Chad Williams, executive director of the West North Avenue Development Authority, was fired October 1, Baltimore Beat has learned. Williams has faced numerous allegations of workplace misconduct and…

Air Signs — Aquarius, Gemini, Libra The Fool + Knight of Cups rx + The Hermit rx  The hints may have started to appear last month, air signs, but October is further confirmation that you’re about to…

High Zero, The Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston Street. September 24 to 27, times vary. highzero.org Now in its 28th year, High Zero brings together musicians who have never played together before to…

In the past decade, Maryland state employee Chad Williams has been the subject of a federal investigation over his handling of sexual harassment complaints at a Nevada housing authority; has himself…

At a backyard gathering, a group of Black women and girls lay out newspapers along a table in preparation for a crab feast. (This publication’s recognizable headline font sticks out among the other…

The early weeks and months with a baby can be one of the most joyous times in life. But when you’re struggling to make ends meet, it can also be rife with financial fretting. Enter: The Baltimore…

After more than a decade in broadcast news across the country, Stephon Dingle moved back home to Baltimore in 2022 to work at WJZ-TV, the local CBS station he grew up watching with his grandmother.…

2012 was a storybook baseball season for Carver Vocational-Technical High School. Michael Rosenband, the varsity baseball coach, had recently moved from New York to Baltimore to coach in the city —…

Key:  Literary | Live Music | Performances | Art Exhibits | Crafts | Food & Drink | Resources | For Kids | Community Participation Wednesday, September 23 The People’s Pantry — Lexington Market: A…

Last summer, among the usual sea of hardcore and punk fliers slapped onto windows and telephone poles, I started spotting posters for cumbia concerts and reggaeton nights all over the city. They…

John Wells is a Baltimore rapper whose music is built from the people, places, and experiences that have stayed with him. His story starts in Baltimore, around Echodale off Belair Road, but he was…

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and City Council President Zeke Cohen announced on September 14 their answer to the deadly gaps in Baltimore’s behavioral health crisis response system: a third branch…

Over 2,000 congregants and 500 gospel singers, musicians, and composers packed the New Psalmist Baptist Church for The Sound of Baltimore live recording, according to organizers.  “The project is…

On a sunny Saturday in early September, when neighboring Read Street is abuzz with the sounds of acid jazz and animated voices, the 900 block of Tyson Street remains tranquil.  The brick facades of…

The New/Next Film Festival returns next week for its fourth year with a diverse and exciting slate of features, documentaries, and shorts. Mixing Baltimore-bred selections with more international…

“Come on in, Barabara” says Myrtle Thompson-Curtis, the short, brown-skinned co-founder of Feedom Freedom Growers, an urban agricultural collective on Detroit’s east side during our interview for a…

At a backyard gathering, a group of Black women and girls lay out newspapers along a table in preparation for a crab feast. (This publication’s recognizable headline font sticks out among the other…

Driving through any of the remarkably preserved colonial-era port towns of the Eastern Shore is like stepping into a time machine. Georgian brick townhouses stand alongside Federal and early 20th…

After my mother died in the early 2000s, I decided to backpack in Europe for a few weeks to process my loss. A week into my travels, in the wee hours of the morning, I stood on a train platform in…

Key:  Literary | Live Music | Performances | Art Exhibits | Crafts | Food & Drink | Resources | For Kids | Community Participation Wednesday, September 23 The People’s Pantry — Lexington Market: A…

John Wells is a Baltimore rapper whose music is built from the people, places, and experiences that have stayed with him. His story starts in Baltimore, around Echodale off Belair Road, but he was…

The New/Next Film Festival returns next week for its fourth year with a diverse and exciting slate of features, documentaries, and shorts. Mixing Baltimore-bred selections with more international fare...

Last summer, among the usual sea of hardcore and punk fliers slapped onto windows and telephone poles, I started spotting posters for cumbia concerts and reggaeton nights all over the city. They…

BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 9, 2026. Baltimore Beat now publishes online obituaries for a $5 contribution, giving families an affordable way to tell the story of someone they loved. Publishing an obituary…

Over 2,000 congregants and 500 gospel singers, musicians, and composers packed the New Psalmist Baptist Church for The Sound of Baltimore live recording, according to organizers.  “The project is…

This story was first published in Technical.ly. The Baltimore Police Department purchased more than 200 Axon Enterprise automated license plate readers, public records show.  In May, the Board of…

“Come on in, Barabara” says Myrtle Thompson-Curtis, the short, brown-skinned co-founder of Feedom Freedom Growers, an urban agricultural collective on Detroit’s east side during our interview for a…

In the brilliant July sun of this Monday afternoon in Preston, a family of five bald eagles soars overhead. Their wings are the only image interrupting the bare blue sky as they circle above the…

When I stepped into The Peale this May for the Charm City Fringe Festival, I entered a building that, for many years, I had only seen out of the corner of my eye when I walked down Holliday Street.…

On a rainy Saturday afternoon at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse in late April, bustling with people eating, working, and socializing, Marcellus Vinson is talking about prescription drugs and…

From 1966 to 1983, the community literary magazine Chicory was published in Baltimore by the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Called “the most authentic microphone of black folks talking ever devised,” by…

In the three years since Maryland legalized recreational cannabis, Baltimore has received more than $35 million in tax revenue to reinvest in communities devastated by the War on Drugs. To date, not…

The War on Drugs has ravaged Baltimore’s Black communities for more than a century. Thousands of residents have been pushed into the destabilizing pipeline of the criminal justice system, all under…

On a sunny Saturday in early September, when neighboring Read Street is abuzz with the sounds of acid jazz and animated voices, the 900 block of Tyson Street remains tranquil.  The brick facades of…

A virtual screening and conversation with Baltimore Beat Publisher Lisa Snowden Join Black Women in Journalism, tended by Third Nook, for a virtual screening of The Beat Goes On: The Story of Baltimo...

Mary Miles, in her signature glasses and short-cropped white hair, stood by herself during the February 17 Board of Liquor License Commissioners’ hearing — she didn’t have an attorney by her side, as…

2012 was a storybook baseball season for Carver Vocational-Technical High School. Michael Rosenband, the varsity baseball coach, had recently moved from New York to Baltimore to coach in the city —…

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This story was first published in Technical.ly. The Baltimore Police Department purchased more than 200 Axon Enterprise automated license plate readers, public records show.  In May, the Board of…

BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 9, 2026. Baltimore Beat now publishes online obituaries for a $5 contribution, giving families an affordable way to tell the story of someone they loved. Publishing an obituary…