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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.

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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."

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

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

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.

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

Someone tagged the shit out of the Bell Foundry.

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.

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.”

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

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

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.

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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.

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

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

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

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,

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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,

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