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Baltimore's A&E scene bursting with new projects
Hurry up and finish, willya? That's becoming almost a rallying cry on the Baltimore arts and entertainment scene, as filmgoers, theater lovers, lounge lizards, even merry-go-round riders wait eagerly for new and refurbished venues to open. Some...
Tags: Maryland Film Festival, Ellicott City, Science and Technology, Patapsco, Maryland Science Center
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Poe House reopening planned for October
Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum should reopen Oct. 4, the group responsible for making it profitable announced this week. "That's the official goal. That's the date," said Baltimore-based actor and author Mark Redfield, vice president of Poe...
Tags: Prosecution, Digital Harbor High School, Arts and Culture, Museums, Fiction
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Community column, Havre de Grace, celebrating Dr. King's birthday, and others
Coming up dear readers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, Jan. 21, recognizing his birthday on Jan. 15. This day honors Rev. King's lifelong commitment to equality and unity. Schools and many offices will be closed. A recent addition to this...Tags: Anglicanism, Martin Luther King Day, Foods and Beverages, Havre de Grace, Mardi Gras
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Poe Museum could reopen in fall
The one-time home of Edgar Allan Poe could reopen for visitors as soon as this autumn, according to one of the people in charge of running the tourist attraction. "Though we're still in the early stages, things are picking up steam," said Mark Redfield,...
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Poe House vandalized while closed during transition
The historic Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum in Baltimore, which lost its longtime curator and was shuttered in September amid an operational reorganization, has in the last month been defaced by graffiti and robbed of its wooden front steps, according...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, Vandalism
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Street by street, new police commissioner is learning Baltimore
A group of children play ball in the courtyard after dark as Anthony W. Batts walks through a high-crime West Baltimore public housing project wrapped around the Edgar Allan Poe House. It's quiet here, with an officer permanently stationed on-site, but...
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Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House gets revival plan
The financially troubled Edgar Allan Poe House got a lifeline from the city of Baltimore this week, raising hope that the now-closed historic site can be saved. The city agreed to pay the B&O Railroad Museum $180,000 to develop a plan for the home/...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Arts and Culture, Tour Operations Industry, Literature, Edgar Allan Poe
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B&O Museum to aid Poe House, under proposal
Baltimore will pay the B&O Railroad Museum $180,000 to put the Edgar Allan Poe House on the road to becoming a self-sufficient, serious tourist draw, under a proposal approved by the city's Board of Estimates Wednesday. The overriding idea is to turn the...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Public Officials, Arts and Culture, Ellicott City, Politics
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Poe House in transition
Edgar Allan Poe was possibly the most original literary talent ever to reside in Baltimore, and his death here, in 1849, at the age of 40 left an indelible mark on the city. Today, the house on North Amity Street, west of downtown, where the writer...
Tags: Railway Transportation, Arts and Culture, Museums, Transportation, Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe House bids farewell — for now
Hearing that Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House was about to shut its doors, Connecticut graduate student Brooke Duffy jumped on a bus and headed south Friday morning. "It just really surprised me that the city would have cut off funding for something...
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Poe statue slated for Boston
Even as Edgar Allan Poe's continuing presence in Baltimore remains uncertain, another East Coast city —the one in which the celebrated author was born — is preparing to honor him with a bronze statue.
Poe partisans in Boston have chosen New...Tags: Sculpture, Arts and Culture, Arts, Charles Street, Edgar Allan Poe
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Newfound Poe manuscript to be displayed in Richmond
A handwritten draft of one of Edgar Allan Poe's earliest poems and a letter to author Washington Irving are among a handful of items that will be part of an exhibit opening April 26 at a Richmond, Va., museum devoted to the writer. "This is the kind of...
Tags: Washington Irving, Arts and Culture, Gertrude Stein, Museums, Fiction
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