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Charitably Chic: Shop to Give

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Anne Calvert - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - The retail industry has taken a hit in today’s fledgling economy. Our pockets are more shallow, we’ve tightened our belts, and it’s hard to justify accessorizing this new look without cause. The industry has met this challenge by aligning with charitable causes to incentivize shoppers and assuage their retail guilt. This month, the fashionable philanthropy is all over Baltimore, with local retailers offering shoppers a number of ways to contribute to the community. From now until October 23rd, the shops at The Village of Cross Keys are offering a number of charitable incentives through the shopping center’s semi-annual Cross Keys Cares event. The Pied Piper, for instance, is collecting cash contributions and donating a percentage of sales for the Children’s Cancer Foundation. Ruth Shaw, J. Jill, and The Store Ltd. are collecting gently warn clothing and cash donations for The House of Ruth, which helps lead the victims of domestic violence to safety and shelter. (Ruth Shaw gives a...

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8-16-11: Spotlighting the Jersey Shore

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By J. Wynn Rousuck, Stephanie Hughes - Aug. 16 (News Analysis) - A review of the musical "Unraveled on the Gravel"--playing in Baltimore, but set on the Jersey Shore.

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Pop Goes the Culture

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Tom Hall, Lawrence Lanahan - Aug. 03 (News Analysis) - McDaniel College president and popular culture analyst Roger Casey on the fall network lineup.

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Japanese Anime Fans Flock To Otakon Convention In Baltimore

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WJZ-TV - By Pat Warren - Jul. 29 (News) - One of the biggest attention-grabbers of the season is back. Otakon, a convention for fans of Japanese anime, draws thousands to the Inner Harbor each year.

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The Last Drive-In

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Anne Haddad - Jul. 28 (Opinion) - The Bengies Drive-In Theatre, about a forty-minute drive east of Baltimore, is in a category all its own: It's like a local diner with a peculiar but irresistible menu where we put up with a little abuse from the owner and come back for more because nostalgia is a strong and irrational force.

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Baltimore Artscape: A healing event

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - Jul. 15 (Editorial) - Today, it's hard to imagine Baltimore without Artscape, the city's annual outdoor festival of the arts that begins Friday. In the three decades since its founding, the great gathering in the heart of midtown's arts district has become part of the warp and woof of this city's cultural fabric, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year with a multicultural mix of big-name musical acts, cutting-edge artworks and spicy foods.

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M&T Bank Stadium hosts Monster Jam 2011

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Record - By The Daily Record - Jul. 13 (News) - Daily Record photo essay

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Secrets of the Civil War -- For your YouTube viewing pleasure

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Rachel Monroe - Jul. 13 (News) - Recommended for scientists, non-scientists, Civil War buffs, and people who like to waste time on YouTube but feel like they're getting smarter while doing so.

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Historic theft: Case of the purloined letters

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Sun Editors - Jul. 12 (Editorial) - Even under the best of circumstances, archives lack air-tight security. It's generally harder to get to the gate at the average airport than it is to gain access to the valuable historic documents stored and maintained by the hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. universities and colleges, public libraries, non-profit organizations and state archives.

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Poe House Schmoe House: Lit Prof Says Let Doors Lock

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Mikita Brottman - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - Baltimore Fishbowl readers may recently have learned that the Poe House at 203 Amity Street can expect no further financial support from the city. In certain quarters, this revelation will no doubt cause much brow-beating and hand-wringing, but I have always seen the Poe House as something of a “purloined letter”—that uncanny object which, as Poe aficionados well know, cannot be properly seen because it is lying right in plain view.

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Living Traditions — Pile of Craft, Summer 2011

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Radar Redux - By Jack Livingston - Jul. 09 (News) - Take a stroll through any good art museum and you will see object after object of transcendent beauty that take you back to that moment when the creator conjured it up. Here crafts are not “crafts”, they are a form of contemporary fetishism, objects of art conjuring meaning communicated from individuals of the past.

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O'Malley to Maryland: Eat Local!

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By B. Boyd - Jul. 06 (News) - Plan to eat at least one locally grown food a day during Buy Local Week, July 23-31--Berger cookies don’t count, unfortunately--and you’ll join more than 2500 Marylanders who have made the promise to shop local farms, farm stands, farmers’ markets, wineries, and grocers in our great vegetative state.

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Donate Your Pennies: Poe House in Poorhouse

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By B. Boyd - Jul. 05 (Opinion) - The historic Poe House at 203 Amity Street lost $85,000 in city funding last year--they’ve been told to expect no further support--and is temporarily closed while EAP-loving local volunteers scramble to assemble funds to reopen the museum building to the public.

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Baltimore African-American Festival celebrates its 35th year

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Nicole Fuller - Jul. 02 (News) - In its 35th year, the event is billed as the largest African-American festival in the country, attracting 500,000 visitors to the parking lot of M&T Bank Stadium over its two-day run with a host of musical acts, health and wellness information, and vendors hawking everything from jewelry to funnel cakes.

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Arcade Fire

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Elizabeth Cole - Jul. 01 (News) - Images of video gaming don't readily come to mind when you think Artscape, but when it's pushing 100 degrees, a little digital entertainment in an air-conditioned room may be just the thing.

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Artscape Turns 30

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:04:53 -0700

Baltimore Magazine - By Geoffery Himes - Jul. 01 (News) - The venerable festival enters its fourth decade brimming with populism and newfound energy, thanks to its expansion into Station North.

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Beautiful Freaks

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:04:09 -0700

Baltimore Magazine - By Shabdiece Esfahani - Jul. 01 (News) - Costumes, or "cosplay," are a major part of the Otakon conference. The main goal is to be able to enter into the character's world and actually become that character for a weekend.

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Pennies For Poe

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

North Baltimore Patch - By Rafael Alvarez - Jul. 01 (News) - Students at the Crossroads School in Fells Point have raised approximately $500 to help the Poe House remain open.

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The Un-Museum

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Baynard Woods - Jun. 30 (News) - To revive interest in the Contemporary Museum, Sue Spaid wants to get back to the museum's roots: connecting people directly with art and artists.

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Everyman Theatre a boost for the West Side

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Record - Jun. 30 (Editorial) - The Everyman Theatre’s recent groundbreaking for its new home is welcome news for Baltimore’s West Side, where development continues to come in fits and starts.

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Help Comes Tapping

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Andrew Zaleski - Jun. 30 (News) - Poe's short-lived home might be closed by early next year—unless an unlikely duo from the city's local arts scene saves the day.

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Getting it Straight

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Marc Steiner - Jun. 30 (Interview) - Tona Brown and Rahne Alexander are both musicians and singers. They share something else, too: Both were born male. by Marc Steiner Tona Brown and Rahne Alexander met for the first time when Marc Steiner invited them to take part in an interview for his namesake talk radio program and for Urbanite, but these women have much in common. They share something else, too: Both were born male.

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Hon Gets a Restraining Order

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Robert M. O'Brien - Jun. 28 (News) - "Hon" hullabaloo reached new heights (or depths) this week when Denise Whiting, proprietor of Cafe Hon, Hon Bar, and Hontown, and founder of Hampden's Honfest, was granted a restraining order against a vocal and active critic of her trademark-happy behavior, 25-year-old Steven Akers.

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‘Realizing the Creative City’ a Panel Discussion at the Baltimore Museum of Art

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pink Line Project - By Ally Behnke - Jun. 28 (News) - The best part about Baltimore, other than it being the home of Nattie Bo Beer and it’s historic architectural charm, are its small pockets of art centric neighborhoods. With both low rents and multiple institutions catering to the arts, Baltimore is a natural environment that fosters artistic and creative communities.

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The Sweet Sounds And Smells Of Summer

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Dundalk Patch - By Mary Lurz Hoffman - Jun. 25 (Opinion) - The author recalls the sweet nectar from a honeysuckle bush, and pleasant whiffs and small sounds growing up.

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