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Credit: Slamdance Film Festival
In - by Scout Tafoya

Halfway to Somewhere: New/Next Film Festival and Baltimore

For a while you could go to the Under Armour “brand house” on “The Baltimore Peninsula” and buy a shirt that said “Maryland Tough, Baltimore Strong” on it. The Peninsula, for those who’ve never been, is a nearly 250-acre city-within-a-city developed by Under Armour founder Kevin Plank, that had basically no residents until, with the help of $535 million in tax breaks, they started building featureless apartments around Plank’s Sagamore Distillery. Plank and Under Armour are one of the totems...

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