Sandlot’s Fire on the Mountain isn’t the best-selling drink on the menu at the new waterfront hangout in Harbor Point. But it might be the healthiest cocktail on the list. With ingredients including turmeric, yogurt and hot peppers, the blended beverage provides a refreshing kick while incorporating...
In a frank and heartfelt speech, U2 bassist Adam Clayton thanked his bandmates of four decades for their support during his treatment and recovery for alcohol abuse years ago, and then joined them for a rollicking rendition of a few hits. "We have a pact with each other," said Clayton, 57, who...
Season 3 of “Fargo” came to a satisfying and poignant close with its finale episode, “Somebody to Love.” Justice is exacted, stories are told, death is doled and we get a frustratingly ambiguous, yet narratively inevitable ending. The episode begins with Gloria Burgle submitting her resignation...
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...