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When Club 4 opens Thursday in Power Plant Live!, it will be the first LGBTQ-themed bar to occupy the entertainment district.

Gaming isn’t just about Monopoly and Candy Land anymore — a new generation of board games, collectible card games and tabletop role-playing games has exploded in popularity.

If you can't wait for St. Patrick’s Day next weekend, there’s plenty of Irish fun for a warmup in the week through March 13. You could join the Green Beer Races, hear a performance of button accordion and fiddle, or have a pint of Guinness while listening to pub tunes.

Baltimore artist Dug Retzler would like to transform Leap Day into National Poor Choices Day, so he’s starting his campaign at the scene of many questionable decisions — dive bars.

Lutherville. Timonium. Cockeysville. I never thought that I'd move back to the 'burbs where I grew up, but then I did-- and discovered the area is full of hidden gems.

It gets dark early, and the workweek is long. Let’s fight the monotony of the weeknight with good food, fun drinks and cozy spaces.

A committee is expected to determine a move of the annual Pride Month events — including the festival and parade — to accommodate growing attendance, which is projected this year to be 100,000 people.

You could take in some Latin dancing, take your kids to hear a Maryland children’s author go to a Paul Schaffer concert or go on the trail of presidents in Annapolis during the week through Feb. 21.

Wallace Lane once bought the girl the wrong gift and it jaded him on the holiday of love. But now he's willing to give it another chance.

A curious beginning meets a bittersweet end.

A Gente is a yearlong exchange between Black artists in Baltimore and Brazil to travel between both locations and connect over their shared African Diaspora roots.

Share our Maryland-centric Valentine’s Day cards with your local lover, crush or friend who’s just a friend.

Kristin Juszczyk, a Towson University grad whose designs have appeared on Swift and other celebrities including Biles this season, is auctioning a custom Super Bowl puffer vest.

Just days before his second New York Fashion Week collection, Bishme Cromartie spoke to The Baltimore Banner about his latest collection and his recent appearance on “Sherri,” the Daytime Emmy Award-winning talk show.

You could catch the world premiere of a play at Classic Theatre of Maryland, enjoy a local band in an intimate setting or watch movies with others or by yourself during the week leading up to Valentine’s Day. Then, of course, there’s Valentine’s Day on Wednesday.

It is the middle of winter, but many parents are already thinking about summer because it’s camp sign-up time. One Banner reporter and mother of three talks about the stresses of signing up.

You could learn about early Maryland history through the eyes of a mapmaker, celebrate Black History through one family’s story, see flying Italian dancers or catch a national tour for singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz in Annapolis through Feb. 7.

Snow will continue through the morning before tapering off later in the afternoon and evening.

The entertainment calendar in Annapolis starts to pick up in the seven days through Jan. 24, with three new art exhibits, fresh theater productions, a first album release by an Annapolis singer-songwriter and a nostalgia tour from Three Dog Night.

Ever pass an old building and wonder what happened there? Armed with a Newspapers.com subscription, historian Katie Labor is figuring out the backstories of Baltimore homes.