By the time the doors open 15 minutes early that Saturday night, dozens are lined up to get inside. Women wear wedges and bodysuits that hug their curves. Men sport collared shirts and their favorite sneakers. Some have caregivers guiding them; others need wheelchairs. Many wear the signature T-shirts...
An inmate accused of leading a riot at Delaware's maximum-security prison during which a guard was killed and other staffers taken hostage was acquitted of all charges Thursday and will soon be freed. A jury deliberated about nine hours over two days before declaring Roman Shankaras, 32, not guilty...
Two Howard County Council members are proposing to allocate an additional $8 million in funding for the school system’s proposed fiscal 2020 budget ahead of final approval. Councilwomen Liz Walsh and Deb Jung, both Democrats, filed amendments Wednesday to add funding to the school system’s transportation...
Cody Odachowski is a drag performer — he puts on makeup, a very big wig, fake breasts and a costume to sing other people’s songs. “I want people to have fun. The events we have are not to push an agenda, to sway people to do things the way we want them to, it’s to forget about the crap in this...
Minutes before being formally introduced as the boys basketball coach at Dunbar, Keith Booth was huddled with some of his new players at the school’s library early Thursday afternoon. Poet Pride was being discussed. Afterward, the 1993 alumnus, who went on to have a standout career at Maryland...
Since life is not fair, few will remember 10 years from now that on May 18, 2019, War of Will won the 144th Preakness. The indelible memory of Saturday’s big race at Pimlico Race Course will be the frightening gate accident that sent jockey John Velazquez hurtling through the air and a riderless...
Aside from the obvious — better results from city schools, fewer shootings and less crime generally — there are two efforts that, when ramped up, could keep more Baltimore families from leaving town and possibly stabilize the city’s population in the near future: Converting more vacant rowhouses...
I look into his face and see everything James Williams tells me, everything his young lawyers describe, everything in the psychiatric evaluations and police reports. I see confirmation of a hard life that started with physical and mental cruelty, moved quickly into drinking and drugs, followed...
Sometimes — check that, many times — I think we do not know what we want, and I mean diehard Baltimoreans, the ones who actually live in the city and plan to stay here until they die or polar bears show up on icebergs in the Inner Harbor, whichever comes first. Consider comments received here about...
One of the most important dates on the Baltimore calendar for 2019 will be July 9. That is when proposals for what used to be known as The Superblock are due at the city’s economic development agency. The plans presented on or before noon of that Tuesday could represent a significant step toward...
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Baltimore’s Remington neighborhood has selected a pair of retailers for two vacant storefronts after running a “Shark Tank”-style contest that offered entrepreneurs free rent for up to two years. Cahoots Brothers, which will open at 300 W. 29th St., and Codex Club, which will open in Remington...
The University of Maryland Medical System and affiliated hospitals have paid at least $127 million since 2012 to a construction company led by an executive who has been a board member at the health network’s affiliated medical school and flagship hospital, according to records reviewed by The Baltimore...
Alexey “Alex” Shkolnik, one of the city’s last downtown cobblers, who was named one of Baltimore’s Best for 2019 by The Baltimore Sun, died April 28 from a cardiac arrest at Sinai Hospital. The Owings Mills resident was 73. “Alex was a cobbler’s cobbler, who did repairs others turned down, and...
Maryland’s spending panel unanimously approved a $9.8 million upgrade to the bus route along Baltimore’s North Avenue. The Board of Public Works voted 3-0 Wednesday to award a $9.8 million contract to Baltimore firm P. Flanigan & Sons Inc. to make “various improvements” along North Avenue between...
Before she founded a dance school in Randallstown, Adrienne Watson Carver was herself a student at Hampton University, one of the United States’ best-known historically Black institutions. In 1990, she became the captain of Ebony Fire, the official dance team of the school’s marching band, The...
Folks have surely heard of the indomitable Molly Brown from “The Titanic” tales – one of the few who survived the sinking ship. Well, we’ve got our own unconquerable heroine in Howard County who continues to spread the word of hope for metastatic breast cancer patients. Maggie Kudirka, known widely...
As a child growing up in Waldorf, Maryland, Jovan Adepo had no idea he would one day become a full-time working actor in Hollywood. This month, Adepo will appear in the Netflix original series, “When They See Us,” based on the lives of the Central Park Five, the 1989 case of the five black and...
In many ways, Le Mondo represents the Baltimore arts world’s grandest aspirations. Its website describes a multipronged “artist-owned performance venue, live/work studio space, and community-focused cafe and bar.” A list of guiding principles encourages experimental art in various media, giving...
He loves dogs and computers, and he knows what makes both tick. So Bel Air resident Jared Marmen set out to make a “smart” collar for canines, high-tech neckwear that rewards pets for obedience instead of shocking them for bad behavior. The Chord Collar project is a passion for Marmen, 37, a Bel...
For any parent who has struggled to get their children to try new foods, the Young Chefs Academy in Bel Air offers a solution: Have them prepare it, and maybe they’ll not only sample it, but actually like it. This was on display recently at the cooking school as eight middle-schoolers prepared...
If it looks like an Oriole and shows up on a baseball cap like an Oriole, then it must be a… duck? In Tokyo, apparently. Baltimore City District 3 Councilman Ryan Dorsey, riding a train on a recent trip to Tokyo and spying a man wearing an Orioles baseball cap, did what any proud Baltimorean would...
Tianna VanSpriell vividly remembers what the business scene in Fallston used to be like — a seemingly endless number of car dealerships. But she sees the landscape changing and hopes toturn the area into a shopping destination—all while raising money and awareness for several causes. In November,...
About 8 percent of Citiwatch cameras in Baltimore don’t work, according to the Baltimore Police Department. A recent count found 59 of the 744 closed-circuit cameras were not functioning, officials said, for reasons ranging from wireless signal interference and downed street poles to cameras simply...
After Republican Gov. Larry Hogan killed Baltimore’s proposed $2.9 billion Red Line light rail project in 2015, Democratic lawmakers in the General Assembly tried to fight back — passing legislation mandating that the Maryland Department of Transportation create a metric-based scoring system to...
A trust managing Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s development business continued to make new real estate transactions last year, according to new financial disclosure forms filed by the governor. Hogan now has an ownership interest in 43 limited liability companies — including four new companies formed...