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2012

Article - Home and Garden Guideby a Bay Weekly special - 2012

Home and Garden Helpers

We’ve seen all the help it takes to run Downton Abbey. Keeping your castle and kingdom is likely not quite that big a job. But many’s the time we small-scale homesteaders wish for some good help. Springtime is when the job’s the biggest, and that’s when we bring you our annual list of Home and Garden Helpers. From builders to maids to landscapers to stonemasons, they’ll help you live up to standards to which you’d like to grow accustomed.

Live in Your Outdoor Space as Well as Your Indoor Space Melissa Jones and Tim Salafie, the outdoors-loving partners in Architectural Gardens, worry that you’re depriving yourself of the full use and pleasure of your home. If you think of your home as what’s inside, they’re sadly right. If you’d like to open up your world, these down-to-earth pros will show you how to do it, realistically and affordably. What’s more, they’ll do it for you. ...

Article - Special Editionsby a Bay Weekly exclusive - 2012

Bay Weekly Online Exclusive

Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg interview

Check out Bay Weekly's exclusive Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg interview at http://youtu.be/9cGDFdAtGNU

Article - Special Editionsby Bay Weekly exclusive - 2012

Bay Weekly’s 2012 Dining Guide & Tasting Menu

Azure Fresh, local and sustainable have become bywords. But you might still be surprised to find native translations in a nationwide hotel chain: In that, Azure at the Annapolis Westin Hotel, takes the lead under the direction of chef James Barrett. “I keep as local as possible,” says Barrett, a local guy who grew up on Chesapeake Bay in Fairhaven. “I buy with a touch of Maryland. That...

2011

Article - Special Editionsby a Bay Weekly exclusive - 2011

Best of the Bay - 2011

And the winners are ...

For 12 years now, we’ve asked you, dear reader, to weigh in on your favorite things here in Chesapeake Country and determine the Best of the Bay. By no means a scientific study, this readers poll is more a reflection of your passions. You cast thousands of votes, and after long hours tallying the ballots, intern Rose Anderson had the winners. What the ballots couldn’t reveal, however, was the thinking behind your votes — What makes these...

Article - Summer Reading Guideby Bay Weekly staff - 2011

Bay Weekly’s 2011 Summer Reading Guide: Reading the Great Outdoors

Nature Books for All Ages

It’s official: On June 21 — three weeks into the month proclaimed by Gov. Martin O’Malley as Great Outdoors Month — the solstice turned spring into summer. To seize the summer season, Bay Weekly peers into books about the great outdoors. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian read by Steve Carr John Wesley Powell was one of the most important Americans who ever lived, yet most folks have never heard of him, writes Bay Weekly columnist, outdoorsman and...

Article - Home and Garden Guideby a Bay Weekly exclusive - 2011

Home & Garden Guide 2011

Article - Home and Garden Guideby a Bay Weekly exclusive - 2011

Tips & Trends for Home and Garden

Accessorize Affordably Great style does not have to equate to big dollars. Keep a current issue of Bay Weekly on hand for monthly savings coupons. Magnolia Shoppe is a home furnishings and accents boutique. We offer unique furniture at fair prices and beautiful home accessories, changing with the season, including lamps, mirrors, pictures and table-top accents. As well, we feature a ladies’ line of sterling silver jewelry, handbags and fashion...

2010

Article - Special Editionsby Sandra Olivetti Martin - 2010

Best of the Bay

We asked you to choose your favorites of 2010. Here’s how your votes tallied.

Standing out as the Best of the Bay is no accident. Championship is essential, but it’s not enough.In a competition so wide, to stand out you’ve got to be a champion in your field — whether that field is Best Restaurant, Best Cheap Date, Best Place to People Watch or Best Place to Pick up Bay Weekly. Just as important is the chemistry you spark with the voters, for it’s got to making energy to get out the vote — make that many votes — in your favor....

Article - Local Bountyby Diana Beechener - 2010

Illuminations 2010

Near and far, small towns and big cities are aglow with the magic of twinkling holiday lights.

Winterfest Lights up Ocean City Nov. 18 thru Jan. 2 See shining lights by the seashore as Ocean City is first to turn on its holiday lights. Start your tour at the inlet lot, traveling through the Tunnel of Lights, a gleaming archway of 800,000 tiny bulbs. Take a turn down Baltimore Ave., from 15th to 32nd streets, through the Avenue of Trees, featuring elaborate illuminated wreaths and old-fashioned decorations. Arrive at Northside Park, off 127th St. and Isle of Wight Bay, where...

Article - Special Editionsby Bay Weekly readers - 2010

The Polls Have Closed

Best of the Bay voting is over … look for the winners in the December 30 issue of Bay Weekly.