HeyJaredArt + Ideas: Cara Ober, BmoreArt
Art, Culture, Politics, Conversation, and Economic Realities in Baltimore
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Ten Pages: What It Costs to Keep Baltimore in Print (opens the original)
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A Shadow that Remembers: Inside Baltimore's Own 9/11 Memorial (opens the original)
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Every American born before 2001 has a 9/11 story. We all remember where we were that day: the sights, the feelings, the fear. I was a schoolteacher at the time, teaching art to high school students in Sykesville, Maryland. A number of our students’ parents commuted to DC; a few worked at the Pentagon. There was real fear that day. We had no way of knowing if those parents were okay, and everyone was sent home early.I drove back to Baltimore, to a friend’s house in Charles Village, and the TV was
Baltimore Made the Greatest TV Show of the 21st Century. So Why Are Baltimoreans Too Scared to Watch It? (opens the original)
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The Wire is streaming on HBO. I started watching it again, and it’s blowing my mind.The first time I watched it, it was on DVD, sometime in the late 2000s. I know I’ve watched it in its entirety a second time somewhere in the years since. And now here I am, twenty-five years after its premiere, watching it a third time, and it is somehow better than I remembered.Most beloved shows don’t survive the test of time. You go back to something you once loved and find it cringey, or dated, or the thing
Is This Real? Baltimore, National Attention, and the Case for Investing in What’s Ours (opens the original)
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This week, two of the largest publications in the country turned their attention to Baltimore. They told the same exact story from two different angles.The New York Times reported that Baltimore has recorded fewer homicides at this point in the year than at any time on record. The Wall Street Journal went to East Baltimore and found that thousands of the city’s vacant homes are now in demand, with buyers competing at auction for properties that sat untouched for years.What struck me wasn’t just
On Losing the Post (and Finding the Locals) (opens the original)
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