Stories

Straight Up on Dining Out | Osteria 177

By Christine Fillat   A cool, classy Italian lunch is a summertime delight. If you don’t have the luxury of traveling to Italy, why not have your oasis on Main Street in Annapolis? Osteria 177 will provide you with the

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Robert’s Picks | Summer Events in Annapolis

  1. The Annapolis Maritime Museum is one of the great cultural treasures of the city. The Museum, located in Eastport, is housed in the historic McNasby Oyster Company, located on Back Creek and overlooking the mouth of the Chesapeake

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Grandeur in Easton

These New York transplants have found a new way of life in Easton.   By Carol Sorgen | Photography Courtesy of McHale Landscape Design   Once Ginny and Michael Borner retired from running their global specialty paint company, they realized

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Sunset Transformation

By Kymberly Taylor | Photography by David Burroughs     Architect Scarlett Breeding of Alt Breeding Associates and Raymond Gauthier of Lynbrook of Annapolis have professions that demand visual perfection. However, the success of each project depends on what is

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Reflections on a Plot of Land

By Robert C. Hruby, ASLA   We lead busy lives, in fact we brag about being busy. We multitask, work on vacation, and conference while our kids play on three travel teams. I am just as guilty. I design and

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Historic Habitats

By Sarah Hagerty   In Anne Arundel County, buildings steeped in history are always just around the corner… and open for our education and entertainment.   WILLIAM PACA HOUSE & GARDEN The Paca House is a don’t-miss-experience in Annapolis. It

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Design Talk | Creating Balance in a Room

By Lisa Hoekstra, Sew Beautiful | Photography by Geoffrey Hodgdon   “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George A. Moore, Irish Poet   Creating balance in this room

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Straight Up on Dining Out | Lewnes’ Steakhouse

An (Almost) Great Steakhouse By Christine Fillat   Lewnes’ Steakhouse has a speakeasy kind of vibe. The exterior, though tidy, is unassuming, sitting on 4th Street and Severn Avenue in an Eastport neighborhood populated with lots of other eateries. You

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Robert’s Picks | Krzysztof Wodiczko

at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden     Some years ago, when I taught as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I had the great privilege of teaching with the deeply thoughtful artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. We

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A Landscape that Glistens

By Kymberly Taylor | Photography by David Burroughs     Many forget that Georgetown, founded in 1751, was a tobacco port and mill town that predates Washington, D.C. There is an old-fashioned feeling to its quaint cobblestone streets, lined with

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