The top A&E events in the Baltimore area for the week of April 21-27, 2019.

Come April, kite enthusiasts around the country will show off their artistry, aviation skills and creativity as National Kite Month kicks off. While kite flying has evolved into a recreational activity in the U.S, other countries use them as religious symbols or for sport.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia is hosting a three-day conference in Baltimore for more than 500 government planners, bankers and nonprofit leaders to study the city and its neighborhood transformations and economic inclusion efforts.

Less than a decade ago, pundits were decrying the imminent death of brick-and-mortar book bins. But not only did independent bookstores locally and nationally refuse to go away, they began rebounding. Here's how they did it.

The top events on Baltimore's arts and entertainment scene for the week of Aug. 5-11, 2018.

In celebration of World Refugee Day on Wednesday, Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services and award-winning Nashville photographer Jeremy Cowart have launched the “Be Unafraid” campaign, a traveling photo exhibit that attempts to address the fear surrounding refugees.

The top arts and entertainment events in the Baltimore area for the week of May 13-19, 2018.

From best free activity to best music video, Baltimore Sun staffers pick their favorites for 2018 in the arts and activities category.

Alice R. Gadzinski, an artist-in-residence at the Creative Alliance who was known for her papier-mache sculptures, died March 10 after a yearlong struggle from breast cancer at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Highlandtown resident was 30.

The top A&E events in Baltimore for the week of March 11-17

The top A&E events in Baltimore the week of Jan. 21-27, 2018

When 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' came to Baltimore.

Lane K. Berk, a civil rights and social justice activist and a supporter of the arts who won a legal battle to keep a 10-foot-tall orange pylon that spelled B-A-L-T-I-M-O-R-E on the roof of her Federal Hill home, died Tuesday of heart failure. She was 89.

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

Mexico’s Day of the Dead originated 3000 years ago as an Aztec tradition and has spread worldwide with the Mexican diaspora. It’s a time to remember...

A $10 million apartment building opens on the site of the old Haussner's restaurant, part of Eastern Avenue's rebirth.

Creative Alliance screens a dozen home-grown film shorts at The Patterson, showcasing the best local moving-picture talent as determined by Abbie Algar...

This Labor Day, I celebrate a woman who began working when she was still in grade school, scrubbing steps along her alley street near Patterson Park for a dime and giving the money to her mother.

Five books, or book events, with Baltimore connections that will be published in the fall of 2017

Baltimore's best arts and entertainment events in June 18-24.

May

Maryland groups fear a slippery funding slope because of threats to the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Hundreds gathered to parade and demonstrate Thursday in Patterson Park, while elsewhere in Baltimore notable restaurants ceased serving, businesses in Hispa

As hundreds of marchers circled Patterson Park this afternoon, almost everyone’s hands were in the air. If you weren’t waving a flag from Latin America or

Several restaurants, including those in the Foreman Wolf chain of high-end restaurants, will close today in support of the A Day Without Immigrants protest

↑ No ICE In Baltimore Rally

After stories of ICE arrests in Highlandtown spread, Baltimore's activists, including Maria Gabriela Aldana E

Select your Baltimore-area favorites: Dining, drinks, shopping, services, activities, arts and people.

While I was observing a T-shaped portrait of an afroed woman who stares off into the distance, I overheard a conversation a man was having with his f

The 10 best things to do this week in and around Baltimore, including Ravens at Bengals, Skatefest, Baltimore Crankie Fest, Zoso, Get the Led Out, Maryland Wedding Expo and "Vertigo."

Benjamin Banneker is among dozens of Marylanders and Baltimoreans represented in a collection of approximately 40,000 artifacts — some 3,000 onsite. Objects of local origin include a stone slave auction block from Hagerstown. A pinback from the Baltimore Elite Giants, a Negro League baseball team. Colorful entertainment placards produced by Baltimore's own Globe Poster Printing Corp.

1. Gunther & Co. (3650 Toone St., [443] 869-6874, eatatgunther.com)

Sherald's supporters think she's on the verge of becoming one of the most important painters of her generation.

Happening this week in Baltimore: holiday burlesque, a swingin' 'Nutcracker' and the Mayor's Christmas Parade

It's reassuring to know that during the holiday season, Baltimore loses none of the eccentric charm for which the city has become known.

Baltimore Krampuslauf. Dress up as Krampus, a Christmas demon from German alpine folklore, and walk through Hampden, singing carols and spooking onlookers.

“Everybody’s got a story,” Stoop founders Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin insist. “What’s yours?” Since 2006, Wexler and Henkin have been gathering local

Doors Open Baltimore

Baltimore's best and most distinctive architecture gets showcased as part of this worldwide effort to point out just what

Maryland Fleet Week and Air Show Baltimore

No bicentennial to celebrate this year (guess we'll have to wait for 2112 for the next big War of 18

A new apartment building has started rising on the site of the former Haussner's restaurant in Highlandtown.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Thursday that five neighborhoods and organizations will receive a total of $110,000 in 2016 PNC

The top arts and entertainment events in the Baltimore area for the week of June 19.

Sowebo Arts and Music Festival

When reports of immigration raids by ICE started circulating in early January, Baltimore's SOMOS students and their communities were already in a heightened state of alert. Pair that with the heightened political tension around Latino immigrants—several Baltimore City College High School students expressed fear about Donald Trump and his supporters with their anti-immigrant rhetoric—and the Baltimore high school students, who had started their organization as a kind of cultural

May

Baltimore Tattoo Arts Convention

Area music fans know it doesn't have to be March to catch a spirited performance of Irish music at a Baltimore bar. It happens on weekdays and weekends at Irish pubs like Ryan's Daughter, James Joyce and Liam Flynn's Ale House.