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Everyman announces first full season at new home
It might be hard to duplicate the anticipation and publicity that greeted the inaugural season in Everyman Theatre's inviting new home on West Fayette Street, but that hasn't stopped the company from trying. "I want next season to be even more...
Tags: Red (movie, 2010) , Tom Courtenay, Entertainment Events, Charles Street, Awards and Prizes
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Center Stage gives Baltimore premiere of 'Clybourne Park'
In Act 1 of “Clybourne Park,” the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play by Bruce Norris receiving a potent Baltimore premiere at Center Stage, civility breaks down as white and black characters in a modest Chicago house start talking...
Tags: Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park (play), Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Tony Awards
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Leadership vacuum, not locusts, is Egypt's greatest plague
A plague of locusts swept through Egypt a few weeks ago, an estimated 30 million of the critters. Egyptian officials tried to downplay the phenomenon, hoping to quash any biblical analogies. They noted that locust swarms show up in the spring every...
Tags: Cairo (Egypt), Moody's Corporation, Shootings, The New York Times, Egypt
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Kim Jong Un tries out for a 'Dr. Strangelove' sequel
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un seems like a fictional character out of a satirical doomsday movie -- maybe a sequel to "Dr. Strangelove." That fact that this immature brat and his gaggle of grim, aging generals actually rule a country and have the...
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Pulitzer Prize winners include 'The Orphan Master's Son'
The 2013 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and among the winners is "Devil in the Grove," a non-fiction account of Baltimore native Thurgood Marshall's fearless work for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in a Florida case. As we all know, Marshall went...
Tags: NAACP, Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, U.S. Supreme Court
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Will Obama's brain initiative unlock the mysteries of the Republican mind?
President Barack Obama wants to invest an initial $110 billion in a study of the human brain that could have benefits as great as those achieved by the Human Genome Project. Maybe the first study should be done on the one-track minds of tea party...
Tags: Tourette Syndrome, David Horsey, Sarah Palin, Alzheimer's Disease, Barack Obama
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BSO performs program of powerhouse Rouse, Wagner
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra didn’t think small when deciding to acknowledge the 2013 bicentennial of the birth of revolutionary composer, revolting human being Richard Wagner. Three separate programs were plugged into the season, starting...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Music Industry, Culture, Music
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Roger Ebert's books are his legacy
Rogert Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic who died today, leaves behind a rich legacy, thanks to a shelf-full of books that explore movies -- and his own life. His memoir, "Life Itself," dealt with his battle with alcoholism and the later,...
Tags: Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Events, The Godfather (movie), Casablanca (movie), Gene Siskel
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Bad luck for Mitch McConnell: Ashley Judd bows out
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be facing a challenge from actress Ashley Judd when he runs for re-election next year. Though he may be happy to have avoided the physical comparison -- she, after all, played Marilyn Monroe in a movie,...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Alec Baldwin, Tea Party Movement, Bill Clinton, George Clooney
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NBC cans Leno again -- do they really mean it this time?
Jay Leno had to know the head honchos at NBC were gunning for him when he told the following joke last Monday night: "You know the whole legend of St. Patrick, right?" he asked the audience in his opening monologue. "St. Patrick drove all the snakes out...
Tags: Saint Patrick, Jay Leno, Awards and Prizes, Television, Johnny Carson
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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: War of 1812, Maryland Historical Trust, Entertainment Events, Annapolis, Harford Community College
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Lineup announced for 2013-14 Baltimore Speakers Series
Humorist Dave Barry, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are among those taking part in the 2013-2014 Baltimore Speakers Series. The seven-speaker series, sponsored by Stevenson University, kicks off Sept. 30 with author...
Tags: Jon Huntsman, Jr., Bill Bryson, Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs, Dave Barry
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