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• Entertainment

Things to do in Baltimore this week: Fells Point Maritime Heritage Festival, Baltimore Cocktail Week and more

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Apr 21, 2019

• Entertainment

From skydancing to fighting: The international art and craft of flying a kite at Patterson Park

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.

By Hallie Miller

Apr 6, 2019

• Entertainment

'I know personally it works': Man who sued Maryland to overturn gay conversion ban at center of new film

Christopher Doyle, who recently sued Maryland to overturn its ban on gay conversion therapy is featured in a new documentary "The Sunday Sessions." Baltimore filmmaker Richard Yeagley was allowed into Doyle's sessions with Nathan Gniewek for the movie, which will be shown at the Creative Alliance.

By Jean Marbella

Feb 15, 2019

• Maryland

What does Baltimore do right? A federal conference in town to study just that.

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.

By Yvonne Wenger

Oct 1, 2018

• Entertainment

How Baltimore's independent bookstores are thriving in the age of Amazon

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.

By Mary Carole McCauley

Aug 30, 2018

• Entertainment

AFRAM, Moonrise and Jason Mraz: The best things to do in the Baltimore area this week

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Aug 5, 2018

• Features

Traveling photo exhibit on refugees launches in Fells Point Wednesday

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.

By Brittany Britto

Jun 20, 2018

• Entertainment

Young Playwrights Festival, Dierks Bentley and the Preakness: 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 13-19, 2018.

By Chris Kaltenbach

May 13, 2018

• Baltimore's Best

Best of Baltimore 2018: Arts and activities

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

• Obituaries

Alice R. Gadzinski, artist-in-residence at the Creative Alliance, dies

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.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Mar 16, 2018

• Entertainment

Blake Shelton, BATS and the luck of the Irish: the best of Baltimore's arts and entertainment scene this week

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Mar 11, 2018

• Entertainment

Orioles FanFest, a new offering at Center Stage, a dip into the frigid Chesapeake and more of the best in Baltimore's arts and entertainment scene this week

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Jan 21, 2018

• Features

When 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' was conquering Baltimore

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Dec 7, 2017

• Obituaries

Lane K. Berk, a civil rights and social justice activist who was also a patron of the arts, dies

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.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Nov 12, 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

Wednesday—Nov. 5: Dia De los Muertos

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...

• Baltimore City

Jacques Kelly: Highlandtown gets cooking again

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

By Jacques Kelly

Oct 6, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

Saturday: Made in Baltimore Short Film Festival

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

• Opinion

Celebrating women's work on Labor Day

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.

• Entertainment

5 best bets for Baltimore book lovers this fall

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

By Mary Carole McCauley

Aug 30, 2017

• Entertainment

The best Baltimore-area events this week: John Legend, Baltimore Dragon Boat Challenge and Latinofest

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Jun 18, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

City Paper's Summer 2017 Events From Festivals to the Fourth of July

May

• Arts and Culture

Maryland arts organizations denounce potential loss of federal funding

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.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Mar 17, 2017

• Entertainment

Maryland arts organizations denounce potential loss of federal funding

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.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Mar 16, 2017

• Maryland

'A Day Without Immigrants' movement spurs march, business closures in Baltimore

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

By Sarah Meehan

Feb 16, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

A Day Without Immigrants rally in Patterson Park is a family affair

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

• Baltimore City Paper

Local restaurants close in support of A Day Without Immigrants protest

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

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore City Power Rankings: BPD, Eric Costello, Under Armour, more

↑ No ICE In Baltimore Rally

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

• Features

Vote: Baltimore Sun's 2017 Best of Baltimore Readers Choice contest

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

• Baltimore City

Demonstrators at Baltimore's Patterson Park march in defense of immigrants

Crowds that stretched more than a city block marched from the Highlandtown library and wrapped around Patterson Park Sunday afternoon shouting "no hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here."

By Jessica Anderson

Feb 12, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

"About Face" at the Creative Alliance carves out room for a new kind of canonical portraiture

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

• Entertainment

10 best events and things to do this week: Jan. 1-7

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."

By Chris Kaltenbach

Jan 1, 2017

• Entertainment

Marylanders well represented in national African-American museum

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.

• Baltimore City Paper

Top Ten New Restaurants of 2016

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

• Entertainment

Equipped with new heart, Baltimore's Amy Sherald gains fame with surreal portraiture

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

By Mary Carole McCauley

Dec 19, 2016

• Entertainment

Holiday burlesque, a swingin' 'Nutcracker' and more of the top Baltimore-area events this week

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Dec 4, 2016

• Entertainment

2016 holiday events in the Baltimore area

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 City Paper

2016 Holiday Events: Special Events

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

• Baltimore City Paper

Dec. 6: The Stoop’s Die Hard Holiday Show

“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

• Entertainment

Celebration of architecture, The Roots, pre-Halloween scares and more top Baltimore-area events this week

Doors Open Baltimore

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Oct 15, 2016

• Entertainment

Navy ships, Russian food and the Baltimore Marathon: This week in Baltimore

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Oct 8, 2016

• Business

Highland Haus starts to rise on former Haussner's site

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

By Natalie Sherman

Oct 6, 2016

• Entertainment

Transformative Art Prizes to turn vacant lot into theater, create murals, more

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

By Mary Carole McCauley

Jul 7, 2016

• Entertainment

LatinoFest, Weird Al, Crab & Beer Festival and more of the Baltimore area's top events this week

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Jun 19, 2016

• Entertainment

Sowebo Fest and more of the week's best Baltimore-area events

Sowebo Arts and Music Festival

By Chris Kaltenbach

May 28, 2016

• Baltimore City Paper

City College High School students push for change

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

• Baltimore City Paper

Sizzlin' Summer Performing Arts Events

May

• Entertainment

Tattoo Arts Convention, Privateer Festival and more top Baltimore events this week

Baltimore Tattoo Arts Convention

By Chris Kaltenbach

Apr 9, 2016

• Food & Drink

Meet the musicians: Baltimore's eclectic takes on Irish music

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.

By Wesley Case

Mar 9, 2016

• Food & Drink

Martin O'Malley and his band to play Creative Alliance next month

On March 13, the former Maryland governor and recent Democratic president candidate Martin O'Malley will bring O'Malley's March, his seven-piece Irish pub-rock band, to Creative Alliance at the Patterson in Baltimore.

By Wesley Case

Feb 11, 2016