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The store, already open for business, will have a ribbon cutting ceremony June 14.

Following a $10.5-million transformation, Baltimore's Port Discovery Children's Museum will be re-opening on June 14.

This plea is made to the suburbanites among us: If you have disengaged from Baltimore City, please consider re-engaging.  My appeal is not based upon vague notions of virtuous acts.  I appeal to nothing other than your self-interest.

The Baltimore Sun’s readers and staff scoured the region for the best activities and entertainment, from art galleries to wedding venues. Here’s who came out on top in 2019.

Families from around Carroll County rang in the new year early with little ones at the Westminster branch of the Carroll County Public Library's New Year's at Noon celebration Monday morning.

The baby was sleeping in a cradle, flush against my bed. I could easily reach in and feel her tiny chest, rising and falling with each breath.

Port Discovery Children’s Museum is slated to open two new immersive exhibits and several improved amenities in late spring of next year and will begin construction in January, according to a recent release.

These organizations in Baltimore were selected for Arts Innovation and Management grants from Bloomberg Philanthropies.

The Baltimore Children and Youth Fund announced its first grant winners, who will share in a $12 million pot. The fund is designed in part to back organizations that might otherwise struggle to raise money.

For the second year, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will offer a short festival devoted to works by living composers.

In its 20th year, Port Discovery Children’s Museum has launched a $10.5 million campaign to expand their exhibit and programming offerings, according to a recent release.

Be an archaeologist for a day at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater

It's a partnership between the University of Maryland Medical Center, Port Discovery and UMBC.

Public schools in Baltimore City and the surrounding counties are closed Thursday after a winter storm coated the region with snow overnight.

A number of Baltimore's museums and attractions, such as Fort McHenry, American Visionary Art Museum and Port Discovery Children's Museum, are closed or opening late due to Thursday's snow.

Noontime New Year's Eve Celebration at Port Discovery Children's Museum features play inside a snow ball wonderland, music, dance, science activities and a noontime countdown with confetti and a balloon drop.

The week's 10-best A&E events in Baltimore Dec. 3-9, 2017.

The National Aquarium in Baltimore is one of a number of attractions participating in Baltimore Dollar (Or Less) Days, which will take place Dec. 9 and 10.

This week's Murder Ink covers the past two weeks of murders. There were 27 murders in the past 30 days. Police continue to seize illegal guns and arrest

Charm City Pizza is opening at Power Plant Live

An 18-year-old Baltimore man has been charged with raping and strangulating to death a homeless woman in downtown Baltimore last week, according to Baltimore Police.

Dance troupe Bailes de Mi Tierra performs at Carroll Arts Center

This schedule will be in effect Monday, Sept. 4 as Maryland observes Labor Day

Baltimore will experience a partial solar eclipse Monday. Here are some ways you can celebrate.

Eclipse watching tips for Marylanders

The children's museum will host an eclipse viewing party Monday afternoon.

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

Creating fog clouds, bubbling potions and laser light shows are some of Eric Krupkin’s favorite hobbies.

With six to eight inches of snow forecast to fall Monday evening into Tuesday morning in the Baltimore area, some local attractions are closing in anticipation.

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

Downtown attractions including the National Aquarium and the Maryland Science Center will offer admission for $1 or no cost when Downtown Dollar or Less Days

The 10 best events and happenings this week in the Baltimore area.

Here's what's coming up at the local branches of the BCPL.

Here's what's coming up at the local branches of the BCPL.

Here's what's coming up at the local branches of the BCPL.

Kids can learn about history while sipping apple cider, planting a seed or petting a farm animal at this Saturday's Flashback Farming.

Events coming up at the local branches of the BCPL.

Here's what's coming up at the local branches of the BCPL.

Events at the local branches of the BCPL.

Events at the local branches of the BCPL.

The Owings Mills branch of the Baltimore County Public Library is taking part in something very small.

On Feb. 8, 1916, Thomas Tochtermann opened a bait shop on the first floor of his home at 1925 Eastern Avenue, hoping to make a few bucks. Folks bought it hook, line and sinker, so soon after, he began selling that stuff, too. One hundred years later, Tochterman's Fishing Tackle keeps reeling them in. Same locale, same family. Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams shopped here. So have U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski, former Orioles slugger Boog Powell and the late Gov. William Donald Schaefer.

The region came to a standstill by late Friday as the first snowflakes of a potentially historic winter storm fell and Marylanders expected to remain snowbound under 2 feet or more through the weekend.

Homer W. Schamp Jr., founding provost of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, that opened its doors to students in 1966, died Tuesday of complications from a stroke at the Edenwald Retirement Community in Towson. He was 92.

Any list of programs for families of children with development disabilities ought to include Port Discovery Children's Museum

On Sunday most cultural institutions and other organizations that had closed earlier in the week because of unrest related to Freddie Gray's death had reopened.