The ghost of an idea began materializing at a book signing last fall for “Haunted Ellicott City,” which details the history and haunting of 31 sites in and around the old mill town. The book’s author, Ellicott City resident Shelley Davies Wygant, had chatted in September with Cynthia Lynn, landlord...
More concert-goers will soon be able to experience the suite life at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia. Thirty suites are being added to the venue’s amphitheater as part of a six-year, $58 million renovation project, according to Audrey Fix Schaefer, communications director for I.M.P., the...
The tuba players sat in wooden chairs before the altar, where the trombonists, horns and trumpets jostled for space. They closed with Wagner’s “Gathering of the Armies from Lohengrin.” Performers from Washington and Pennsylvania joined brass musicians with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday...
In a surprise announcement, Wanda Q. Draper said Friday that she will retire next month as executive director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture. Draper, 67, of Pikesville, said in an interview that she’s stepping down on Feb. 12 to spend more time with...
New year, old bookstore, new (sole) owner. The Ivy Bookshop, a much-loved Baltimore institution since it was founded in 2002, announced Wednesday that it has been sold to one of its co-owners, literary insider Emma Snyder. The sale is the culmination of retirement plans that began about two years...
Donors and supporters of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra have formed a committee called “Save Our BSO” in response to management’s proposal to reduce its musical season by weeks and cut musicians’ pay. Through letters to the BSO board, the committee of about 20 members is urging management to...
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Turning Point: A Novel" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $28.99) Last week: — 2. "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens (Putnam, $27) Last Week: 2 3. "The New Iberia Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel" by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster, $27.99) Last week: — 4. "The Reckoning:...
When Dave Cullen wrote “Columbine,” his compelling account of the devastating 1999 high school shooting, he centered it on the question the entire nation was asking: Why did it happen? What led two young men to walk into their own school and murder 13 people, wound more than 20 others and then...
"Tear It Down” by Nick Petrie, Putnam, 384 pages, $26 Peter Ash, Milwaukee novelist Nick Petrie's wide-roaming, problem-solving war veteran, has been compared to Lee Child's Jack Reacher so frequently that it feels necessary to state: No, Ash is not the equal of Child's mysterious hero in terms...
Several hundred debut short story collections are published each year, and of those, many are the result of years spent in a fiction MFA program, which typically culminates in the production of a thesis collecting a student's strongest work. Recent MFA graduate Kristen Roupenian's "You Know You...
The introduction of Zachary Leader’s definitive, two-volume Saul Bellow biography poses a fundamental question, which he attributes to the novelist on his deathbed: “Was I a man or was I a jerk?” In a narrative at once pointillist in its detail and sweeping in its scope, Leader doesn’t always hew...