Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake touted Tuesday a summer of safe high-profile events in the downtown area – part of a strategy, aides said, to refute those who have characterized the Inner Harbor as unsafe.
By By Julie Scharper and Luke Broadwater and The Baltimore Sun
The ultimate measure of the Baltimore Grand Prix's success or failure will be the extent to which City Hall can move on to focusing on other, more important things.
The first round of gleaming race cars will roar through downtown streets early Friday, marking the start of the second annual three day open wheel racing festival – and a victory for city officials and organizers who struggled to resurrect the event after last year's financial flop.
With most students on summer vacation, the Catonsville campus of the Community College of Baltimore County has relied on a sponsorship from M&T Bank and connection to Artscape to draw people.
Baltimore's Artscape festival came to a close Sunday as the rain held out and the biggest crowds of the weekend jammed streets transformed into galleries, performance space and picnic areas.
With a steady rain falling over Baltimore, the first full day of Artscape got off to a quiet start Saturday, but organizers were hopeful that the skies would clear and the crowds would return.
R&B singer Brian McKnight, who has made recent headlines for sexually explicit songs, kept it clean, and in the process, won over the 2012 Artscape crowd on Friday night.
Baltimore sculptor Sebastian Martorana, who tried to rescue Baltimore's iconic marble steps, is part of "40 under 40" exhibit in Washington's Renwick Gallery
R&B singer Brian McKnight's sexually explicit songs have caused some concern about his scheduled performance at the family friendly Artscape festival in Baltimore.
