In the third week of June 2007, like clockwork, my friends and I had our Pride weekend planned. Friday nights were spent at The Five Seasons, an Ethiopian restaurant turned gay club, Saturday nights spent at Club Bunns on Greene and Lexington, followed by The Paradox, and Sunday we were at the Pride Block Party. […]
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Photostory: Honoring queer elders at Pride
To age is a blessing and as a Black queer person, it is even more significant for me to recognize such. To be a queer elder, in today’s age, is to have defied the slaughter of the AIDS crisis, the numerous and consistent attacks on our community, and more on top of the other quarrels […]
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Baltimore City will open cooling centers as the city prepares for extreme heat this weekend
Baltimore City is under an extreme heat alert from Friday, June 21, through Monday, June 24, as temperatures are expected to hit a high of 101 degrees this weekend. With humidity, it could feel as hot as 109 degrees. The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat watch on June 22 from 12 p.m. […]
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Curtis Bay residents want more than money from CSX — they want clean air
Dozens of Curtis Bay residents and activists gathered at the entrance to CSX Transportation’s sprawling coal terminal on June 10 to demand the corporation take safety measures to prevent coal dust from polluting their community — or leave. Chanting slogans like “When the air we breathe is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, […]
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July 2024 Tarotscopes
Air Signs – Aquarius, Gemini, Libra Queen of Swords rx + Five of Swords rx + Six of Wands rx Did you take the time to touch some grass in June, air signs? If not, you may be more grumpy and irritable over the next month. Many of you are still frustrated by a lack […]
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Letter from the editor- Issue 42
Both on the cover and inside this issue, you’ll find Baltimore artist Megan Lewis’ brilliant and arresting works. “Over the last decade, Lewis has worked to master her use of oil paint,” Angela N. Carroll writes in her feature story on Lewis. “Her paintings are passionate reflections of the beauty in Baltimore City. The models […]
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Baltimore Government and Community Events 6/19/24-7/3/24
Wednesday, June 19 West Wednesdays: Hear about the ongoing fight for police accountability in the Tyrone West case and all victims of police misconduct. This event happens every Wednesday. For more information, go to facebook.com/justicefortyronewest. Fifth Annual Sunrise Soiree to Commemorate Juneteenth: Bring your family, dress to express, offerings for ancestors encouraged, and instruments welcomed. […]
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Photostory: Wide Angle Youth Media High School Photography Exhibition
The Wide Angle Youth Media Photo exhibit opened with a reception on April 23, 2024, at Hotel Revival in Mount Vernon. WAYM high school students took all the photographs during their fall and spring photography classes. Sydney Allen led the students to explore portraiture as a response to an overall generational desire to be looked […]
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Transit for Us All: West Baltimore Community Members Say They Want More Connected Neighborhoods.
Arica Gonzalez doesn’t want to talk about bike lanes. To her, they represent people passing through her West Baltimore neighborhood — people with no vested interest in the residents nearby. What she does want to talk about is how her children and elderly neighbors are supposed to navigate their car-dependent neighborhoods. One of Gonzalez’s former […]
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‘Hit Man’ is equally charming and disturbing
Hit men do not exist. Or rather, the “retail”-level contract killer available to middle-class normies that is essentially a construct of movies and television does not exist. This is how the central, seemingly ridiculous premise of Richard Linklater’s new, loosely based-in-truth film “Hit Man” can function. Hit men do not exist. Or rather, the “retail”-level […]