Arts & Culture

Commonly known as “companion animals,” goats (along with ponies, donkeys, dogs, and even chickens) have been used for decades in equestrian sports to help calm anxious horses.

WYPR and WTMD will produce the New/Next Film Festival in August in hopes of filling the gap left by the Maryland Film Festival.

We dumped “Maryland, My Maryland” with good reason in 2021. It was a dumb, racist song written by a traitor and irredeemably associated by everyone with Christmas. It was long overdue for the dustbin. Do we require a new state song? Well, no. But do we need one? Hell, yes.

The museum recently hosted a grand reopening to reaffirm they’re still around.

As Charm City prepares for the Preakness, a group gathered at the renovated Lexington Market to watch six blue crabs ‘scramble’ for the finish line.

As of Tuesday afternoon, there is a 50% chance of rain showers during the day Saturday.

What’s the best way to see the Navy’s Blue Angels flight demonstration team amid its practice and performance during the Naval Academy’s Commissioning Week festivities? The show tops our weekly list of things to do in Annapolis.

The Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the famed Triple Crown, attracts tens of thousands of people to Pimlico Race Course in Northwest Baltimore. But the racial optics of the big day have reflected a noticeable divide between the city’s white and Black populations. Initiatives such as AfroPreak Lounge and other efforts to help draw more diverse crowds are starting to pay off, according to organizers.

Whether you're interested in watching movies at the Ravens’ stadium, attending Preakness LIVE or watching a 24-hour reading of Edgar Allan Poe works, we’ve got a list of events for you to check out.

Keeping your doors unlocked is not a sign of superiority or safety. It's baffling.

Old Bay partnered with the Baltimore Tattoo Museum ahead of Preakness to offer free tattoos in honor of everyone’s favorite spice.

Bruno Mars, the headlining act of Preakness LIVE, won’t take the stage until after the races are done. Here’s how to see him, as well as the schedule for the rest of the acts.

With generous portions of Old Bay, these Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport restaurants offer a taste of Maryland.

The burgeoning restaurant entrepreneur left his prison sentence in the past and is now seeing his businesses expand beyond Charm City.

Taylor Swift might have bad blood with one particular security guard in Philadelphia. In a viral moment, the star defended a concertgoer during the middle of her set while performing her 2014 hit “Bad Blood.” WJZ learned that the fan in question is a mom from Baltimore who teaches at an elementary school in Timonium.

Some of the biggest astrological transits of the year are happening this week. Mars connects harmoniously with Neptune on Monday, while beneficent Jupiter moves into the earthy sign of Taurus on Tuesday. Then Mars opposes Pluto on Saturday, and the sun moves into Gemini on Sunday.

Twitter blue checks, once used to verify your identity, have given way to a topsy turvy world of uncertainty and trolling for the low price of $8.

Last year, having headliners Megan Thee Stallion and Lauryn Hill made it seem like organizers were trying to build a connection with Black Baltimoreans. Pop juggernaut Bruno Mars and electronic dance music duo Sofi Tukker as next weekend’s stars feels like an intentional shift.

It's round two of the most tantalizing non-blue crab dishes served by Baltimore’s top chefs.

Baltimore-based artist Hayley Thornton-Kennedy illustrates the struggle mothers have with identity.