Corey McLaughlin

Baltimore Magazine • March 10, 2026

Meet the Engineer Leading the High-Stakes Effort to Raise the New Key Bridge

At 1:34 a.m., the phone rang, and Jim Harkness reached toward its glow in the dark. One of his employees at the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) broke the news. Five minutes earlier, a ship had collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Details were scant until more calls came in quick succession and the full picture began to emerge.

Baltimore Magazine • October 27, 2025

Inside Carmelo Anthony’s ‘House of Melo’ at The Pratt

On Friday night, Baltimore basketball icon Carmelo Anthony stood tall, as he does, holding a microphone before hundreds gathered at the Enoch Pratt Central Library for the opening of House of Melo. On view through December, the landmark exhibit celebrating Anthony’s life—which coincides with his 2025 induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame—has completely transformed the historic building’s first floor.

Baltimore Magazine • October 7, 2025

Never Forget

The legacy of Chris Coffland lives on through the Timonium-based Catch a Lift Fund, a local nonprofit that provides personalized holistic health resources for thousands of vets throughout the country.

Baltimore Magazine • June 19, 2025

Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace Is Leading the Department Into a New Era

James Wallace assumed leadership of the Baltimore City Fire Department with a mandate to revamp both operations and culture after another tragedy.

Baltimore Magazine • March 11, 2025

These Innovative Mental Health Treatments Offer Alternatives to Conventional Therapy

For many, traditional front-line treatments like talk therapy and medications are effective. But for others, alternative options—like EMDR and even psychedelics—have been limited until recently.

Baltimore Magazine • December 4, 2024

Dr. Nancy Grasmick is Nurturing Ethical Leadership Across Baltimore

Three years ago, Dr. Nancy Grasmick founded a leadership Institute at her alma mater, Towson University.

Baltimore Magazine • September 16, 2024

As the Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum Turns 50, It’s Looking to Grow Again

A slice of Baltimore sports heaven is found, for now, in the climate-controlled basement of 216 Emory Street in Ridgley’s Delight. Two blocks from Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and two floors below where Babe Ruth was born almost 130 years ago, neatly arranged on shelves below UV-filtered light are dozens of artifacts fit for a spectacular episode of Antiques Roadshow. Or their own museum, in addition to the one already upstairs.

Baltimore Magazine • January 16, 2024

The Best Places to Go Ice Skating Around Baltimore

A Q&A with nationally-ranked figure skater and Pikesville native Ting Cui, plus information about the best places to ice skate indoors and out in the region.

Baltimore Magazine • April 24, 2023

Local Nonprofit Helps People with Aphasia Become Their Own Best Advocates

SCALE is one of the few places in the country that helps people with aphasia—a condition that robs a person of the ability to use their words—by way of immersion tactics.

Baltimore Magazine • March 22, 2023

Cape Charles Is a Best-Kept-Secret Beach Getaway on the Eastern Shore of Virginia

On the southeasternmost edge of the Chesapeake Bay, it feels like a world away from Baltimore as salty water laps gently on a quiet public beach. Along sand-swept Bay Avenue, the dormers and eaves of 100-year-old Victorian and Colonial Revival homes peer above a stretch of short, grassy dunes.

Baltimore Magazine • August 4, 2022

Dru Hill (Sisqó Included) Ready to Celebrate ’90s Roots at Camden Yards Concert

As Zoom calls of the past two years go, few have been better than the one we recently had with Baltimore-born R&B group Dru Hill. For one simple reason. Every time their most famous member spoke up from his home studio, he made sure to introduce himself on the call. “This is Sisqó,” he said kindly, before answering each question.

Baltimore Magazine • June 7, 2022

After 58 Years, Paul McCartney is Finally Getting Back To Baltimore

This Sunday, Sir Paul McCartney, a living legend who turns 80 later this month, will drape a lefty guitar over his shoulder and take to a grand stage in Oriole Park at Camden Yards—a place that wasn’t even built until 28 years after he and the Beatles first played here.

Baltimore Magazine • May 23, 2022

Why Kevin Liles Wanted to Bring the “Soul” to Preakness

On a sweltering Preakness Day, Kevin Liles was the picture of cool. At the Pimlico Race Course infield on Saturday afternoon—leaning against a second-story deck railing overlooking the front-stretch—he held an expensive cigar in his left hand, wore a straw fedora on his head, and sported a light brown suit with silk black lapels.

Baltimore Magazine • October 12, 2021

Catalyte Shows How Investing in People Works for Everyone in the Long Run

Tim Reed didn’t believe it. He had just dropped out of college at Morgan State after five years, in part because he couldn’t afford to pay tuition anymore, when he saw an online job advertisement that looked fake.

Baltimore Magazine • October 5, 2021

ShareBaby is Baltimore’s De Facto Free Diaper Bank

Ask people to name an essential item, and they’ll probably rattle off things like food, water, or shelter. That is to say, diapers might not be the first thing to come to mind, says ShareBaby executive director Amina Osman Weiskerger, whose job it is to convey that as much as possible.

Baltimore Magazine • September 29, 2021

How the Owner of Jimmy’s Famous Seafood Helped Keep Baltimore Restaurants and Bars Alive

John Minadakis' Famous Fund has raised roughly $480,000 (and counting) that’s been split among dozens of spots decimated by the pandemic.

Baltimore Magazine • July 28, 2021

Keeper of the Yard

One of only two women in Major League Baseball’s 118-year history to be in the role, Nicole Sherry is the keeper of Camden Yards.

Baltimore Magazine • March 30, 2021

Animal Farm

The Baltimore County Center for Maryland Agriculture is a largely unknown oasis on the edge of the city.

Baltimore Magazine • February 23, 2021

Caryn York is Making Big Changes to Break Down Workforce Barriers

For the last decade, Caryn York has had roles in state and local politics, and today—as the youngest-ever CEO of the statewide, city-based nonprofit Job Opportunities Task Force (JOTF)—she’s making big changes by growing the 25-year-old organization’s footprint.

Baltimore Magazine • November 23, 2020

Cal Ripken Jr. Hits Another Milestone With Cherry Hill Youth Facility

Construction on a $2.25-million, 83,000-square-foot waterfront field complex at Reedbird Park in Cherry Hill is expected to start by the end of the year.