DCA Kids’ Mural Brings Color and Community to Cambridge
The young artists who spent Saturday mornings for the last eight weeks painting a community mural at the Dorchester Center for the Arts gathered Saturday for a reward: pizza, celebration, and a chance to see the finished work they helped create. The nearly 50-foot mural, filled with bright images of dancers, ducks, flowers, and neighborhood […]
Food Friday: Garlic Bliss
Garlic has long been regarded as unsophisticated peasant food because it is cheap, easy to grow, and adds a piquant flavor to other modest ingredients. Garlic dresses up a simple salad, a humble roast chicken, and is vital to the success of spicy tomato pasta sauces. Alice Waters, queen of fresh and local foods, dresses […]
Maryland Caucus with Foxwell and Mitchell: Wine/Beer in Grocery Stores DOA and Accessing Juvenile Records
Every week, Maryland political analysts Len Foxwell and Clayton Mitchell break down the politics and personalities shaping the state and the region on the Spy podcast Maryland Caucus. This week, Len and Clayton discuss the failure to pass laws that would allow grocery and other retail stores to sell beer and wine. They also trade […]
Wine of the Week: Sartorelli Tralivio
Ciao Tutti! This weekend at Piazza Italian Market we will taste the “Tralivio” DOC ($22.25, 13.5% ABV) from the Sartarelli winery in Poggio San Marcello, Le Marche. “Tralivio” translates to “among the olive trees” where their oldest Sartarelli vineyards are located. Sartorelli Tralivio The Sartarelli story begins with the family patriarch, Ferruccio Sartarelli, a renowned […]
Chesapeake Lens: “Winter Sentinel” by David Sites
The Thomas Point Shoalt Lighthouse was built in 1875 and is still an active beacon of navigation in the Bay. “Winter Sentinel” by David Sites The post Chesapeake Lens: “Winter Sentinel” by David Sites appeared first on Talbot Spy.
Qlarant has a New Board Chair: A Chat with Arnold Williams
Few decisions a board of directors makes are more consequential than choosing its chair. The person in that role sets the tone for how the board governs, asks hard questions, and guides an organization’s mission. That is why the Spy asked to speak with Arnold Williams, the newly appointed chair of Qlarant, one of the […]