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'The Voice' recap: Episode 3, Gaithersburg's Erin Willet joins Team Blake
Another week of blind auditions on NBC’s “The Voice,” and another two hours to boil down into a single blog post. A nice change of pace this week for the audience: Instead of clipped montages of contestants who didn’t make the...Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Bruno Mars, The Voice (tv program), NBC (tv network), Perez Hilton
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Why Google robots r dum
I generally like Google's search engine. Its doodles, including yesterday's noting Charles Dickens' birthday, are clever. And it corrects my sometimes aberrant spelling, in the most polite way.
But Google sure can be frustrating sometimes. Like ysterday,...Tags: Super Bowl, Google Inc.
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Disgraced collector pleads guilty to stealing historical documents
Barry H. Landau, the once-esteemed collector of presidential memorabilia, admitted in federal court Tuesday that he stole thousands of documents regarded as cultural treasures from historical societies and libraries in Baltimore and up the East Coast....Tags: Andrew Johnson, Trials, George Washington, Mount Vernon, Prosecution
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Dickens featured on today's Google doodle
Today's Google doodle honors Charles Dickens on his birthday. On the letters, you can see characters such as Tiny Tim of "A Christmas Carol" (one of my favorite works, in all forms, including the movie Scrooged and the Mr. Magoo cartoon). I always...Tags: Bastille Day, John James Audubon, Google Inc.
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West Friendship: WF Elementary decks the halls with sing-a-long Dec. 23
Deck the halls with boughs of holly. That's the resounding chorus which will be heard throughout West Friendship when the students and staff of West Friendship Elementary top off the holiday season with an all school sing-a-long Friday, Dec. 23 at 2:45 p....Tags: Holidays, Santa Claus (fictional character), Ellicott City, New Year's Day, LEGO Group
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BSO to premiere concert version of 'Christmas Carol'
Composer Bob Christianson is nothing if not versatile.
He wrote a lot of pulsating music that accompanied episodes about several, um, energetic women in New York on the HBO series "Sex and the City." He has provided themes for Travel Channel's "Mysteries...Tags: HBO (tv network), A Christmas Story (movie), Fiction, ESPN (tv network), Music Industry
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Former county historian turns to city's past in book of historical photos
Long before Towson resident John McGrain became the historian for Baltimore County, he began taking photographs of Baltimore City.
He took his first photo 65 years ago, said McGrain, who was the unofficial county historian for years before he became the...Tags: Baltimore County, Washington Monument, Charles Street, Towson, Chesapeake Bay
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'Christmas Carol' classic brought to life by Pasadena Theatre Company
It's time to kindle our Christmas spirits by catching a performance of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" — a classic that first appeared in 1843 and is now a perennial theater favorite each holiday season. Pasadena Theatre Company is renewing...Tags: Christmas Music (genre), Celebrities, Holidays, Literature, Entertainment Events
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Baltimore County schools spent $5 million on textbooks, curriculum despite warnings
Baltimore County school leaders disregarded advice from state officials and forged ahead to overhaul the teaching of English, spending more than $5 million over the past few years to buy textbooks that mostly sit unused and to rewrite a curriculum that...
Tags: Book, Baltimore County, Joe A. Hairston, Vaccines, Food and Drug Administration
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In Holton case, court sets an impossible standard on bribery
When one of Charles Dickens' characters said, "The law is an ass," he could easily have been referring to the recent Maryland Court of Appeals decision that makes it practically impossible for the state to prosecute legislators for taking bribes —...Tags: Ulysses Currie, Justice System, Prosecution, Judges, Lawyers
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Centerstage gets a fresh start with a topical lineup
The big news in Baltimore theater this season is the arrival of British-born Kwame Kwei-Armah, who is taking the helm as the new artistic director of Centerstage (700 N. Calvert St., 410-332-0033). Kwei-Armah, who replaces Irene Lewis, has said he's...Tags: Hippodrome Theatre, Carrie Fisher, Broadway Theater, John F. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Obama caved on air quality standards
I couldn't agree more with Rena Steinzor's commentary on air pollution ("Breathing uneasily," Sept. 8). President Obama's decision to reject his own Environmental Protection Agency's recommendation to strengthen air quality standards for ozone is a bad...Tags: Barack Obama, Diseases and Illnesses, Environmental Pollution, Asthma, Human Body
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