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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

Inaugural Hope for the Homeless, a charity 5K and 10K run/walk in Southwest Baltimore, raised thousands over the weekend.

By John-John Williams IV

Jun 30, 2019

Some longtime Lexington Market vendors who can no longer take food stamps say the program's changes are costing them business.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Jun 17, 2019

Belvedere Square, a popular market and shopping center in northern Baltimore, has been put up for sale by its owners, War Horse Cities.

By Phil Davis

Apr 18, 2019

Dr. Levy was devoted to fly fishing, the State of Israel and vigorous discussion of sports and politics.

By Jacques Kelly

Apr 11, 2019

Ernest Sewell rose from the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. to corporate responsibilities as a comptroller at AT&T.

By Jacques Kelly

Feb 27, 2019

The Baltimore housing department has a new framework for community development using targeted impact areas and new investment funds, under a plan to be released Wednesday by the Pugh administration. Commissioner Michael Braverman said the housing department is zeroed in on addressing blight.

By Yvonne Wenger

Feb 27, 2019

Maria Ramirez, a 31-year-old assistant manager who began working at the restaurant shortly after it opened five years ago, was killed in a car accident Friday at a Southwest Baltimore shopping center, along with her 10-year-old son.

The Ingenuity Project, an advanced match and science program, is expanding to James McHenry Elementary/Middle School in Hollins Market next year.

By Talia Richman

Jan 11, 2019

Walking around the Coppin State University campus, Florine Camphor looks like a octogenarian cheerleader, wearing a sequin hat, blue suit and gold shirt for the school colors.

By Yvonne Wenger

Jan 3, 2019

Three longtime Broadway Market vendors and five newcomers will sell food and drink in the renovated market when it opens next year.

By Sarah Meehan

Nov 7, 2018

Four people — including a 13-year-old boy — were killed, and three others injured on a violent Halloween in Baltimore, police said, bringing to a close the second-most violent month of 2018, which saw more than a killing a day.

A man was shot to death in Southwest Baltimore on Wednesday, and a separate shooting in Hollins Market caused James McHenry Elementary/Middle School students to be kept in the building after dismissal on Halloween as a safety precaution, officials said.

Two people were taken to the hospital after a house in Southwest Baltimore caught fire.

By Sarah Meehan

Oct 17, 2018

Two of the Charm City Circulator’s routes will be suspended Thursday, and the other two will have limited service, as Baltimore transitions to a new vendor, which is still testing its buses for safety and has yet to finalize a contract with the city.

By Colin Campbell

Oct 10, 2018

Baltimore officials issued new plans for a redeveloped Lexington Market, where a new building will have a smaller footprint and cost less than earlier plans for the revamped market.

By Sarah Meehan

Oct 3, 2018

Cross Street Market isn't the only public market that's being updated.

By Sarah Meehan

Oct 3, 2018

When Cross Street Market opens in the spring it will offer a mix of 30 current and new vendors, including meats, fresh fruits and vegetables and freshly prepared foods and coffee.

By Meredith Cohn

Oct 2, 2018

Dozens of people who host guests in Airbnb-style properties urged the Baltimore City Council Thursday to amend a bill that would impose new regulations and taxes on short-term rentals.

By Talia Richman

Jul 19, 2018

Northeast Market closed Tuesday after a video surfaced showing a pair of rats scampering through one of its aisles.

By Sarah Meehan

Jul 17, 2018

The top arts and entertainment events in the Baltimore area for the week of July 8-14, 2018.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Jul 8, 2018

A city facade improvement program has long benefited more well-off neighborhoods, but a new effort could help the transitional ones a block at a time.

By Meredith Cohn

Jun 9, 2018

“When people come here, they see this is a community where everyone knows each other and is very tight-knit. You get to see just how involved this neighborhood is.”

By Talia Richman

May 28, 2018

The top arts and entertainment events in Baltimore for the week of May 27-June 2, 2018.

By Chris Kaltenbach

May 27, 2018

Three men were killed in Baltimore on Wednesday, Baltimore police said, continuing a spate of violence from over the weekend.

By Jessica Anderson

Apr 19, 2018

The Inner Harbor isn’t the only place in Baltimore that will be all lit up for Light City, the annual free lights festival returning this month. Neighborhood Lights, a series of illuminated visual or performance art projects installed in 14 city neighborhoods, is set to open this weekend.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Apr 4, 2018

The eateries have new locations in the Lion Brothers Building.

By Sarah Meehan

Jan 18, 2018

With three new tenants, the Lion Brothers Building in the Hollins Market area is fully leased.

By Sarah Gantz

Jan 16, 2018

University of Maryland, Baltimore is pumping $1.5 million into a program that encourages employees to buy homes in neighborhoods surrounding the institution’s West Baltimore academic and medical campuses.

By Sarah Gantz

Jan 9, 2018

The Gun Trace Task Force case, the bribery trial of state Sen. Nathaniel Oaks, and the killings of Phylicia Barnes and McKenzie Elliott are among the trials to watch in Baltimore in 2018

Earlier this year, Lara Sumerson and Mike Cavanagh purchased the former bar Patrick’s of Pratt Street at 131 S. Schroeder St., a neighboring property and an adjacent courtyard,

By Wesley Case

Dec 19, 2017

A Baltimore developer has bought 15 entities along the city's Inner Harbor waterfront, including the Bo Brooks Restaurant, hundreds of boat slips and the Clinton Street heliport.

A man and a woman were shot near the 800 block of West Pratt Street Thursday night around 11 p.m., according to Baltimore police.

By Christina Tkacik

Oct 19, 2017

The Baltimore native is part of a rap collective, but might be more famous for his skate brand Marino Infantry.

By Danielle Ohl

Oct 17, 2017

Five people were shot — two fatally — in five separate incidents in Baltimore on Sunday, according to updated information on the day’s violence provided by Baltimore Police on Monday. 

By Kevin Rector

Oct 16, 2017

A 43-year-old man was found fatally shot in Northeast Baltimore on Sunday, according to Baltimore Police.

By Kevin Rector

Oct 15, 2017

Local vendors are bringing oysters to more relaxed environments.

By Sarah Meehan

Sep 19, 2017

John Earl Williams shot six Baltimore police officers, killing one, a young father, before surrendering after a about a 40 minute attack that became known as the “Good Friday Shooting.”

By Tim Prudente

Sep 6, 2017

Baltimore isn’t called “Charm City” for nothing, and New York-based travel magazine Travel + Leisure has taken note.

By Brittany Britto

Jul 27, 2017

Hoop dreams often incubate in dim, cramped gyms, much like the one at the Mount Royal Rec Center.

H.L. Mencken's Cultured Pearl is coming back for one night only.

By Sarah Meehan

Jul 10, 2017

After a relatively quiet two weeks in which only 10 Baltimoreans had been murdered, five more homicides happened overnight Monday, including a double-murder in

Calendar of outdoors and recreation events in Central Maryland and Baltimore

Calendar of outdoors and recreation events in Central Maryland and Baltimore

May 28

Southwest Baltimore’s annual festival is one of the city’s best, combining an intimate neighborhood vibe with substantial talent. This year is the 34th running

Eviction, and the threat of eviction, weigh heavily on the lives of many of Baltimore's poorest tenants. They move from one ramshackle rental to the next, migrants in their own city, squeezed by rents that consume most of their meager incomes, intolerable housing conditions, a court system that advocates say is insufficiently responsive to their complaints, and a rate of eviction actions that is among the highest in the nation.

Take a pinch of adventure, add a dash of wanderlust and mix in opportunity. Blend in a passion for deliciousness and what does the recipe yield? For three chefs with Maryland ties — Duff Goldman, Michael Voltaggio and Ryan Coffey — the dish might be called California dreamin'.

Barber Tony Tringali dies

By Jacques Kelly

Apr 7, 2017