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Movie review: The Life of Chuck

1 week ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Max Weiss

Beware of films explicitly trying to impart life lessons. They run the risk of being trite. The Life of Chuck, with its tagline, “Every Life is a Universe All Its Own,” is such a film, although its unusual structure and smidge of Stephen King weirdness (it’s based on one of his novellas) saves it from being a complete washout.
Baltimore’s Best Snowball Stands

1 week ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Lauren Cohen

If you’re anything like us (read: snowball snobs) you know exactly what you’re ordering once you step up to your favorite roadside stand this season. As Baltimoreans, we all have our preferences. (Egg custard or Skylite? Domed top or pointy top? Marshmallow on top or in the middle?) But no matter what combo fills your cup, nothing beats the feeling of chopping away at the refreshing treat—especially when it’s the perfect ratio of ice to syrup—once the humidity sets in.
Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace Is Leading the Department Into a New Era

1 week ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Corey McLaughlin

Many people first saw Baltimore City Fire Department Chief James Wallace in the predawn of March 26, 2024, delivering the first information about the Key Bridge collapse. “Everybody ready,” Wallace said to reporters at a staging area in the westbound lanes of Fort Armistead Road in Hawkins Point. Wearing a navy blue BCFD baseball hat, he then introduced himself and other officials, and began detailing what he knew.
The Best Ways to Celebrate Juneteenth Around Baltimore This Week

1 week ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Joyce Sampson

Live music, symbolic eats, educational experiences, and supporting local Black-owned businesses are top of mind as Baltimoreans commemorate Juneteenth—the holiday that dates back to June 19, 1865, when the last enslaved people were freed in Galveston, Texas more than two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Though Juneteenth has been celebrated since the late 1800s, it wasn’t recognized as a federal holiday until 2021.
Movie review: Materialists

2 weeks ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Max Weiss

This review contains spoilers. Midway through Materialists I came to the somewhat depressing conclusion that writer-director Celine Song and I are simply not simpatico. I admired the intelligence and craft of her previous film, Past Lives—and thought it was a fresh take on the immigrant experience. But I turned on Greta Lee’s Nora when she ignored her husband, Arthur, at the bar, instead speaking in Korean to her childhood love, Hae Sung—and never fully recovered from that.
Weekend Lineup: June 13-15

2 weeks ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Lauren Cohen

The best ways to spend your weekend in Charm City.
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.
Historian Martha S. Jones’ New Memoir Traces Five Generations of Her Own Lineage

3 weeks ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Ron Cassie

Johns Hopkins University professor Martha S. Jones is one of the country’s leading historians and public intellectuals. In Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (2018), she chronicled how free Black residents in Baltimore asserted their citizenship rights, ultimately helping enshrine the principle that all persons born in the United States are citizens.
Movie review: The Phoenician Scheme

3 weeks ago | baltimoremagazine.com | Max Weiss

As I’ve said before, Wes Anderson is like cilantro. You either love him or you think he tastes like soap (metaphorically speaking, at least). Me? I love him. (I also love cilantro, but will need to do further research to determine a corollary.)In fact, over the years, I’ve turned into something of a Wes Anderson apologist. I’ve at least liked all of his films and loved most of them. My favorites, because who can resist ranking him, are The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Royal Tenenbaums.