Cassandra Miller

The Daily Star • July 21 2019

Opera explores police shootings, race relations

When news of black people’s deaths involving police grabbed the public's attention in 2015 — including a string of high-profile losses such as Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, Michael Brown and Eric Garner — the Glimmerglass Festival’s response was to commission a new opera.

Baltimore magazine • July 10 2019

Historic Cooperstown, NY Makes For a Fun Summer Road Trip

Cooperstown, a small village in central New York that’s home to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the legacy of 19th century writer James Fenimore Cooper (his famous Leatherstocking Tales include “The Last of the Mohicans”), is one of the most American places in the country.

Nestled in a bucolic paradise of farmland with rolling hills and mirror-like lakes, the village is like a movie set for a romanticized ideal of small-town American life.

BmoreArt • May 29 2019

Living With Art: Jeannie Howe – BmoreArt | Baltimore Contemporary Art

At Home with Jeannie Howe, Executive Director of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance by Cassandra Miller

If the artists and subjects of the pieces in Jeannie Howe’s home could step through their paintings, photographs, and sculptures, you would see the real and adopted family tree of Howe’s life.

Through her home décor, Howe has surrounded herself with loved ones—whether they be her talented sister, uncle, brother and son; college friends; Baltimore artists; ancestors with wandering eyes;

Baltimore Fishbowl • February 5 2019

Q&A: Stephanie Ybarra discusses her vision for Center Stage, diversity in the arts, more

Stephanie Ybarra is only a couple of months into her full-time role as the artistic director at Baltimore Center Stage, but already she has met for listening sessions and meet-and-greets with dozens of leaders in the Baltimore community, been named the keynote speaker of Maryland Arts Day in Annapolis on Feb. 14, and completely rearranged the admin offices at 700 N. Calvert St.

If that’s what she’s done in less than two months, you can imagine what she’s accomplished in her almost two decades a

Baltimore magazine • June 22 2018

Walters Art Museum Gives New Life to a 170-Year-Old Mansion

Art museums traditionally maintain historic objects by treating them inside conservation labs, where specialists painstakingly clean and restore priceless paintings, vases, and jewelry. But how do you restore an antique that’s an entire mansion? Facing that challenge, The Walters Art Museum had to get creative.


The museum recently unveiled 1 West Mount Vernon Place, where conservators worked on-site over the past three years to bring the house back to its former glory. It’s on the southwest s

Baltimore magazine • November 1 2016

​Five Best Hotels for a Staycation in Baltimore

Baltimore is a great place to go on staycation, especially when you check into one of these five character-filled hotels, and experience the city with fresh eyes. Offering home bases in some of the city's most tourist-friendly neighborhoods, our top staycation hotels include waterfront oasis Four Seasons, boutique hotels in historic homes like The Ivy Hotel and Admiral Fell Inn, and beautiful downtown fixtures the Lord Baltimore Hotel and Hotel Monaco.

To take in the most of the Fells Point wat

The Washington Post • August 4 2016

'Family Guy' creator Seth McFarlane's second job as a singer

Before he created “Family Guy” and “Ted,” Seth MacFarlane was a 9-year-old who was obsessed with John Williams film scores and acted in local productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. For the past several years, MacFarlane has been channeling his younger self by singing Rodgers and Hammerstein and Frank Sinatra songs with the world’s best orchestras. MacFarlane’s work as an orchestral frontman has earned him two Grammy nominations: for his 2011 debut, “Music Is Better Than Words,” and for 2015’s “No One Ever Tells You.”

Baltimore magazine • July 11 2016

Top Single Goes on a Casting Call for The Bachelor

While watching a recent episode of The Bachelorette, an ABC2 commercial announced the Baltimore open casting call for The Bachelor at Maryland Live Casino on July 7. I texted my friend, “I’m going.”

I thought about wearing my Baltimore magazine “Top Single” button from February’s party, but thought, “Too much. Don’t crush the hopes of the other women at the casting call.”

The casino seems like a perfect place to find the next “Bachelor” and “Bachelorette.” So many lights! So much excitement! S

All Otsego • September 12 2024

Oneonta Downtown Renaissance: Community-driven Effort is Energizing Oneonta’s Main Street

In a time when building consensus is difficult, it’s been easy to get behind the vision for downtown Oneonta to be a destination for both residents and visitors. The city-funded Oneonta Downtown Renaissance kicked off in June with the explicit purpose of attracting people downtown.

It’s especially exciting to see how the Downtown Renaissance has sparked a wave of community-driven initiatives, such as the Oneonta Storefront Project, which fills vacant storefronts with art, and downtown busines...

All Otsego • July 11 2024

Oneonta Storefront Project Brings New Focal Points to Main Street

Several vacant storefronts on Oneonta’s Main Street are filled thanks to the Oneonta Storefront Project. A papier-mâché jungle, carved basswood royalty, a celebration of pregnancy, and Oneonta in the 1960s are some of the themes of installations passersby can see in downtown Oneonta this summer.

The brainchild of artist Elizabeth Pereira, the Oneonta Storefront Project is a grassroots initiative that has grown into a collaborative effort to beautify downtown. So f...