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Baltimore has a long, colorful history that traditionally has been focused on famous men, social elites, and patriotic events. Learn More

Only 50 percent of kids growing up in poverty will earn a high school diploma. Just one in ten will graduate college. Compelled by these troubling statistics, Heather Kirn Lanier joined Teach For America (TFA), a program that thrusts eager but inexperienced college graduates into America’s most impoverished areas to teach, asking them to do whatever is necessary to catch their disadvantaged kids up to the rest of the nation. Learn More

Did Omar Little die of lead poisoning? Would a decriminalization strategy like the one in Hamsterdam end the War on Drugs? What will it take to save neglected kids like Wallace and Dukie? Learn More

A Guide to Baltimore Area Snoball Stands. Learn More

Defecation, Dumpster-diving and decaying old-world grandeur are but a few of the chunks backing up Waste, the latest “theme” issue in the award-winning Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! series from Eight-Stone Press. Learn More

'Tattoos tell stories, even when they don't. They speak of who we are, where we've been, where we're going. They demarcate (or, sometimes, establish solidarity between) both the viewer and the body in question, to which the photographs, poetry and prose within the pages of Skin Deep will attest.' - from the introduction Learn More

A collection of stories, poems, and artwork dealing with scars. A Smile, Hon, You're In Baltimore Production. Learn More

A special theme issue of Smile, Hon focusing on transit stories. Learn More

Being a sometimes unsavory collection of tales of Charm City's unsung vermin. A Smile, Hon, You're In Baltimore! Production. Learn More