Letter from the editor-in-chief
Letter from the Editor – Issue 6
In this issue, we decided to mark the end of Baltimore’s hot and swampy summer with a bit of an Autumn celebration. Yes, technically, the first day of fall was last month, but it didn’t really feel like fall—with brisk, cool days and pretty leaves—until the start of October. In these pages, you’ll get a…
In this issue
A Few Fall Cocktails
It’s getting colder and the evenings are beginning earlier, so why not have a drink? We decided to ask a few local bartenders to give us some recipes for tasty fall cocktails, and to tell us a little about themselves, too. Here, you’ll find drinks to warm you from the inside…
Baltimore lights up with lanterns
Autumn in Baltimore means a lot of things: the return of football, a shift in the weather, and, for people in Southeast Baltimore, the Great Lantern Parade in Patterson Park. The parade, held the weekend before Halloween, is always in the evening. It creates a light show of artwork as it winds its way through the park,…
Baltimore’s Galerie Myrtis’ Beautiful and the Damned
According to the exhibition statement written by curator Myrtis Bedolla, “The Beautiful and the Damned asserts beauty as imagined through the lens of three African American women artists who challenge the notion of the historic limiting and unattainable standards of what is desirable.” The Beautiful and the Damned features the work of Megan Lewis, Lavett…
Baltimore Government and Community Events 10/19/22 – 11/2/22
Wednesday, October 19 Harbor West Food Distribution: Food giveaway. 9:45…
Baltimore Courts dangerous COVID-19 policies
When the COVID-19 pandemic began to rapidly spread and shut down civic life across the country in March 2020, Maryland…
Baltimore Arts and Culture Listings 10/19/22 – 11/02/22
Wednesday, October 19 Lantern Making Drop-In: Create a lantern for…
Three decades later, “The People Under the Stairs” is unsubtle, unsung, and unbelievable
It’s October, a month in which the far-reaching specter of Halloween has grown as long a tail as Christmas. As such, it’s tradition to watch as many scary movies as one conceivably can. There’s even a new “Halloween” out in theaters and streaming on Peacock. Still, a few clicks away on that same streaming service,…
Around Baltimore
Each person’s share of the police budget is a bit more than $900 each year, and when it’s all added up, residents of the city collectively spend more than $560 million on cops.
November Tarotscopes
Get a sneak peak at what’s in store for you this November with Iya Osundara’s tarotscope forecast. Take what resonates and leave the rest.
“The map of this library”
can be found in the back of your brochure, lines neat and clean cut, unlike the universe of volumes it holds. See that space at the center of the library, where a yew tree has grown with me, supporting the haphazard stacks that wobble and collide each time my train of thought shifts? And that…
