Tag: Baltimore
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Milio’s Mission
To this pop-up shop entrepreneur, local makers matter. What 24 hours earlier had been a vacant storefront in North Baltimore was now a carefully curated pop-up shop. And on this Saturday morning in March, customers streamed into the temporary home-goods shop Taken, filling the space with excited murmurs as they browsed through the products, many of…
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Helping Hand
A local student gives back in a big way. Just in time for college-application season, Friends School of Baltimore senior Noah Gainsburg added an impressive title to his resume: St. Francis Neighborhood Center’s Volunteer of the Year. At 18, this Reisterstown native has dedicated more than 300 volunteer hours to Reservoir Hill’s SFNC, a nonprofit…
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From Weeds to Waffles
A Baltimore transplant turns an outdoor chore into a community-building club. One Sunday last June, Phil LaBarge spent the morning pulling weeds from the sidewalk outside of his Canton home to help out the elderly people on his block. Feeling inspired by the therapeutic cleanup, he treated himself to brunch at Of Love and Regret…
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Sofar Sounds Concerts Keep Performers a Secret Until You Arrive
Intimate shows spotlight area artists—who remain unknown until the set starts. To attend this secret music show, all I knew was that I needed to be there by 8 p.m., and that if I wanted to be comfortable, I should bring a blanket. When my friend and I walked into Vent Coffee Roasters, the Union Collective…
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Ode to Baltimore (2018)
for Angela, 1997-2018 Baltimore, Do not ever think that you did not save her, ceased the fire in her lungs and all the way down to her toes. Every bench here marks her progress, from the one on Charles and every one she passed on the stroll home from summer mass. She…
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Why are white women the face of black and brown civil rights?
As I neared the southeast corner of Patterson Park last Saturday, June 30, the knot in my stomach had yet to untie itself. After days-long rumination over whether or not I should show up to the Baltimore Families Belong Together rally, I had finally settled on attending. But my qualms persisted. As I drew closer…
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“You’re a Person of Color?”: Exploring the underrepresentation of Asian Americans on Loyola’s campus
Originally published in The Greyhound, Loyola University Maryland’s online news source by Rodlyn-mae Banting & Ana Everhard On March 16, the Black Student Association (BSA) held their 20th annual BSA Fashion Show. Entitled “For the Culture,” the event focused on celebrating various minority groups on campus to highlight Loyola’s students of color. Our very own…
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The Humility of Abode-Making
In the past year alone, I have come to know many a home. I have packed and unpacked more suitcases and boxes than I ever had to in my nineteen years prior and have set up shop in place after place with the full knowledge that I’d have to do it all again in a…
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Midnight
Published in Z Publishing House’s Maryland’s Best Emerging Poets 2018 anthology Midnight I hope you remember me in the midnights of yourself, in the ten half-moons that cupped my face and confessed your love for me on the last Sunday in April. How unpleasant it has been, to only be seen by you when…
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A Self Libation
Sit here. Eat. Feast on your life.
RODLYN-MAE BANTING 