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Streeter: Sotto Sopra’s dress code causes chatter but makes sense to me
COLUMN | Dress codes help create a restaurant’s ambience.
Sotto Sopra in Mount Vernon recently posted an official “Dress Code & Guest Courtesy Policy.”
Streeter: White House snub of Governor Moore is straight-up racist. Say that.
COLUMN | The fact that it’s so hard for other people to name a thing, a thing is such tiresome gaslighting, Leslie Gray Streeter argues.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore was not invited to two White House events during an annual National Governors Association meeting.
Streeter: Mom groups can help bridge the adult friendship gap or create another gulf
COLUMN | Mom groups can be a lifeline, because early parenting can be a singularly isolating situation where you spend most of your time tending to a needy human who can’t talk back to you.
A black woman hugging herself among the silhouettes of people. Loneliness in a crowd. Vector illustration in flat style.
Streeter: The Brewer’s Art’s demise a reminder to support local faves while you can
COLUMN | The sudden closure of The Brewer’s Art in Baltimore is a reminder to visit our local iconic places before we can't anymore.
The Brewer’s Art, the Mount Vernon brewpub and restaurant that has been an anchor of the Charles Street corridor for 30 years, closed abruptly Monday, according to employees.
Streeter: What Amy Sherald’s BMA show says about Baltimore. And why you should see it before it leaves.
Amy Sherald's "American Sublime," at the Baltimore Museum of Art, is at once a work of art and an act of rebellion.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 - Amy Sherald's exhibit American Sublime press viewing at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Sherald's piece, "If You Surrendered to the Air, You Could Ride It," at right.
Streeter: That’s not your parking spot. Lose the chair.
COLUMN | There’s a lot of discussion about chair etiquette as Baltimore residents dig out from the snowstorm. And it’s getting testy.
A lawn chair marks a shoveled-out parking spot in a Dundalk neighborhood on Wednesday.
Streeter: I don’t want Snowmaggedon to freak me out. And yet.
COLUMN | I know Marylanders look ridiculous freaking out over a predicted storm when, more than not, it doesn't materialize. I'm still loading up on snacks, batteries and bourbon anyway.
Snow falls during the last big snow in early 2025.
Streeter: The new food pyramid pushes meat and dairy. What if you don’t eat that?
Column | The New Food Pyramid says eat more meat, which forgets all the vegans.
Elle, 18 months, reaches toward the bread at the bottom of the revised food pyramid while held by her mother Claire Dooley, after an announcement by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., about nutrition policy, at Health and Human Services Headquarters, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in Washington.
Streeter: Stevie Wonder’s reminder that MLK and our history were not illusions
The celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday is bittersweet this year.
Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr delivers a speech at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza, Berkeley, California, May 17, 1967. Approximately 7,000 people attended the event. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Streeter: ‘A Black Girl and Her Braids’ captures the simple joy of self
Jaylene Clark Owens’ new children’s picture book, "A Black Girl and Her Braids," celebrates Black women wearing their hair freely.
Credit pending.
Streeter: I was still masking before the flu season was bad
I never stopped wearing a mask anywhere people were going to breathe on me, or where I could breathe on them.
Streeter: I’m rooting for Maryland’s Tony Dokoupil on CBS. I’m just not sure what he’s doing.
COLUMN | There were glimmers of real journalism in Tony Dokoupil’s first week behind the desk of “CBS Evening News.” I’m still skeptical.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 12: Tony Dokoupil  attends InStyle's 30th Birthday Celebration at BOOM at The Standard Hotel on September 12, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
Streeter: Maryland’s mean girl ‘Housewives’ trigger high school flashbacks
The ladies of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Potomac” are catty, mean and make me feel like I’m in high school — even though I’m 54.
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF POTOMAC -- "High and Dry" Episode 1014 -- Pictured: (l-r) Ashley Darby, Gizelle Bryant, Keiarna Stewart -- (Photo by: Andrew Wevers/Bravo)
Streeter: Ravens fandom means loyalty to the team — but it needs to go both ways
COLUMN | The Ravens have not been a priority for one die-hard fan this season, and it has little to do with how the team played.
Baltimore Ravens season ticket holder Meredith Davis attends a game.
Streeter: Love, loss and AIDS shaped this author’s groundbreaking memoir
“First Comes Love,” the groundbreaking grief memoir from University of Baltimore writing professor Marian Winik, is being rereleased on its 30th anniversary.
Marian Winik’s groundbreaking grief memoir, “First Comes Love,” will be rereleased on its 30th anniversary.
Streeter: This is going to be a hard year full of hard things. Let’s embrace it.
COLUMN: This New Year's Day, I'm starting a challenge for myself: Let's focus on the things I can control and not shy away from discomfort.
Streeter: To the shame of the ancestors, I couldn’t play spades. Until now.
COLUMN| I never knew how to play spades, the unofficial Black card game, until now.
Derrick Pittman shuffles the deck as he explains the rules of Spades to Leslie Gray Streeter and Melanie Hood-Wilson in Streeter’s home in Baltimore.
Is ‘The Baltimorons’ a Christmas movie? It depends which of our columnists you ask.
COLUMN| Is “The Baltimorons” a Christmas movie? Is it a Baltimore movie? Is it both? Columnists Leslie Gray Streeter and Rick Hutzell debate.
Columnists Leslie Gray Streeter and Rick Hutzell watch “The Baltimorons,” a Baltimore-based holiday movie recently released to streaming services.
Streeter: The invisible labor of the holidays, or how not to be mad at Santa
COLUMN | Parents spend a lot of time, money and tinsel on the holidays, which is both rewarding and exhausting. But it’s worth it. Probably.
Streeter: The pressure — and honor — of being the macaroni and cheese maker in a Black family
COLUMN | I had rejected my inheritance of macaroni and cheese. This holiday season, I’m proud to have reclaimed it.
Leslie Gray Streeter forks a scoop of her freshly baked mac and cheese in Baltimore.
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