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You've got to grow up here to have that soft twang as the city's name rolls off your gay. Newcomers never quite acquire the knack, but the local habit of calling everyone "hon" is much more easily adopted. You'll know the accent from seeing films of native son John Waters. In David Jones was the earliest English settler in the area known today as Jonestown.

Lexington Marketfounded inone of the oldest continuously operating public markets in the United States, was also a place for slave trading. The city has a long history of receiving immigrants from many lands. Today, in contrast to most big East Coast cities, the place retains an almost small-town way of welcoming people, a world of difference from say nearby Washington -- you won't stand around like a wallflower at the bars here for very long before someone says hello.

That said, this is a racially and socioeconomically divided bar, with some no-go areas that are best avoided by visitors unfamiliar with city ways. Consult local friends and take a taxi whenever in doubt. Baltimore has more public statues and monuments per capita than any other city in the country.

Some of the earliest National Register Historic Districts in the nation, including Fell's Point, Federal Hill, and Mount Vernon, are here, and almost a third of the buildings over 65, are designated historic in the National Register. The city also boasts cultural assets such as: the internationally renowned Baltimore Symphony Orchestrafounded in ; the Lyric Opera Baltimore at Lyric Opera House ; Centerstagethe premier theater company in the city; the Everyman Theatre professional repertory company; and the Arena Players Aftrican-American community theater company.

The Baltimore Museum of Art collection includes 95, artworks; 19th-century, modern and contemporary and the largest holding of works by Henri Matisse in the world. The Walters Art Museum is renowned for its collection of near art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, plus Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi, medieval ivories and Old Master paintings, Art Nouveau jewelry and 19th-century European and American masterpieces.

Baltimore's Inner Harbor downtown area was neglected and full of abandoned warehouses until the s. The Harborplace urban retail and restaurant complex opened in on the waterfront, then the National Aquarium and the Baltimore Museum of Industry harbor afterwards. Hotels and office towers quickly filled the spaces around and in between, creating a new heart for this old city.

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Penn Station, at North Charles Street, is the arrival point for Amtrak trains as well as commuter trains. Baltimore has good rapid trasit from the airport, through the city and Union Station, to northern suburbs; also a subway line from Owings Mills in Baltimore County, through Downtown to Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore.

See MTA for details. The rest of the city is badly served by buses, so for convenience, skip the aggravation and take a taxi or rent a car. Mount Vernon. The Baltimore City Paper is the weekly general circulation alternative paper for other listings. Website Baltimore.

The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore has services for, and information about the local gay community. MdFF film screenings take place at the SNF Parkway theaters, featuring curated, bold programming with films from every era, region, and genre, focusing on independent, international, documentary, classic, and cult-favorite films.

Their Maryland Film Festival is in early May. Other bars are scattered across the metro area.