Senator Theatre

Diner Days: A timeline of the Hollywood Diner

2013-05-08 07:30:00

The Hollywood Diner has had a turbulent history in Baltimore. Here's a look back. 1981 — Location scouting begins for the MGM production “Diner,” which is to be filmed in and around Baltimore. The Hilltop Diner, the northwest...

Zella's Pizzeria returning to Hollins Market

2013-03-06 04:35:00

After two years, the original owners of Zella's Pizzeria on Hollins Street are coming back. Julie Ernst and Cem Ari opened Zella's in 2007. It found a loyal following and helped to anchor the struggling Hollins Market neighborhood. They sold the...

Original Zella's owners coming back to Hollins Market

2013-02-20 09:05:00

The original owners of Zella's Pizzeria on Hollins Street are coming back. Julie Ernst and Cem Ari opened Zella's in 2007. It found a loyal following and helped to anchor the struggling neighborhood. They sold the business in 2010, but it floundered...

Senator Theatre restoration moving along

2013-02-08 14:29:00

The sight of a few ladders outside the Senator Theatre did not prepare me for the scope of the restoration project that is transforming this Govans-Belvedere Square landmark, a Baltimore treasure being taken apart and reassembled. There will be three...

An unjustified ban

2013-02-04 03:00:00

Baltimore activist Kim Trueheart was back at City Hall last week after a judge lifted a ban on her presence there that was at least unjustified and possibly illegal. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who often bears the brunt of Ms. Trueheart's criticism of...

Activist 'upset and disappointed' by City Hall ban

2013-01-24 16:47:17

Activist Kim Trueheart, a vocal critic of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration who was arrested and jailed Wednesday after trying to enter City Hall, said Thursday that she was dismayed that police officers would attempt to keep a citizen...

Mayoral critic jailed, barred from City Hall

2013-01-24 06:21:00

A frequent critic of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration was arrested and jailed Wednesday morning when she tried to enter City Hall to attend a public meeting. Officers told the activist, Kim A. Trueheart, 55, of Baltimore, that she had...

Tiffany-designed church interior a Baltimore landmark candidate

2012-11-26 16:08:00

More than a few East Coast buildings contain a Tiffany stained-glass window or two. But one structure in Baltimore can boast much more — a complete interior created by the famed designer, Louis Comfort Tiffany. St. Mark's Lutheran Church on St....

How can the city afford new phones, grand prix and Senator bailout?

2012-10-04 09:00:00

Wasn't it just last year that firefighters and police officers had their hours reduced because of a lack of city funds ? Wasn't there talk of closing some of the city's summer places for children? So how is there so much money available for the mayor's...

Bourdain looking forward to his return to Baltimore

2012-11-13 12:46:00

When Anthony Bourdain brings his Guts & Glory tour to the Hippodrome on Saturday, it will be a return engagement for the notoriously opinionated "chef-at-large". Bourdain launched the Hippodrome's annual Foodie Experience series in May 2010, when he...

Travolta, Waters to appear on stage together in Baltimore

2012-10-09 08:20:00

Oscar-nominated actor John Travolta will sit down for a public conversation with John Waters at Baltimore's Maryland Institute College of Art. The man who created Edna Turnblad and the actor who brought the zaftig housewife of "Hairspray" to full-...

Spurring kids' knowledge of Judaism through reading, music

2012-09-30 12:54:30

Michelle Damareck's 3-year-old daughter has been singing "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider" in Hebrew, and her 5-year-old son has been learning the lessons of the Ten Commandments, thanks to a program that delivers Jewish-themed books and CDs to their home every...

Baltimore director John Waters and drag queen Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, share a light moment outside the Senator Theatre at the world premiere of "Hairspray."

2012-12-14 00:00:00

) and Kiefaber's repeated protests has become its own sad saga. It would be nice to focus on the silver screen instead of the drama that surrounds it.

2012-08-28 18:27:44

The Senator Theatre, which is now closed for renovations and expansion.

2012-08-23 14:24:00