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Former Station North artists building Bell Foundry sold to Baltimore apartment developers

The Bell Foundry building in Station North that once houses dozens of artists and performers before it was condemned last year was sold to a developer that has been upgrading old urban buildings into boutique apartments.

By Meredith Cohn

Dec 5, 2018

• Entertainment

Balloons, a Broadway star and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark': the best of Baltimore's arts and entertainment scene this week

The top arts and entertainment events in the Baltimore area for the week of May 6-12, 2018.

By Chris Kaltenbach

May 6, 2018

• Entertainment

Light City, superheroes and the Swanktacular: the best of Baltimore's arts and entertainment scene this week

The top A&E events in Baltimore for the week of April 1-7, 2018.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Apr 1, 2018

• Food & Drink

The Brewer's Art, Baltimore Rock Opera Society collaborate on new beer Chuggernaut

The Brewer's Art and the Baltimore Rock Opera Society have teamed up to release a new beer called The Chuggernaut.

By Wesley Case

Mar 28, 2018

• Entertainment

Magic, Black Panther, Jimmie's Chicken Shack: The best of this week's Baltimore arts and entertainment scene

These are the week's top arts and entertainment events in Baltimore for the week of Feb 11-17, 2018.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Feb 11, 2018

• Features

This 74-year-old Baltimore theater is being reincarnated once again

A 74-year-old movie theater building in Baltimore, once home to The Playhouse and several other incarnations, should reopen in 2019 as a combination of office and theater space

By Chris Kaltenbach

Feb 2, 2018

• Features

Baltimore notables share their best (and worst) New Year's Eve stories

We asked a handful of notable Baltimoreans, from April Ryan to City Councilman Bill Henry, to share stories of their most memorable New Year’s celebrations — for better or worse.

• Food & Drink

Baltimore Safe Arts Space task force recommends repurposing vacant buildings, appointing liaison and more

The suggestion to utilize vacant properties was one of more than 40 recommendations Mayor Catherine Pugh’s Safe Art Space task force made after working for the past year to address the many issues surrounding Baltimore’s lack of safe and affordable spaces for artists.

By Wesley Case

Dec 20, 2017

• Food & Drink

Dru Hill to perform at Baltimore's Washington Monument lighting Thursday

Baltimore R&B group Dru Hill will perform a short set of songs from their new Christmas album at Thursday's monument lighting event in Mount Vernon.

By Wesley Case

Dec 7, 2017

• Entertainment

Everything you need to know about the Baltimore monument lighting

From food and drink to weather, here's everything you need to know to enjoy Baltimore's holiday tradition.

• Baltimore Rock Opera Society

Crabbies 2017: Celebrating the best of the Baltimore Internet

Celebrating and recognizing the annual best of the Baltimore Internet.

• Entertainment

Washington Monument lighting, Mayor’s Christmas Parade, Harlem Globetrotters and more of the week's best events in the Baltimore area

The week's 10-best A&E events in Baltimore Dec. 3-9, 2017.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Dec 3, 2017

• Food & Drink

2017 Halloween events in Baltimore: Family fun, bar crawls and more

In a city as colorful and proudly off-kilter as ours, Halloween makes for one fun weekend in Baltimore.

By Wesley Case

Oct 25, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

Thursday-Tuesday: Halloween Roundup

The City Paper staff will wrap our last ever issue, which comes out Nov. 1, the day before Halloween. Expect to see us drinking our grief away...

• Baltimore City Paper

Best Space: Bell Foundry

Before it was condemned last December and its tenants abruptly evicted, the Bell Foundry was for years a landmark in the arts scene, hosting shows, artist

• Baltimore City Paper

Best Theater Company: Baltimore Rock Opera Society

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• Entertainment

After string of setbacks, Baltimore Rock Opera Society ready to reclaim spotlight

After losing its office and workshop space when the Bell Foundry was shut down in late 2016, Baltimore Rock Opera Society ready to unveil its first 2017 show, "The Terrible Secret of Lunastus."

• Baltimore City Paper

Moonage Daydream: Still in purgatory, Baltimore Rock Opera Society returns with sci-fi comedy "The Terrible Secret of Lunastus"

This has not been a banner year for most inhabitants of Earth, and the idea of blasting off and relocating to another planet grows more appealing each

• Entertainment

Baltimore Seafood Festival, 'Rat Film,' return of BROS and more of best Baltimore-area events this week

The 10 best arts and entertainment events in Baltimore the week of Sept. 10-16, 2017

By Chris Kaltenbach

Sep 10, 2017

• News

Document: August indictment of the former officer-in-charge of the Gun Trace Task Force

• Entertainment

Arena Players, Baltimore Rock Opera Society to collaborate on shows

Arena Players, the country's oldest continuously operating African-American community theater, and the Baltimore Rock Opera Society will co-present rock musicals in February 2018.

• Food & Drink

Rehearsal space Studio 14 reopens after obtaining permit, addressing safety issues

Closed in January due to lack of a permit and safety violations, Studio 14 in West Baltimore reopened earlier this week.

By Wesley Case

May 18, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

The Bell Foundry tagged with "$HAME 100," graffiti artist says it's aimed at building owners, city

Someone tagged the shit out of the Bell Foundry.

• Business

Bell Foundry, shuttered by Baltimore officials, is for sale

The Bell Foundry, the Station North community arts workspace condemned by Baltimore housing officials in December, and its 0.31-acre land parcel are up for sale for $1 million.

By Colin Campbell

Apr 10, 2017

• Features

Baltimore Rock Opera Society releases compilation album to help raise funds for new space

The Baltimore Rock Opera Society has launched an online fundraiser that includes a compilation of their greatest hits in hopes of finding their “forever home.”

By Brittany Britto

Mar 16, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore Rock Opera Society releases "Gründle Jammers" compilation album

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Abused & Tired: The Bell Foundry's artist-tenants and the Baltimore Rock Opera Society bounce back after eviction

The Bell Foundry was a place where people lived and worked and paid rent and played music and made art; it was also a place where people crashed if they were

• Baltimore City Paper

Abused & Tired: The Bell Foundry's artist-tenants and the Baltimore Rock Opera Society bounce back after eviction

• Entertainment

Drumlines, country music and King Kong: This week in Baltimore's arts scene

A look at what's happening the week of March 5-11 in Baltimore arts and entertainment

By Chris Kaltenbach

Mar 5, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

Digging into the research for "Hidden Figures"

Before there was "Hidden Figures," the blockbuster movie and book by Margot Lee Shetterly, there was "Determination of Azimuth," an operetta about th

• Food & Drink

Baltimore Rock Opera Society returns to previously shuttered Bell Foundry space

More than two months after the Station North building was shuttered due to safety violations, Baltimore Rock Opera Society returned to the Bell Foundry Sunday.

By Wesley Case

Feb 21, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

Saturday: BROS Bands Bringing Bucks

Jan. 28

• Entertainment

Burglary hits Baltimore Rock Opera Society at condemned Bell Foundry space

The Baltimore Rock Opera Society, one of the groups displaced by the December closing of the Bell Foundry, has lost equipment there to a burglary.

• Food & Drink

Studio 14, a West Baltimore rehearsal space, shut down for safety and permit violations

On Thursday, the Baltimore Fire Department shut down Studio 14 — a long-running West Baltimore rehearsal space for local bands, including the Baltimore Rock

By Wesley Case

Jan 20, 2017

• Opinion

Roughly Speaking podcast: Exiled from Bell Foundry, Baltimore Rock Opera Society seeks own home (episode 196)

Artistic Director Aran Keating talks about the nonprofit opera company's quest for a new space for BROS's raucous and imaginative productions.

By Dan Rodricks

Jan 12, 2017

• Maryland

Pugh announces task force to create 'safe art spaces' in Baltimore after Bell Foundry evictions

Mayor Catherine E. Pugh announced a task force to create "safe, cost-effective" spaces for young artists to live.

By Luke Broadwater

Dec 21, 2016

• Baltimore City Paper

Pugh announces a Safe Arts Space task force, includes artists, developers, more

This morning at Station North venue, the Windup Space, mayor Catherine Pugh, stood in front of members of city agencies, artists and artist groups, lawyers,

• Baltimore City

Evicted Bell Foundry tenant Baltimore Rock Opera Society seeks $75,000 for new home

After being evicted from their headquarters in the now-condemned Bell Foundry following the discovery of a raft of safety violations there last week, members of the nonprofit Baltimore Rock Opera Society say they are "mad as hell" — and looking for donations to help them purchase their own permanent space.

By Kevin Rector

Dec 14, 2016

• Baltimore City Paper

A Place Away From the Bullshit: The end of DIY arts space the Bell Foundry

Musician, DJ, videographer, and writer Qué Pequeño first came to the Bell Foundry back in 2011.

"I know the exact date—it was April 30, 2

• Opinion

Former MICA president: Artists need safe spaces

Baltimore has hundreds and maybe even thousands of artists who need space. To maintain the strength of our arts community and its impact on the city, we must all work together to be certain that all the spaces the artists are currently using are safe. If there are deficiencies, we have to work with the artists to find the financial resources to bring them up to code.

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Bell Foundry was 'tragedy waiting to happen,' Baltimore housing official says

When Baltimore fire and housing inspectors entered the Bell Foundry arts building this week to investigate a complaint about substandard conditions inside, they were confronted with a "tragedy waiting to happen," a high-ranking housing official said Wednesday.

By Kevin Rector

Dec 7, 2016

• Maryland

Pugh promises investigation into Bell Foundry closure, support for displaced artists

Baltimore's new mayor said Wednesday that she was not aware of the forced evictions of dozens of artists from the Bell Foundry building in the Station North Arts District as it was occurring, but intends to launch an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the building's closure and seek ways to support those who were displaced.

• Food & Drink

Bell Foundry benefit show with Dan Deacon, Abdu Ali to take place at Metro Gallery next week

The Baltimore music community is rallying around the Bell Foundry and its recently evicted tenants with a Metro Gallery show on Dec. 13.

By Wesley Case

Dec 7, 2016

• Maryland

As artists vacate shuttered Bell Foundry, questions swirl around building's condition — and its future

The eviction of a community of artists from a commercially-zoned warehouse in the Station North Arts District in Baltimore following the discovery of various safety violations this week has furthered a growing national debate around the complex — and potentially dangerous — arrangements sometimes reached between landlords and local artists intent on maintaining affordable spaces for the creative class.

• Maryland

Baltimore officials condemn, shutter Bell Foundry arts building in Station North for safety violations

Officials in Baltimore on Monday condemned and shuttered the Bell Foundry, a large building used as studio and recording space by local artists in Station North, after receiving a complaint about the conditions there and finding safety violations.

• Baltimore City Paper

DIY arts space Bell Foundry shut down by city

The DIY arts studio and performance space Bell Foundry was shut down this afternoon, as artists were locked out from the building and left wondering if they

• Baltimore City Paper

Dec. 31: Throw 2016 In The Trash: a New Year's Eve Bash with the Baltimore Rock Opera Society

Fuck this year. All kinds of people we liked died. The elections were wack. The summer was extra hot because of global warming and shit.  I’m through with this

• Baltimore City

Pride of Baltimore II to return to Inner Harbor Thursday

The Pride of Baltimore II will return to the Inner Harbor Thursday from a four-month, 8,000-mile journey up the East Coast to the Great Lakes.

By Colin Campbell

Oct 5, 2016

• Baltimore City Paper

July 15-17: Artscape

Last year's Artscape theme was water, inspiring all sorts of beachy and conservation-esque installations, such as a huge recycling "stream" down Charles Street,

• Baltimore City Paper

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