Downtown : Featured Stories

Our food writer provides a stop-by-stop guide to eating your way through the Charm City Circulator's Banner Route. 

Climb onto the KRI Dewaruci, one of the nearly two-dozen tall ships that graced Baltimore during Sailabration. Bmore Media Managing Photographer Steve Ruark joined the crew June 13 as they greeted an excited crowd at the Inner Harbor.

A flotilla of more than 40 tall ships and naval vessels will sail into Baltimore June 13 to kick off the Star-Spangled Sailabration. This weeklong celebration features ship tours, air shows, and performances by a Naval Ceremonial Band and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812.

Several bills aimed at protecting Maryland's watersheds passed this year, but some say much more work lies ahead.

The expansion of a 12-mile biking and hiking trail is underway. When finished, the $18 million Jones Falls Trail will offer an alternative and scenic commuting route and a new way to explore Baltimore attractions. 

Do you turn to Western medicine or holistic health? A conference organized by the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Integrative Medicine discusses ways to meld the two. Respected alternative medicine guru Dr. Andrew Weil is the keynote speaker.

Baltimore’s stalwart restaurants have to compete with modern, trendy wine bars and bistros. Few have made it through decades of roller coaster growth and recessions. But classics like the Prime Rib, Rusty Scupper, Sotto Sopra, the Black Olive and Tio Pepe are going by changing with the times -- yet staying true to what made them crowd favorites in the first place.