Urbanitebalto Videos

Audio slideshow of Baltimore-area teenagers, created by photojournalist Brennen Jensen for Urbanite Magazine's Youth Issue.

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The Rosewood Center in Owings Mills opened in 1888 as the Asylum and Training School for the Feeble Minded, a residential center for mentally disabled and ill young people. Patients learned farming, carpentry, sewing, and other skills, but under-budgeting and overcrowding led to deplorable living conditions. The 1949 Baltimore Sun series, Marylands Shame told of mistreatment and neglect at Rosewood and other state hospitals, and helped lead to the phase-out of the institutional model. By the ...

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Resident ornithologist Jim Peters takes us on a guided tour through the mitigated wetlands at Fort mchenry and discusses research studies, environmental concerns and indigenous wildlife along the way.

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Gerry Palmer and Antoine Bennett discuss their store "Gerry's Goods" in this audio slideshow. This slideshow complements the article written for the August '09 issue of Urbanite magazine.

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Confused? Intimidated? Terrified? Watch this short film to learn how to trim, fold, cut, and play with the One-Page Wonders Story Circles by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr of Idiots'Books (and published in the August 2009 issue of Urbanite).

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Tracey Middlekauff and Gil Jawetz show you how to prepare a Swiss chard frittata (recipe featured in the April 2009 issue of Urbanite magazine).

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An introduction to this year's Baltimore-based experiment in collaboration participants and their projects. For the rest of the story, head on over www.urbaniteproject.com or pick up the March edition of Urbanite Magazine

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Baltimore dancer Maria Broom discusses the need and desire to dance through the world's harsher times and demonstrates with a dance of her own. Originally aired on mpt's Artworks This Week, Ep. 627, Jan, 3 2007.

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The video accompanying Dawn Gavin and Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa's 2009 Urbanite Project

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Tom Hasler's father was a beloved Czechoslovakian cultural icon and entertainer turned political activist who parished in the Holocaust before Tom was even born. He has recently participated in a documentary about his father's life, clips of which can be seen here.

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