The Beat, like everywhere else, is trying to figure out how to do what we…
An Introduction to Ranked Choice Voting
In Baltimore, there are more than thirty mayoral candidates—most of them Democrats, which means that…
Aerial Surveillance Returns: Debate over its effectiveness continues and documents show the spy plane captured a police shooting in 2016
The secret surveillance plane that flew over Baltimore throughout 2016 is coming back—and this time,…
Writers In Baltimore Schools’ 2019 anthology now available
Last month, the Beat published poems by writers from Writers in Baltimore Schools put together…
The solution to Baltimore’s overdose crisis—safe consumption sites
Last week, the Abell Foundation released a report encouraging Baltimore to establish overdose prevention sites—regulated…
Mayor Jack Young finally announces he is running for mayor
At the YNot Lot on Saturday, Jack Young, Baltimore’s mayor since Catherine Pugh stepped down…
Brandon Scott finally announces he is running for mayor
Next to his childhood home in Park Heights, standing in the spot where his parents…
Dumb Luck Or a Cover-Up: Day one of trial number four for Keith Davis Jr.
Police officer Paul Heffernan, on patrol in the Park Heights neighborhood, was overseeing a vehicle…
MdFF Picks: Period blood, ’80s sing-alongs, and feelz in ‘Knives & Skin’
“Knives And Skin” remixes and reckons with the ’80s and that’s what sets it apart…
MdFF Picks: ‘Well Groomed,’ a blissed-out doc about neon-dyed dogs and the people who love them
Creative grooming, wherein dog groomers take dogs (poodles, huskies, bichon frisés mostly), grow their fur…