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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 belies 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...
Highlandtown, arguably the very quintessence of Baltimore, was once a small town outside the city limits. The look and feel of the area still belies 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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Table Talk and one very angry reader
Dining@LargeToday's Table Talk column tells you a little more about subjects I've already talked about here: specifically Azul 17 and Taverna Corvino. There's also a Closing of the Week. I actually could do a feature called that if I wanted......Tags: Restaurants, Pumpkin, Dining and Drinking
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Richard reviews Chicken Rico
Dining@LargeI know how fond a lot of you are of Chicken Rico in Highlandtown. (Fond may be an understatement.) So I think you'll be interested in Other Reviewer Richard's review, which appeared in today's paper. I must be getting hungry....... -
Saluting Sherlock Holmes with 'Hound of the Baskervilles'
Sherlock Holmes fans antsy with anticipation for the forthcoming extravaganza starring Robert Downey Jr. as the great detective and Jude Law as his sidekick, Dr. Watson, can settle down this weekend with the 1939 version of the most famous of all Holmes...Tags: Holidays, Frankenstein's Monster (fictional character), Halloween, Monsters (legendary creatures), Graham Greene
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Seven developers honored for Baltimore projects
Seven Baltimore development projects have been picked for their innovation and vision to be the first recipients of a new award sponsored by The Urban Land Institute's Baltimore chapter. . The seven WaveMaker Awards projects are Miller's Court, a...Tags: Locust Point, Beverage Industry
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City seeks development plans for ex-Highlandtown library
The city of Baltimore is seeking a developer for the former Highlandtown library, a three-level, 1920s-era building at 3323 Eastern Ave. that has been vacant since Baltimore's Southeast Anchor Library opened three blocks away in 2007. The Baltimore...Tags: Museum Dioramas
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Bagby Pizza Co. brings Italian to Harbor East
Baltimore Sun reporterWhen I asked Blake Smith, who has a degree in finance, why he decided to open a pizzeria, he sounded incredulous: "You have to love pizza. C'mon." His new brick-oven pizza place is the Bagby Pizza Co. (1006 Fleet St., 410-605-0444, BagbyPizza.com),...Tags: Station North, Pizzas, Harbor East, Foods and Beverages, Tapas
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A chance to get in touch with your inner zombie
Baltimore Sun reporterThe undead are among us. Or at least they will be, on Sunday. If you're one of the undead, you should already know that Sunday is World Zombie Day. And you probably know all about zombie walks, that unsettling phenomenon where hordes of the mobile dead...Tags: Zombieland (movie), Chris Jackson, Patterson Park, Barnes & Noble Incorporated, Ghouls and Zombies (legendary entities)
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Chicken Rico, a busy place, where people care
Special to The Baltimore SunHighlandtown's Chicken Rico gets mentioned a lot when the conversation turns to Baltimore's best chicken places. Briny, peppery Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken is the kind of food that creates strong feelings, and the relative merits of various joints...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Seafood, Peru, Trout
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Funnel cloud photos from June 9 storm
Maryland WeatherThe National Weather Service has begun to receive and pass along eyewitnesses' photos of a funnel cloud that formed in the outer portion of Baltimore Harbor last Tuesday, June 9. The twister formed as a strong gust front passed over......Tags: Dundalk, Medical Specialization, Tornadoes, Weather Reports, Timonium
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Top 10 All-American Restaurants
Dining@LargeAll-American Restaurants was a tougher category than I thought it would be. I didn't want to include diners and barbecue places, because they deserve Top 10s of their own. And I didn't want to include restaurants like Cafe Hon that......Tags: Dundalk, Foods and Beverages, Catonsville, Steaks, Restaurants
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Race, Obama and the sword
I agree with President Jimmy Carter's statements that racism is an undercurrent of the vehement protests against President Obama. In Baltimore we see it in the reaction to the killing of a burglar by a Johns Hopkins student. Envision this: A white man...Tags: Government, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Morgan State University, National Government
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Rock opera brewed for many years
Baltimore Sun reporterFirst, take a bunch of recent college grads with an interest in fantasy, horror and heavy metal. Mix in an indeterminate amount of beer. Let rise for several months. Garnish with a couple of umlauts. Then brace yourself for an original rock opera...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Metal and Mineral, Brian de Palma, Genres, Comedy (genre)
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