A night out on the town doesn't always have to include cocktails—and a subsequent hangover—thanks to the eclectic mix of hookah bars found right here in Charm City. Hookah bars and lounges offer a hip ...

Every Friday and Saturday night, in Zeeba Lounge, there are belly dancers, Middle Eastern music, crowds both inside and in line outside, and clouds of fragrant smoke. Zeeba Lounge is, despite the ...

All-night Baltimore County hookah lounges are about to become a thing of the past thanks to a vote by the County Council that curbs their hours of operation.Lawmakers originally proposed an 8 p.m.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz proposed legislation Tuesday that would mandate county hookah lounges close at 8 p.m. on weeknights and 9 p.m. on weekends, hours before their current ...

The blue caterpillar in “Alice in Wonderland” smoked his pipe by day, wrote Judge Robert Zarnoch in a Nov. 28 opinion. So, too, must Baltimore County hookah lounge-goers, after the Maryland Court of ...

Owners of Baltimore County’s hookah and vapor lounges are condemning new security regulations they say unfairly target their establishments and impose costly rules that are even stricter than those ...

At least one Baltimore County lawmaker is looking to make hookah bars close earlier after a few recent violent incidents near them, but the owners said their businesses will tank if that ...

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz is trying to crack down on the county’s hookah lounges, amid a rash of late-night problems surrounding the businesses. Baltimore County Executive Kevin ...

What is a hookah? Invented by the Turks over 500 years ago, a hookah is a water pipe that contains a mixture of fruit molasses and a small amount of tobacco. The mixture is heated in the hookah to ...