Jasmine Vaughn-Hall

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Jasmine Vaughn-Hall

The show may still go on (sort of) for Baltimore Youth Film Arts, a nearly 10-year-old program that trained and encouraged young people to tell their stories through film, animation, photography and writing. Last year, the program learned it would lose funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts & Sciences.

2 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Jasmine Vaughn-Hall |Nori Leybengrub

Sonia Eaddy remembers when the recreation center in Poppleton provided more than a place to go after school to learn karate or dance. It connected communities. When therec center opened in the 1970s, Eaddy said, she watched neighbors from Lexington Terrace public housing, Poe Homes and other placescome to one, safe place to play and enjoy free activities, including summer camp. “It was this new shiny rec center with different programs.

3 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Jasmine Vaughn-Hall

The ladies gathered around a white box on the table and leaned toward it as if a string pulled them by the chest. Once one of them ripped the box open, the golden brown swirls of doughy rolls sprinkled with nuts satisfied their curiosity. For 60 years, they’ve searched for the nostalgic treat across Baltimore and shared wherever they have gathered. “They look like our sticky buns,” said Joyce L. Gillard,reflecting on a time when going to school was the most convenient way to get one.

3 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Jasmine Vaughn-Hall

Bria Witherspoon, a new mom and frequent visitor at Druid Hill Park, is happy she no longer has any obstacles hindering her outside routine. Her 3- to 7-mile stroll had been disrupted by fencing that blocked off a popular loop around the park’s reservoir in West Baltimore that is often used for biking, running and walking. “It was terrible,” Witherspoon said while pushingher 3-month-old son Jonathan ina stroller at the park Monday.

1 month ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Jasmine Vaughn-Hall

Todd “Gready” Cornish thought something might be wrong with his four-legged friend Hank the Goat, when he rested under a pigeon coop instead of coming to Cornish to eat. But Cornish didn’t give it too much thought on Sunday nightsince Hank, who tends to be stubborn, has many shades to his personality. Whether he’s barging into corner stores insearchofpotato chips or stealing grapes off an arabber’s horse-drawn producecart, his antics came much moreoften thannot.