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Michel Modell wants name removed from Baltimore’s Lyric, severing family’s relationship with theater
The Modells want their name off the city’s Lyric, marking a potential bitter breakup for the Mount Royal Avenue performing arts center and the family that brought the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.
- A zoning hearing Tuesday afternoon will determine whether the Arch Social Club can proceed with plans to erect a marquee on the facade of the historic 109-year-old building it owns at North and Pennsylvania avenues.
- Mezcal Inc., a Baltimore-area restaurant owner, has paid nearly half a million dollars in back wages and damages to 62 workers after federal officials say he bilked employees through a phony tip pool.
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- The man running the show behind Baltimore County’s vaccine clinics has spent decades training and coordinating emergency preparedness at the state and local levels — and yet he credits much of his skill to his years as a road tech for Twisted Sister.
- Andra Day won a Golden Globe on Sunday night for best actress in a drama motion picture for her role as Billie Holiday in a newly released movie about the jazz legend raised in Baltimore.
- A year after being shut down by COVID-19, The Ottobar gingerly reopens.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Baltimore-born essayist and novelist who expanded the world of Wakanda for Marvel comics, will write the script for a new “Superman” film from Warner Bros.
- In the frustrating movie “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” Andra Day gives it her all as Holiday but she can’t save a film that is overstuffed and also thin.
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- Leslie Starr, a musician and avid birder, has died at 70.
- Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson criticized the Howard County teachers union during his program Wednesday night.
- The change will affect about 50 staffers at the Baltimore Museum of Art and 31 full-time employees at the Walters Art Museum.
- They couldn’t silence Billie Holiday’s voice, a voice that took her from an Upper Fells Point alley to New York City concert halls and into the annals of history as a performer and civil rights icon.
- Wordsmith, a Baltimore-based songwriter and performer, wrote an essay for Black History Month telling Black people to raise youth to tell the truth and be a voice for reconciliation.
- The path that would eventually take Brown to Broadway and acclaim, began at the old Frederick Douglass High School on Dolphin Street, where she was a student of the legendary music teacher W. Llewellyn Wilson, who also had instructed Cab Calloway.
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- The man running the show behind Baltimore County’s vaccine clinics has spent decades training and coordinating emergency preparedness at the state and local levels — and yet he credits much of his skill to his years as a road tech for Twisted Sister.
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Michel Modell wants name removed from Baltimore’s Lyric, severing family’s relationship with theater
The Modells want their name off the city’s Lyric, marking a potential bitter breakup for the Mount Royal Avenue performing arts center and the family that brought the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.
- Mezcal Inc., a Baltimore-area restaurant owner, has paid nearly half a million dollars in back wages and damages to 62 workers after federal officials say he bilked employees through a phony tip pool.
- Don't let media determine your personal process of reflection as we reach the one-year mark of life under COVID. This is too profound and existential a moment for that.
- The Black Lives Matter Interfaith Coalition, a group of 33 churches, synagogues and social justice groups, lead a 100-car caravan through Baltimore in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black lives.
- Andra Day won a Golden Globe on Sunday night for best actress in a drama motion picture for her role as Billie Holiday in a newly released movie about the jazz legend raised in Baltimore.
