Baltimore Convention Center

With impatiens scarce due to disease, choose begonia and coleus [Lutherville]

2013-05-16 12:30:00

Gardeners will have a hard time finding impatiens for their flower gardens this year. The dreaded downy mildew fungal disease that began in Florida last year has spread to Maryland and has infected the ever-popular Impatiens walleriana. The downy mildew...

Digest: US Lacrosse Convention will be here in 2015-2017

2013-05-09 01:00:00

Lacrosse US Lacrosse Convention will be here in 2015-2017 US Lacrosse named the Baltimore Convention Center as the site of the US Lacrosse Convention in 2015, 2016 and 2017. The sport's national governing body annually hosts the largest professional...

At tattoo show, a community bound by ink and the Web

2013-04-07 12:40:00

Ravens wide receiver LaQuan Williams sat calmly at the Baltimore Convention Center on Saturday as a tattoo artist buzzed at his shoulder, sketching out the latest design on the already well-inked torso. Williams and the artist, who goes by the name...

Howard County students take top spot at ProStart Invitational

2013-03-20 12:55:00

Howard County high school students took home the top spots at the Maryland ProStart Student Invitational earlier this month. Held March 7 at the Baltimore Convention Center, the ProStart Invitational is a state culinary and hospitality management...

Recreation and outdoors calendar

2013-03-03 00:03:00

Indoor archery �Mondays, Thursdays in March: Vingt Neuf Bowmen, 8735 Honeygo Blvd., Perry Hall, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. $5 registration. Shoot 20 yards inside heated Maryland State Game and Fish Protective Association hall. No crossbows. Information: Call...

With some changes, pontoon boats make comeback in the United States

2013-03-02 10:53:00

Back this hitch up into the water Untie all the cables and rope Step onto the astro turf Get yourself a coozie Let's go…. Long before the pop-country group Little Big Town introduced its No. 1 hit, "Pontoon," last summer, pontooning had...

University of Maryland students fly human-powered helicopter

2013-02-28 17:54:12

This will be Flight Test No. 40. In the center of the contraption — a 90-pound, human-powered helicopter made mostly of carbon fiber, balsa wood, foam and string — is University of Maryland doctoral candidate Colin Gore, decked out in...

Otakon goes Vegas, adding festival outside Baltimore

2013-02-21 11:57:00

Otakon, the annual celebration of Japanese pop culture held in Baltimore, is�going Vegas, baby. The three-day festival, one of the longest-running anime conventions in the U.S., is usually held at the Baltimore Convention Center. But organizers said...

Baltimore Boat Show provides glimpse into marine technology industry

2013-02-23 12:10:00

Larry Jenc has been working in the marine technology industry for more than four decades and, until recently, thought he was part of a dying profession. A combination of low pay and a shortage of boats to work on contributed to a significant decline...

From bling to bargains, artists show wares at American Craft Council show

2013-02-23 15:01:00

Walking through a giant hall in the Baltimore Convention Center, Susan Johnson and Sherry Mills stopped to admire a bronze-and-steel sculpture with water cascading out of it. "I need this," Mills said. "You may want to come around this side first,"...

American Craft Council Show comes to Baltimore

2013-02-22 04:51:00

For a craftsman, David Sleightholm knows he's pretty lucky. One of the biggest craft shows in the country is right in his own backyard. "People come from all around the country to do this show," Sleightholm, who works out of Hampstead, says of this...

Crafting an inspired room design

2013-02-15 13:29:00

They may look like simple iron candlesticks, tall and thin. But for interior designer Elizabeth Cross-Beard Marsh, they were more than just a decoration or a lighting accessory. They were an inspiration, for a room of soft beiges and abstract art....

Vince Rossi with the Smithsonian Institution Digitization Program Office is pictured next to a fossil whale about 5 million years old. He scanned it with a 3D laser in the Atacama dessert in Chile. The actual whale is 25 feet long.

2013-05-20 00:00:00

Adam Metalo with the Smithsonian Institution Digitization Program Office holds an ABS plastic 3D print from an affordable printer. The blue head is hollow, but is available with infill. The original head is a life mask of Abraham Lincoln from the National Portrait Gallery.

2013-05-20 00:00:00

Todd Blatt with Custom 3D Stuff, LLC, makes jewelry and sculpture using the machine at right called, "The Replicator." The American Alliance of Museums Conference at the Baltimore Convention Center has displays on 3D printing.

2013-05-20 00:00:00