I wanted to express how much I love the weekly Urbanite E-Blasts. This weekend, I surprisingly had no plans, so I suggested to Tim and his 2 roommates and their 2 girlfriends to come out and do things on that list. We visited the Spring Flower Show in Druid Hill Park. None of us even knew that existed! We definitely plan to go back. Then we saw the Tools, Trash, and Technology exhibit which was interesting. I even had a girlfriend call me up saying that she was coming to Baltimore for the weekend and asked what was there to do. I just opened up the E-Blast and rattled off the things happening around town.

Briana Lee

I have read many a magazine in my years but I have never been so impressed as with the Urbanite! I even read the advertisements because they are so eye-catching and interesting. And I like the fact that they are on the left side of the page and that the articles are on the right. It makes it so much easier to read and enjoy. I also love that it addresses so many issues, places, and events in my Charm City. I have learned so much about my city through the Urbanite, and I have lived here a long time. Thank you so much. I think your magazine is brilliant. Keep up the great work.

Patricia A. Leef

800 people attended Center for Talented Youth’s event last night at Shriver Hall—an almost unheard-of number for a poetry reading. I have no doubt the exposure in the Urbanite played a factor, so thank you!

Matt Bowden, Communications Coordinator
Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth

Although I am not a city dweller (I live in Anne Arundel County and work in Towson), I begin to look forward to the new Urbanite each month a few days before the new issue appears in the boxes. I enjoy the sensibility—the green focus; the community-building, diversity-embracing, constructive approach—of the magazine. I actually pay attention to the advertising, almost as if it were a category of content of its own. In Urbanite I trust I will find advertisers with a shared sensibility in the Baltimore area who are close enough that I can actually use their products or services (for example—where else would I have discovered Eco Brokers?) With media sources so fractured, there’s a huge need for something that still gives us a sense of shared community. Urbanite taps into that larger community I want to be part of while at the same time localizing the issues (and advertising) for me here at home just outside of Baltimore.

Suzette Guiffré

My wife and I are facing soon-to-be empty nesthood and are beginning to consider our next move to simplify and downsize. You may hear this often, but we are nearly lifetime Baltimore County residents who have become relatively unfamiliar with Baltimore City and until recently, we had not considered a move into a city neighborhood. With its positive approach, Urbanite has helped open our eyes to the possibilities and promise, not to mention the energy now available and growing, of many of the new and redeveloping city communities. Please keep up your fine work.

Ted Flerlage

Every issue of the Urbanite I encounter elicits my admiration. I am a trained writer, editor, and graphic designer myself; I admire the magazine not only for its good narratives, attractive subject matter, and considerate layout and typography, but also for its attention to preserving the language in apt diction, correct punctuation and grammar, and enlightened usage. It doesn’t hurt, moreover, that you exhibit a pronounced bias for the humane—the arts, culture and history, education, concerns of the natural world—politely ignoring commercial hustle, pointless glitz, and political glamour. So, in the words of WiReD magazine’s letters department, “Rants and Raves,” this is simply a “rave”—congratulations, thank you, and CARRY ON!

Suzanne Strutt

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