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7:03 PM EDT, May 21, 2013
Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before.
May 25, 2013
Jessica Anya Blau's third novel updates 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
Talk about tumbling down the rabbit hole.
May 4, 2013
Booker Prize-winning author James Kelman visits Baltimore
Plunging into a novel by James Kelman is like diving head-first into a chilly lake.
9:26 PM EDT, May 2, 2013
Winners of 2013 Baker Artist Awards announced
An installation artist who sculpts with mirrors and salt, an innovative cellist and a self-taught photographer whose work has been informed by the four decades that she has spent battling a rare genetic illness are the winners of the 2013 Baker Artist Awards.
8:28 AM EDT, May 13, 2013
Kwame Kwei-Armah keeps his vow to bring Center Stage national exposure
Kwame Kwei-Armah is turning up the floodlights on Center Stage.
6:39 PM EDT, April 29, 2013
Hunt Valley school teaches adults how to use fish forks and finger bowls
It took almost 56 years, but I've finally mastered my table manners, and in the process learned something about the curious and controversial history of the fork.
April 27, 2013
The science and suffering of hearing loss
Former Baltimorean Katherine Bouton abruptly lost the hearing in her left ear at age 30. One minute she could hear, and the next, she could not.
10:49 PM EDT, April 21, 2013
'Whiteness of the Whale' mashes up 'Moby Dick,' environmental concerns
David Poyer is a retired naval officer, and most of the 34 thrillers that he's written draw on his experience serving in the waters of the Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific, Caribbean and Persian Gulf.
1:13 PM EDT, April 17, 2013
Six finalists announced for 2013 Sondheim Prize
Six finalists were announced Wednesday for the 2013 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize — and the prestigious award is edging more toward alternate media than it ever has before.
7:25 PM EDT, April 16, 2013
Smithsonian Institution to temporarily close some art galleries
Because of budget cuts mandated by the federal sequestration, the Smithsonian Institution will begin closing galleries in some art museums to the public.
10:58 AM EDT, April 13, 2013
Time editors discuss new book about presidents at McDaniel College
The four-story brownstone near Washington's Lafayette Park is one of the most exclusive hotels in the world. There's a fireplace in the master bathroom, and the thread counts on the sheets is high enough to rival the Four Seasons.
6:45 PM EDT, April 15, 2013
Peabody Conservatory receives $800,000 donation from former employee, alumna
A reception will be held Wednesday at the Peabody Conservatory in honor of the late Mary C. Walker, who upon her death donated $800,000 to the institution where she studied and worked for most of her life.
6:43 PM EDT, April 15, 2013
Baltimore Symphony appoints playwright in residence
The Baltimore Symphony is about to become one of the very few, if not the first, major classical orchestras in the United States to officially appoint a playwright in residence.
7:21 PM EDT, April 12, 2013
A stirring production of 'Les Miserables' at the Hippodrome
There's something about "Les Miserables" that keeps me coming back.
7:11 PM EDT, April 8, 2013
Baltimore Museum of Art lays off 14 employees
More than five years after a financial crisis ravaged the U.S. economy, the Baltimore Museum of Art has finally run out of options.
7:56 PM EDT, April 4, 2013
Historic Pikes Diner may once again become a movie theater
One of Pikesville's most charming and well-loved buildings — a 1937 Art Deco structure fronted by a stately marquee — could soon open its doors to movie patrons for the first time in 30 years.
9:06 AM EDT, March 18, 2013
Gaithersburg author writes 'The Crooked Branch' about the Irish potato famine
Jeanine Cummins wants more than anything in the world to give a voice to people who are unable to speak for themselves.
April 6, 2013
Author George Saunders headlines 10th annual CityLit Festival
Author George Saunders is having the kind of year that could lead the former roofer and slaughterhouse worker to imagine that someone is spritzing the air around him with a giant bottle of perfume.
5:56 PM EDT, March 15, 2013
Baltimore storyteller Jon Spelman makes debut performance of 'Prostate Dialogues'
After Jon Spelman got the bad news, he found himself thinking often and at odd moments about "Moby-Dick."
3:10 PM EST, March 4, 2013
Thirty young Baltimore artists discuss their work and ideas
Artist Mia Wiener embroiders provocative images on white linen because she's fascinated by the intimate nature of textiles and by the way that most people take them for granted.
10:10 PM EDT, March 15, 2013
Court's help sought in case of stolen Renoir painting
A federal court in Virginia was asked Friday to determine the proper ownership of a miniature landscape painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and purchased for $7 in a box of odds and ends in a rural flea market.
March 9, 2013
Walters explores work of Caton heir who lived fast, died young
The handsome young man sitting in the pink parlor chair radiates restlessness, a disdain for social conventions and undeniable self-satisfaction.
4:40 PM EDT, March 22, 2013
Baltimore Museum of Art mounts exhibit of 20th-century avant-garde painter Max Weber
Baltimore helped the avant-garde painter Max Weber forge a national reputation in 1915. Now, nearly 100 years later, this could be the city where the late artist begins his long-overdue comeback.
March 9, 2013
Novelist Taiye Selasi, hailed as next big literary star, visits Baltimore
Taiye Selasi's debut novel has been in publication for less than a week. But even before a single copy was sold, the glamorous 33-year-old was being hailed as the newest star of the literary world.
2:51 PM EST, March 4, 2013
Hopkins scientist finds link between neurobiology of music, language
A Johns Hopkins brain scientist is finding a neurological basis for a notion that many people believe intuitively — that music is as much a form of language as Spanish or French.
March 2, 2013
Md. author explores fascinating, fatal arsenic
For such a long time, arsenic was the perfect poison.
9:56 PM EST, February 25, 2013
Former Baltimorean's article inspired Oscar-winning documentary
Former Baltimorean Craig Strydom intentionally attended the 85th Academy Awards wearing his father-in-law's tuxedo, the one with the tiny tear in one leg.
9:24 PM EST, February 20, 2013
Walters Art Museum names new director, Julia Marciari-Alexander
In naming Julia Marciari-Alexander as executive director on Wednesday, the Walters Art Museum board of directors entrusted one of Baltimore's most important arts institutions to a rising star — and signaled an emphasis on community engagement even more than on a long history of leading an organization.
8:11 PM EST, February 11, 2013
Lincoln document on display Tuesday
The Enoch Pratt Free Library's only document signed by Abraham Lincoln will be on display Tuesday for one day only, in honor of the Great Emancipator's 204th birthday.
February 9, 2013
Baltimore-born terrorism expert explores 'The Myth of Martyrdom'
Adam Lankford thinks there's an oft-repeated misconception about suicide attackers that isn't merely wrong. It's potentially deadly.
3:31 PM EST, February 4, 2013
Repairs continue to water main break on Newkirk Street
Repairs continued Monday to a water main break at Canton Industrial Park that had created a sinkhole over the weekend on South Newkirk Street, city Department of Public Works officials said.
8:31 PM EST, February 17, 2013
Baltimore-based Veteran Artist Program seeks to propel veterans into mainstream arts community
When bad luck struck, John Mann was all but certain that he'd have to abandon his dreams.
February 16, 2013
McDaniel prof's latest book probes the big questions of fourth grade
Lisa Graff, an author who teaches children's literature at McDaniel College, can't read a map to save her life.
7:41 PM EST, February 2, 2013
Author George Saunders to headline CityLit Festival
New York Times best-selling author George Saunders will headline the 10th annual CityLit Festival this Spring.
7:33 PM EST, February 1, 2013
UMBC mathematician Manil Suri publishes his third novel
In one way or another, Manil Suri has spent his entire life charting what happens when polar opposites are brought together in unexpected and at times startling juxtapositions.
7:16 PM EST, February 2, 2013
SUPER BOWL XLVII
Baltimore party hosts go all out for Super Bowl
As the hosts of one of the most coveted annual Super Bowl parties in Maryland, Steve and Zivah Ring have obligations to uphold. So what if they had planned on spending much of the winter in sunny Florida?
7:36 PM EST, January 31, 2013
F. Scott Fitzgerald's former Baltimore home for sale
It might lack the cachet of Long Island Sound, where novelist S. Scott Fitzgerald set "The Great Gatsby."
8:30 PM EST, January 28, 2013
Park School librarian Laura Amy Schlitz wins 2nd Newbery honor
Park School librarian Laura Amy Schlitz on Monday joined a select group of authors to be twice honored with one of the nation's top prizes for children's literature.
6:42 PM EST, January 25, 2013
Taylor Branch distills Pulitzer-winning trilogy for students
The math is daunting: More than 2,300 pages of prose winnowed down to 190, including photographs and the occasional blank sheet that signals chapter breaks.
1:05 PM EST, February 7, 2013
FROM SUN MAGAZINE
Architect Cheryl Mohr builds a sustainable home in Edgewater
The architect Cheryl Mohr craves natural light so much that even when the sun is bouncing off the nearby South River and streaming through the 22-foot-tall wall of windows that surrounds her living room, Mohr can't bring herself to lower the blinds.
5:37 PM EST, January 16, 2013
Walters Art Museum finds rare photo of African-American sculptor
A stroll through a Baltimore antique shop has turned up an unsuspected treasure — a rare photograph of Mary Edmonia Lewis, the first 19th century African-American sculptor to receive international recognition.
6:52 PM EST, January 16, 2013
'Today' show weatherman and feature anchor Al Roker visits Baltimore for book signing
For all of his wit, charm and success, a little bit of the boy who once was nicknamed "Fat Albert' still clings to "Today" show weatherman and feature anchor Al Roker.
7:08 PM EST, January 12, 2013
Zoo's animals enjoy unseasonable warmth
Like kids bursting out the schoolhouse doors for recess, when the Maryland Zoo's 11 chimpanzees were allowed outside Saturday for a rare bit of winter sunshine, they couldn't help, well, monkeying around.
January 12, 2013
Bob Lee Swagger and the truth about JFK
In his new thriller, "The Third Bullet," novelist Stephen Hunter sets his sights on an American tragedy that's also the most famous gun mystery of all time — the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1:21 PM EST, January 7, 2013
Meritocracy is ruining America, says pundit Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes, an editor at large of The Nation and host of the talk show bearing his name on MSNBC, was raised in a working-class neighborhood but attended some of the most exclusive schools on the planet.
11:41 AM EST, January 20, 2013
Poe Museum could reopen in fall
The one-time home of Edgar Allan Poe could reopen for visitors as soon as this autumn, according to one of the people in charge of running the tourist attraction.
January 12, 2013
Everyman's Lancisi begins the next act
When Vincent Lancisi was 6 years old, his father sat the boy on his lap for a serious conversation.
December 22, 2012
Owings Mills author makes dystopian debut with 'The Listeners'
Harrison Demchick is by his own account an optimist. He doesn't think that human society or our ruling institutions have become irredeemably corrupt. He didn't make one single preparation for this past Friday, when the Mayan calendar came to an abrupt — and some would say ominous — halt.
December 15, 2012
Annapolis author Erika Robuck writes historical novel about Ernest Hemingway
In her historical novels, Annapolis author Erika Robuck invents everyday men and women whose lives intersect with those of acclaimed American authors. She figures that fiction is sometimes the best way of learning something true.
5:20 PM EST, December 10, 2012
4th man claims he had underage sex with Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash
A fourth accuser is coming forward to claim he engaged in underage sex with former "Sesame Street" puppeteer Kevin Clash.
December 8, 2012
School 33 wins $100,000 national grant
With its bell tower, arched windows and handsome red-brick facade, the structure at 1427 Light St. looks like what it once was — an elementary school.
1:58 PM EST, December 7, 2012
Baltimore author Margaret Meacham publishes two books in a month
When author Margaret Meacham was a little girl, she let her imagination soar while perched high in the branches of a buckeye tree in her family's Pittsburgh backyard.
November 17, 2012
'Terrordome' describes teaching at a West Baltimore high school
During Heather Kirn Lanier's two years in Baltimore as a neophyte teacher, she taught at a city high school that backed up against Mount Olivet Cemetery.
7:49 PM EST, November 30, 2012
Larry S. Gibson's book on Thurgood Marshall examines the forces in Baltimore that shaped young judge
Forty-three years of letters, photographs, campaign buttons, itineraries and the occasional miniature flag are crammed into 2,000 fat binders lining three walls — floor to ceiling — of a storage room in the University of Maryland School of Law.
6:17 PM EST, November 14, 2012
Pratt Library expands e-reader loan program system-wide
A popular program of lending e-readers to patrons of the Enoch Pratt Free Library is expanding to all 22 branches in the system, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Wednesday.
2:11 PM EST, November 11, 2012
BMA's renovated Contemporary Wing redefines what belongs in a museum
Next weekend, visitors to the Baltimore Art Museum's newly renovated Contemporary Wing may find themselves staring up at a hole in the ceiling, their mouths gaping open like fish.
7:52 AM EST, November 14, 2012
From Sun Magazine: 'Genius' pair rewrite rules of organ transplants, among other interests
Think of Dorry Segev and Sommer Gentry as intellectual magpies.
October 28, 2012
Charm City's newest theater troupe is Baltimore Performance Kitchen
From his seat in a darkened theater, the 14-year-old boy told the performers and his fellow audience members something that had been bugging him for a long time.
October 27, 2012
Plight of Chinese orphans inspires author
Maryland-born author Carol Peacock describes living conditions in the poorest Chinese orphanages with a dispassionate eye.
2:38 PM EST, November 19, 2012
Elmo puppeteer's accuser recants underage sex allegations
A claim that "Sesame Street" puppeteer Kevin Clash had sex with a minor has been withdrawn.
October 20, 2012
The collected poems of Lucille Clifton
Former Maryland poet laureate Lucille Clifton was a former "Jeopardy" champion who used a Ouija board to communicate with her dead mother. She was a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who as an adult unabashedly celebrated her physical self.
7:23 AM EDT, October 16, 2012
Grant to Walters, Hopkins aims to boost kids' cognitive abilities
The Walters Art Museum and Johns Hopkins University have received a $50,000 grant to create museum programs aimed at fostering cognitive development in preschoolers.
10:55 PM EDT, October 12, 2012
Woman shot in the head in Baltimore
Baltimore police officers found a woman lying in a Baltimore side street shortly after sunset Friday. She had been shot in the head.
11:12 PM EDT, October 12, 2012
Two-alarm fire breaks out in Highlandtown
Firefighters were battling a two-alarm blaze that broke out Friday night in a Highlandtown residence.
November 4, 2012
Puzzling out that church-state split
For Michael Meyerson, the Great Seal of the United States encapsulates the struggle over the relationship between religion and government that has become a defining characteristic of our nation.
7:00 PM EDT, October 13, 2012
Despite disappointment, fans relish season
After cheering on the Orioles at Yankee Stadium, Michael Cochran made it back to his Canton home about 3 a.m. Saturday — just in time to steal a few hours of sleep before waking up at 7 to run a half-marathon in the Baltimore Running Festival.
October 8, 2012
The white advocate for the Harlem Renaissance
For more that two decades, author Emily Bernard has been fascinated by Carl Van Vechten, a white man who played a seminal — and controversial — role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s.
November 1, 2012
Renoir found, yet mystery remains: Who owns it?
Perhaps the only question more puzzling than who walked away with a Renoir landscape from the Baltimore Museum of Art on a fall weekend in 1951 is who rightfully owns the tiny treasure now.
October 28, 2012
Center Club celebrates 50th anniversary
Center Club officials like to joke that their kitchen staff has a better view of the Baltimore skyline than do most CEOs.
October 13, 2012
Walters art exhibit focuses on Africans living in Renaissance Europe
The view of a 16th-century Lisbon street is such a teeming hodgepodge of races, social classes and religions and has so much life on display — much of it mischievous — that's it hard not to smile.
6:30 PM EDT, October 4, 2012
Holocaust tapestries at AVAM help explore the nature of narrative
Sometimes the only barrier separating a pastoral paradise from hell on earth is a thin line of birch trees.
October 13, 2012
Joppa teen publishes novel
Kacie Bawiec has been scribbling stories in notebooks since she was in the third grade. And just two weeks ago, the 15-year-old teenager published her first novel, "Silver Dagger."
September 29, 2012
With 'Gold,' Chris Cleave braces for another reversal in fortune
When the British author Chris Cleave published his debut novel, "Incendiary," he fell victim to perhaps the worst historical coincidence ever to afflict an author.
10:10 PM EDT, September 28, 2012
Theft of Renoir from BMA in 1951 earned little notice
It was the art theft investigation that went nowhere.
8:39 PM EDT, September 21, 2012
50 monologues expose 'My America' at Center Stage
When Kwame Kwei-Armah left London to move to Baltimore, he was exploding with questions about this strange land on the other side of the Atlantic, where he was planting not just himself, but also his wife and young son.
4:14 PM EDT, September 16, 2012
Prosthetics help actress portray bombing victim
The other day, actress Beth Hylton ended up with a friend glued to her face.
8:06 PM EDT, September 27, 2012
'Lost' Renoir apparently stolen from BMA
A painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir that was recently rediscovered appears to have been stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951.
1:52 PM EDT, September 16, 2012
Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin comes to Baltimore
Even when Jeffrey Toobin is absolutely, positively, flat-out wrong, it's worth listening to what he has to say about the U.S. Supreme Court.
September 22, 2012
Author Kun brings back his Baltimore-loving Everyschlub
Author Michael Kun may be a bit of an acquired taste. But once readers sample Kun's hilariously off-kilter world view, they're frequently hooked for life.
7:48 PM EDT, September 18, 2012
Baltimore Book Festival expands
The 17th Baltimore Book Festival is expanding into a fifth city block as a result of a new partnership with Center Stage that could become an annual tradition.
9:18 PM EDT, September 10, 2012
Baltimore-born woman finds 'lost' Renoir at flea market
A "lost" landscape thought to have been painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir will go on the auction block Sept. 29 on behalf of the Baltimore-born woman who purchased the artwork at a West Virginia flea market for $7.
5:30 PM EDT, August 18, 2012
Barnstorming artist takes murals to every Md. county
Drive west on Mile Lane in Allegany County, then crest the ridge in the road, and all of a sudden, the big barn on Leaning Pine Farm bursts out of the surrounding countryside like a display of fireworks.
11:15 AM EDT, August 27, 2012
Ex-Baltimorean went 'Searching for Sugar Man'
"And now you hear the music, but the words don't sound too clear …"
12:37 PM EDT, July 15, 2012
Artscape attractions include Robert Marbury, his 7-foot Yeti
When Robert Marbury was 19 years old, he necked with Ricki Lake on camera. At age 29, he spent a year sailing in Indonesia, where he says his ship was attacked by pirates.
11:32 AM EDT, July 1, 2012
With bike and GPS, Canton man makes art
Like a bee doing a waggle dance to signal a field full of pollen, or a cat rubbing up against a fence post to make a scent chart of its territory, GPS artist Michael Wallace maps out a virtual Baltimore during his bike trips around the city.
August 25, 2012
Newbery winner Laura Amy Schlitz publishes her magnum opus
The witch had been weeping in the boxwoods for more than half a century before Laura Amy Schlitz picked up her pen and set her free.
6:04 PM EDT, July 21, 2012
'History Detectives' probes origins of slide found by Severna Park woman
From her push-up bra to her square-cut bangs, the woman in the photograph is somehow both squeaky-clean and, in a sexual sense, a little bit dirty.
July 31, 2012
For 1st time in 40 years, Baltimore lacks home for global, experimental theater
Baltimore's cutting-edge theater scene just became a bit less razor-sharp.
1:58 PM EDT, June 3, 2012
Promising dancer bows out of Washington Ballet to study at Towson
Rebecca Houseknecht was destined to be a star.
5:54 PM EDT, June 15, 2012
Walters joins crowdsourcing trend with 'Public Property'
It's entirely possible that one of the august and influential guest curators for "Public Property," the summer exhibit opening Sunday at the Walters Art Museum, was none other than your plumber. Ditto for your postal carrier and your daughter's softball coach.
4:28 PM EDT, June 10, 2012
Aided by touch tour, blind patrons take in theater experience
Probing ahead of him with his cane, Roger Williamson crossed the Everyman Theatre stage, picked upa human skull that doubled as a candy dish and poked his fingers through the eye sockets. Moments later, he ran his hands over a papier-mache mask described as resembling Eleanor Roosevelt or, alternately, Helen of Troy.
June 2, 2012
Md. ballerina featured in documentary 'First Position'
At a recent screening of the ballet competion documentary "First Position," the audience gasped audibly when, about a third of the way through the movie, Rebecca Houseknecht's hometown — Odenton, Maryland — flashed across the screen.
11:33 PM EDT, July 4, 2012
Crowds flock to Harbor fireworks, area parades
Braving sweltering heat, strident warnings of roving gangs and a killjoy calendar that let the Fourth of July fall midweek, Marylanders and visitors from around the world flocked to the Inner Harbor Wednesday night to catch their share of rockets' red glare.
2:58 PM EDT, May 31, 2012
Harford County library won't stock 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and sequels
Three of the most popular books in America are being kept off the shelves of the Harford County Public Library system because administrators consider them to be pornographic.
2:12 PM EDT, May 26, 2012
Baltimore theater companies in a building boom
Vincent Lancisi stands in a pile of rubble sweating under his hard hat, while all around him — board by board, pipe by pipe and hammer blow by hammer blow — a theater is taking shape.
May 18, 2012
Preakness parties gallop across state lines
The Preakness is, let's face it, the dark horse on the nation's party planning circuit.
7:08 PM EDT, May 8, 2012
Maurice Sendak appreciation: Author left mark on Baltimore readers
Somewhere the wild things are roaring their terrible roars and gnashing their terrible teeth and rolling their terrible eyes and showing their terrible claws.
May 19, 2012
Baltimore dancer steps into role with prestigious Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre
Gifted with a mother's second sight, Catherine Johnson knew her daughter Jacqueline Green better than the child knew herself.
7:27 PM EDT, May 7, 2012
Chesapeake Shakespeare Theatre plans move to $6 million downtown space
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, best known for its summer productions outdoors on the hilltop grounds of the 19th-century Patapsco Female Institute in Ellicott City, has purchased a historic site for its second home — the 1885 Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co. building in downtown Baltimore.
1:41 PM EDT, May 8, 2012
Walters donates artwork images to Wikipedia
The Walters Art Museum is donating more than 19,000 images of artworks from its collection to the organization running Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is created and edited by users.
April 28, 2012
Cirque du Soleil's 'Immortal' tour carries on late King of Pop's spirit
Jonathan Phillip "Sugarfoot" Moffett can practically hear the King of Pop's voice in his head as he practices his drum licks for the Cirque du Soleil show based on the music of Michael Jackson.
4:08 PM EDT, April 27, 2012
New Hopkins hospital takes an artful approach to health care
When Johns Hopkins Hospital officially opens its new, $1.1 billion building Tuesday, sick children will find a cobalt cow with legs the color of grass and a butter-colored head floating above their heads, poised to jump over a fanciful "moon."
10:51 PM EDT, April 7, 2012
Woman injured in two-alarm house fire in Dundalk
At least one person was injured Saturday night when a two-alarm fire consumed four rowhouses in Dundalk.
9:55 PM EDT, April 3, 2012
Mega Millionaire 'Bunky' Bartlett says life of a lottery winner isn't easy
A Tarot card might have foretold that Ellwood "Bunky" Bartlett would win $32.6 million in the 2007 lottery.
6:32 PM EDT, April 5, 2012
Jane Meyerhoff's floral collection given to the Walters
Walters Museum: Jane Meyerhoff's floral still lifes collection will be donated to the Walters Art Museum by philanthropist Robert Meyerhoff.
May 5, 2012
With new book, Madeleine Albright sheds light on long-hidden family secrets
In 1997, Madeleine Albright couldn't have been more certain that she knew everything important about herself and was in possession of every relevant fact about her life.
2:36 PM EDT, March 30, 2012
Trayvon Martin depicted in Baltimore street art series
Oversized illustrations of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin have begun to spring up on abandoned buildings throughout Baltimore, the work of a street artist protesting the death of the 17-year-old at the hands of a neighborhood watch volunteer.
7:03 PM EDT, April 27, 2012
New Hopkins hospital takes an artful approach to health care
When Johns Hopkins Hospital officially opens its new, $1.1 billion building Tuesday, sick children will find a cobalt cow with legs the color of grass and a butter-colored head floating above their heads, poised to jump over a fanciful "moon."
11:22 AM EDT, May 8, 2012
Baltimore Sun in the news
There's a fallacy that reporters detest being in the spotlight. If that were really true, articles would be published without bylines. But print journalists have found that it's easier and more fun to ask questions than it is to answer them.
12:29 AM EDT, March 23, 2012
McDaniel College offers new minor in genre fiction
Coming unstuck in time, Pamela Regis was investigating the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. When the clocks struck 13, she dreamt she went to ... to Manderley? — no, McDaniel.
3:46 PM EDT, March 30, 2012
Center Stage's Kwame Kwei-Armah is finally putting his vision on stage
Kwame Kwei-Armah is doing his utmost to speed up the transitions.
8:42 AM EST, March 8, 2012
Making up for lost daylight saving time
Sure, the yearly switch to daylight saving time always puts some of us into a funk and a fog.
7:46 AM EST, March 1, 2012
For Gina Sager, it's mind over medicine
Not so long ago, Gina Sager set out to cure her patients by wielding a surgeon's scalpel. Today, her preferred tool is a set of two small brass bells connected by a cord — though these, too, require all the precision and delicacy she can muster.
8:08 PM EST, February 19, 2012
Gay-marriage advocates, opponents speak out in church
In the old Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church in Bolton Hill, the congregation on Sunday gave a prayer of thanks for what the Rev. Andrew Foster Connors described as "the new light of hope arising from the Maryland State House."
5:21 PM EST, February 10, 2012
New Walters exhibit explores the art of the ancient Americas
Except for the spout sticking up from its backbone, the reddish-brown clay dog bears a striking resemblance to the Chihauhau curled up in front of your fireplace.
1:47 PM EST, March 8, 2012
Tapping into Maryland's rich dance history
Who knew that Baltimore had such happy feet?
5:17 PM EST, February 19, 2012
Robert McClintock's computer-aided artwork clicks with the public
This summer, the Baltimore artist Robert McClintock can see one of his brightly colored original prints hanging in the prestigious Smithsonian Institution. He just can't get into Artscape.
6:00 PM EST, February 4, 2012
Woman killed in single-car crash in Cockeysville
A Sparks woman was killed early Saturday after her car struck a guard rail in Cockeysville.
5:26 PM EST, February 10, 2012
Apocalypse now? Blame our misreading of the Mayans
Tony Aveni blames it on the Pilgrims.
4:17 PM EST, February 10, 2012
Apocalypse now? Blame the Pilgrims, not the Mayans
Tony Aveni blames it on the Pilgrims.
9:43 PM EST, January 2, 2012
William Polk Carey, donor to Hopkins and UM, dies
Business entrepreneur and philanthropist William Polk Carey, who donated more than $100 million to Maryland schools and universities, spent most of his life outside the state, but he never stopped thinking of himself as a Baltimorean.
February 16, 2012
Review: Rep Stage's 'Yellowman' gets under your skin
The first words the audience hears in "Yellowman" are a vivid evocation of what it's like to toil in summer under the South Carolina sun.
3:35 PM EST, February 4, 2012
Pedestrian struck by car early Saturday near Towson Starbucks
A man walking near a Towson coffee shop was struck by a car early Saturday and seriously injured.
4:18 PM EST, December 15, 2011
The Walters puts its own stamp on Christmas
The Walters Art Museum has been putting its stamp on the nation for more than 77 years — but never in quite the way that it's doing this holiday season.
6:50 PM EST, January 21, 2012
Annapolis celebrates Chinese New Year
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Szpara of Parkville is convinced deep in her heart that at least a few drops of Chinese or Korean blood run through her veins.
2:51 PM EST, February 10, 2012
Reginald Lewis' daughter opens up about growing up with her famous father
When she was 12 years old, Christina Lewis Halpern was caught in the collision between great good fortune and terrible luck. And the suddenness and severity of the impact jolted her deeply, though it would take years for her to experience the full effects.
10:25 AM EST, December 10, 2011
New space, quirky ideas could turn around the Contemporary Museum
A 12-foot-long white banner with black letters has been suction-cupped to the first-floor windows of the former Craig Flinner art gallery at Charles and Centre streets. It reads:
6:41 PM EST, February 4, 2012
Residents given chance to balance Baltimore's budget
Mike McGuire, one of the organizers of the Occupy Baltimore protests, left a city-sponsored public budget workshop Saturday morning feeling about as disappointed as a grass-roots activist can feel.
3:54 PM EST, February 4, 2012
Two injured after party in Violetville
Two people went to the hospital with minor injuries early Saturday after a party in a hall used by the Violetville Volunteer Fire Department got out of hand.
5:47 PM EST, December 6, 2011
Center Stage names new managing director
Center Stage officials announced Tuesday that they have hired a new managing director with impressive credentials as a fundraiser — Stephen J. Richard, who planned and managed the recent $125 million campaign to renovate Arena Stage in Washington.
7:01 AM EST, February 10, 2012
From Sun Magazine: Friends can have benefits for marriage, Maryland researchers find
What if Ricky Ricardo didn't love Lucy?
December 31, 2011
Exhibit brings together 'Eureka' moments in science
Earle Havens can almost hear their voices.
December 30, 2011
Rethinking the Baltimore art scene for 2012
In the past 12 months, some especially high-energy creators have relocated from other metropolises and set up shop within city limits. While a scrappy inventiveness isn't new here — far from it — it could be that the city is reaching a critical mass of innovative thinkers in the arts.
5:05 PM EST, December 5, 2011
Two Marylanders receive $50,000 United States Artist awards
When Peabody Institute professor Manuel Barrueco received an email alerting him that he had been nominated for a prestigious fellowship carrying a five-figure cash prize, he assumed it was spam, perhaps a variation of the Nigerian lottery scam, and deleted it.
November 19, 2011
BMA's 'Interior Worlds' highlights Baltimore buildings
Move over, Louvre. Show some respect, Basel's Bibliothek.
5:06 PM EST, January 27, 2012
Veteran theater executive brings his expertise to Center Stage
Even in his first job, Stephen Richard showed a flair for devising unorthodox methods of helping a cash-strapped California theater festival make ends meet.
7:30 PM EDT, October 28, 2011
College students put their imprint on the BMA's latest show
When painting student Jennifer Tam studied a series of Marcel Duchamp prints of boldly colored, spinning discs, she became convinced that the enigmatic works had to be included in the big new show opening Sundayat the Baltimore Museum of Art.
9:57 AM EST, December 3, 2011
Touré on the role of race in a 'post-black' culture
A man with salt-and-pepper hair stood recently in front of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, glaring at an oversized poster promoting a reading Monday night by the cultural critic Touré from his new book, "Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?"
3:43 PM EST, November 14, 2011
Inner Harbor to host 'It's a Waterfront Life'
A new holiday light show will engulf Power Plant in a celebratory glow. There will be a lantern parade along the Inner Harbor promenade, a workshop to craft handmade ornaments followed by tree decorating, carolers, public cookie-decorating and rides for children in a trackless train.
3:42 PM EST, December 5, 2011
Hopkins renames theater in honor of John Astin
It's official: Gomez has own theater.
October 15, 2011
MICA expands palette with MBA degree
For nearly two centuries, the Maryland Institute College of Art has been known for training painters, sculptors and fashion designers.
November 12, 2011
For Baltimore set designers, no detail is too small
Set designer Daniel Ettinger and technical director Bill Jamieson spent months painstakingly constructing a world accurate down to the tiniest detail, from the wallpaper pattern to the electrical sockets.
October 8, 2011
Baltimore man goes from museum waiter to museum artist
Five years ago, Shawn Theron was waiting tables and managing the bar of the Joy America Cafe inside the American Visionary Art Museum. Today, his work is hanging on the gallery walls.
November 4, 2011
Art installation aims to add to the Bromo Seltzer Tower's gravitational pull
Starting at sunset Saturday, artist Kelley Bell will place Baltimore's venerable landmark Bromo Seltzer Tower at the exact center of the solar system.
8:43 PM EDT, September 22, 2011
Washington and Baltimore jockey for book lovers on the same weekend
Baltimore's book festival got here first.
5:32 PM EDT, September 9, 2011
Part of Broadway Market reopens in Fells Point
A spruced-up, more cheerful version of the historic Broadway Market's south shed reopened Friday morning, and customers found such new offerings as Polish dishes made from scratch and food cooked while they wait.
3:43 PM EDT, October 7, 2011
American Visionary Art Museum brings San Francisco to Baltimore
When Scott Weaver's alcoholic father walked away from his family to live on the streets, the then-9-year-old boy found solace in working on an assignment for his fourth-grade class to a create a sculpture from toothpicks.
6:52 PM EDT, September 28, 2011
Record rainfall brings a multitude of mushrooms
Baltimore is being invaded by flying saucers — in fungal form.
5:27 PM EDT, September 23, 2011
Artist Gary Kachadourian has a room with a point of view
Artist Gary Kachadourian loves homely things. He appreciates modest, utilitarian objects that don't call attention to themselves, objects that frequently are described as ugly but that are undeniably functional: Dumpsters, highway barriers, chain-link fences.
7:53 AM EDT, September 6, 2011
Two schools closed over power outages
More than a week after Hurricane Irene blew through Maryland, power has been restored to almost all public schools in Baltimore, Baltimore County and Anne Arundel County.
10:45 PM EDT, September 5, 2011
Flash flood watch in effect in Central Md.
Barely has Baltimore dried out from Hurricane Irene when the region was put on a flash flood watch through Tuesday evening.
6:48 PM EDT, September 15, 2011
After flood, Berger Cookies back in boxes, on shelves
Hurricane Irene apparently was even worse than anyone thought. Forget about downed power lines — the storm knocked out Baltimore's sweet tooth.
8:03 AM EDT, October 27, 2011
New arts group EMP Collective opens downtown venue
When seven former college friends first ventured inside the former shoe factory at 306 W. Redwood St., it was filled with junk and there were holes in the floor.
3:33 PM EDT, September 3, 2011
Blogger Rocco Palmo uncovers Vatican secrets — all from his basement in Philly
10:21 PM EDT, September 5, 2011
Md. State Fair wraps with fashion shows, birthing sows
What 11-year-old Christa Stargill wanted to do most on the last day of the 2011 Maryland State Fair wasn't to ride the giant slide or to eat an ice cream cone or even to attend an informative discussion about bedbugs.
7:02 PM EDT, October 14, 2011
Walters researchers decode the secrets of the Archimedes Palimpsest
Twelve years ago, Walters Art Museum curator Will Noel opened a parcel and discovered what he calls "Archimedes' brain in a box."
September 10, 2011
Walters exhibit examines puzzles of artist's brain after injury
Lonni Sue Johnson spends every spare moment creating word puzzles superimposed on elaborate grids. The moment she puts one down, she starts on the next. In not quite three years, she has amassed a stack of paper that is 15 feet high.
5:09 PM EDT, August 19, 2011
Now a free woman, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson heads to L.A. pursue her dream
To rebuild her life, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson had to destroy her reputation.
10:41 AM EDT, September 2, 2011
Baltimore Grand Prix viewing will be both loud and luxurious
Now that Baltimore's debut Grand Prix is just days away, the trash talk is revving up by the hour. And that's not counting the race car drivers.
2:34 PM EDT, August 24, 2011
Maryland firm chosen to plan future for historic Edgar Allan Poe House
The city Board of Estimates selected a Maryland firm Wednesday morning to come up with a plan to make Baltimore's historic Edgar Allan Poe House self-sufficient by next July.
12:28 PM EDT, August 8, 2011
Baltimore libraries will soon check out Nooks in addition to books
After Crystal Langdon checks out 22 books from her library on Reisterstown Road on Wednesday, she plans to carry them home on the Metro in her purse.
8:45 PM EDT, September 5, 2011
Remaining schools reopen
More than a week after Hurricane Irene blew through Maryland, power has been restored to all public schools in Baltimore, Baltimore County and Anne Arundel County.
12:48 PM EDT, May 19, 2011
Pirates of the Patapsco
The crew of Urban Pirates has just a few simple expectations for the would-be Baltimore buccaneers it takes aboard for its adults-only, BYOG (bring your own grog) cruises:
4:30 PM EDT, August 5, 2011
From 'Captain America' to 'Uncle Vanya,' Hugo Weaving stretches his acting chops
For actor Hugo Weaving, the distance between his farm in Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles isn't just 7,500 miles, give or take. It's the distance between his identities as a pop culture icon and as a conservatory-trained actor who revels in the classical canon.
2:12 PM EDT, April 21, 2011
'Crime and Punishment' stripped down, but not to its essence
The novel "Crime and Punishment" is a gripping, modern psychodrama, a masterpiece of tension and suspense.
10:14 PM EDT, July 13, 2011
How 'Harry Potter' changed their lives
Thirteen-year-old Alexander Williams was always so reluctant to read that his school arranged to get him special help. But he felt differently about the stories when they were told on a big screen.
8:58 PM EDT, July 30, 2011
Utility costs cripple Hippodrome
Seven years after the Hippodrome Theatre reopened with a citywide celebration and an outpouring of civic optimism, the historic venue is struggling, beset by exorbitant utility expenses and an audience that is seemingly deserting in droves.
8:08 PM EDT, August 29, 2011
After Irene, parents cope with no power and no school
Practically the second that the Towson Town Center opened at 10 a.m. Monday, Theresa Hall burst through the doors with her two children and 4-year-old nephew, in search of hot food and toilets that flushed.
5:12 PM EST, November 11, 2010
Playing the antihero
When actor Carl Schurr takes the stage tonight in Everyman Theatre's production of "All My Sons," perhaps he will dedicate his performance to Cherry Watson.
7:21 PM EDT, May 13, 2011
Charts and graphs become art at Stevenson University
Viewers see first the beast's ravenous mouth, with six fangs increasing in size and as pointed as daggers. The fiend is wearing a "Vote" button with an image of the American flag, and its tail snakes into a dollar sign.
2:26 PM EDT, July 9, 2011
A city tradition now, but Artscape wasn't always a sure thing
Kathy Hornig's "to do" list for the week includes closing down 12 of the busiest streets in Baltimore — Mount Royal Avenue, Charles Street, Cathedral Street and others — for most of a week.
January 31, 2010
Friendship on hold during 'Iron Chef' competition
It probably won't surprise Duff Goldman's many fans that a power drill will make an appearance next weekend when the master cake baker takes on Michael Symon in "Iron Chef America."
4:36 PM EDT, May 18, 2011
Pirates for Sail
Fans of the Baltimore-area band Pirates for Sail are accustomed to song titles like "Time Flyes When You're Havin' Rum."
4:49 PM EDT, April 29, 2011
Design show cures Baltimore family's backyard blues
Before "The Nate Berkus Show" arranged for a dramatic makeover, M'Salla and Felicia Wilks and their two daughters were prisoners of their own backyard.
11:50 AM EST, January 24, 2011
Liz Lerman to leave dance troupe in July
This summer, MacArthur Award-winning choreographer Liz Lerman will leave the Takoma Park, Maryland troupe she founded in 1976 to pursue solo projects in dancing and writing.
5:41 PM EDT, July 1, 2011
After more than 30 years, Leslie Shepard says goodbye to the Baltimore School for the Arts
The boy in the black leotard was throwing yet another temper tantrum.
October 9, 2010
The Senator's second take
There's a Kelly green aerial lift parked in the lobby of the Senator Theatre, and a steady sound of scraping as an art restoration expert in the auditorium carefully extracts paint samples from the proscenium arch flanking the stage.
12:00 AM EDT, September 28, 2010
Writer David Simon, creator of 'The Wire' and 'Homicide,' wins 2010 MacArthur 'genius' award
Baltimorean David Simon, whose groundbreaking television series "The Wire" examined the institutions of his hometown with a passionate and unsparing eye, today won a 2010 MacArthur "genius" award.
2:33 PM EST, January 23, 2011
Canine couture
The proprietor of Handbags in the City has a fashion sense that favors the classical, whether he's wearing a belted Burberry trench coat with a standup collar, lounging in a Mulberry cashmere sweater or modeling a jacket lined with shearling.
2:32 PM EDT, June 8, 2011
Baltimore scientists search for cause, treatment for hoarding
The table in Jack Samuels' Fells Point office is piled two feet high with books, papers, scientific journals and grant applications.
7:24 PM EDT, July 20, 2011
Triple-digit temperatures nothing new for these professionals
Tim McFadden stepped outside his glass-blowing studio to cool off. At 3 p.m., the temperature along that particular stretch of Eastern Avenue was only 96 degrees.
10:26 AM EDT, July 22, 2010
End of an era at the Senator Theatre
It really was the last picture show.
9:05 AM EDT, May 8, 2011
Incoming artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah has bold plans for Center Stage
Kwame Kwei-Armah has a way of pulling others into his gravitational field, whirling them around and then depositing them in a place at some distance from where they started out.
4:25 PM EDT, April 22, 2011
Why we're still intrigued by the duchess from Baltimore
At a time when much of the English-speaking world is fixated on the royal wedding, it's worth pointing out that if it weren't for the original Baltimore bad girl, Wallis Warfield Simpson, Friday's nuptials might not be taking place.
5:20 PM EDT, March 18, 2011
Design by the book
You have to study the piece called "Inversion" for a minute to fully appreciate the joke.
2:39 PM EST, February 11, 2011
Walters welcomes heavenly bodies
To understand the appeal of sacred relics, which have caused wars and attracted devout pilgrims for nearly a millennium, look no further than Babe Ruth's bat.
5:55 PM EDT, April 14, 2011
Zoe, one of the Maryland Zoo's three giraffes, dies
Zoe, a 16-year-old giraffe at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, died Thursday after receiving anesthesia during a medical procedure. The reticulated giraffe was a favorite of visitors who occasionally were allowed to feed her
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