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Baltimore's Charles Theatre is located in the burgeoning Charles North arts district. Architect Jackson C. Gott designed the Beaux-Arts buildings that house the theater in the late 1890s. The structures were originally designed to be a cable car barn and powerhouse but were remodeled into a movie theater - the Times Theater, which was the city's first to show only newsreels - in 1939. It was renamed the Charles Theatre about 20 years later and became a single-screen revival house in 1979. A remodeling project in 1999 expanded The Charles into a five-screen theater with a new lobby. The four additional screening rooms have stadium seating, while the original 485-seat room has a distinctively...
Baltimore's Charles Theatre is located in the burgeoning Charles North arts district. Architect Jackson C. Gott designed the Beaux-Arts buildings that house the theater in the late 1890s. The structures were originally designed to be a cable car barn and powerhouse but were remodeled into a movie theater - the Times Theater, which was the city's first to show only newsreels - in 1939. It was renamed the Charles Theatre about 20 years later and became a single-screen revival house in 1979. A remodeling project in 1999 expanded The Charles into a five-screen theater with a new lobby. The four additional screening rooms have stadium seating, while the original 485-seat room has a distinctively retro feel. The Charles offers first-run specialty films in addition to foreign films, new Hollywood releases and older classics. It also has a weekly series called Cinema Sundays at The Charles with breakfast and post-screening discussion usually led by filmmakers, critics or experts on topics covered in the films.
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Freewheeling art
Like most cities, Baltimore offers urban cyclists a fairly limited range of parking options - a lonely metal stanchion outside a coffee shop, perhaps, or an innocuous group rack outside an office building. If it offers anything at all. But starting...Tags: Billie Holiday, Frank Zappa, Edgar Allan Poe, Barry Levinson, Downtown (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Exploding food
Dining@LargeI was going to do a post on popcorn this week. I just hadn't gotten around to it. Sunday night I popped my own popcorn for the first time in, I don't know, years. My recipe is simple: You take......Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Dining and Drinking, Popcorn, Salt, Getty Images Incorporated
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Frugal fun
Special to The Baltimore SunPeople tend not to change unless they have to. Right now, we're still going out, spending money and keeping the economy humming, maybe just a little more cautiously. But if things do get tougher, the time to start implementing good behaviors is right now....Tags: Anthony Bourdain, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Hilary Duff, Highlandtown, Patterson Park
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Readers want views of local reviewers
It infuriates me that The Baltimore Sun employs two very well-versed film critics (Michael Sragow and Chris Kaltenbach) yet runs wire-service reviews of new movies opening in Baltimore. If we wanted to read what the critic from San Francisco Chronicle or...Tags: John Waters
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Gregg Wilhelm
Gregg Wilhelm is executive director of CityLit Project, which presents festivals, conducts workshops and inspires youth to enjoy reading and writing. He founded the nonprofit in 2004 and hopes he has contributed to the area's resurgent literary-arts...Tags: iPhone, Patterson Park
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Long-term plan for Charles North
City officials plan to unveil a multiphase plan tomorrow to transform a 100-acre arts and entertainment district north of Pennsylvania Station into a $1 billion "cultural crossroads" for Baltimore over the next three decades. Mayor Sheila Dixon is set to...Tags: Technology, Tourism and Leisure, Boston, Government, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Coming soon
opening next friday Pride And Glory (New Line Cinema) A New York police detective uncovers a corruption scandal that involves his own brother-in-law. With Edward Norton and Colin Farrell. The Grocer's Son (Film Movement) A 30-year-old Paris waiter...Tags: High School Musical 3, Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Anne Hathaway, Walt Disney Co.
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Debates drawing big TV audiences in Baltimore
Bishop Douglas I. Miles has lately been preaching a little something extra to his congregants at Koinonia Baptist Church in Northeast Baltimore - the gospel of tuning in to the presidential debates. His congregation listened - as did many others in the...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Memphis, Government, Coppin State University, Fells Point
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Arts calendar
fine art Museums Baltimore Museum of Art Art Museum Drive at North Charles and 31st streets. 443-573-1700. Free admission. Hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays. Permanent exhibits:Cone Collection, African Art,...Tags: IMAX, Barnes & Noble Incorporated, Suzanne Farrell, Towson University, Tourism and Leisure
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Calendar
OCT. 12 "The Clean Up Woman" JD Lawrence's new stage play and dramedy, The Clean Up Woman, stars Jackee Harry, Telma Hopkins, Christopher Williams and George Wilborn. 8 p.m. at Morgan State University, Murphy Fine Arts Center, 2201 Argonne Drive. $39....Tags: Warner Theatre, Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Hippodrome Theatre, Music Theater, Jazz Music
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My excellent Artscape adventure
Dining@LargeI was sent to Artscape today to come back, quickly, with a good food story for tomorrow's paper. And not to be too long writing it because my editors wanted to go home at a reasonable hour. So what was......Tags: Artscape, Vehicles, Arable Farming
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Top ten summer drinks and where to get them
Dining@LargeI was considering Matt Hudock's suggestion of summer foods for this top ten, but I did it last summer and I'm not sure I have much new to add from my own experience yet this summer.The topic didn't get much......Tags: Pikesville, Little Havana, Cafe Hon, Reisterstown, Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland)
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