There’s a darkness spreading over Washington these days, and it might be time for everyone in the news media who cares about democracy to confront it – even if it causes some pain. Donald Trump’s White House and the Republican-controlled Congress are taking our government behind closed doors in...
HBO released a new trailer for "Game of Thrones" Season 7 on Wednesday. In the trailer, Lord Baelish appears to give Sansa advice, telling her, "Fight every battle, everywhere, always in your mind." We also get more brief glimpses of Daenerys' return to Westeros, specifically to the island fortress...
'House of Cards' actor Michael Kelly threw out the first pitch at the Orioles vs. Indians game at Camden Yards. Kelly plays the character Doug Stamper in Netflix's 'House of Cards.' (Kevin Richardson / Baltimore Sun video)
Infinity Theatre in Annapolis is opening its season with an engaging musical tribute in Dean Regan's "A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline." It was two seasons ago that Infinity presented, with great success, "Always … Patsy Cline," in which a fan tells Patsy's story. "Closer Walk" is more concert than...
Every couple of months, the art in Peggy Leary’s dental office in Bel Air rotates and a new exhibit adorns the walls. She never knows what to expect when the new art comes in, but it’s one of her favorite days in the office. “We always run out to see the new art and it’s always a nice surprise,”...
Kwame Kwei-Armah, the adventurous artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage since 2011, will step down when his contract expires next summer, seven years after he started the job. “It was not an easy decision to make,” Kwei-Armah said. “I absolutely love Baltimore Center Stage and I absolutely...
When was the last time a talk by a writer sold out weeks in advance? It happened when blogger and bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton appeared last year at Woods Memorial Church in Severna Park, that's when. Now, she's back June 30 to talk about her new book "Love Warrior" at Maryland Hall...
Of course it’s not good. “Good” would only get in the way. The new "Transformers" movie sits right on the beam, qualitatively, with the previous three sequels (the first one was a mite less … I don't know, something). So be warned or be encouraged, depending on your allegiance to the earlier movies....
“The Exception” is a handsomely mounted World War II-era romantic thriller, enlivened by vibrant performances and vivid sexual encounters and inspired by a little-known footnote to history, the story of a ruler who left but never went away. That would be Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, engagingly...
Only one bank faced criminal charges in the aftermath of 2008’s global financial meltdown, and it wasn’t one you might expect. If behemoths like Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley were judged too big to fail, then tiny community-oriented Abacus Federal Savings in New York’s Chinatown — only the 2,651st...
Rapper Tupac Shakur was a revolutionary; a controversial, brilliant artist cut down in his prime who grew even more iconic after his death. The son of a Black Panther, a high school chum of Jada Pinkett Smith and a vanguard of West Coast gangsta rap, Shakur endured, and produced. far more in his...