Liz McMahon

Baltimore Style • August 16th, 2017

A Colorful Pairing

On July 13, I walked into the barroom of The Rowhouse Grille and glanced around, confused. I had been invited to an event hosted by Baltimore artist Kelly Walker and her girlfriend, chef Tess Mosley, called “Color Palate: A Collaborative Dining...

Baltimore Style • October 31st, 2018

Home on the Half Shell

Six months after I moved to Baltimore, I walked into Thames Street Oyster House with its dark wainscoting, minimalist paintings of ships and seashells, old-school white tablecloths, blue-striped napkins and a tight-squeeze floor plan, where you can’t...

Baltimore Style • May 17th, 2018

Family Recipe

For the brothers Leonardi, food is family. Larry and Brian grew up around the restaurants of Baltimore’s Little Italy, the inspiration for the place they have created in Reisterstown. Family. The Leonardi brothers opened Ristorante Firenze in 2015...

JMORE • May 15th, 2018

Appetite for Impact: A Millennial's Mission to End Waste and Hunger

Successful business and societal contributions — two opposite paths for many people. But for Evan Lutz, they are one and the same. Lutz, 25, founded Hungry Harvest in 2014 with a mission of “eliminating food waste and ending hunger” during his senior...

Baltimore Style • April 6th, 2018

From Passion, Plenty

Chad Wells, corporate chef for Victoria Restaurant Group, talks about his career and the long-awaited Food Plenty in Clarksville, the third and largest restaurant the group has opened. Food Plenty serves seasonally influenced comfort food, like beef...

Baltimore Style • March 26th, 2018

Return to the Classics

Executive Chef Bryan Boessel walked into Bel Air’s One Eleven Main just four months after it opened in 2014, hoping for a job closer to his home. He’s since become a fixture there, using his classical background and local food connections to create a...

Baltimore Style • November 10th, 2017

That's a Good One

On a summer evening about a year ago, a small group of local comedians took turns performing for an equally small audience at the cozy and intimate 3 Bean Coffee in Federal Hill. One of the standups that evening was Jessica Murphy Garrett, then 33,...

Baltimore Style • January 2nd, 2018

Arms Race

The Researcher In the wealth of public health data that is collected in this country on everything from smoking habits to insurance participation, there is one area where there are very few statistics: Our attitudes on gun violence. Sure, it is...

JMORE • October 8th, 2019

All for the Greater Good

Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos of Medicine for the Greater Good recently met with Rachel Siegal, managing director of The Soul Center, and Sarah Shapiro, Beth El’s in-house social worker, to discuss Caregiver Café and other health initiatives. (Photo by Liz...

JMORE • June 1st, 2018

Renaissance Women

Rachel Rubin, left, and her sister, Merritt Miller, right, co-mingle at an art exhibit. (Photo courtesy Renaissance Fine Arts) Like mother, like daughters: An eye for art is in the genes. When Rachel Rubin was 12, her mother added one more piece of...

JMORE • May 25th, 2018

PR Powerhouse Jody Berg Talks Business, Marriage and More

Jody Berg is the founder and CEO of Media Works, one of the mid-Atlantic region’s largest strategic marketing agencies. Jody started her career almost 30 years ago at the kitchen table in her townhouse. Her husband, David, 60, is CEO of the Berg...

JMORE • June 7th, 2018

Teamwork is a Simply Beautiful Thing

Rennie and Brian Friedlander embarked on their flower business, Simply Beautiful, back in 1992. Since then, the married couple has worked side by side to provide floral services from small bouquets to large-scale weddings and events in Baltimore. In...

JMORE • June 6th, 2018

On the Level

A lawyer’s midway plan changed when he met a man in development. In 1999, Erwin L. Greenberg invited Brian Gibbons to step away from a successful law career and into what would soon become Greenberg Gibbons Commercial — the powerhouse company behind...

Baltimore's Child • February 26th, 2020

#momsohard Archives

by Liz McMahon “Every mom is doing her best and never feels like she’s doing it well enough,” Kristin Hensley, comedian, mother, and half of the Los Angeles-based comedy duo #IMOMSOHARD, tells Style. Kristin and her partner-in-comedy, Jen Smedley,...

Baltimore Style • June 19th, 2017

A Day on the Big Screen

The Charles in the Station North neighborhood of Baltimore is an eclectic arthouse theater that spotlights thoughtfully curated and independent films—which don’t often draw teenagers. Earlier this month though, The Charles was taken over by the 14 to...