Stories

Robert’s Picks: Performing Arts for the Holidays

  Annapolis Opera presents Arias & Encores at Calvary United Methodist Church. Dec 3, 3 p.m. A mix of favorite arias and duets from opera and musical theater performed by some of Annapolis Opera’s favorite female singers. For tickets: annapolisopera.org.

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Solitude

By Kymberly Taylor | Photography by Neill Roan   There is a simple beauty to a country farm, a calmness to its weathered sheds, coops and barns. Architect Olvia Demetriou FAIA employed these iconic quiet forms when designing a get-away

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Sanctum on the Point

By Jessica Shelton | Photography by David Burroughs   Usually, a move involves a change of scenery: new neighbors, landmarks, ways of being. But after 24 years in the Annapolis Roads Community, Rod and Robin Jabin didn’t want to leave

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Then & Now: A Basement Transformed

By Robert Haywood | Photography by Geoffrey Hodgdon Basements are often a place where we put things that we want out of sight and mind. They also are used as playrooms to keep active children and their toys away from

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Design Talk: Technology in the Kitchen

By Tracy McGuinness, AKBD Designer, Kitchen Encounters   Evolving technology is a fact of modern life. And no room in the house has been more impacted by technological change than the kitchen. Innovations only a few generations ago transformed the

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The Lords Baltimore Visit Annapolis

By Virginia K. Adams, Ph.D. | Images courtesy of The Enoch Pratt Free Library     If you have not visited the historic Maryland State House recently, a trip is worth your while. Full-length portraits of the six Lords Baltimore

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Museums Around the World: The Peggy Guggenheim Museum on the Grand Canal in Venice

By Robert Haywood If you travel to Venice, make sure you visit the Peggy Guggenheim Museum on the Grand Canal. The elegant home houses the art collection of Peggy Guggenheim (1989-1979). Born into the wealthy Guggenheim family in New York

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Robert’s Picks | September/October 2017

Photograph by Geoffrey Hodgdon   1. The  St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance, a show of incredibly elegant classic automobiles, is Sunday, September 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The show, open to the public, is held on the waterfront lawn

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A Symphony of Design

Celebrating the Annapolis Symphony By Jessica Shelton  |  Photography by Geoffrey Hodgdon Styling by Richard Anuszkiewicz  |  Produced by Robert Haywood     If this residence, in the Wardour neighborhood of Annapolis, were a symphony, it would be Mozart’s 39th

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Artistic Flair on the Severn

By Kymberly Taylor  •  Photography by Jennifer Hughes   Before Kim and Mark McVicker began their redecorating journey, their home’s personality ranged from traditional to casual modern. Art was not in the equation. Kim did not care much for the

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