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| Everything's a bit fishy in Baltimore Published July 18, 2001 Everything's a bit fishy in Baltimore By Judy Colbert, Expedia.com Contributor There's something fishy going on in Baltimore, and not just at the great seafood restaurants. Throughout the city you'll find 200 six-foot-long, colorfully decorated, fiberglass fish. "Fish Out of Water, a Public Art Exhibit" lasts through October. Grab your camera to shoot souvenir photos of a taxicab fish, a tonsured monkfish, a propellered plane fish, and a fish called "Fishcasso." Tied in with the exhibit are daily art events at Port Discovery Children's Museum, a cooking demonstration at Lexington Market, the Historic Federal Hill Fish-tival on September 16, and the two-day ArtBeat on Centre Street October 20–21, celebrating the grand reopening of the Walters Art Museum. Something amazing at the aquarium. The National Aquarium will also be in the swim, of course, particularly with the current special exhibit, "Seahorses: Beyond Imagination." You know what the typical seahorse looks like, but did you know there are hundreds of species of them? Nine tanks in the 1,500-foot exhibit hold seahorses, seadragons, and pipefish, but the showstopper is the leafy seadragon, whose body is so plantlike that it doesn't need to hide to avoid detection. Interactive games make the exhibit educational and entertaining, and jazz music livens things even more, especially in the mornings during seahorse courtship-dance time. With luck, you may catch a seahorse being born, all the more remarkable since among seahorses, males are the ones who give birth. _________________________________________ |
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