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Favorite dining spots of some of Baltimore's best chefs
Looking for some new places for your eating-out repertoire? We caught up with some of chefs in town to find out where they go when they're not dishing out fare at their own spots. Note: All restaurants are in Baltimore unless otherwise indicated. Ted...
Tags: Tortillas, Roland Park, Bars and Clubs, French Toast, Lifestyle and Leisure
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City-owned Hilton Baltimore lost $11.5 million last year
The city-owned Hilton Baltimore lost nearly $11.5 million in 2011 — about $400,000 more than it lost the previous year, according to a recently released audit.
In addition to losing money last year, the hotel dipped into its reserves in February to...Tags: Moody's Corporation, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Companies and Corporations, Finance
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Candy shop moves to Power Plant
Candy retailer The Best of Luck Candy & Gifts has moved to larger quarters at Power Plant in downtown Baltimore, next to Phillips Seafood. The Inner Harbor store, which specializes in bulk and nostalgia candy, gift baskets and custom favors, is double...Tags: Harbor East, Inner Harbor, Harbor
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Civic group targets accidents involving pedestrians
As traffic officer Bobby Brown began his weekday afternoon shift at Pratt and Light streets, he was quickly drawn into the dangerous dance involving pedestrians and motorists. A motorist didn't see three pedestrians as he made a sharp left-hand turn, but...
Tags: Baltimore County, Harford County, Disasters and Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents, Cell Phones
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Dr. Norman I. Zipper, optometrist
Dr. Norman I. Zipper, a retired Baltimore optometrist active in the Jewish community, died of renal failure May 12 at his Pikesville home. He was 89.
Born in East Baltimore and raised on South Ann Street, he was a 1940 City College graduate. As a young...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Judaism, World War II (1939-1945), Barry Levinson, Pikesville
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Mayor calls St. Patrick's Day violence a "black eye" for city as police ramp up summer deployment
Visitors to Baltimore's downtown on summer weekends will see up to 50 additional police officers, a show of force aimed at preventing a repeat of St. Patrick's Day, when hundreds of youths battled and a tourist was beaten — scenes the mayor...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Government, Television, Harbor, Auto Racing
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What downtown needs: More cops, fewer knuckleheads
During a stroll Thursday night from Little Italy to Harborplace, I bought jelly beans in The Best of Luck candy store, listened to a sidewalk trumpeter play the blues, noted several dead lights that left unappealing darkness along Pratt Street, and...
Tags: Little Italy (Baltimore, Maryland), Inner Harbor, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Business, Harborplace
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Longtime BBH executive laid off by clinic board
The directors of Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc., a major drug treatment provider in Baltimore, have laid off longtime executive William "Kris" Hathaway, as the once high-flying nonprofit continues to cut costs. The board of directors had earlier...
Tags: Health Insurance, Crime, Law and Justice, Unemployment, Judges, Government Health Care
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A neighborhood that few leave
The other evening, I sat at Doris Poling's dining room table and we discussed Overlea. A lifelong resident of the Northeast Baltimore neighborhood, she asked what angle I would take in writing about it.
After all, it is a quiet, livable residential...Tags: Belair Road, Baltimore County, Kent County, Overlea, Harborplace
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Grand Prix trees finally getting planted in city
It's said good things come to those who wait. But somebody still has to pay for them.
On Friday, a contractor commissioned by the city began planting 150 trees around downtown, fulfilling a pledge made – and broken – by the now-defunct...Tags: Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, New Products, Government, Inner Harbor, Public Officials
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Table Talk: New Four Seasons restaurant jumps on the 'izakaya' craze
PABU, the second restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore, is scheduled to open this week. The dinner-only restaurant is the first collaboration between Michael Mina, whose San Francisco-based restaurant group also developed the concept for Wit &...
Tags: Japan, Mother's Day, Roland Park, Bars and Clubs, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Still in business: The 175+ year club
When Augustus Schwatka launched his blacksmithing shop on West Saratoga Street in 1810, the War of 1812 was on the horizon, locomotives were not yet a transportation option and slavery was thriving. Two centuries have passed since then, but you can still...
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Alcoholic Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Travel, Companies and Corporations
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