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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.

By Christina Tkacik

Aug 14, 2019

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.

By Chris Kaltenbach

May 29, 2019

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.

By Mary Carole McCauley

Apr 3, 2019

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.

By Christine Zhang

Jan 18, 2019

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Jan 13, 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.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Dec 20, 2018

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

By Christina Tkacik

Aug 8, 2018

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.

By Brittany Britto

May 15, 2018

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.

By Wesley Case

Apr 9, 2018

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.

By Jacques Kelly

Mar 29, 2018

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Jan 14, 2018

After a 15 year wait, Poppleton residents get new housing

By Jacques Kelly

Jan 13, 2018

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.

By Mary Carole McCauley

Dec 6, 2017

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.

By Wesley Case

Dec 1, 2017

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

By Jacques Kelly

Dec 1, 2017

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

By Yvonne Wenger

Nov 27, 2017

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.

By David Zurawik

Oct 26, 2017

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

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.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Oct 11, 2017

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.

By Jeff Barker

Sep 20, 2017

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

By Margarita Cambest

Aug 27, 2017

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.

By Sarah Meehan

Jul 24, 2017

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Jul 23, 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.

By Wesley Case

Jun 12, 2017

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.

By Sarah Meehan

May 26, 2017

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

By Chris Kaltenbach

Apr 20, 2017

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.

By Jonas Shaffer

Feb 9, 2017

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.

By John-John Williams IV

Feb 8, 2017

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

By Mary Carole McCauley

Jan 24, 2017

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