Baltimore, the City that Reads

Here on the changeable banks of Baltimore harbor we tire quickly of alternative monikers.
In 1812, we lived in Mobtown. More recently, we’ve been dubbed Crabtown, Queen of the Patapsco, and Nickel Town (Nikel Bag Town?). A 1975 ad writer coined for us the marvelously subjective nickname “Charm City.”
Speaking subjectively, now-governor Martin O’Malley declared us the [...]

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Lost loves

Maybe you’ve seen the PostSecret exhibit at the Visionary Arts Museum?  Well, this kid in Georgia is doing something kind of similar, with love letters.  It’s called The Love Letter Experiment and you can send him love letters you wrote but never ended up sending, and he’s compiling them into a book.  OK, OK, so [...]

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