatre. The 900-seat, single-screen theater plays 1940s jazz tunes before screenings of first-run and classic movies. The 1939 art deco movie house is an architectural gem with a two-story lobby adorned with murals and black and white photographs. A "walk of fame" on 70 sidewalk blocks in front of the theater has celebrity signatures, including Charles Dutton and Barry Levinson, and logos from movies such as "Liberty Heights," "Hairspray" and "Gone With The Wind." It is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Senator has been the site of local and national film premieres such as "Seabiscuit," John Waters' "Hairspray," "Diner" and "Primal Fear." Despite the local history, the theater is struggling to survive amid competition from larger multiplexes, financial troubles and limitations on screenings. It has escaped foreclosure several times. In 2001, the theater was part of a History Channel documentary about the preservation of historic sites. Waters and Tom Clancy shared their memories of the movie house. It was cited by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as a prime example of the endangered "historic theaters of America." Tom Kiefaber, whose family opened the Senator, owns the theater on York Road across from Belvedere Square. Kiefaber also owns the Rotunda Cinematheque, a movie theater on 40th Street.
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Tax credit to speed Senator Theatre renovations
If James "Buzz" Cusack and his daughter, Kathleen Lyon, have their way, they'll be cutting ribbons by Christmas for a restored Senator Theatre that will preserve the original cinema and add three screens and a small restaurant.
Gov. Martin O'Malley...Tags: Taxation, Credit and Debt, Belvedere Square, Holidays, Maryland Historical Trust
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Senator Theatre wins $300,000 state tax credit for restoration
The Senator Theatre has been awarded a $300,000 state tax credit for restoration of the historic, Art-Deco style cinema house that was built in 1939.
The Senator is one of six recipients of a combined $7 million in Sustainable Communities Tax Credits,...Tags: Taxation, Loans, Painting, Roland Park, Renovation
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Bar review: Despite new owners, Swallow at the Hollow feels tired
For almost as long as the Senator Theatre has been in operation, so has Swallow at the Hollow.
The bar/restaurant has been a holdout in Belvedere-Govans since the 1940s, when it was called the Hollow Bar and Grill. Little changed at the corner bar over...Tags: Govans, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Belvedere Square, Colleges and Universities
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Senator Theatre still awaiting word on historic tax credits
Operators of the Senator Theatre were waiting anxiously this week to hear whether they will be awarded state historic tax credits for their planned $3 million expansion and renovation of the landmark 1939 Art Deco cinema house.
They did not make the...Tags: Taxation, Executive Branch, Maryland Historical Trust, Tax Credits, Bars and Clubs
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Best Week Ever: Baltimore events, music, movies and more
What's happening in town 12/12-12/18. You know, when you're not shopping.
MOVIES OPENING (Friday; subject to change)
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol
Shame
Sherlock...Tags: Charlie Brown (fictional character), Katie Couric, Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Encore (tv network), Showtime (tv network)
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Best week ever: Baltimore events, music, movies and more
Looking for something to do this week? Check out our list of everything going on from 12/5-12/11.
MOVIES OPENING (Friday; subject to change)
New Year’s Eve
The Sitter
NOTABLE TV
MONDAY
The Young Turks (series debut; 7 p.m.; Current)
Gossip...Tags: Oxygen (tv network), Ventura County Fires (2009), Gilbert Gottfried, Walters Art Museum, Patricia Cornwell
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Veterinary practice opens opposite Senator Theatre
"Somewhere over the rainbow," sang Tinker Bell, a double yellow-headed Amazon parrot, during an open house at the new Belvedere Veterinary Center on Saturday.
The state-of-the-art animal hospital opened Dec. 8 in the old Saigon Remembered restaurant at...Tags: Dog (animal), Belvedere Square, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
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William E. Hewitt, Senator projectionist
William E. Hewitt, the longtime Senator Theatre projectionist and movie house manager, who was a cinema technology expert, died of pneumonia Monday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Hamilton resident was 75.
Born in Baltimore and raised...Tags: Govans, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Local Elections, Movies, Hospitals and Clinics
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Young campaigns to keep council presidency
Campaigning on foot along a stretch of tidy brick rowhouses in East Baltimore, joined by a small entourage of family members, campaign consultants and volunteers, City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young rarely needs an introduction.
"Whassup,...Tags: Federal Hill, Media Industry, Mail Order Industry, Referenda, Corporate Crime
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For mayoral candidates, a whirl of handshakes
They rapped on doors, waved bright signs, groused about the media, ate chicken wings, and shook hands — lots and lots of hands.
The women and men hoping to win the Democratic nomination to be Baltimore's next mayor whirled through the city Monday,...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Local Elections, Polls, Referenda, Republican Party
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Councilwoman Conaway unseated in race to represent Hampden area
City Councilman Carl Stokes said he surprised himself with his wide margin of victory over Odette Ramos in Tuesday's Democratic primary race to represent Charles Village.
"It's much more than I expected, frankly," Stokes, an appointed councilman who...Tags: Rochelle Spector, Mary Pat Clarke, Carl Stokes, Bill Henry, Judges
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Hampden hosts Baltimore mayor, council candidates forum
The Roosevelt Recreation Center on Aug. 23 looked like a voting precinct on Election Day.
Although the Democratic and Republican primaries aren't until Sept. 13 and Roosevelt isn't a voting place, it was the center of attention — and campaign signs...Tags: Mary Pat Clarke, Carl Stokes, Republican Party, Social Media, Management Change
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