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  Kerry Leikus, 44, took an unconventional route to becoming a designer. While on sabbatical from her job as an attorney, she decided that if she couldn’t find the accessories she wanted, she’d design them. Her first line of belts were a hit and now, more than ten years later, …

Late last week, finalists were announced for the annual Baker Artist Awards. Among the 39 selected: soul musician Trina Coleman, poet Tracy Dimond (see her work in STYLE here), ceramics artist Trisha Kyner, contemporary dance and theater artist Naoko Maeshiba, visual artist Natan Lawsom (abstract ink drawings and paintings), choreographer …

Kick off the week in the kickiest way imaginable–go out tonight. Starts Heres! novelist Jen Michalski’s ongoing reading series, in collaboration with the Ivy Bookshop, starts at 7 p.m. At Artifact Coffee: 1500 Union Ave. AND our own Melissa Gerr–digital media editor, managing editor and senior reporter at Mid-Atlantic Media–joins …

  It should come as no surprise: Superstar Maryland chef Cindy Wolf and her restaurant Charleston (co-owned with Tony Foreman)—in Harbor East—are up for more prestigious culinary awards. Wolf has been named a semi-finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award in the Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic category. So this is the …

Candid Theater The Baltimore Theatre Project wants to get all up in your personal space this weekend. Kassandra Production has traveled from Denmark, the happiest country in the world, to present LET’S GET PERSONAL. The event is, what they’re calling, a satire performance lecture on the everyday demands we face …

In honor of Black History Month, we asked Rona Sue London of the Ivy Bookshop to recommend relevant children’s books for all ages. Fiction for younger readers: One Word from Sophia by Jim Averback and Yasmeen Ismail My Pen by Christopher Myers Float by Daniel Miyares Last Stop on Market Street …