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.
Corey McLaughlin
Writer and editor in Baltimore, Md.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Animal Farm
The Baltimore County Center for Maryland Agriculture is a largely unknown oasis on the edge of the city.
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.
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.
Garrick Williams Teaches Life Lessons Through Football
He’s right. When you stand in the center of this football field in Northwest Baltimore, the grass framed by the backs of rowhouses, a pair of field-goal posts, and oak trees with leaves turning shades of yellow, orange, and red on a chilly late fall day, “You can feel the peace,” says Garrick Williams, the 62-year-old founder of the Park Heights Saints youth football program.
These Cops Defy the Stereotypes About Baltimore City Police
In the wake of Freddie Gray’s death in police custody in 2015, and the ensuing unrest (the infamous CVS off North Avenue was just a short walk away) and white-hot media attention, Evan Anderson and Charles Lee were among a group of officers who had heard enough to know they needed to do something so people could “see us as being positive,” Lee says.
Shooting Survivor Turned Trauma Surgeon Fights Against Gun Violence
Sometimes, Dr. Joseph Sakran catches himself looking through the waiting room glass in the Johns Hopkins emergency room before delivering the news. He thinks about how his parents must have felt when Dr. Ahmed came to talk to them all those years ago. And he thinks about the 17-year-old version of himself who lived through the trauma and survived. “It never gets easy,” he says of breaking the tragic news to the families of victims of gun violence. “It’s heart-wrenching to watch that anguish, to listen to those screams.”
Camden Yards Finds Success in First Concert with Billy Joel
Like all of us, Billy Joel is only human. At 70 years old, the bushy black hair he once had on his iconic 1970s and 1980s album covers is long gone, and he’s now married for the fourth time. His body is a little bit rounder, his voice just a little more gravely, and his high notes a little lower—though he’s said that he’s never considered himself a great singer anyway.
Baltimore Streetcar Museum Rebuilds From Ironic Accident
“Hello sir, how can I help you?” the man dressed like a conductor asks from just inside the front door of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum. He’s John La Costa, a 69-year-old, semi-retired electrical and systems engineer. Since the mid-1970s, he and small group of volunteers have spent much of their free time here, keeping alive the history of Baltimoreans’ primary form of public transportation during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Review: Woodrow’s Bar-B-Que
There’s always a beautiful moment at Woodrow’s Bar-B-Que—maybe as you’re effortlessly peeling a tender piece of char-encrusted meat from a giant rib bone or savoring a slice of moist brisket that melts in your mouth—when you think to yourself: It just can’t get any better than this.
Baltimore Streetcar Museum Rebuilds After CSX Train Derailment
On Monday, ten days after a CSX train derailed from a span of track above Falls Road near the Baltimore Streetcar Museum—several empty freighters and a tanker dangled then slowly fell from the overpass above, destroying the power source that runs the museum’s antique streetcars, ironically, on a different line of track below—a small construction crew continued work on the cleanup.
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