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    Mar 29, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Aren't the Supremes ready for their close-up?

    Unless you waited in line for five days to get one of the coveted audience seats at the Supreme Court, you probably experienced this week's oral arguments on same-sex marriage as something of a Ken Burns film.
    Unless you waited in line for five days to get one of the coveted audience seats at the Supreme Court, you probably experienced this week's oral arguments on same-sex marriage as something of a Ken Burns film. Websites and TV broadcasters played audio of...

    Tags: 60 Minutes (tv program), Antonin Scalia, The Supremes (music group), John Roberts, Gays and Lesbians

    2. Jun 27, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. Thief of historic documents sentenced to prison

    Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including one in Baltimore, where the scheme unraveled last summer.
    Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including one in Baltimore, where the scheme...

    Tags: Prosecution, The Washington Post, Al Pacino, Academy Awards, Barbara Bush

    3. Nov 22, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for the history buff

    It's a great time to be a history buff, with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War upon us. And there are plenty of other ways to delight history lovers with unique gifts.
    It's a great time to be a history buff, with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War upon us. And there are plenty of other ways to delight history lovers with unique gifts. 1. Tour the United States Naval Academy through black and white photography,...

    Tags: History (tv network), Documentary (genre), Broward Health Medical Center, Annapolis, Washington, DC

    4. Aug 15, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. Reefer madness: Reform our crazy marijuana laws

    The militarization of the Mexican border is a new phenomenon for two nations whose militaries have traditionally been made to stay out of politics. There are constant expansions of our prisons, and further explosions of the drug-related caseloads of our state and federal courts. No one can think that our illicit drug industry survives without complicity in the Border Patrol, Drug Enforcement Agency, Coast Guard and local sheriffs' offices. It is not for nothing that J. Edgar Hoover demanded that a separate agency be set up for drug enforcement because of its potentially corrupting effects.
    The militarization of the Mexican border is a new phenomenon for two nations whose militaries have traditionally been made to stay out of politics. There are constant expansions of our prisons, and further explosions of the drug-related caseloads of our...

    Tags: Hamilton, Government, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Maryland, Prisons

    5. Sep 30, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. Howard County in the dry years

    When Ken Burns’s new documentary “Prohibition” debuts on public television next week, Americans will revisit an era in this country when the people participated in an unusual moral experiment. From 1920 through 1933, citizens were forbidden to manufacture, sell or transport intoxicating alcohol, except for religious and medicinal purposes. We were dry, as the saying goes -- but not all of us. Read on for a glimpse of how the 18th Amendment affected Howard County and what happened when it was finally repealed.
    When Ken Burns’s new documentary “Prohibition” debuts on public television next week, Americans will revisit an era in this country when the people participated in an unusual moral experiment. From 1920 through 1933, citizens were...

    Tags: Documentary (genre), Woodrow Wilson, Annapolis, Bars and Clubs, Ellicott City

    6. Sep 30, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  6. Crazy for vintage: Old styles have new appeal at Ellicott City shop

    When Maryland Public Television called Cindi Ryland last May to request models to attend a reception for its major donors, the owner of Retropolitan vintage clothing store took the request in stride. After all, she’s had them before. What took her breath away was that the evening’s special guests were to be award-winning film producer Ken Burns and his co-producer Lynn Novick stopping in Baltimore to preview their new documentary “Prohibition,” which will air Oct. 2-4 on public television.
    When Maryland Public Television called Cindi Ryland last May to request models to attend a reception for its major donors, the owner of Retropolitan vintage clothing store took the request in stride. After all, she’s had them before. What took her...

    Tags: Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Documentary (genre), HBO (tv network), Ellicott City, Dining and Drinking

    7. Oct 5, 2011 |Story| Patuxent Homestead

  7. Recalling when 'The Drys' put Wimert in the political drink

    A newspaper article from Oct. 13, 1922, tells the tale of federal prohibition agents raiding the farm of a well-known Carroll County political leader. The agents were most likely from the Federal Bureau of Prohibition. That group was formed in 1920 as...

    Tags: Documentary (genre), Carroll County (Maryland), History, Democratic Party, Primaries

    8. Oct 9, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Drug legalization: Wrong lesson of Prohibition

    Prohibition — America's notoriously "failed social experiment" to rid the country of alcohol — took center stage this past week as PBS broadcast Ken Burns' highly acclaimed series on the subject. And already, it has been seized on by drug-legalization advocates who say it proves that drug prohibition should be abandoned.
    Prohibition — America's notoriously "failed social experiment" to rid the country of alcohol — took center stage this past week as PBS broadcast Ken Burns' highly acclaimed series on the subject. And already, it has been seized on by drug-...

    Tags: Los Angeles Times, University of Pennsylvania, Barack Obama, Substance Abuse, Cirrhosis

    9. Oct 10, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. Cheerleading for the status quo in the drug war

    The legacy of Prohibition, if Ken Burns is to be believed, is a system of organized crime not only empowered by that ill-fated law but so greatly enriched as to have become "too big to fail." Kevin Sabet rightly, though grudgingly, concludes that America'...

    Tags: Organized Crime

    10. Oct 11, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. PBS puts spotlight on War of 1812 on the eve of its bicentennial

    While the War of 1812 might be known as "America's Forgotten War" elsewhere, that's definitely not the case in Baltimore and Maryland. Our obsession with all things 1812 is one of the regional characteristics so pronounced that it is lampooned in "The Second City Does Baltimore" satire now running at <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/performing-arts/touring-shows/centerstage-baltimore-theater">Center Stage</a>.
    While the War of 1812 might be known as "America's Forgotten War" elsewhere, that's definitely not the case in Baltimore and Maryland. Our obsession with all things 1812 is one of the regional characteristics so pronounced that it is lampooned in "The...

    Tags: Documentary (genre), Heroism, Native Americans, Minority Groups, Arts

    11. Nov 21, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  11. A musical take on the war between the states

    Tidewater Players opens a musical production Dec. 2 that sees the War Between the States through the eyes of Union and Confederate soldiers who fought, slaves whose freedom was at stake, loved ones left behind and a nurse who cared for the wounded.
    Tidewater Players opens a musical production Dec. 2 that sees the War Between the States through the eyes of Union and Confederate soldiers who fought, slaves whose freedom was at stake, loved ones left behind and a nurse who cared for the wounded. "The...

    Tags: Documentary (genre), Entertainment Events, Music, Wars and Interventions, Slavery

    12. Feb 13, 2003 |Column| Baltimoresun.com

  12. Checking out iLife

    For the past couple of years, one of the best reasons for an average consumer to buy an Apple Macintosh over a Windows PC has been the included set of multimedia software -- iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto and iDVD. On Jan. 31, Apple Computer Inc. released...

    Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Music, Consumer Electronics Industry, Movies

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