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Baltimore is a city on a rise, experiencing a major renaissance after decades and decades of blight. People whose only experience of the city is watching programs like HBO’s smash crime drama The Wire or the long-running network cop show Homicide: Life on the Street, probably think of the city as the murder capital of the Atlantic Seaboard. In many ways, this part of the city’s identity cannot be denied. There is still a considerable amount of crime and poverty that plague the city; any basic search for news articles on Baltimore with wireless Internet will reveal the fact that there is still endless corruption, a blossoming drug trade, and social services that are becoming leaner every day. But th learn and master guitar ere is a group of young, new Baltimore residents who are revitalizing the city in an organic way that no amount of policy ever could. They are moving into the city’s many abandoned warehouses from its heyday as an industrial powerhouse, taking advantage of ample space and cheap rents, and they are making art and music and bringing an entirely new cultural edge to good ole B-more.This youth movement in Baltimore began only a few years ago, partially stemming largely from the diverse student population at MICA, or Maryland Institute College of Art. These arty types have decided to stay in Baltimore after graduation, largely because it is hard to beat the rent in other locales across the United States.