Lydia Woolever

Baltimore

Senior Editor at Baltimore Magazine

Senior editor @baltimoremag // formerly @esquire, @phillyinquirer.

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Articles

Art Space: The Ivy Bookshop’s Sculpture Garden is a Paradise of Poetry

2 weeks ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Lydia Woolever

Five years ago, after nearly two decades in a boutique Towson shopping mall, the Ivy Bookshop moved just down the street on Falls Road, and yet into an entirely different universe. The beloved indie bookstore’s new Mount Washington digs turned out to be a former meditation center, with an idyllic greenhouse and some three acres of lush gardens, open to the public—then and now.
Anatomy of a Baltimore Rowhome

3 weeks ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Lydia Woolever

THERE ARE A FEW MOMENTS when you really see it. Youcome over a hill on O’Donnell Street on the eastern edgeof the city. You pass down a stretch of Pratt from the farwest side of town. Perhaps you’re heading south, alongSt. Paul. Or coming up north, from the bridge on Hanover. Often enough, you almost miss it, just an ordinary sightwhile getting to where you need to go. But other times,at just the right moment, it strikes you—something likeawe.
Review: The Wren Perfects the Pub in Fells Point

1 month ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Lydia Woolever

Most nights of the week, through the leaf-green door at 1712 Aliceanna Street, Will Mester will be in the back corner, a white apron tied around his waist, drifting between the two induction cooktops of his ad-hoc kitchen, the smell of melting butter in the air, as he quietly cooks up a storm under the lamplight of The Wren. It’s not exactly where you might expect to find him.
An Ode to the Orange Crush: Maryland’s (Now Official) Drink of Summer

1 month ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Lydia Woolever

When the weather gets warm enough in the Land of Pleasant Living, an inevitable thirst emerges. Not for any particular can of beer, mind you, not even an ice-cold Natty Boh. Instead, it’s our state’s undisputed drink of summer—the one and only orange crush. This year, Gov. Wes Moore made it official, rightfully designating the icy crush Maryland’s state cocktail as of June 1.
Artscape’s Scout Art Fair Plans to Put Baltimore’s Creative Community on the National Map

1 month ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Lydia Woolever

Throughout the week, across the flowering green from City Hall, dozens of artists have been hauling canvases, frames, and sculptures up the marble steps of the Baltimore War Memorial in preparation for Artscape.
Baltimore is Still in a Daze Over Turnstile’s Historic Hometown Concert

1 month ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Lydia Woolever

The crowd came in from every direction. From the northwest, they scrambled down the hillside from The Baltimore Museum of Art. To the east, they shimmied up the old oak trees near Charles Street. Looking south, from pit to playground across the 16-acre Wyman Park Dell, there were people—reportedly more than 10,000—literally as far as the eye could see.
Baltimore is Still in a Daze Over Turnstile’s Historic Hometown Concert

1 month ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Lydia Woolever

The crowd came in from every direction. From the northwest, they scrambled down the hillside from The Baltimore Museum of Art. To the east, they shimmied up the old oak trees near Charles Street. Looking south, from pit to playground across the 16-acre Wyman Park Dell, there were people—reportedly more than 10,000—literally as far as the eye could see.
Can’t-Miss Baltimore Events Happening in May 2025

1 month ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Lydia Woolever

5/2-31: ASIA NORTHFestivals. Artscape might have left Station North—it moved downtown, with new dates on May 24-25—but another festival in Baltimore’s first arts-and-culture district is getting bigger and better every year. This entire month, head toward Penn Station for the fifth annual Asia North.
Art Space: Sideshow Builds Community with a New Collection of Free Zines

2 months ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Lydia Woolever

There’s no shortage of souvenirs in the Sideshow gift shop of the American Visionary Art Museum. Pins, puzzles postcards. Whoopie cushions, wind-up teeth, and saint candles, featuring a celestial likeness of museum founder Rebecca Hoffberger. And now, in fitting fashion for a venue celebrating outsider art, there is also a growing collection of zines.
Old Westminster Winery Taps Chef Tae Strain, Ushering in a New Culinary Era

2 months ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Lydia Woolever

Last week, spring officially sprung at Old Westminster Winery. Across the rolling hillside, new leaves unfurled on row after row of chardonnay grapevines, while over at the barn-chic tasting room, a multitude of workers milled about—transforming the outdoor dining area’s signature greenhouses into open-air cabanas for warmer days ahead.