Summer nights in Fells Point offer gorgeous harbor views, meals by the water, and historic cobblestone streets. Lately, these warm weekend nights also include infringements on your constitutional…

Baltimore Beat won 23 awards at the 2025 MDDC Press Association Awards, including Best of Show Awards for editorial design and reporting; a number of first place awards for reporting, photography,…

Logan Hullinger, founder of news blog Mobtown Redux and one of Baltimore Beat’s most dedicated contributors, passed away unexpectedly on March 6. He would have turned 30 on March 10, 2026.  Logan was ...

On the evening of Tuesday, February 24, two Baltimore Police officers, Omar Rodriguez and Arthur Fuog, fired numerous shots at 37-year-old Dwight Hawkins after a short footchase, killing him in the…

The blues was all Ursula Ricks had the first time she sang at the now-defunct Full Moon Saloon in Fells Point.  “It’s the blues. It’s emotion music, and everybody in the room has emotion, so nobody’s ...

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They say never go into business with family, but these Baltimore couples found success doing just that. From trendy thrift stores and savory brunch spots to homey bookstores, these local businesses ar...

On June 28, 2018, Rob Hiaasen was supposed to get his hair cut. But the 59-year-old editor and columnist at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis didn’t go — and now his family imagines what his day would ...

I don’t remember the first time I encountered Tom Miller’s work. His early 1990s murals on North Avenue and Harford Road have always been a few miles away from where I lived. In my optimistic recollec...

The blues was all Ursula Ricks had the first time she sang at the now-defunct Full Moon Saloon in Fells Point.  “It’s the blues. It’s emotion music, and everybody in the room has emotion, so nobody’s ...

Rouse Company Foundation Gallery at Howard Community College, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway Columbia, Maryland, through March 16.howardcc.edu When was the last time you wandered through an alternate u...

Nisha Jackson, 33, took a pregnancy test at work in late November of 2025. When the test came back positive, she knew immediately that she would terminate the pregnancy.  She called her boyfriend and ...

“Red-light district,” “tenderloin,” or “strip” never seemed to suit The Block. It’s been “The Block” for at least a century, since the 1920s, when young men, returning from serving in World War I, mig...

Successfully selling the fantasy of sex is at once performance art and business transaction: getting into character, being embodied and still responsive to the audience, making deals and keeping track...

Welcome to our Love and Sex issue.  In these pages, we use storytelling to explore how expansive the ideas of love and sex can be.  Emma Akpan writes about the Abortion Fund of Maryland, which was for...

“Red-light district,” “tenderloin,” or “strip” never seemed to suit The Block. It’s been “The Block” for at least a century, since the 1920s, when young men, returning from serving in World War I, mig...

In the middle of the 500 block of N. Chester Street in East Baltimore, half a block away from Northeast Market, sits Biddy’s TVs. The area has seen lots of changes since 2001 when Johns Hopkins Hospit...

In the 39 cases in which the Maryland Attorney General’s Office has completed an investigation of police-involved fatalities, the office’s Independent Investigations Division has brought charges in ju...

As social media and news coverage is flooded with a relentless stream of images showing immigrants being rounded up, masked federal agents shooting rapid responders, and government officials defending...

From New Year’s Eve til the end of January, Baltimore’s music scene carried 2026 in with packed rooms, benefit shows, album releases, and familiar venues beating with new energy. At Holy Frijoles and ...

Nomad War Machine and Susan Alcorn “Contra Madre” When internationally revered pedal steel legend Susan Alcorn died last January, the city’s heartbreak took on the sound of a swooping,  bent B string....

“Within Reach of Silence”  Temi Wynston Edun at Gallery Blue Door, 833 Park Avenue, through April 18 gallerybluedoor.com In an age full of ubiquitous targeted advertisements, AI slop, phone addiction,...

By day, Mark Anthony Thomas is the president and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee, an organization shaping Baltimore’s economic development. Now he wants Baltimore to recognize he’s a poet with ...

In the summer of 2024, you couldn’t pin Khloe Ison down. But her parents, Akilah Crowner and Keemie Ison, did the best they could to keep up.  While Baltimore basketball prodigy Ison was traveling wit...

In the middle of the 500 block of N. Chester Street in East Baltimore, half a block away from Northeast Market, sits Biddy’s TVs. The area has seen lots of changes since 2001 when Johns Hopkins Hospit...

As social media and news coverage is flooded with a relentless stream of images showing immigrants being rounded up, masked federal agents shooting rapid responders, and government officials defending...

In the 39 cases in which the Maryland Attorney General’s Office has completed an investigation of police-involved fatalities, the office’s Independent Investigations Division has brought charges in ju...

In this issue, Jaisal Noor writes about the work organizers are doing in Baltimore as United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (also known as ICE) continue their assault on residents h...

Wednesday, January 14 Black Folx Book Club: “Son of the Morning” by Akwaeke Emeze: Join Greedy Reads bookseller Leela Chantrelle for the Black Folx Book Club, a reading space for Black women and Black...

Baltimore School for the Arts freshman Urijah Parran spends his weekends documenting the Baltimore skateboard scene on both film and digital. Recently, Parran shot the MD/AM skate competition at the C...

Ill Conscious — “The Aggregation of Marginal Gains” Baltimore veteran emcee ILL Conscious has spent years solidifying his name as a top-tier lyricist at home and abroad. On December 12, 2025, he dropp...