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After an 18-month hiatus, Baltimore's Contemporary Museum has resurfaced with a shortened name and a return to its original mission. - Midnight Madness, a holiday tradition for decades, is Friday, Dec. 6.
- Symphony Woods in downtown Columbia is a patch of nondescript land used mainly as a pathway for the tens of thousands of people who attend concerts at Merriweather Post Pavilion each year.
- For its 16th year, Carroll County's Festival of Wreaths is shaking things up a little. Once held on the first floor of the Carroll Arts Center, the popular fundraiser is moving to the second floor, allowing the center to open its annual Gallery of Gifts earlier.
- Harford County holiday shoppers may have flooded local retailers Thanksgiving evening and Friday morning for traditional Black Friday sales, but there will be plenty of great pre-Christmas deals to choose from in the shops along the main downtown streets of Bel Air, Aberdeen and Havre de Grace during Small Business Saturday.
- Justin and Jeremy Batoff, who grew up in Hunt Valley, had long accompanied their parents to society balls and charitable fundraisers. But they felt too few of their peers were donning black tails and ball gowns and attending such events.
- What I really want to know is whether you, Mr. or Mrs. Orioles fan, want Mike Mussina to go into the Baseball Hall of Fame as an Oriole.
- Effort to honor former Colts running back Lenny Moore with statue picks up steam.
- The Dancel Family Center YMCA is sponsoring its annual Turkey Trot Charity 5K on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 28, at 8:30 a.m.
- HCC Actors Guild will present "Fairytale Courtroom" Dec. 6 to 8 and 13 to 15 at the Blackbox Theatre in Joppa Hall on the Harford Community College campus. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. on Dec 6, 7, 13 and 14; 11 a.m. on Dec. 7 and 14; and 3 p.m. on Dec. 8 and 15
- The sound of 150 children playing instruments — the violin, the trumpet, the oboe, the harp — spills out of every classroom, filling the air and remarkably transforming this elementary school in a raggedy neighborhood of West Baltimore into a music conservatory.
- In addition to the usual flurry of such perennial favorites as Handel's "Messiah" and Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker," this year's lineup gains fresh spice from several new-to-Baltimore shows, including a play about the last Christmas of the Civil War and stage adaptations of popular holiday movies.
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- A hearing has been set for Jan. 10 on a motion to return "Paysage Bords de Seine" to the Baltimore Museum of Art. Meanwhile, settlement discussions are ongoing.
- Anonymous artist erected a metal statue of a person in the middle of the traffic circle at 32nd Street and Guilford Avenue. Residents think it's nice and have been putting winter clothing on it, but city transportation officials say it is not approved and must come down — and that DOT will do it unless th artist or community does it first. Nov. 22 apparently is D-Day.
- The Baltimore Museum of Art will reopen its historic entrance Nov. 23, 2014 to mark the museum's centennial. The entrance has been closed to the public since 1982.
- The DeVos Institute of Arts Management, founded in 2001 by Kennedy Center president Michael Kaiser, will move to the University of Maryland's College Park campus, effective Sept. 1.
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- How buildings change, or disappear completely, over the years! With the buildings, community events also disappear.
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- The operators of the Arts by the Bay Gallery in Havre de Grace will celebrate five years of being part of the downtown area this weekend.
- The group exhibit "Art Howard County 2013" showcases quite an assortment of subjects and styles at the Howard County Arts Council. Juror Fahimeh Vahdat, who is chairperson of visual arts at Howard Community College, has picked work demonstrating the artistic diversity found within the county's art community.
- Hundreds of people gathered along Harford County shore of the Susquehanna River Saturday to marvel as bald eagles who call the area around the Conowingo Dam home soared over the river below the dam and then skimmed over the water to snag a fish in their talons.
- Newly discovered artworks recall a despotic regime's desperate fear of the creative spirit
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