- I love catching up with people’s summer activities through Facebook and Instagram to see what everyone chooses to do with their spare time.
- Baltimore Police spokesman Matt Jablow said the tactic the officer is using targets a pressure point located behind the ear.
- The NBA player had four posts about Brown on his story and said he “still can’t believe it.”
- Chad Arrington was granted release Friday to the custody of his mother. Arrington faces federal charges related to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
- So how can people reap the benefits of social media without letting it harm their mental health?
- Old Bay Seasoning is holding a contest to see who is the biggest fan of the seasoning.
- Author and artist Amy Latta of Hampstead released her third book on hand-lettering last month. The first has surpassed 60,000 copies sold.
- Adrienne Carver, the founder of Studio A, said that her independent dance academy got significant attention after being featured on the musician's Instagram.
- Choreographer Brianna Coleman said that the Vibe Dance Team is "on cloud nine" after Queen Bey highlighted the dancers' version of the viral challenge.
- Westminster High School graduate Miles Taylor gained widespread recognition back in February across multiple social media platforms when a video of him deadlifting 200 pounds was posted to his Instagram account.
- With so many new faces on the roster, one way to get to know the Orioles players better is to follow them on social media.
- Some 300 plants star in the lush, green posts of Hilton Carter’s Instagram feed, which, with 160,000 followers, made him a social-media green interior design star, gained him residential plant styling clients and led to a book deal.
- Prosecutors say Terrel Edward Elliott Jr., 24, used the photo-sharing platform to post pictures of himself with guns and to communicate with prospective buyers — including minors.
- Too bad Facebook wasn’t down Friday. That’s when the world saw the decidedly darker side of the internet and social media working perfectly in sync with the most vile side of humanity.
- A calendar of recreation and outdoors events in Central Maryland.
- Former Steelers tar Le'Veon Bell had been atop the wish list for many in Baltimore.
- Even after her stepmother, Jacquelyn Smith, was brutally murdered in December, Valeria Smith never mentioned the killing to a potential investor she was courting to support her various business ventures. The 28-year-old woman even lied on social media about the investor becoming her partner.
- Marquel Carter has attracted hundreds of thousands of followers on his "Plainpotatoess" Twitter, Instagram and Facebook over the past year.
- As a media critic, the 2020 political story that speaks loudest to me in these early days of the campaign is the way that all of the Democratic candidates are after a magic mix of media that will help separate them from the pack as Donald Trump did with cable TV and Twitter in 2016.
- The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is shutting down Maryland state park-specific social media accounts and merging them with the Maryland State Park accounts, according to a DNR official. Followers of those Twitter accounts aren't happy about it.
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Former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake celebrates Ravens win with 'Baltimore vs y'all whores' T-shirt
She’s no longer the mayor of Baltimore. She’s actually in Mexico right now. But Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is still showing her pride in Charm City. - As social media platforms like YouTube and Instagram continue to draw millions of eyeballs away from cable television, many Marylanders have carved out space for their brands in a crowded digital landscape. Some have gained over one million subscribers, or followers, on their platforms.
- Bookstores were dying and now they’re back. Well, sort of.
- As the daughter of a jewelry maker, Hampden resident Maria Wolfe grew up around art, but it wasn’t until she studied abroad in London in 2013 that she felt the spark of street art.
- Baltimore resident Izzie Arrizza uses her IPhone to captures colorful and artistic doors along the streets of Baltimore.
- Kudos to Taylor Swift for getting political and urging young people to vote, a move that’s credited with prompting thousands between the ages of 18 and 24 to register this week. While the rest of us don’t have the same kind of sway as Ms. Swift, we should follow suit and hound our own young folk.
- Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks — following Adam Jones on either Instagram or Twitter was an adventure in dining.
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Social media platforms empower us to shame the shameful — and victimize the vulnerable.
- A Baltimore teacher received school supplies for her students as part of the #10featuredteachers Instagram campaign.
- What was life like for young people before cell phones, before Facebook and blogs, before Instagram and Snapchat, Twitter and Tumbler and Match? Before kids spent hours exercising their thumbs, sitting on a chair or lying on a bed or sofa, playing video games and texting?
- As we gear up toward midterms in November, Americans have resumed a perennial conversation about political division and parties. A casual scroll through Facebook or Instagram will highlight the level of animosity and cruelty between some who are politically inclined.
- The Instagram-worthy sunflower fields in Maryland are blooming. Here are some tips for photographing at some local spots.
- Manny Machado’s camp might’ve tipped its hand on where he’d most like to go as trade talk intensifies approaching the July 31 nonwaiver trade deadline.
- A Crofton man has been charged with sending threatening messages to social media accounts of U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris on the day of the March for our Lives rally in D.C., according to an indictment unsealed this week.
- The Aberdeen Police Department recently began taking enforcement action against motor vehicle operators who violate the state's crosswalk laws. The department also has put together a short public service video announcement reminding pedestrians and vehicle operators of crosswalk rules.
- Nicole Phelps, wife of Olympian Michael Phelps, took up the cause of breastfeeding mothers with an Instagram post about pumping at a foundation gala.
- Twitter on Friday appeared to remove gruesome video and images of a man being fatally injured by a light rail car in Baltimore, after an inquiry from The Baltimore Sun.
- I have had it with social media; done with Twitter, Instagram and especially with that hocus pocus fidibus thing called "Facebook!" I pushed the dislike button
- “Ric and I have been peacefully separated for the past year,” Paulina Porizkova wrote. “The photos of our happy family are, in fact, happy family photos; we are just no longer a couple.”
- DHS denied a request for documents related to an investigation into the flier.
- For the month of April, Eli Pousson is inviting people around the state to join his bliss through an effort he’s dubbed the #30daysofpickinguplitter challenge. Every day, he posts a photo of his trash haul to Twitter and Instagram, and encourages others to do the same.
- Tips on how to tone photos and covert images to black and white on your iPhone or Android device using the Snapseed app.
- Baltimore photographer Devin Allen is taking over the Instagram feed of The New Yorker’s photography department this week.
- A lawsuit claiming that Baltimore County police used excessive force when they fatally shot Korryn Gaines following a standoff at an apartment in 2016 will move forward, a judge ruled Monday.
- Today, I am excited and proud to launch my new weekly blog, Fox In Focus, where I will share my insights and approach in photography. In addition, I will offer a behind-the-scenes look into my assignments from sports, features, news and fashion to my black and white Instagram posts.
- #MyBmore isn’t a traditional marketing campaign but rather a grassroots social media effort encouraging Baltimoreans to rally on behalf of their city by posting photos, videos and stories on Instagram, Twitter and other apps or sites using a common hashtag.
- The Washington Post just provided a welcome primer in news reporting.
- Tenney Mason has an exhibit "Instavision: A Gallery of Instagram Images" at his alma mater, Glenelg County School through Dec. 8.
- My generation apparently has no problem smiling for selfies in front of monuments commemorating terrible events, posting these appalling images on social media.
- Russia-linked group promoted protests during trial of Freddie Gray officers