Fells Point : Featured Stories

See dozens of sailboats parade around the harbor before they take off for Portsmouth, Va. Boats arrive in Baltimore Oct. 7 for the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race.

Some Baltimore neighborhoods are home to many of the city’s vacant lots and the crime and illegal dumping that comes with them. Two Baltimore organizations, Baltimore Green Space and Power in Dirt, empower residents to transform underused and vacant lots into vibrant gardens. 

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.

A handful of women entrepreneurs have opened trendy fashion boutiques in Baltimore within the past year. By keeping prices and expenses low, using social media to promote the stores and staying ahead of the fashion curve, they hope to hang on by more than a thread as they ride out the bumpy economy.

After a dearth of new restaurant openings during the last two years, Baltimore witnessed a restaurant revival in 2011 as investors were once again hungry for new ventures. The owners of several new contemporary bistros, a Hollywood actor and a celebrity chef bet big on Charm City just in the last six months. 

Have you taken a Fells Point Ghost Tour? How about seeing a play produced by the Baltimore Annex Theater? If so, then Tim Paggi may look familiar to you. The Vermont native shares his love of acting, theater and all things Baltimore with Bmore Media.

Education is often bandied about among those jockeying for political position as a vague notion in need of improvement. It's a quick, easy soundbite on which almost everyone can readily agree. But what does improvement look like, and how do we find it? One place to start looking is Fells Point's Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, where low income students are beating the odds every day.