baltimore school for the arts
- Baltimore is under assault from know-nothing, fearful suburbanites
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BSA alum Jacqueline Green, 22, comes back home for Lyric performance - Liz Bark picked up a gun for the first time 1.5 years ago. She now finds herself as one of the best youth shooters in Maryland and will join three others from the state at a national competition in Alabama in June.
- Baltimore's two-year commemoration of the War of 1812 began dramatically Saturday at the site of the British bombardment of the city. Students from the Baltimore School for the Arts chose Fort McHenry for their open-air stage and debuted "Fighting for Freedom," a three-scene play that looks at the war's impact on every day life.
- The Baltimore Sun on Friday was named newspaper of the year — and recognized as having the best website among the competitors — in the annual Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association awards contest.
- Luke Works crafts custom pieces for home from concrete and wood
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- The Wine Market in Locust Point is showing off unusual wines for an Eclectic Wine Month promotion
- Joseph Klein Jr., a semi-retired Baltimore insurance executive and philanthropist, died Sunday of pulmonary fibrosis at his Pikesville home. He was 80.
- Sol Goodman, a retired auto leasing and sales executive who wrote poetry that spoke of the joys of living in Baltimore, died of kidney failure Feb. 18 at the Sunrise Assisted Living in Pikesville. The longtime Mount Vernon resident was 88.
- Legendary swimming coach believed in daily training and coached at Calvert Hall and the Orchards for decades
- Business entrepreneur and philanthropist William Polk Carey, who donated $80 million to two Maryland universities, died Monday in a Florida hospital.
- Four of Baltimore top arts leaders — choreographer Liz Lerman, Center Stage's Kwame Kwei-Armah, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Marin Alsop and Gary Vikan of the Walters Art Museum — recently got together to brainstorm ideas to take the arts to the next level in Baltimore.
- In her inaugural address Tuesday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake exhorted Baltimoreans to "pitch in and do their part" to improve the city — and draw new residents — despite economic challenges.
- To counter population decline among parents with school-age children, Baltimore City must find ways to compete with schools in the surrounding counties
- Police seize 8 pounds of marijuana from a rowhouse on Cathedral Street in Mount Vernon
- Wallace "Wally" Henry Coberg, a theatrical designer and filmmaker who was at work on a new Edgar Allan Poe documentary, died of an apparent heart attack Nov. 18 at his Bolton Hill home. He was 63.
- Jack and Zach Food opens on lower level of Woman's Industrial Exchange building
- Baltimore Station, a residential recovery program for homeless, addicted men, many of them veterans, stages an art auction and gala as a fundraiser at Church of the Redeemer in Homeland. High school students from Towson, Catonville, Reisterstown and Westminster donated artwork and worked as volunteers.
- The Anne Arundel County School System on Tuesday night fielded questions from parents and students about the county's upcoming Performance Visual Arts magnet program for high schools, a first-time endeavor that will offer students a chance to work with arts professionals while extending their school day four times a week.
- Compass Rose Studio Theater is a new company that opened its first production in Eastport Shopping Center on Oct.21. Running through Nov. 20 is the Pulitzer Prize-winning work "Lost in Yonkers."
- Nick Mosby, the Democratic nominee for City Council in Baltimore's 7th District, urges city youth to aim higher than the temptations of the streets. He hopes to continue to carry this message as a councilman. First he has to hold off a write-in challenge from Councilwoman Belinda Conaway in Tuesday's general election.
- Students at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School get a great education without recess.
- Bay Theatre founder Janet Luby could not conceal her delight as she announced that the first celebratory event of the coming season, a fashion show and fundraiser, had sold out nearly two months in advance.
- Josh Charles is a very competitive guy. But he's feeling absolutely no pressure to win as he arrives for his first Emmy Awards telecast as a nominee Sunday.
- A rare air of controversy has marked the new school year at the prestigious Baltimore of the Arts, with the administrators acknowledging this week that the school's payroll practices have been under investigation for three months.
- "Although we are reluctant to respond to these kinds of press reports, the rumors circulating about our relationship are completely false. We are still together, and our marriage is intact."
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- Middle Grades Partnership between Roland Park Country School and Garrison Middle School Enriches Young Women's Lives
- As nominee for best supporting actor in a drama series, Josh Charles is now going head-to-head with the likes of Andre Braugher of TNT's "Men of a Certain Age" and John Slattery of AMC's "Mad Men" — pretty refined company. And he belongs there
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- William Donald Schaefer — the former mayor, governor and comptroller who left an indelible mark on Baltimore — is heading back to the city this afternoon for one last tour.
- From Faidley's at Lexington Market to the Washington Monument, from Camden Yards to the Inner Harbor, a motorcade will ferry the body of William Donald Schaefer Monday afternoon on a two-hour farewell trip through the hometown that he loved and led.
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