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By Waris Banks | Posted 2/11/2004

On Saturday nights, the scene inside the Arch Social Club seems less like a nightclub and more like a family party. The atmosphere is not unlike that of a wedding reception where everyone wants to dance: R. [MORE]

Brickbats

By Brennen Jensen | Posted 10/24/2001

They're oppressive. They're stark. [MORE]

Soul Sister

By Tom Chalkley | Posted 12/1/1999

Elizabeth Lange was a native of Saint-Domingue—present-day Haiti—whose family fled to Cuba after the 1800 slave revolt led by Toussaint L'Ouverture. Being wealthy Creoles—people of mixed race—she and her family were no longer welcome in their homeland. [MORE]

Foot Soldier

By Brennen Jensen | Posted 9/22/1999

It's a late-summer Thursday night in Baltimore. Outside, a leaden cloud bank creeps over the city, hurling down sheets of rain in tropical fury. [MORE]

Le Old Master

By Brennen Jensen | Posted 4/15/1998

Charles Miller, founder and sole instructor at Le Millet Private Art School, won't reveal his age. The closest he'll come is a chuckling hint: "Oh, it's way up there."But the ageless artist, his primrose cardigan nearly matching the tint of his only slightly thinning hair, proudly says how old his one-man art academy is. [MORE]