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Viva House soup kitchen has provided 45 years of service
In a quiet block in Southwest Baltimore, a warm wind blows plastic bags along a sidewalk. Boarded-up rowhomes line the streets. A pile of mattresses rests on a trash heap in someone's former backyard. A lonely placard reads, "Stop shooting – start...
Tags: Sandwiches, Cocaine, Charity, Theft, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Stealing from yourself
The Baltimore SunYesterday, writing at Poynter.org, Roy Peter Clark suggested that our current attitudes about plagiarism have conflated relatively minor or innocuous literary borrowings with serious thefts. One of the points he identified was the clamor about self-...Tags: Theft, Book
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In a word: omnibibulous
The Baltimore SunA bonus word of the week for you, at the urging of colleagues: OMNIBIBULOUS This worthy word has not found its way into the Oxford English Dictionary. It was coined by H.L. Mencken, an inveterate foe of Prohibition and a stout defender of his Twenty-... -
Brother Patrick Ellis, college president
Brother Patrick Ellis, a member of the Christian Brothers who served as president of La Salle University and Catholic University of America, died Feb. 21 of leukemia at a Christian Brothers nursing home in Lincroft, N.J.
The Baltimore native was 84....Tags: Roman Catholicism, Harry James, Leukemia, Colleges and Universities, University of Pennsylvania
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Poetic passions, tragic partings among Baltimore's greatest romances
Baltimore has witnessed love and loss. From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...
Tags: United Kingdom, Bolton Hill, Hospitals and Clinics, Schizophrenia, Edgar Allan Poe
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Helmet-less cyclists come up lame
I am a cyclist who has done big miles for a long span of years. I am also one who was hit from behind by a car in 2005, an accident which both projected me 85 feet into the air and required more than a year of recovery. I was lucky to survive and would...
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What does Morgan have to do with the College Park murder-suicide?
I grew up in Baltimore reading The Sun, The Evening Sun and The News American initially for comics then on to sports and finally the actual "news." I remember my English teacher at City College, Mr. Rosskopf, teaching us about H.L. Mencken and the...
Tags: Morgan State University, Colleges and Universities, Afghanistan
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Baltimore love stories for book lovers -- Mencken, Poe and Fitzgerald
With Valentine's Day approaching, it's a good time to review some of the literary love stories that have been set in Baltimore. In an article in the latest issue of the Sun magazine, reporter Jill Rosen highlights the relationships of H.L. Mencken,...
Tags: Schizophrenia, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Tuberculosis
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The persistence of ignorance
The Baltimore SunA couple of years ago at Slate, Farhad Manjoo posted a little rant about people who insist on typing two spaces after a period, even though in our age of computerized proportional type it is not only unnecessary but contraindicated. The article proved... -
In books, Baltimore beats Denver
As the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos get ready for their big playoff game Saturday, there are plenty of opinions about how the teams and cities compare. But in one competition -- based on books -- Baltimore wins hands down. The East Coast city had...
Tags: Zora Neale Hurston, Dashiell Hammett, Baltimore Book Festival, Edgar Allan Poe, Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Whom to blame
The Baltimore SunEarlier today I posted about a passage in The Independent of Britain about the late William Rees-Mogg: Fraser Nelson, the editor of The Spectator, yesterday recalled the advice Lord Rees-Mogg gave him in 2001: "He said he took inspiration from Ben...Tags: Ben Jonson, Ben Johnson
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Some dare call it unreason
The Baltimore SunWhen I was in high school, the drama group traveled to Louisville to see a series of plays (my first experience of Sheridan's Rivals!). As we walked to the theater, a gentleman was handing out some kind of document. It was typed, single-spaced, with no...Tags: Drama (genre), Barack Obama, Adam Lanza, Christianity
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