Crescent City Books

Creative Cajun & Creole Cooking classes taught with New Orleans flair. Floor to ceiling glass offering a rare dining experience with a breathtaking view of the Mississippi River. Crescent City Cooks offers a visual essence of the Big Easy while learning to cook traditional New Orleans dishes. Come hungry because all dishes prepared will be served as your meal. Nita Duhe and Shelley Ross are...

Two floors of dusty treasures (the emphasis is on history, social history, literary criticism, philosophy, and art) and a staff that ranges from nonchalant to quite sweet and helpful.

Located at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center, this restored former vaudeville venue, built in 1914, now stages national Broadway shows. Orchestra seats and front balcony seats are good, but pass up the back rows of the balcony, unless it's a show you absolutely have to see. A cafe serves light fare, but it's usually crowded; arrive early or eat somewhere else downtown before heading to...

Finding a treasure is half of the fun at Crescent City Books. This two-story retailer nestled in the heart of the French Quarter specializes in scholarly and antiquarian books. Collectors are sure to find a wide variety of rare and collectible books on history, literary criticism, philosophy, social history, and art in the tall shelves that line the walls of this cozy shop. The casual reader...

The Hippodrome Theatre is a former vaudeville theater in Baltimore, Maryland. Built in 1914 for impresarios Pierce and Scheck, the 2300-seat theater was the foremost vaudeville house in Baltimore, as well as a movie theater. The Hippodrome was designed by Thomas White Lamb, one of the foremost theater architects of his time. Lamb gave the theater an unusually strong presence on Eutaw Street...