Stories

Park Tavern: A Fine Place for Beer

Straight Up on Dining Out Park Tavern A Fine Place for Beer Story by Christine Fillat Park Tavern opened this past October as a welcome oasis in Severna Park, an area littered with strip malls and fast food joints. With

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A Visual Symphony in Edgewater

  By Manning Lee  |  Photography by Geoffrey Hodgdon   When you live on the water, a part of you is always absorbing its music, its beauty, its infinitely shifting countenance. These many moods and inflections are reflected in paint,

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The Cure for a Dysfunctional Kitchen: Airspace & Traffic Control

  By Jerri Anne Hopkins  |  Photography by Marcus Chacona   Families, in-laws, and office suites are not the only places that harbor dysfunction and pathological triangles. A quiet killer lurks among us. It thrives upon confusion. Upon useless niches

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A Kitchen With Chutzpah

A Kitchen With Chutzpah By Tom Levine  |  Photography by Jason Weil   Deborah Zakheim will tell you “I like color. I’m not afraid of it.” Take one look at her kitchen and you won’t doubt her for a second. Zakheim,

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The Iron Rooster: Comfort Food at Its Best

Straight Up on Dining Out The Iron Rooster Comfort Food at Its Best Story by Christine Fillat The Iron Rooster is a new classic eatery on the city dock in Annapolis. It has been open since October 17, and already

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Living Large on a Small Scale

Farnady Interiors By Manning Lee  |  Photography by Gwin Hunt   Mary-Beth and Bruce Phillips dreamed of simplifying their lives and leaving it all behind. Unlike most of us, they turned this fantasy into reality. They sold everything, including their

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Harry Browne’s: A State Circle Mainstay

  Straight Up on Dining Out Harry Browne’s A State Circle Mainstay Story by Christine Fillat Where in Annapolis can one direct friends and unequivocally say, “Here you will get a fine meal”? For many, the first place that comes

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Bugatti in the Garden

By Kymberly Taylor  |  Photography by Geoffrey Hodgdon What does a nineteenth-century garden have to do with a sports car from the 1930s? Both are the rare progeny of a private world, a past seldom penetrated by outsiders. These worlds

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Boatyard Bash

By Robert Haywood  |  Photography by Lee Kriel With a flare for the uncommon, Creative Tide hosted an outdoor party at the boatyard Port Annapolis that was no ordinary dinner party. Consisting of talented design professionals who are also small

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Dirt to Table Dining: The Bartlett Pear Inn in Easton

Straight Up on Dining Out The Bartlett Pear Inn in Easton Dirt to Table Dining Story by Christine Fillat   |  Photography courtesy of Jenna Walcott The Bartlett Pear Inn in Easton has been getting a lot of buzz lately

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