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Museum Mondays: A Carroll’s Christmas at the Mount Clare Museum House
Monday, December 16th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: A Carroll’s Christmas at the Mount Clare Museum House
When: Until December 31st, 2013
Where: Mount Clare Museum
Escape the hustle and bustle of the holiday season with a colonial American Christmas experience! See Mount Clare transformed for the winter holiday, decorated in traditional 18th and 19th century style with greens and dried plants accented with fruits, nuts, feathers and pine cones-a visual delight! Experience the holidays of years past at Mount Clare Museum House’s annual winter celebration. Special programs include live musical performances by the Monumental City Ancient Fife and Drum Corps. Looking for the perfect gift? The museum store is filled with holiday merchandise to satisfy your holiday shopping list.
Members are free but for non-members it is only $5.00! For more information click here.
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Food Fridays: Federal Hill Food Tour
Friday, December 13th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: Federal Hill Food Tour
When: Wednesdays-Sundays between 3:00 and 6:30 pm
Where: Exact meeting location will be provided upon ticket purchase
Love food and want to explore Federal hill? Join us as we bring you through a town of narrow rowhouses, cobbled streets, and fantastic local cuisine, encapsulating three centuries worth of charm. See what makes this port town so unique and delicious. Federal Hill is known for its well developed food scene offering local eateries, famous dishes from Cross Street Market, indigenous foods, family recipes, as well as progressive, high end cuisine. It is south Baltimore’s most historic neighborhood.
Click here for ticketing information!
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Wacky Wednesday: First Annual Christmas Village in Baltimore
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: First Annual Christmas Village in Baltimore
When: November 28 through December 24
Where: West Shore Park at the Inner Harbor
For the first time Christmas Village will transform Baltimore’s Inner Harbor West Shore Park into a traditional German Christmas Market. Running from Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve the spirit of the Holiday season will be alive along the waterfront. The Christmas Village is an indoor and outdoor holiday market modeled after the traditional Christmas Markets in Germany like the famous Christkindl Market in Nuremberg. From Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve vendors in more than 60 booths will sell traditional European food, sweets and drinks providing a unique shopping experience with international holiday gifts, ornaments, jewelry and high-quality arts and crafts. The outdoor area around the Walter Sondheim Fountain will bring the original Christmas Village charm with its traditional German style wooden huts to Baltimore. In addition a heated festival tent will create a Christmas shopping atmosphere with more vendors, a Food Court and live entertainment.
For more information visit their website!
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Tourism Tuesdays: Photos with Santa and Santa’s Place Light Shows
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: Photos with Santa and Santa’s Place Light Shows
When: Saturday, November 23 – Tuesday, December 24; Mondays – Saturdays 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
and Sundays 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Where: Harborplace Amphitheater
Celebrate the season on Baltimore’s waterfront and come down to get a picture with santa! See all the sights of the Inner Harbor and a explore Baltimore in all its holiday cheer!
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Museum Mondays: The New Old Time Holiday Train Garden at the Fire Museum of Maryland
Monday, December 9th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: The New Old Time Holiday Train Garden at the Fire Museum of Maryland
When: December 7, 14, & 21, 2013
Where: Fire Museum of Maryland
Travel back in time for the holiday season! Watch antique O-Scale trains and a street car wind their way through a 20th century Baltimore neighborhood and take a stroll through two centuries worth of antique fire engines and a reconstructed 1871 fire house! Plus, don’t forget to get your picture taken with Santa! The market opens with an event on Saturday, November 30 from 10a.m. to 4p.m., featuring free photos with Santa in a Fire Chief’s Sleigh from 11a.m. to 2p.m.
For more information visit their website!
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Food Fridays: 28th Annual Christmas Cookie Tour
Friday, December 6th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: 28th Annual Christmas Cookie Tour
When: December 8th, 2013
Where: Union Square
Join us for an afternoon full of homemade cookies and holiday cheer as you tour 15 historic Union Square homes decked in holiday finery! The Union Square neighborhood invites you to our 28th annual Christmas Cookie Tour. The park and the homes will all be decorated to celebrate the season. We offer you a special afternoon to stroll through our National Register of Historic Places district, and through the many fine 19th century homes opened for your pleasure. If you are new to our tour, you may be surprised to find that while we are very consistent in our views of proper Victorian streetscape, we vary widely in our concepts of interior decor. Our homes run the gamut of style from country to contemporary, with eclectic coexistence as a common rule. (more…)
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Theatre Thursdays: A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration
Thursday, December 5th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration
When: November 19 – December 22
Where: Center Stage
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel spins a musical tale of hope and forgiveness. It’s a bitterly cold Christmas Eve in 1864 and all along the Potomac, from the White House to the battlefields, friends and foes alike find their lives strangely and poetically intertwined. Weaving together carols and folk songs, this “beautifully stitched tapestry of American lives” (The New York Times) is sure to become a new holiday classic for the entire family!
For ticketing information visit their website!
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Wacky Wednesday: Hot Chocolate Happy Hour
Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: Hot Chocolate Happy Hour
When: Tuesdays : 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. (December 3rd through December 17th)
Where: Harbor East
Who would pass up free hot chocolate? Warm up with complimentary hot chocolate on Tuesday nigths in December at Harbor East’s Hot Chocolate Happy Hour, sponsored by Whole Foods Market. You can drop into the market or just bump into one of Whole Foods “team members” passing out the beverages in the Harbor East district. Look for the Harbor East elves strolling the neighborhood delivering warm cups of hot chocolate!
Visit this website for more information!
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Tourism Tuesday: Civil War Trains Exhibit
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: Civil War Train Exhibit
When: From now until December 31st 2015
Where: Discovery Station Museum
Discover the history of Maryland and the Civil war in this exhibit! See this authentic scale model Civil War railroad on display in 3D terrain. The importance of railroads during the Civil War was significant. From the arrival in Baltimore of a Union regiment of Massachusetts troops by train in April 1861 to the end of the war in 1865, when troops used the railroad to return home, railroads played an important role in the Civil War.
To learn more about this important part in history visit the website for hours and more information!
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Museum Monday: Human, Soul & Machine: The Coming Singularity!
Monday, December 2nd, 2013 by WLOY Staff
What: Human, Soul & Machine
When: From now until August 31st, 2014
Where: American Visionary Art Museum
“Two billion personal computers later, post DNA-sequencing, are we on the road to becoming a better, healthier, happier, less warlike, human race?” Computers have had such a large impact on our lives, but just how large? 40+ artists, cutting edge futurists, and inventors take on this view and attempt to show us through their eyes. This exhibit appeals to all ages, young and old. They take on the most complex subject, how artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, genetics, 3D printing and Big Data play a role in human life. This thought-provoking exhibit investigates technology’s influence on issues of privacy and surveillance, employment and manufacturing, longevity and health, defense and warfare, farming and food, access to global and personal information, creative invention, and entertainment. The American Visionary Art Museum’s 19th original thematic exhibition makes you think and question all aspects of human life.
For more information visit their website!
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