Mirage Cruz windmilled his arms Sunday in a gold Rico Cavalli costume as he danced his way through a crowd of rainbow-clad families in Druid Hill Park to the driving bassline of Todrick Hall’s “Glitter.” Baltimore’s King of Pride 2005 wears a new outfit to the festival each year, and he decided...
Carli Lloyd has said all along she was good enough to start, and that the only thing preventing her from yet more World Cup heroics was coach Jill Ellis. When Ellis gave the Rutgers alum her lineup shot on Sunday in Paris, Lloyd proved the point. The 36-year-old veteran scored two goals in the...
Maryland State Police say they arrested a police impersonator attempting to conduct a traffic stop on Interstate 695 on Saturday night. Police identified the accused in a news release Sunday as Timothy Ervin Trivett, 54, of Yorktown, Va. Trivett was arrested at the scene without incident and charged...
Mirror shards covered the edges of the picture frame. Brush in hand, the Rev. Dr. Alveda King dabbed the edges with black paint, nodding in approval at the work of a child sitting across the table. “This is so therapeutic, I could do this all day,” said King, the niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...
Under manager Brandon Hyde, the major league representative of a franchise focused on the future, the Orioles have had one true mandate this season: compete for nine innings and make the plays you're supposed to make. And if that happens, they can live with whatever results come. After a pair of...
Demolition seems to be Larry Hogan’s top priority when it comes to Baltimore; he gets a real kick out of it, too. The Maryland governor put on a hard hat the other day and got behind the controls of a CASE excavator to knock down an abandoned rowhouse. Not that there’s anything wrong with that....
In the interest of setting straight the record of Nancy Pelosi’s time in Baltimore, allow me to provide a brief follow-up to Sunday’s column about her family portrait and that white dress she wore for it. The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives grew up in a Baltimore political family....
So, last Thursday morning I’m driving back into Baltimore on O’Donnell Street, having just attended the annual business showcase of the Dundalk Chamber of Commerce at the Best Western Plus. I’m westbound on O’Donnell. I pass Ponca Street, then Newkirk. I look to the left and suddenly I have a Shocking...
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The chief executive of Boeing said the company made a "mistake" in handling a problematic cockpit warning system in its 737 Max jets before two crashes of the top-selling plane killed 346 people, and he promised transparency as the U.S. aircraft maker tries to get the grounded model back in flight.
Maryland and the federal government will recoup millions of dollars spent on the disastrous rollout of the state’s health insurance exchange created under the Affordable Care Act under a settlement with IBM, which supplied the technology. Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh and the U.S. Attorney...
Greenspring Realty Partners, a real estate and investment firm, and the Berg Corp., a demolition company, have acquired a 12-acre marine terminal that they say can be repurposed to support operations at the neighboring state-owned Seagirt Marine Terminal. The property at 4601 Newgate Ave. in Southeast...
With some expert advice from Pless Jones of P&J Contracting, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan manned a 21-ton hydraulic excavator Thursday and smashed a gaping hole in the side of a dilapidated, vacant rowhome in East Baltimore. “I was taking out some of my frustrations,” the Republican governor said...
The Baltimore Museum of Art has so far this year added more than 70 contemporary and historic artworks to its broad collection. BMA director Christopher Bedford said in a Thursday statement that the new acquisitions highlight the curatorial team's vision in forging connections "across artists and...
Until the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra canceled its summer season, few people outside the nonprofit’s administrative offices realized just how precarious its financial situation was. But when President and CEO Peter Kjome referred to a promised $3.2 million in state funds as “a lifeline,” he wasn’t...
Writer and Baltimore native Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover are set to testify before a House panel about reparations for slavery, a topic that has not had a hearing since 2007, on Wednesday. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in a statement...
What do unicorns taste like? Sour, fruity and full of glitter, apparently. A Fruity Pebbles sour ale with edible glitter, “Sour Me Unicorn Farts,” has hit Annapolis. The sparkly beer is in liquor stores for a limited run during June for Pride Month and will be tapped in Annapolis bars on June 29...
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Laura Embrey enjoyed something of a family reunion in Philadelphia last week, involving her brother and her son, the spirit of her father and a 990-foot steamship that was once the pride of the Atlantic but has been out of service for half-a-century. The 54-year-old Baltimore native, now living...
When Mimi Demissew joined the then-named GLCCB in 2017 and saw a fractured organization with lagging attendance at its marquee Baltimore Pride Festival and a lack of ethnic and gender diversity, she knew that increasing representation was key. Two years later, the organization has a surplus, more...
You might have noticed that I include my email address at the end of every column. I want people to get in touch if they feel so moved, to share their feelings or their own parenting stories or give me helpful advice. Most of the time, that’s what I get — lovely, heartfelt notes from all over the...
Four top executives at the University of Maryland Medical System have resigned amid investigations into accusations of self-dealing among the hospital network’s board members, the system announced Thursday. Those resigning are Megan Arthur, the system’s primary lawyer; Jerry Wollman, the chief...
The University of Maryland Medical System, under fire for lucrative no-bid contracts with some of its board members, is earning above-average profits even as it seeks state approval to charge some patients more, according to an analysis by The Baltimore Sun. The system’s profitability raises questions...
Emails between top executives and board members at the University of Maryland Medical System show a concerted effort in recent months to avoid sharing unscripted information about the lucrative business deals the system had with some of those board members. The emails, obtained by The Baltimore...