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Bonnie Branch Middle, Hammond Elementary top Black Saga competition
Howard County students spent part of their weekend celebrating Black History Month with a bit of friendly competition.
Students from 15 elementary and middle schools took to the stage on Saturday, Feb. 11 at Veterans Elementary School in Ellicott City to...Tags: Black History, Schools, Ellicott City, Western Africa, Abraham Lincoln
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Dumbarton students make strong showing in county middle school writing contest
Next week, Baltimore County Public Schools will honor the winners of its Middle School Writing Contest at an awards ceremony at the county library in Towson. For the sake of convenience, they might want to just have the ceremony at Dumbarton Middle...Tags: George Washington Carver, Awards and Prizes, Schools, Poetry, Ceremonies
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Catonsville student the Maryland winner in Letters About Literature contest
That the announcement scheduled for last week never came did not seem to dim Adam Antoszewski's mood on April 26. The Catonsville High School junior was upbeat and positive as he talked about his entry in the annual Letters about Literature reading...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Catonsville, Teachers, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Poe House could operate as part of the B&O Museum
A consultant charged by city officials with exploring ways of keeping Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum open and making it self-sufficient is recommending that it be operated in partnership with the nearby B&O Railroad Museum.
Under the...Tags: Museums, National Football League, Genres, Baltimore Ravens, Edgar Allan Poe
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Laura Lippman's darker side of Dickeyville
The pungent, haunting narrative of Laura Lippman's new novel, "The Most Dangerous Thing," kicks in with a group of kids arguing for dibs on a grassy kickball field near a cotton mill on "Wetheredsville Road."
The whole scene sounds like a cozy...Tags: Mystery (genre), Treme (tv program), Stephen King, Central Park, Crime (genre)
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An interview with Amandeep Sandhu
When local author Rosalia Scalia visited India, she was able to sit down with Amandeep Sandhu, author of "Sepia Leaves." She was kind enough to recount her meeting for Read Street. We'll break her missive into a parts, starting with her description of the...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Schizophrenia, Hyderabad (India), Literature, Trips and Vacations
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What critics are saying about Baltimore-made 'VEEP'
The Baltimore SunFrom a Sunday magazine cover piece to Page One stories and blogs posts, I feel like I have been writing about the new HBO satire "VEEP" for at least a year. But the series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer, a former senator who becomes vice...Tags: Tony Hale, Matt Walsh, Lisa Kudrow, Music, HBO (tv network)
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For many parents, books that can be held are still the first choice
Jo Keller relies on her Kindle when she travels so she can forgo lugging hardback books, but when it comes to her children's reading habits, she feels differently.
She has squirreled away many of the books she read as a child growing up in England and is...Tags: Literature, Books and Magazines, Apple iPad, Books, American Academy of Pediatrics
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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. Strange as it might seem, Regis' dream of jumbled-up...
Tags: Parent Organizations, Science, Mystery (genre), Science Fiction (genre), Crime (genre)
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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.
They're mourning their creator, children's book author Maurice Sendak, who stepped into his...Tags: Where the Wild Things Are (movie), The Holocaust (1934-1945), Fiction, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Radio
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Maurice Sendak dead at 83
The death of Maurice Sendak, author of "Where the Wild Things Are" and other wonderful children's books, is a great loss for children's literature. His books, which included "In the Night Kitchen," "Alligators All Around," and the Little Bear books,...
Tags: Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Radio, NPR, Stephen Colbert
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Westowne Elementary students learn black history through dance
A horde of 16 Westowne Elementary School students and two teachers stomped, clapped, shimmied and danced to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" after school Feb. 23.
The group, created by fifth-grade teacher Liz Getsinger, has spent the last month studying...Tags: Jimi Hendrix, Music, Will Smith, Music Industry, Black History
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