Corey McLaughlin

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.

Baltimore magazine • March 2, 2020

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.

Baltimore magazine • February 26, 2020

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.

Baltimore magazine • November 11, 2019

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.”

Baltimore magazine • August 1, 2019

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 magazine • June 18, 2019

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.

Baltimore magazine • June 13, 2019

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 magazine • March 26, 2019

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.

CoreyMcLaughlin.com • March 3, 2019

Writing Is Hard

CoreyMcLaughlin.com • February 24, 2019

Why E.B. White Wrote Charlotte's Web

Baltimore magazine • February 7, 2019

Review: Well Crafted Kitchen

The seed for Well Crafted Kitchen—the pizza counter serving delicious wood-fired pies from a space at Union Collective—was planted six years ago when co-owners Liz and Ryan Bower, then working as local wedding photographers, were taking engagement shots of their best friends Laura and Tom Wagner. After the session, the four Bucknell University alums sat around a campfire in Upstate New York and mulled the idea of running a food business together, though they relegated it to their wish list at t