We’re going to have a lot of fun in and around Baltimore this year! Don’t believe us? Such skepticism is entirely unwarranted — from Orioles Fanfest in three weeks to the combined Light City and Baltimore Book Festival in early November, Charm City’s arts and entertainment schedule is practically...
From the beaches of Ocean City in the east to the Appalachian Mountains in the west, from the rolling hills of My Lady's Manor (home to Maryland's steeplechase races) in the north to the tidewater marshlands of the Chesapeake Bay to the south -- Maryland has a little bit of everything.
Two women said Thursday that singer R. Kelly picked them out of a crowd at a Baltimore after-party in the mid-1990s when they were underage and had sex with one of the teens although she was under the influence of marijuana and alcohol and could not consent. The Baltimore Sun does not typically...
A gesture as simple as writing a check can have heroic consequences. The $900 that the Baltimore heiress and art patron Saidie Adler May filled out represents a modest sum, even viewed from the perspective of 1940. It’s the equivalent of $16,150 in 2019 dollars, or roughly the amount needed to...
At the centerpiece of Deyane Moses’ exhibit is a shocking image: a racist caricature of a black employee of the Maryland Institute College of Art from the early 1900s. More shocking: It ran in the school’s yearbook. As schools across the United States are grappling with their own racist legacies,...
Last weekend marked the closing of the yearlong bicentennial of Frederick Douglass. But fear not, the spirit of the famed Maryland abolitionist carries on at the Banneker-Douglass Museum. Through the end of the month, visitors have a chance to view the Frederick Douglass Reading Room at the museum,...
More than 70 years ago, a young soldier was separated from his sweetheart by an ocean and World War II. He imagined the two of them gazing at the same constellations from different hemispheres, and wrote her the following lines: ”What are you doing tonight? How about a date? I’ve rented a moon,...
It’s exquisite, this little 19th-century Christian prayer book — not the least because its pious and conventional appearance disguises a breathtakingly innovative idea. The petite volume is bound in navy blue goatskin that’s roughly as long as the average woman’s hand and not quite twice as wide....