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Why is The Sun so negative about the Grand Prix?
Why is it that The Baltimore Sun is so negative about the Baltimore Grand Prix ("Worse and worse," May 9)? Why is it that The Sun's sports pages rarely include any articles about IndyCar races leading up to the Baltimore Grand Prix? Why would they want to...Tags: Labor Day, Ellicott City, Media Industry, Open-Wheel Racing, Auto Racing
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Downtown is a nightmare after dark
The under-reporting of disturbances and violent crime at the Inner Harbor is legendary ("TheSt. Patrick's Day brawl," May 16). I have been living downtown in the Central Business District for the past six years at one of the nightly hot spots —...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Inner Harbor, Dining and Drinking, Downtown (Baltimore, Maryland), Witnesses
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Baltimore Sun in the news
There's a fallacy that reporters detest being in the spotlight. If that were really true, articles would be published without bylines. But print journalists have found that it's easier and more fun to ask questions than it is to answer them. Nonetheless,...
Tags: Gene Kelly, Trials, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Clarence Darrow, Nation of Islam
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Columnist: Why is Baltimore always portrayed as a hellhole?
The Baltimore SunJoe Queenan is nobody's Mr. Nice Guy. But the deliciously cutting columnist has a soft side for, of all things, Baltimore. In fact in the Wall Street Journal, Queenan rides like a white knight to the city's defense after what he sees as slight after...Tags: Twelve Monkeys (movie), National Aquarium Baltimore, The Raven (movie), Maryland Zoo Baltimore, Fort McHenry
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David Simon's "Homicide" cop battling life on the streets once again
March 11, 2012
Seven-baker-twenty-four unit turns at Mosher and rumbles past that stretch of Appleton Street where Gene Cassidy took two in the head for the company, the first one stealing his eyesight, the second lodging in his brain beyond the skill of...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Injuries and Wounds, Charity, Theft, Hepatitis C
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Finding shards of light 'In Darkness'
Agnieszka Holland's Holocaust movies, like "Angry Harvest" and "Europa Europa," are a world away from concentration camp tear-jerkers like Robert Benigni's Oscar-winning smash "Life Is Beautiful."
Holland's films are uninhibited and sexual, gutsy and...Tags: Movies, Warsaw (Poland), Massacres, In Darkness (movie), Europe
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'House of Cards' brings Hollywood to Harford County
Being on TV is nothing new for Baltimore. Think of the recent political dramas like "Game Change" and "VEEP" or earlier crime shows like "Homicide" and"The Wire."
But what's going on within a five-acre area of production offices and massive warehouses...Tags: George Clooney, Sociology, Harford County, Kevin Spacey, Credit and Debt
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Simon returns to The Sun with look at officer wounded in battle
David Simon has returned to the pages of his old newspaper with a compelling look back at a Baltimore police officer wounded in the drug war, and now in need of help himself. The blind Gene Cassidy, shot twice in the head in 1987, still works at the...Tags: David Simon, Amtrak
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Like/dislike: Brad Dunnells, the Donegal X-Press
St. Patrick's Day is obviously a big thing for Irish bands. That's why Annapolis-based folk-punkers Donegal X-Press have played every Baltimore St. Patrick's Parade Day since 1998.
"I love seeing old friends come out to Mick O'Shea's after the parade and...Tags: Music, Super Bowl, Apple iPod, Chrysler Group LLC, Facebook
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Acting hopefuls flood Stevenson for 'House of Cards' casting call
Talitha Simeona-Stewart flicked her pen across a student's paper as she stood in the line of people in dark suits. She didn't look it, but the eighth-grade English teacher from Millersville was nervous because she had never even tried out for a play,...
Tags: David Fincher, Harford County, Kevin Spacey, House of Cards (tv program), Celebrities
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Who wins 'The Wire' vs 'The Sopranos'?
The Baltimore SunIn a battle of the television behemoths, it came down to Baltimore versus New Jersey. Or was it street thugs versus the mafia? Maybe was just Omar against Tony. In any event, the website Vulture.com has had some fun recently, March Madness style,...Tags: The West Wing (tv program), The Sopranos (tv program), Drama (genre), Television, New York City Police Department
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Howard hopes to use suburban advantages to draw tourists
Howard County doesn't have the sailing tradition of Annapolis, the boardwalk of Ocean City or the storied battlefields of Gettysburg. But it does have a prime spot between two big cities, a historic downtown, miles of mountain biking trails and plenty...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, William Donald Schaefer, Patapsco, Tennis, Howard County
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