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Restaurant Review: Waterfront Kitchen delivers a ravishing new dining space
The Waterfront Kitchen, a lovely and rewarding new Fells Point restaurant, is a model of sophisticated understatement. A straightforward and compact "spirited American dining" menu is being executed with quiet precision by chef de cuisine Levi Briggs...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Tomatoes, Fells Point, Shrimp, Foods and Beverages
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Dr. Edwin H. T. Besson
Dr. Edwin H. T. Besson, a retired pediatrician who was the former chairman of the St. Agnes Hospital pediatric department, died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, Dec. 4 at his Ellicott City home. He was 85.
In a memoir, he...Tags: Worcester County, Colleges and Universities, France, International Travel, Ellicott City
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Waterfront Kitchen opens Friday: A peek at the menu
The Baltimore SunWaterfront Kitchen opens on Friday, Oct. 28, in the Living Classroom's Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Museum in Fells Point. The new restaurant, which seats 75 inside and 100 outside on a waterside promenade, is owned by Charles Nabit and Michael Klein....Tags: Dining and Drinking, Entertainment Events, Fells Point, Foods and Beverages, Steaks
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5 places to go stand-up paddleboarding in Maryland
Ocean City Located near the Fager's Island pier (Route 90 bridge and 60th Street on the bay side), sunset rides accompanied to 1812 Overture as well as daytime yoga classes. Operated out of Fager's Island Bar and Grille. Solomons Island A flat water...Tags: Rivers, Bodies of Water, Maryland, Chesapeake Bay, Deep Creek
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Authorities in the Carolinas readying to gauge damage
Hurricane Irene fell short of the doomsday predictions of record-breaking storm surges in North Carolina and Virginia. But a slow-crawling storm that spread out hundreds of miles was still hurling heavy rain and high winds at a wide swath of the East...Tags: Weather Reports, Tropical Weather, Beverly Perdue, Metal and Mineral, Natural Disasters
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Immigrants: Make them swim with the ponies, too
We are indebted to Dan Rodricks's litany of arduous prerequisites demanded of children of illegal immigrants before they can qualify for in-state college tuition rates ("Immigrants: We detest them — and need them," June 30). The requirements...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Armed Forces, Migration, Immigration, Illegal Immigrants
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On eve of pony swim, some horse sense for Assateague visitors
The Baltimore SunTomorrow is the annual summertime pony swim across the Assateague channel. The wild ponies that inhabit the Chincoteague, Va., portion of the Assateague Island National Seashore will be rounded up sometime around "slack tide" and herded across the water...Tags: Maryland, Auction Service
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Chincoteague annual pony swim and auction is Wednesday
The pony swim is a summertime tradition that's not to be missed.
The wild ponies at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Assateague Island — the Virginia portion of it — are rounded up for a swim across the channel to Chincoteague...Tags: Natural Resources, Wildlife, Festive Events, Auction Service
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Chincoteague pony crossing goes swimmingly
About 130 wild ponies were herded across a strait between Assateague and Chincoteague islands Wednesday during the 86th July crossing, said a spokeswoman for the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, which runs the event.
More than 40,000 people watched...Tags: Companies and Corporations
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History Matters: Visiting, dancing and great pitching
100 Years Ago Visiting, dancing, and great pitching From the Lisbon social column: "Miss Louise Fisher has returned to Baltimore after spending sometime with her mother, Mrs. Ella A. Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton White have returned to Philadelphia...Tags: Lisbon (Portugal), Mount Airy, Maryland, Dance, History (tv network)
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WWII shipwrecks could threaten U.S. coast
On the evening of Feb. 2, 1942, an unarmed tanker with 66,000 barrels of crude oil on board was steaming in the Atlantic, about 90 miles off Ocean City. Without warning, it was struck by German torpedoes. The attack set the W.L. Steed ablaze, and sank it;...Tags: Seafood and Fishing Industry, Natural Resources, Diesel Fuel, Petroleum Industry, Tourism and Leisure
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Escape plan: Love by the glass
They say wine gets better with age, and although Virginia Wine Week is only two years old, it is an event worth waiting for.
The event continues throughout this week and weekend, and celebrates "Love by the Glass," a statewide promotion that features...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Alcoholic Beverages, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Festive Events
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