Letter from the editor-in-chief
Letter from the Editor – Issue 9
In this issue, in anticipation of the coming new year, we asked some people around Baltimore: what are you carrying with you into the future? Here is my answer: A few weeks ago, I went to Howard University in Washington, D.C., to attend a celebration to mark the opening of the school’s Center for Journalism…
In this issue
Baltimore Beat’s 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
This year has been one full of both triumphs and challenges. I still haven’t gotten the hang of this hazy pandemic hellscape. I still haven’t mastered the elusive “work-life balance,” but I’m very grateful to be living and working at this paper, in this city. December always serves as a time for recalibration, but also a chance…
Baltimorians tell us what they are taking with them to the future
Things feel hard right now. The pandemic is not over — it is still taking lives and leaving people, young and old, with long-term illnesses. Prices for food and gas are still high. As I write this, the city reached the benchmark of 300 lives lost to crime. Still, the holiday…
Photos from a walk through Baltimore’s Christmas Village
So much of what I love about Christmas is the spectacle, tradition, and ritual. As an adult, my love for the holiday has grown. I’m especially fond of Black Christmas movies and the Yuletide escapism they offer. In case you were unaware, a place exists to vacate your everyday life and fully immerse yourself in…
Community Resources
This Baltimore Beat section aims to help the community with resources and support they may not know are available. We ask people to share this information with anyone they know that could find it helpful. Baltimore Beat would like its readers to know that you will find…
Around Baltimore: 300 homicides and another food desert in Baltimore
Baltimore again reaches 300 homicides Just before Thanksgiving, Mayor Brandon Scott announced that Baltimore officially reached its 300th homicide of 2022. This is the seventh year that we have hit this tragic benchmark. Scott released a statement blaming the deaths on the high number of illegal guns coming into Baltimore from other places. However, that’s…
Baltimore Government and Community Events 11/30/22-12/31/22
Wednesday, November 30 Rally for Coal-Free Curtis Bay: Rally to…
Baltimore Courtwatch: Compounding Trauma
Content warning: sexual, emotional, medical, physical abuse of mentally ill people in jails In October 2017, The Baltimore Sun wrote…
Baltimore Arts and Culture Events 11/30/22-12/31/22
Wednesday, November 30 Wu Wednesday at The Point: Music, drink…
It’s time to revisit “Scrooged,” a chaotic and timely Christmas carol
In 1988, four years removed from his greatest failure (an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Razor’s Edge”), comedy giant Bill Murray brought Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” kicking and screaming into the modern era with “Scrooged.” But in the 30-plus years since, why have there been so few other contemporary adaptations of this classic…
December and January Tarotscopes
Air Signs: Aquarius, Gemini, Libra Seven of Wands + Ten of Wands + The Magician rx In 2022, some of you were thrust into the limelight. This may mean you received a promotion, saw an increase of work responsibilities, or were positioned as a leader or expert in your field. Whatever the case, there are…
Thousands of Dreams
Maybe there is something I am going to tell you, it is something that makes you feel so real in your mind and… tell me if you are who you want to be, there are a thousand colorful dreams, there are no better or worse…. there is only a country of love and harmony, there…
