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Michelle Obama tackles America's inner brat
First lady Michelle Obama has shown us all how to deal with the nastiness that has infected American politics: do not indulge it. At a fundraiser in a private Washington residence last Tuesday night, a gay rights activist standing only a few steps...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Radio, Television Industry
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Relay for life, western Howard edition, brings in $40,000 on way to $84,000 goal [West Friendship]
Area walkers are ready to move all night during the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life of western Howard County starting at 6:30 p.m. June 7 at the western regional park on Carrs Mill Road in Woodbine. Pledges already total nearly $40,000 and...Tags: Ellicott City, Health Organizations, Ken Ulman, Entertainment Events, Relay for Life
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Maryland roots in new 'Ali' opera
In his typical rhyming style, Muhammad Ali might call it something like "a whopper of an opera." The legendary boxer, who floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee, has inspired "Approaching Ali," a chamber opera with music by Carroll County...
Tags: Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Colleges and Universities, Morgan State University, Music Industry, Culture
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Kwame Kwei-Armah keeps his vow to bring Center Stage national exposure
Kwame Kwei-Armah is turning up the floodlights on Center Stage. It's been not quite two years since the British-born playwright became artistic director of Maryland's largest regional theater. With his production of two button-pushing dramas nicknamed...
Tags: PBS (tv network), Bruce Norris, The Boston Globe, Sociology, Colleges and Universities
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Congress, the tea party and the IRS: Sentence first, then the trial
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama fired the head of the Internal Revenue Service, the first sacrificial lamb brought down after the alleged "targeting" of conservative political groups by the IRS. Mr. Obama declared, "Americans are right to be angry...
Tags: Karl Rove, Media Industry, John Boehner, Taxation, Barack Obama
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Center Stage premieres 'Beneatha's Place,' Kwei-Armah's answer to 'Clybourne Park'
The multifaceted issue of race continues to cling to this country. Every sign of progress in relations seems to come with an opposite move, so that it often seems as if little has ever really, fundamentally changed since the age of Jim Crow, or even...
Tags: Tony Awards, Entertainment Events, Clybourne Park (play), Teachers, Awards and Prizes
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Winner of $61k Kerr literary prize announced
As the five young writers sat with bated breath, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda told them that a life of wordsmithing would bring them pain. One of them would soon win the nation's most lucrative literary award, the...
Tags: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Colleges and Universities, The Washington Post, Journalism, Chestertown
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Breathless over Benghazi: Republicans can't help overplaying their hand
Republicans could make an easy hit on the Obama administration by highlighting the State Department's apparent bureaucratic blundering during and after the deadly terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last fall, but they refuse to...
Tags: Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama, Glenn Beck, Steve King, Hillary Clinton
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, O'Malley make Carnegie Hall appearance
The Baltimore SunNEW YORK -- Carnegie Hall put out the purple Monday night to welcome the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for the opening of Spring For Music, a week-long festival showcasing American orchestras playing adventurous programs. Ravens-colored cloths adorned...Tags: Government, Music Industry, Culture, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall
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Obama's red line on Syria gets squiggly
The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Barack Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...
Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Barack Obama, Bashar Assad, Biological and Chemical Weapons, George W. Bush
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Author Jeff Shaara speaks at Jarrettsville library
The Harford County Public Library Foundation hosted a crowd of nearly 200 guests on Friday, April 19 for its annual A Night Out @ the Library fundraiser. Attendees enjoyed lite fare, cocktails and the opportunity to hear and meet renowned military history...Tags: Entertainment Events, PNC Financial Services Group Incorporated, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), The New York Times, Aberdeen Proving Ground
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Author to Speak at HCC
The Hays-Heighe House at Harford Community College will welcome Dr. Alan Taylor on April 8 as part of the College's commemoration of the Bicentennial of the War of 1812. Taylor will offer a public lecture at the Chesapeake Center at 10 a.m. His talk,...Tags: Entertainment Events, Colleges and Universities, Harford Community College, Maryland Historical Trust, Slavery
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