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Golden West Cafe, a staple in Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood, mulls move to...
Hampden’s Golden West Cafe, a long-standing fixture of The Avenue, is mulling a move elsewhere in the neighborhood. Owner Samantha Claassen is in talks with developer Josh Mente to move the restaurant...
View ArticleThe Baltimore Sun’s Best 2024 Readers’ Choice | CONTEST
Where’s Baltimore’s best suburb? Who serves the best coffee in town? What’s the hottest gym? Nominations for The Baltimore Sun’s Best 2024 Readers’ Choice contest close at 5 p.m. April 26. Voting will...
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Watch live: 2024 total solar eclipse
Millions of Americans on Monday will watch a total solar eclipse, the last one visible in the contiguous United States until 2044. The best places in the country to watch the rare cosmic show — when...
View ArticleClassical flutist Allison Loggins-Hull sees motherhood and music as...
It was the assumptions that upset the classical composer and flutist Allison Loggins-Hull 15 years ago, the moment her belly began to swell and round and the world realized she was pregnant with her...
View ArticleReview: ‘The First Omen’ is a prequel with style, plus borderline NC-17 body...
I hate to call “The First Omen” unexpectedly well-crafted and a little bit surprising, even. But for an essentially unnecessary prequel to “The Omen,” the 1976 hit about one satanically-minded child,...
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‘The world’s biggest canvas’: How Sphere’s pixel power brings art to the masses
Christopher Lawrence | (TNS) Las Vegas Review-Journal LAS VEGAS — It’s the world’s largest LED screen, offering nearly 580,000 square feet of artistic freedom. Each of Sphere’s diodes can display 256...
View ArticleReview: Forget Huck Finn. Novel ‘James’ tells us what Jim thought on the...
Angela Ajayi | (TNS) Star Tribune Everyone should know the name Percival Everett by now. His “Also by Percival Everett” lists read like discographies, revealing more than 30 novels with resonant,...
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The lap of luxury? High-end travel having huge ‘moment’ in Savannah, Georgia
Adam Van Brimmer | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution SAVANNAH, Ga. — For years, the face of travel in this antebellum town tended to be sun-kissed pink and slightly sweaty, peering from the...
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Maryland General Assembly ends, legislators move PORT Act across finish line...
The Maryland General Assembly, in a feverish attempt to pass hundreds of new laws, closed a 90-day session Monday that lawmakers had described as a return to “normal” after years dominated by the...
View ArticleDaily Horoscope for April 09, 2024
General Daily Insight for April 09, 2024 Our roots keep us from being swept away. The sensitive Moon slides into fruitful Taurus, and we shift from an ambitious, independent time in life to a more...
View ArticleWine, etc.: The search for ways to find and entice new wine drinkers |...
More has been done to study wine drinkers in recent years as producers try hard to introduce the beverage to more consumers. Alas, consumption is down significantly in almost every country,...
View ArticleSummer’s most popular destinations, according to Google
By Laurie Baratti, TravelPulse Spring may have just started, but it’s not too early to start planning for this year’s busy summer travel season, especially if you want to make sure your preferred...
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Travel: The 10 most spectacular castles around the world
Blame childhood fairy-tales or the Disney effect, but castles cast a spell over even the most level-headed of us. We’re enchanted by the very idea of crenellated ramparts and soaring towers,...
View Article‘Franklin’: What Michael Douglas learned about democracy in new series
Apple TV+’s eight-part series on Benjamin Franklin does a bang-up job of depicting chess-like political maneuvering and landmark bargaining sessions that helped shape the course of history. But...
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Recipes: Spring salad season features fresh greens and tender veggies
By Gretchen McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PITTSBURGH — Warmer weather, colorful flowers and gloriously sunny skies aren’t the only things that put spring on people’s lists as the best season. If...
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Why trekking poles are the most underrated piece of outdoor gear
The first time I ever used trekking poles, they felt cumbersome, clunky and, at times, downright annoying. It was February 2017 and my then-boyfriend (now husband) had convinced me to trade a day...
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Bits & Bites: New vendors to try at the Baltimore Farmers’ Market, Easy Like...
In Baltimore, rites of spring are abundant: There’s the blooming of the cherry blossoms at Fort McHenry, the reopening of snowball stands, Orioles Opening Day, lemon sticks at Flower Mart, the hordes...
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The real mom influencers of Howard County
“Mommy-blogger,” “momfluencer,” and “mompreneur” are all titles that grace the names of a few women throughout the county who have stepped into the influencer world from the perspective of a parent....
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Find your inner artist in the splatter room at AxGard in Ellicott City
After being medically retired from the army after 13 years, Mike Mcgraw, 31, was in search of a new venture. Interested in working for himself, he and his wife, Amanda, looked into starting an...
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Things to do in Baltimore, April 12-18
Listen to a literary figure speak, dress like a fictional character at a book store party, learn a traditional Irish dance, rock out to a Star Wars themed tribute band or help out a fundraiser for...
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