BALTIMORE — On a summer Saturday at West Covington Park along the Baltimore Peninsula waterfront, the city’s cultural scene was on full display. The 10th Annual Celebrity POLOxJAZZ — Grandiosity Events’ marquee charity experience — descended on South Baltimore with the kind of style, substance, and community spirit that has made it one of the region’s most anticipated events of the year. What began a decade ago as a bold vision to merge luxury entertainment with meaningful gi

On The GAUDS Show, club king Marc Barnes and marketing pioneer Chris Latimer pull back the velvet rope on how Black nightlife really works — and why it's still fighting for its place. By Staff Reporter Marc Barnes has been running some of the most consequential Black-owned nightclubs in America for nearly three decades. Chris Latimer has been telling corporate America how to sell to Black consumers for just as long. Put them together on a podcast and the result is less a conv

By the time the bartenders notice it, the damage is already done. The room is full. The music is right. The crowd looks the way it always has. But the bar—once the economic engine of nightlife—no longer hums the way it used to. This is not just a Baltimore story. It is unfolding in major cities across the country, from Atlanta to Los Angeles, Chicago to New York. And it was a familiar Baltimore voice— Frank Ski , the legendary radio host and DJ—who recently put the shift into