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• Food & Drink

'It's like a Cinderella story': Longtime Ottobar bartender to purchase venue

The Ottobar is getting purchased by a longtime employee, the music venue announced in a Facebook post Friday.

By Christina Tkacik

May 10, 2019

• Business

Owners of Baltimore's iconic Ottobar searching for a buyer to 'carry on the tradition'

Officials with the Charles Village concert venue and bar announced in a social media post Friday that owners are planning to hand the reins over to a new group in 2019.

By Lillian Reed

Nov 5, 2018

• Food & Drink

The 30 Baltimore songs that defined 2017

Tate Kobang, Future Islands, Al Rogers Jr. and other Baltimore-based artists all released excellent new music in 2017.

By Wesley Case

Dec 19, 2017

• Features

At Knockout Fitness' fight club classes, workouts pack a punch

Knockout Fitness gym in the Federal Hill neighborhood has launched a boxing class with an upbeat atmosphere including blaring hip-hop and laser lights that bounce to the beat of the music.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Oct 4, 2017

• Food & Drink

Charlie Puth on 'See You Again,' ballads and how rappers inspire him

Top 40 radio fans might not know Charlie Puth by name. But chances are good they know the 24-year-old¿s wistful falsetto, thanks to his scene-stealing feature on Wiz Khalifa¿s ¿See You Again,¿ a surprise, quadruple-platinum hit from last year¿s ¿Furious 7¿ soundtrack.

By Wesley Case

Mar 31, 2016

• Preakness 2016:

The Chainsmokers, Fetty Wap and All Time Low to play Preakness InfieldFest 2016

Electronic dance music duo the Chainsmokers, sing-songy rapper Fetty Wap and Towson pop-punk act All Time Low lead the music artists scheduled to perform at the Preakness Stakes' InfieldFest on May 21, the Maryland Jockey Club announced in a news release today. Tickets are on sale now here.

By Wesley Case

Mar 22, 2016

• Features

Kanye West's 'Yeezy Season 3' livestreams in Charles Theatre

Hip hop artist and fashion designer Kanye West debuted his newest album "The Life of Pablo" and clothing line ¿Yeezy Season 3¿ today at Madison Square Garden. But as if an album listening party combined with a fashion show wasn¿t innovative enough, the rap star also broadcasted the show via satellite in movie theatres across the globe, with several locations in Maryland, including Baltimore.

By Brittany Britto

Feb 11, 2016

• Food & Drink

Maroon 5 to play Royal Farms Arena next year

Led by Adam Levine of "The Voice," Maroon 5 will bring its North America tour to Baltimore next September.

By Wesley Case

Nov 6, 2015

• Sports

With future uncertain, Terps football coach Randy Edsall invokes rapper Wiz Khalifa

Edsall has reached for one of America's great 21st-century philosophers

By Jonas Shaffer

Oct 8, 2015

• Baltimore City Paper

Happening Saturday: LatinoFest, 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad,' and more

• Food & Drink

Before Merriweather show, Fall Out Boy on growing up, Wiz Khalifa and 'Centuries'

If someone would have told Pete Wentz -- bassist of the band Fall Out Boy, who plays Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., this weekend -- that the pop-punk quartet he formed in a Chicago suburb in 2001 would go on to write one of the biggest sports anthems in recent memory years later, he would have shook his head in disbelief.

By Wesley Case

Jun 24, 2015

• Baltimore City Paper

The Short List: Light Up Lexington, D'Angelo, Blonde Redhead, more

• Entertainment

The Baltimore area's 2015 summer concert calendar

The Baltimore area's summer concerts, with a steady flow of rock legends, rap and R&B stars and buzzy new acts, appeal to every type of music fan.

By Jordan Bartel

Apr 29, 2015

• Baltimore City Paper

No Trivia: Dan Deacon and the unbearable lightness of bleeping b/w Yung Jake and Matic808's web purges

• Preakness 2015:

Armin van Buuren and Childish Gambino to headline Preakness InfieldFest

Progressive trance DJ Armin van Buuren and actor-turned-rapper Childish Gambino will headline this year's 2015 Preakness InfieldFest concert on May 16, Pimlico Race Course general manager Sal Sinatra told The Sun on Thursday.

By Wesley Case

Mar 5, 2015

• Baltimore City Paper

The Short List: The Soft Pink Truth, Chris Brown, Trey Songz, Wet Brain, and more

• Baltimore City Paper

A$AP ANT INFILTRATES HARLEM

• Politics

Jon Cardin rejects rapper's support after learning of criminal charges

State Del. Jon Cardin on Thursday rejected the endorsement of a Baltimore-based rapper after learning the man who calls himself Ski Money is facing charges of human trafficking.

• Politics

Jon Cardin rejects rapper's support after learning of criminal charges

• Baltimore City Paper

Album review: The Gifted, by Wale

• Baltimore City Paper

Album Review: Stay Trippy, by Juicy J, and Age Against The Machine, by Goodie Mob

• Food & Drink

Lorde brings lower-key music vibe to Infieldfest at the Preakness Stakes 2014

The singer-songwriter brought her A-game, though it was a bit polarizing for the crowd

By Wesley Case

May 17, 2014

• Food & Drink

YG and DJ Mustard shape the sound of West Coast hip-hop

The early candidate for rap album of the year begins with a mother warning her son to stop following in the footsteps of his incarcerated father.

• Opinion

Sign language is not performance art [Commentary]

• Food & Drink

Switchfoot, Eli Young Band to play Preakness' second stage

Sundy Best and Go Go Gadjet will also perform at the Lorde-headlined InfieldFest.

• Food & Drink

Inspired by rap, ZZ Ward forges her own lane

ZZ Ward, who brings her Last Love Tour to Rams Head Live on March 1, has spent the past two years surprising and winning over fans with her hybrid mix of blues, hip-hop, pop and folk.

• Baltimore City Paper

Local MC does Mobtown proud as the only local in A$AP Rocky's Harlem-based A$AP Mob

• Maryland

Macklemore, Pitbull part of star-studded Preakness InfieldFest lineup

• Food & Drink

As Preakness 2013 arrives, infield shows identity shift from drink-a-thon to music festival

Now in its fifth year, 'Infieldfest' has quickly — and significantly — changed the culture at Preakness

• Food & Drink

Baltimore rapper Los releases 'Becoming King' mixtape

Baltimore rap fans have been waiting for Los' "Becoming King" since last year. On Thursday, the Bad Boy Records signee and Baltimore native finally released the free 17-track mixtape, which you can download from Datpiff.

• Baltimore County

Former Maryland football player stabbed in Towson bar fight

University of Maryland football player Ryan Schlothauer was stabbed multiple times in a fight that led to three injuries and two arrests at Charles Village Pub in Towson early Saturday morning, Baltimore County Police said.

• Baltimore County

Man stabbed during fight at Charles Village Pub in Towson

A man was stabbed during a fight early Saturday at the Charles Village Pub in Towson, Baltimore County Police said. Another man and a woman also suffered injuries in the altercation inside the bar.

• Baltimore County

Man stabbed during fight at Charles Village Pub in Towson

• Baltimore County

Towson leaders hope Tigerfest issues decrease again this year

Towson community leaders have seen a sharp decease in community disturbances related to Towson University's annual Tigerfest in recent years, and hope that trend continues when the annual end-of-year celebration takes over campus this weekend.

• Baltimore City Paper

Every Time I Die, Barry Manilow, Sevendust, and more.

• Opinion

Rand Paul's filibuster worked

While we all marvel at the spectacle of Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster, let's not forget the substance of his 13-hour speech on the Senate floor.

• Opinion

Rand Paul's filibuster worked

• Food & Drink

Pitbull, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis to headline Preakness InfieldFest 2013

One of Top 40's consistent acts and a rising hip-hop star will perform May 18 at Pimlico Race Course.

• Features

Ravens inspire a new anthem

West Baltimore rapper Los' 'Purple Reign' begins to make viral rounds

• Sports

Meet Maryland wide receiver commitment Deon Long

Before his record-breaking sophomore season at Iowa Western Community College, Deon Long spent his summer days working out and running routes with Maryland quarterback Ricardo Young and wide receiver Stefon Diggs.

• Baltimore City Paper

What's up with hip-hop

• Food & Drink

Snoop Dogg underwhelms with fun, but too-brief Rams Head Live show

Snoop Dogg underwhelms with fun, but too-brief Rams Head Live show

• Howard County

4-H members helping Howard County Fair go to the dogs

While cows, pigs, goats, horses and sheep all come to mind when 4-H is mentioned, dogs are doing their best to upstage the traditional livestock stars of the Howard County Fair.

• Howard County

4-H members helping Howard County Fair go to the dogs

• Baltimore City Paper

Matisyahu sheds the yarmulke for blond tips and clubby new album

• Entertainment

Baltimore gay rappers are loud and proud

A small but growing number of Baltimore artists are helping challenge hip-hop's homophobia

• Music

June 13: Loud and proud

A small but growing number of Baltimore artists are helping challenge hip-hop's homophobia

• Horse Racing

Maryland Jockey Club's Tom Chuckas 'couldn't be happier' about Preakness 2012

Two days after Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another's thrilling win over Bodemeister under sunny skies and in front of a packed house, Maryland Jockey Club president Tom Chuckas pronounced the 137th running of the Preakness a rousing success.

• Food & Drink

A proper Midnight Sun introduction, only 10 months late

• Latest

Dramatic win caps off well-attended Preakness

The largest crowd in Preakness Stakes history watched the thrilling victory of a horse that's now on a Triple Crown hunt, jammed to pop band Maroon 5 and basked under a clear Saturday sky.