Keeping Baltimore’s painted window screens alive
Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum has a permanent exhibit about painted screens on rowhouses.
New housing sought at EBDI
Private builders are being sought to replace a cluster of rotting, vacant rowhouses in Middle East with at least 45 homes or duplexes that will list for up to $257,000 — the first market-rate housing built at the East Baltimore Development Inc. site since 2009. A request for proposals was released in June by Forest […]
Maryland Moment – A bird in hand, on a wall
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Jury awards $50K to man tased by police
A Baltimore jury has awarded $50,000 to a man who was stunned with a Taser outside his East Side home three years ago when he refused to fully submit to a police officer investigating a gun sighting on his block. The plaintiff, Mitchell Gresham, has a criminal record and served a term in federal prison […]
PETA offers to help Poe House with pro-vegan ad
An animal rights group is offering to help out the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, which has been cut off financially by the city of Baltimore. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals offered Monday to pay for the right to prominently display a Poe-themed advertisement for the organization. The ad PETA is proposing […]
East Baltimore fire claims lives of 6 adults, kids
A fire at rowhouse in east Baltimore killed six adults and children early Tuesday, and spread to another three homes, a fire official said. Baltimore fire department spokesman Kevin Cartwright said firefighters were called to battle the fire around 4:45 a.m. and arrived to find a two-story brick home fully engulfed in flames. Cartwright said […]