Arts & Culture

COLUMN | “The Star-Spangled Banner” is a freedom song written by an enslaver. What are we to make of the national anthem in Baltimore, a city that’s so proud of it?

It’s going to be a hot one this July Fourth weekend. That doesn’t mean you can’t have fun.

The Great American State Fair intends to showcase all states and territories, but some exhibits are a lot barer-bones than others.

Six years after protesters toppled a Christopher Columbus monument, a new statue of an anonymous Italian immigrant family will be installed near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

James Hemings, the enslaved chef of Thomas Jefferson, was famous in his own right for the contributions he gave to American cuisine.

Fernando González of Riverdale Park’s 2Fifty BBQ won Restaurateur of the Year at the 2026 RAMMYS. Here’s how other Maryland restaurants fared.

The tall ships that brought life to Baltimore’s waterfront are heading to New York for Independence Day.

Longtime National Aquarium employee Jennifer Driban will become the cultural institution’s first female president and CEO, charged with steering the city’s top tourist attraction through a massive renovation.

Slutty Vegan will open in Federal Hill’s Cross Street Market on Aug. 1. The company is also facing a lawsuit from Baltimore’s MCB Real Estate related to a different location.

Wonder, a fast-growing but much-maligned food hall chain, is expanding in Anne Arundel County.

In Good Company: Josh Levinson made Charm City Run specifically for Baltimore. For nearly 25 years, the region has loved the business back.

Cold noodles are a beloved Korean dish, and great for hot summer months. We explore the history of the dish and talk to a chef about their personal/familial connection to it.

COLUMN | For eight years, I’ve avoided getting too close to 888 Bestgate, where five friends were murdered on June 28, 2018. It's the dark point on my landscape of regret, and it just smacked me in the face.

Nothing says Fourth of July quite like a hot dog. Here’s where you can find simple dogs or over-the-top creations, according to food social media influencer Chris Franzoni.

Anthony Jones, a “Top Chef” alum and James Beard semifinalist, grew up eating crabs along the Chesapeake Bay. He’s in the running for Rising Culinary Star at the RAMMYS Awards on June 29.

UMD professor Dan Ortiz Leizman is going viral for instruments they create from unlikely materials — the cheap plastic chairs known as Monoblocs.

Ottobar, the Baltimore’s indie rock club, has been ordered to pay over $18,000 in statutory damages and attorney fees to Broadcast Music Inc. and three music publishers after conceding liability in a copyright infringement case.

Almost every Venezuelan in the United States knows someone affected by the deadly earthquakes in their home country this past week, said the owners of Arepi, a Venezuelan restaurant in Fells Point.

The Feb. 24 death of Bobby J. Brown, who played a police officer on “The Wire,” was ruled accidental.

The app Too Good To Go lets people buy bags of food that would otherwise be thrown away by restaurants, bakeries and grocery stores. The best part: most bags cost less than $6.