The temperature dropped to 18 degrees with a wind-chill factor of 8 midway through the fourth quarter of Sunday night’s AFC championship game in Arrowhead Stadium, where a red-clad, goose-down, wool-cap-covered crowd of 77,034 was chilled to the bone. The New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs...
As a freshman at Mount Saint Joseph, Darryl Morsell was indoctrinated early on to the role of defensive stopper. At practice every day, Morsell had to guard three older teammates headed to play major college basketball. The three — Phil Booth Jr., Jaylen Adams and Kam Williams — were all seniors...
Frances R. Mears, a former Baltimore-based Associated Press bureau chief whose journalism career spanned more than 40 years, died Saturday. She was 66. Mears had been ill with cancer, said her husband, Walter R. Mears, the Pulitzer Prize-winning political writer and retired AP vice president. After...
It all began in 2002, back when the Rams were in St. Louis and the Patriots were a plucky underdog standing in the way of a potential dynasty. So much has changed. This hasn't: Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. The duo, every bit as formidable now as when they won that first title, face the Rams, now...
We live in a world dominated by narrative — events stitched together in story form. Narratives can be especially useful in placing those events in a context that helps us to better understand their meaning and significance in our lives. A primary way in which narratives achieve this benefit is...
One of my childhood memories is of the red truck belonging to my grandfather, a farmer. Clearly stenciled on its side were the words: “Jack Agress & Sons.” Even though one son, my dad, taught school, and the other son, my uncle, sold cars, that was the way things were during the first half of the...
Whenever I present to a roomful of parents, I ask about hopes and fears for their child’s sexual development. Almost universally, parents are scared of unwanted pregnancy, STDs or assault. And most hope that their kids grow up to have good, loving relationships in which they are treated well. Sex...
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McCormick & Co. is changing its format for predicting flavor trends, announcing this week that it’s discontinuing its annual Flavor Forecast report in favor of an online series of podcasts and videos to be updated quarterly. The Hunt Valley spice maker has been publishing a report on flavor trends...
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan released his first budget of his second term Friday — a $46.6 billion proposal that would boost money for public education and give raises to all state employees. Here are five takeaways from the spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1: Democrats generally...
Saying it’s facing increasing competition, Weis Markets launched an aggressive price-cutting initiative and lowered prices on more than 7,000 products in every department. The Mid-Atlantic grocer, which operates 203 stores in Maryland and six other states, said its new “Low, Low Price” program...
A former Baltimore public works IT staffer who was found to have hacking tools on his city-issued computer and backdoor access to the department director's computer said Friday he had lost his new job working for the Baltimore County Public School system. Tirell Clifton was the target of an Baltimore...
Go ahead and cancel your bus tickets to New York. Two of the most acclaimed musicals of the past few years will anchor the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center’s 2019-2020 season, the venue’s president announced Thursday. “The Band’s Visit,” which in 2018 became one of just four musicals to capture...
What retirement? Ed Asner, who originated the character of Lou Grant in the beloved 1970s-era newspaper drama bearing his name and before that, in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” — Ed Asner, who so memorably portrayed Santa Claus in the 2003 film “Elf” and whose voice starred in the 2009 Pixar animated...
Baltimore officials approved using $1.25 million Wednesday to help turn a dilapidated former movie theater on Pulaski Highway into a hub for the city’s immigrant community, a project its backers say will help revitalize a neighborhood that is increasingly attracting Latino families priced out of...
QueShawn Latimer, a Treasury Department employee from Millersville who is battling breast cancer, received a $5,000 grant from nationally syndicated talk show “The Real.” Latimer, who is affected by the federal government shutdown, is a mother of three children whose oldest son is deployed in the...
It was a hot summer day in May 1827, and Johann Maelzel’s robot exhibition was not going well. Crowds had gathered inside Baltimore’s Fountain Inn on Light Street to see the star of the show, a European chess-playing robot (or “automaton,” in the language of the era) that had impressed the likes...
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Put your best guess in the “answer” field and hit “submit.” Or comment on Instagram: @retrobaltimore. If you’d like to be recognized for a correct...
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians’ four-month contract extension expired late Tuesday. On the surface, nothing much has changed. The players aren’t on strike and management hasn’t locked them out. The concerts scheduled for this weekend will be performed as planned in Baltimore and Bethesda,...
As kids, Isaac Carr and Israel Thomas grew up playing the same video game: Super Smash Bros. Melee on the Nintendo GameCube. To win, a player must knock his or her opponent off a virtual stage using kicks, jabs, jumps and other moves that the gamers dictate with nothing but their fingers. On a...
The Maryland General Assembly is back in full swing in Annapolis, and so are the lobbyists looking to educate lawmakers about their issues over lunch, dinner and, perhaps, wine. The Department of Legislative Services compiles a weekly “protocol calendar” of social events that lobbyists host for...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered each year in January for giving his life while leading the charge to attain full civil rights for black Americans. But it’s also important to remember how King was perceived by the very power structure he hoped to reform — as a national security threat...
The Maryland Park Service is eliminating several dozen park-unique social media accounts, consolidating its messaging on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram into single accounts, much to the chagrin of parkgoers who like and want park-specific information. Word of the consolidation came on Twitter...