Baltimore neighborhoods

Three perspectives on how determined neighborhood residents and Baltimore city came together on a fraught redevelopment plan.

When the pandemic hit, restaurants had to quickly make outdoor public space to stay afloat. The Neighborhood Design Center jumped in to help … ‘Design for Distancing’ was born. Plus, what’s behind the brightly painted asphalt embellishing intersections around the city?

The words that I was speaking at that time, I didn’t recognize how much power they had.

A therapist plumbs his own psychology by creating artistic collages, a Central American kitchen staff cooks the menu at a Peruvian chicken restaurant, a…

This episode begins with a recovering addict who’s found peace, purpose, and a modest income folding paper flowers and peddling them to passersby on the…

In this episode, a group home is a haven for residents with mental and psychological challenges; a web-design CEO reveals his second life as an…

A boom in new, young residents is great for business, unless you’re the neighborhood funeral home. In this episode, a funeral director looks toward an…

“I think the word we’re dancing around is ‘gentrification.’” So says Benn Ray of Atomic Books at the outset of this episode. What follows is a…

Super-saturated sound-portraits of entrepreneurs and artists at work on the 2400 block of Saint Paul Street: Whirring blenders, whispering crochet…

In this episode, portraits of irrepressible drive and determination: A self-made cosmetics mogul opens up a school of makeup artistry, a local fashion…