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Compiled with input from readers and the newsroom, The Baltimore Sun’s list of 100 essential food experiences encompasses places people talk about, think about and come back to again and again and again.

In the spirit of taking a joke, let us celebrate 16 times The Onion skewered Baltimore. Don't take it personally.

They learned a lot in elementary and middle school that I didn’t. I never laid eyes on a computer until high school. And they sure know a lot about Earth Day.

Poe’s Magic Theater, holding shows twice monthly out of a space in the Lord Baltimore Hotel downtown, plays host to its first show on June 1.

Baltimore tattoo artists speak on the last day of the Villain Arts convention - where Jeff Goldblum arrived with a documentary crew - to discuss local tattooing and the quintessentially Baltimore pieces they've inked.

Twelve years ago, the “Healthy Holly” scandal might never have happened. It could be argued that the self-publishing phenomenon played a key role in the premature departure of Baltimore’s mayor.

In 1827, crowds gathered at Baltimore’s Fountain Inn on Light Street to see a European chess-playing robot that had impressed the likes of Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin and sparked a decades-long debate about the nature of man and machine. And sparked a skeptical Edgar Allan Poe to write about it.

The top A&E events in the Baltimore area for the week of Jan. 13-19, 2019.

Baltimore arts groups from the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture to the Maryland Film Festival experienced change in 2018.

A free, two-day festival will help inaugurate the redevelopment of the Poppleton neighborhood by honoring Edgar Allan Poe, who once lived there.

The annual Symphony Designers’ Show House, where interior designers use an elaborate home as their canvas, returns this Sunday in its 41st year, and this time, the house — with its Flemish bond red brick, detailed arched windows and ties to a Baltimore literary legend — is an attraction itself.

Baltimore Sun staffers make "best of" choices in the dining category.

At R. House's R. Bar, the new spring cocktail menu features drinks all inspired by Baltimore filmmaker John Waters.

Subhanallah Brown Ali, a retired Enoch Pratt Free Library manager, died of pulmonary ailment complications Feb. 20 at her Springdale Avenue home. She was 73.

The top A&E events in Baltimore for the week of Jan. 14-20, 2018

After a 15 year wait, Poppleton residents get new housing

Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question.

Caring Communities hosts Charm City Countdown fundraiser on Sunday, Dec. 31.

Two teachers at Hammond High School offer a bonus class after school that teaches the connections between government and English classes.

Who knew that Tarzan's Jane shopped at Hutzler's? An illustrated story about fictional characters that you never knew were from Baltimore.

Earlier this week, RavenBeer, makers of Tell Tale Heart IPA and Pendulum Pilsner, began brewing out of its new home, DuClaw Brewing Company's production facility in Rosedale.

The Nepenthne Brewery takes over the old Henry Heil pork packing house in Hampden

A number of Giving Tuesday events are planned in Baltimore to drum up donations in time for the holidays.

I hadn't expected the kitchen to care so much about the food in a place that’s known as a locals' bar.

Director Eric Stange says one of the primary goals of his film "Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive" is to go beyond what he calls the 'Halloween Poe." He does that and then some in this poetic and illuminating literary biography for American Masters on PBS.

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

For you procrastinating poltergeists, we’re ready to act as your skeleton key to unlock a multitude of macabre merriments in the Carroll County scarea this Halloween season.

Here’s just a sampling of fall outings in the Baltimore area, suitable for young and old, nature lovers and fright seekers, and everything in between.

Gary Beard's story, “A Sinister Charm,” won first place in the Baltimore County library's ghost story-writing contest.

Yesterday, a reader commented on Facebook about my rant over the Associated Press Stylebook’s bogus rule on collide: “Seems like an odd issue to waste time

London may present opportunity for NFL -- a new frontier for a league hoping its growth has not ended.

According to the 2016 Teacher and Principal School Report through Scholastic, the teachers in the survey spent $530 of their own money on items for classroom or student use a year.

Best bets for classical music performances during the fall season.

It's not even fall, but members of the Foundation for Baltimore County Public Library are looking forward to judging and sharing the macabre ahead of its third

The TellTale restaurant in the Inner Harbor is as bright and cheery as its namesake story by Edgar Allan Poe is dark and dreary.

Annabel Lee Tavern is reopening Aug. 11 in Canton.

The top 10 arts and entertainment events in Baltimore the week of July 23-29, 2017.

The Edgar Allan Poe-themed corner restaurant and bar will once again open its doors in Canton in the next two to three weeks, said the owner.

In 1849, author Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore at age 40.

In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published in the New York Evening Mirror. Poe worked from the small room pictured above in his house on

Some music and art gets discussed so much that it is difficult to experience it anew. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," which turns 50 this week, falls victim to this. Still, you should try to disregard the hoopla and listen to it with fresh ears, as if the first time. When you reach the closing sequence of three songs, you begin to realize the album's power. You hear two thumping rock songs that lead into the apocalyptic "A Day in The Life." The lyrics are about everyday desperation,

Annabel Lee Tavern will close for good this weekend.

Hot on the heels of last week's "36 Hours in Baltimore" feature, the New York Times is once again paying a visit to its feisty neighbor to the south, outlining

When people ask me where to take out-of-towners to eat, several great places, from crab houses to waterfront restaurants, come to mind. But there's one more hidden gem I always include on the list: Annabel Lee Tavern.

On a July evening in 1822, more than a thousand people gathered in Baltimore's Peale Museum to see a rare cactus bloom. They crowded around the foot-

Wrap yourself in the Maryland flag, dip your face in Old Bay seasoning and behold these cleats.

It turns out, the Baltimore region is actually pretty romantic, according to local experts and historians. Throughout the years, the area has been home to a number of memorable love stories (and the occasional not-so-blissful breakup). In fact, at least two events this weekend will be dedicated to exploring the city's romantic past — the Haunted Hearts Pub Tour in Fells Point and Baltimore Heritage's Mount Vernon Love Stories tour.

Tintype made three weeks before the horror author's mysterious death is expected to fetch five figures

On the curatorial chaos of Amazon Prime's streaming movie options