Meet the sculptor who works in a Baltimore shipping container depot
When sculptor Renee Arambiges began looking for a studio, she turned to a shipping container depot.
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When sculptor Renee Arambiges began looking for a studio, she turned to a shipping container depot.
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At the Nevermore Haunt, a haunted house in a former furniture store on the Old Town Mall, staffers prepare to scare and be scared this Halloween season.
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Most of Puerto Rico is without electricity and water in the days following a devastating hurricane, with the few open supermarkets now out of bottled water.
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Exploring Park Avenue’s Chinese past and Ethiopian present.
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How growing up in Baltimore shaped Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice.
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Volunteers aboard the SS John Brown are maintaining more than a boat. They’re keeping alive a symbol of Baltimore’s industrial heyday and the World War II homefront, when jobs were plentiful, and people were united in a common purpose. The SS John Brown, which turns 75 next week, is one of the last Liberty Ships still in operation.
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While the rest of us were busy watching the eclipse, another rare event was happening down in Washington. Three corpse flowers went into bloom at the U.S. Botanic Garden, the first on Sunday, August 20.
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In case you haven’t heard, there’s an eclipse on Monday afternoon. Here, a look back at solar eclipses of the past.
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Despite a 2012 city initiative to ban Formstone on new construction, the cladding remains intact on many blocks throughout the city. Here, a look at the siding that filmmaker John Waters once called “the polyester of brick,” whose history is closely linked with Baltimore’s.
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Baltimore Ceasefire — a plea for a 72-hour break in the relentless gun violence that’s struck Baltimore this year — was held this past weekend. Baltimore photographer Paul Lai followed organizers and supporters with his camera, at times feeling more like a participant than a documentarian.