Baltimore Magazine

At a recent happy hour, a friend sent the unlikeliest of texts: “I’m sitting in a dive bar in Fells Point eating escargot.”

Welcome to Lil’ Phil’s Tavern, a proudly quintessential Baltimore dive bar that in April debuted a food menu unlike any other in the city. Co-owner Dale Fields dubbed it “Little Phil’s Sorcery,” and the bar’s one-named chef, Skippy, prepares it.

In Baltimore, a piece of summer has belonged to AFRAM for 50 years.

The time-honored celebration of Black culture dates back to August 1976, when the late Norman E. Ross, then the director of Baltimore’s Urban Services Cultural Arts Project, worked with city leadership to pro...

If you love sampling the distinctive dishes and intense flavors of Ethiopian food, you probably spend a lot of time in and around Silver Spring and Washington, D.C., as Baltimore only has a few restaurants within city limits. There’s Dukem, Tabor, and Addis around Mt. Vernon, as well as the terrific vegan stall

Jeremy Rusen can’t recall who was on stage the first time he squeezed his way into the crowd at Federal Hill’s iconic concert venue The 8×10 some 20 years ago, but he never forgot the feeling.

“The 8×10 has an energy,” say Rusen, now an 8×10 regular and local trades craftsman. “It’s all ...

As every soccer fan in the entire world knows, and has known for the last four years, the 2026 FIFA World Cup began Thursday, June 11, with the Mexico v. South Africa match, which Mexico won 2-0. (In our case, it was a terrific excuse to eat tacos and cheer ourselves hoarse alongside other revelers at La Calle in Fells Point, as pictured above.)

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