The orchestra rehearsed in school gymnasiums while its home hall double-booked around it - so one man built the musicians a palace. The Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, at 1212 Cathedral Street in Baltimore's Mount Vernon cultural district, opened on 16 September 1982 as the purpose-built home of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, with 2,443 seats in a boldly sculptural oval. The problem dated to 1969: conductor Sergiu Comissiona and executive director Joseph Leavitt raised the need for a new hal.....

The stage shares the room with a rotating art gallery - bands play beneath whatever Baltimore's painters hung that month. Metro Baltimore, at 1700 North Charles Street in the Station North Arts District, has been the city's essential small room since founder Sarah Werner opened it as the Metro Gallery in 2007. The concept fused two scenes: Werner built the venue as gallery and stage in equal measure, giving Station North - the state-designated arts district around Penn Station - a 240-capacity .....

The club is named after a cat. Otto belonged to co-founder Michael Bowen, and the bar that took his name in September 1997 grew into what Rolling Stone ranked in 2018 among the ten best live music venues in America. The Ottobar, at 2549 North Howard Street in Baltimore's Remington neighborhood, is the city's definitive indie and punk room. The origin was a 125-person dive at 203 East Davis Street downtown, in the former Chambers nightclub near the courthouse - a tree fort, as one owner put it -.....

The theatre was wired for sound in 1915 - more than a decade before talkies existed - making it likely the first American movie house acoustically designed for pictures that could speak. The Parkway Theatre at 5 West North Avenue in Baltimore's Station North district opened on 23 October 1915 and reopened on 3 May 2017 as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway Film Center. The original was Baltimore-born architect Oliver Birkhead Wight's Italian Renaissance jewel for the Northern Amusement Com.....

The Senator Theatre is a historic single-screen movie palace at 5904 York Road in the Govans neighbourhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Opened in 1939, the Senator is one of the last surviving grand-scale single-screen cinemas in the United States and has been a Baltimore cultural institution for over eight decades. The Art Deco exterior features a prominent marquee and vertical blade sign, while the interior boasts ornate plasterwork, a sweeping auditorium, and a balcony that together seat approxima.....

Baltimore wanted what Boston had, so it built a copy of Amsterdam's greatest concert hall and opened it with the Boston Symphony. The Lyric at 140 West Mount Royal Avenue opened as the Music Hall on October 31, 1894, modeled on the Concertgebouw, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and soprano Nellie Melba on the inaugural bill. The names tracked the eras: the Music Hall became the Lyric Opera House in 1909, carried the Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center name after a 3.5-million-d.....

Baltimore's first city taproom license went to a room smaller than a thousand square feet, run on weekends by the three founders pouring their own samples. Union Craft Brewing has grown from that 2012 start into the anchor of the Union Collective, a 155,000-square-foot former Sears warehouse at 1700 West 41st Street in the Medfield neighborhood. Founded in 2011 by Adam Benesch, Kevin Blodger and Jon Zerivitz, the brewery launched with Duckpin Pale Ale from a Union Avenue plant in Hampden in 201.....