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BALTIMORE —

Can this long-awaited concert venue fill a gap in Baltimore’s music scene? @hayesgardner.bsky.social reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Can this concert venue fill a gap in Baltimore’s music scene?After a start-and-stop construction process, The Paramount, an $86 million venue hosting up to 4,000 concertgoers, is expected to open soon near M&T Bank Stadium.www.thebanner.com

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Who’s buying up Chasen Cos.’ imploded Baltimore real estate empire, @halliemiller.bsky.social reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Who’s buying up Chasen Cos.’ imploded Baltimore real estate empireThe empire of the once-splashy real estate developer Chasen Cos. is being divvied up, though some properties are languishing without new owners.www.thebanner.com

Time to be insufferable. #RingTheBell

By @jessmnocera.bsky.social: She survived the Ellicott City flood. A decade later, she remembers her lost loved one. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

She survived the Ellicott City flood. A decade later, she remembers her lost loved one.Thursday is the 10th anniversary of the flood in Ellicott City that took the lives of Joseph Blevins and Jessica Watsula.www.thebanner.com

By @halliemiller.bsky.social: Baltimore is fixing its tax sales. This city teacher might lose his house anyway. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Baltimore is fixing its tax sales. This city teacher might lose his house anyway.Administrative errors in Baltimore’s tax sale process put a teacher’s rental property at risk. Now the city is moving to help reverse the foreclosure.www.thebanner.com

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By @oliviabensimon.bsky.social: Cockeysville mom wants to build a wind phone in Oregon Ridge to help families grieve. (📸: @kaitlinobscura.bsky.social) (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

When the relief from grief is speaking into the windThe first wind phone was installed in Japan by garden designer Itaru Sasaki, who put one in his backyard to speak to his late cousin.www.thebanner.com

You’ve been served — on TikTok. Baltimore teacher uses social media to sue right-wing influencer. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Baltimore teacher serves Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik on social mediaAlexa Sciuto filed a defamation lawsuit in 2025 in Baltimore County Circuit Court against five Republican lawmakers, two leaders of Moms for Liberty, and Chaya Raichik, founder of Libs of TikTok.www.thebanner.com

PHILADELPHIA —

Delco Export Kurt Vile Has Found His Muse — and It’s Us. (via @phillymag.com)

Delco Export Kurt Vile Has Found His Muse – and It's UsKurt Vile plays Connor Barwin's Make the World Better concert this weekend. Here, he talks Wawa, Delco pizza, and Lincoln Drive.www.phillymag.com

I just walked past Stephen Malkmus?

Federal judge orders release of father detained by ICE on Baltimore school campus. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Federal judge orders release of father detained by ICE outside Baltimore schoolU.S. District Judge Julie Rubin ruled that ICE lacked probable cause to arrest Jesus Acevedo Sanchez and ordered the federal government to release him.www.thebanner.com

Judge orders rideshare app Empower to halt Maryland operations, Danny Zawodny reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Judge orders rideshare app Empower to halt Maryland operationsMaryland’s Public Service Commission dealt controversial ride-hailing app Empower a cease and desist order Wednesday afternoon amid a standoff with state regulators.www.thebanner.com

Baltimore set to pay $11M to man wrongfully convicted of murder, @emilyopilo.bsky.social reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Baltimore set to pay $11M to man wrongfully convicted of murderFor 25 years, Anthony Hall sat in prison for a crime he did not commit. Next month, Baltimore will pay for the mistake.www.thebanner.com

By Alex Mann: How Baltimore is targeting friend groups to prevent shootings. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com) (📸: @kaitlinobscura.bsky.social)

How Baltimore is targeting friend groups to prevent shootingsBaltimore’s growing approach to battling crime leverages group intervention and services to cut down on shootings and homicides, as new research shows significant declines.www.thebanner.com

Catastrophic floods struck Old Ellicott City 10 years ago, changing the mill town forever, @lillianreed.bsky.social reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com) (📸: @jessicagallagher.bsky.social)

10 years after catastrophic flood, Ellicott City is still recoveringThe massive flood that swept away two lives in Old Ellicott City 10 years ago next week altered the old mill town forever. Most of those businesses are gone. The county is spending $350 million to bui...www.thebanner.com

By Cayla Harris: Bolton Hill knew her as ‘L.’ A note on a windshield introduced them to Laurie. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Bolton Hill knew her as ‘L.’  A note on a car introduced them to Laurie.Laurie Gillespie, known to her neighbors as ‘L,’ lived out of her car in Bolton Hill for the past five years. After she died last month, her car turned into a makeshift memorial and tribute to her lif...www.thebanner.com