Mount Vernon

14 places in Mount Vernon: arts and theater, live music, places to eat. Every one was checked against the venue’s own sources, and each listing says which source that was and the day it was read.

Coming up in Mount Vernon

Mozart Meets Latin Masters at BSO at the Meyerhoff, Fri 11am, Sat 8pm
Death of Summer: Part 6, Metro Baltimore, 1700 N Charles St, Fri doors 7pm, show 8pm; Sat doors 4pm, show 4:30pm
The Neapolitan Rocky Horror Experience, Le Mondo, 406 N Howard St, 6pm to 10pm
Stoop Storytelling: Hellraisers, Mount Vernon Place Church, 2 E Mount Vernon Pl, 7pm
Guided Tour: Strange Stories & Curious Collections, Maryland Center for History and Culture, 610 Park Ave, 2pm to 3pm
The Walters Gala & Party at The Walters Art Museum, Party 9pm to midnight; VIP Party from 8pm; Gala from 6pm

Arts and theater in Mount Vernon

Free
The Walters Art Museum
Admission is free every day it is open, and Thursday hours run to 8pm, which makes it the rare museum here you can do after work before dinner on Charles Street.
Wed 10-5; Thu 1-8; Fri-Sun 10-5; closed Mon-Tue
$$
Baltimore Center Stage
The city's major resident theater, now led by Tony-nominated artistic director Stevie Walker-Webb.
Varies by production; box office 410.332.0033
Street View
$ · Station North, on the North Avenue corner
Motor House
A former car showroom on North Avenue turned into a bar, a gallery and two performance rooms.
By the event. The bar opens for what is on rather than to set hours.
Street View
$ · Station North, on North Charles Street
Baltimore Improv Group
An improv theatre on North Charles with its name painted across the shopfront glass, a parklet outside and ten dollar tickets.
By the show. BIG Time at 8pm most Saturdays, though the schedule skips some: 3 October has none. Fridays carry one-hour shows from 7pm when they are programmed, which is not every week.
Street View
$ · The east edge of Mount Vernon, on Guilford Avenue
La Familia Soundstage
A hire hall behind a strip of storefronts on Guilford Avenue, with its own car park in front.
Not published. The room opens for whatever has been booked into it.

Live music in Mount Vernon

$$ · Northern edge
BSO at the Meyerhoff
The Baltimore Symphony's home hall at 1212 Cathedral St, on the district's northern edge.
Event nights; box office Tue-Fri 10-5, Sat 12-5
Mount Vernon
$$
An die Musik LIVE!
A second-floor listening room in a townhouse at 409 N Charles St, run for 35-plus years, where the room is built around the music rather than a bar scene.
Scheduled shows only
Mount Vernon
Free · A different park every Thursday. The pin is Mount Vernon Place, one of the places it has been, not where it will be next.
Baltimore Pop-Up Jazz Jam
A jazz jam that turns up in a different Baltimore park every Thursday, run by the bassist Ed Hrybyk.
Thursdays. Its October schedule gives 5pm to 7pm, and 4pm to 6pm on 29 October.

Places to eat in Mount Vernon

$$
The Helmand
Qayum Karzai's Afghan dining room at 806 N Charles St has anchored this stretch since 1989, and it still books through Resy with entrees at $20.95-29.95.
Tue-Sat 5-10pm; Sun 4-9pm; closed Mon
$$ · Northern edge
The Owl Bar
The 1903 bar room of the old Hotel Belvedere, which ran as a speakeasy through Prohibition; the National Trust tells the story of the glass-eyed owls that signaled when the liquor had arrived.
Tue-Sat dinner 4-9pm; bar to 11pm Tue-Wed, 12am Thu-Sat; Sat brunch 11-2; closed Sun-Mon

Bars in Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon
$
The Drinkery
An everyone-welcome gay dive at 205 W Read St, pouring since 1972 and calling itself one of the oldest alternative bars in Baltimore; the posted special is two Natty Bohs for the price of one.
Front bar Tue-Wed 4pm-12am; Thu-Sun 4pm-1am; closed Mon
Mount Vernon
$ · Bolton Hill
Mount Royal Tavern
The dive Baltimore calls the Dirt Church, drinking under a hand-painted reproduction of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Daily 10am-2am

Parks and waterfront in Mount Vernon

Free
Mount Vernon Place and the Washington Monument
Four landscaped squares around Baltimore's Washington Monument, stewarded by the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy, free and open dawn to dusk with fountains, sculpture, and the Walters and Peabody on their edges.
Squares dawn to dusk; monument Wed-Sun 10-5

Getting around Mount Vernon

$
Baltimore Penn Station
The 1911 Beaux-Arts head house at the top of Charles Street, and the eighth busiest station in the country.
Waiting room open every day except 2am to 3am; Amtrak ticket office 5:10am to 9:30pm daily. MARC Penn Line and Amtrak both call here

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