Anna Ditkoff’s fea­ture pro­files Pop­stars 2’s Don­a­van Green and Monika Chris­t­ian. In Mobtown Beat, Van Smith reports that a South Bal­ti­more air-pollution study finds indus­trial sources play min­i­mal role. The Nose gauges polling about a pos­si­ble guber­na­to­r­ial pri­mary match between Mary­land Lt. Gov. Kath­leen Kennedy Townsend and...
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Steven J.R. Black­well, a dis­creet and up and com­ing young drug king­pin before a 2008 kid­nap­ping of two of his younger broth­ers brought him to pub­lic atten­tion, was sen­tenced today to 20 years in prison, fol­lowed by five year’s of super­vised release, for his...
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The Year of the Dragon roars in on Mon­day, Jan. 23, and Zhong­shan Restau­rant is offer­ing a tra­di­tional 12-course ban­quet to usher in the Chi­nese New Year cel­e­bra­tion. The meal includes assorted plat­ters of cold dishes such as sliced roast duck, bar­be­cued pork, and...
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Bren­nen Jensen’s fea­ture pours through the his­tory of National Brew­ing. In Mobtown Beat, Van Smith digs into Urban­pipe’s city-granted fran­chise to con­nect Baltimore’s cen­tral busi­ness dis­trict with fiber-optic cable. The Nose sniffs out some stinky cash in Kath­leen Kennedy Townsend’s cam­paign cof­fers. Michael Anft’s Media Cir­cus exam­ines...
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Bal­ti­more Brew, the upstart webzine started by for­mer WaPo reporter Fern Shen and packed full of scoops mainly by for­mer Sun reporter Mark Reut­ter, has exceeded its $15,000 fundrais­ing goal on Kick­starter, with five days to go. The Brew cam­paign had clocked a bit over $15,500...
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Does it seem like it’s always Restau­rant Week some­where? Pos­si­bly. But this go ’round boasts a num­ber of new deals. In Bal­ti­more City, the week-long cel­e­bra­tion that usu­ally runs slightly longer than a week begins Jan. 20, and three-course din­ners will cost you either...
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Maryland’s build­ing codes, enforce­ment offi­cials, and con­trac­tor licens­ing sys­tem ranks in the mid­dle of the pack among states sub­ject to hur­ri­canes, accord­ing to a study released this week by the Insur­ance Insti­tute for Busi­ness and Home Safety (IBHS), a Florida-based insur­ance industry-funded organization. Look­ing at...
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Accord­ing to the sen­tenc­ing order signed by Judge Roger Titus, for­mer Bal­ti­more lawyer Stan­ley Needle­man is to begin his year and a day prison term, as directed by the Fed­eral Bureau of Pris­ons, no later than 2 p.m. Feb. 27, when he is sched­uled...
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Holy smokes (New York Times). The equiv­a­lent of a bowl a day, every day, for seven years did not impair lung func­tion in the 5,000 ston­ers stud­ied for this JAMA arti­cle.  Snow­board­ers, rejoice! Oh. You already are.  Ok, carry on, then.
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Bal­ti­more police made a rare appeal yes­ter­day for the media’s help in a mur­der inves­ti­ga­tion, and offered a $2,000 reward for tips called into the department’s hotline. The mur­der of Mary Hines, an 84-year-old retired school prin­ci­pal, has sad­dened and out­raged the com­mu­nity. Hines was...
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