April 26, 2012 It’s a familiar scenario: You’re sitting in a meeting, digesting the doughnut that you just had to eat… when your eyes start to feel heavy. As your boss goes on and on about quarterly financial projections, you can’t help but lower your eyes. His voice becomes a pleasant hum in your ear… [...]

It’s official! We’re closing the entire 300 block of North Charles Street on Saturday, May 12, so we can have our Let’s Eat Charles Street block party. Requests from our member restaurants and retailers have been pouring in – I’m so happy to see how many people want to participate this year! We’ll have great [...]

It’s the Historic Charles Street Assoication’s biggest Event of the year! The 2012 Let’s Eat Charles Street Festival will take place on Saturday, May 2012. And we’re closing the entire 300 block of North Charles Street in Baltimore, MD to do it! More than 35 food & retail vendors will be setting up tents along [...]

April 19, 2012 What does it take to run a successful business? If you’re thinking about opening your own restaurant, here’s a scary statistic straight from the TV news: 90% of all new restaurants fail in their first year. But don’t believe everything you hear on TV, says Rhonda Brown in this article from USA [...]

April 12, 2012 The Staycation Issue The first time I heard the word ‘staycation’ I was on a travel assignment in Portland, Oregon. I had inhaled a maple-bacon glazed donut at Voodoo Doughnuts and was searching through the bargain bin at Powell’s Books when I heard a young couple next to me erupt in giggles. [...]

April 4, 2012 The results are in! We’re thrilled by the number of submissions we received for our first-ever Charles Street photo contest. We had an agonizing choice to make: just who had the most beautiful shot of Charles Street? Our criteria was objective. We wanted photos that captured clearly recognizable Charles Street landmarks, in [...]