ENTERTAINMENT
By Sam Sessa | sam.sessa@baltsun.com and Baltimore Sun reporter | January 17, 2010
In the 1930s and 1940s, Baltimore had a rich, flourishing jazz scene. Today, live jazz and devoted jazz clubs are scarce. But the owners of a new club located in a threadbare West Baltimore commercial district are hoping to help rekindle the city's once-dynamic jazz legacy. "We think Baltimore can be a major city for jazz," said Errez Segman, co-owner of the forthcoming venue, Back Alley Jazz. "We want our club to be a household name for live jazz and fine dining, and we think Baltimore's the right city for that."
NEWS
By Ernest F. Imhoff and Ernest F. Imhoff,SUN STAFF | March 24, 1998
Men who are recovering from drug or alcohol abuse will be able to avoid being homeless as they try to reclaim their lives next year at a home to be built in Mount Holly.And many in the West Baltimore neighborhoods of Mount Holly, Greater Walbrook, Woodhaven and Windsor Hills are ready to welcome, rather than oppose, their new neighbors."We're fully behind this. There's such a desperate need for transitional housing for those recovering," said John B. Ferron Sr., member and past president of Woodhaven Community Association.
NEWS
By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun | March 19, 2012
Franklin Lance knows his West Baltimore neighborhood can be great — located near to Druid Hill Park, it's home to the city's biggest shopping mall, a public university, and a network of active churches and community groups. But like so many areas of Baltimore, public safety looms large as an obstacle to growth. So he and his neighbors cheered Monday the announcement that the Greater Mondawmin area has been chosen by the city health department for an expansion of the violence mediation program Safe Streets.
NEWS
By Lorraine Mirabella, The Baltimore Sun | May 12, 2012
A grass-roots idea to bridge the gaps among racially divided neighborhoods has blossomed into an annual block party in West Baltimore that drew hundreds Saturday to a triangular park in Upton. At the fifth annual Boundary Block Party, sponsored by a coalition of five of the city's central-western neighborhoods, children frolicked near a fountain, a wooden platform served as a stage for local musicians and choirs, and dozens of people lined up for free hot dogs and potato salad.
NEWS
By Liz F. Kay, The Baltimore Sun | March 18, 2011
A West Baltimore housing complex will be the focus of a redevelopment plan funded by a federal revitalization grant as part of a local effort to combat decades of racial and economic segregation, officials announced Friday. Baltimore is one of 17 cities receiving Choice Neighborhood Initiative planning grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Working with urban design and planning firm Goody Clancy & Associates, Jubilee Baltimore Inc. will use the $213,000 and additional contributions from the city of Baltimore and nonprofits to create a redevelopment plan to reconnect Bolton Hill to western neighbors such as Madison Park, Druid Heights and Upton, said Charlie Duff, Jubilee's director.
NEWS
By Annie Linskey and Annie Linskey,annie.linskey@baltsun.com | June 8, 2009
The word is out and the anxiety is growing. In neighborhoods rich and poor, black and white, neat and messy Baltimoreans are keenly aware that a decades-old, twice-a-week rhythm of their lives is about to be disrupted. Soon the garbage trucks that pick up their trash will clatter down their streets just once a week. Oh, another truck will come a couple of days later, but it will only take recyclables, those mostly non-offending papers, boxes, bottles and cans - not the crab shells, baby diapers, cat litter, moldy bread and bruised spinach you don't want sitting around for the week in between pickups.