- Arnold C. Rifkin, a Korean War veteran and pioneering WJZ-TV engineer who late in life had a second career as a chef, died May 4 of complications from dementia May 4 at his Pikesville home. He was 93.
- There were vintage cars, movie trailers, excited neighbors, fans of Natalie Portman and tons of hot dogs for the cast and crew as filming began this week for the TV adaptation of a local author's novel set in 1960s Baltimore.
- Longtime Baltimore television personality James Uhrin, known to Fox 45 viewers as āTraffic Jam Jimmy,ā has died, the station confirmed Saturday night. He was 65.
- Wendy Rieger, a longtime local television news anchor in Washington, D.C., has died. She was 65.
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- Early Grammy winners Sunday include Chris Stapleton, Jon Batiste and Foo Fighters, who swept the rock categories.
- "CODA" star Troy Kotsur made history at the Oscars as the first deaf man to win an Academy Award for acting.
- For 30 seconds, the Oscars went silent for Ukraine. A tribute that started with words from the Ukrainian-born Mila Kunis ended with the Academy Awards fading to black about midway through Sundayās show from Los Angeles
- Singer Traci Braxton, who was featured with her family in the reality television series āBraxton Family Values,ā died at age 50 on Saturday.
- Sinclair Broadcast Group is selling its Ring of Honor wrestling promotion to sports executive Tony Khan, founder of Jacksonville-based All Elite Wrestling.
- Kristin Donegan will compete on the 2022 "Jeopardy! National College Championship," which begins this week. Her fraternal twin, Ciara, will compete on the syndicated "Jeopardy!" show in March.
- After three years without a host, the Oscars are making up for lost time with three hosts for this yearās awards: Regina Hall, Wanda Sykes and Towson alumna Amy Schumer are set to host the 94th Academy Awards, producer Will Packer said Tuesday.
- Before the kickoff of the highly anticipated home opener, the Ravens played a song that Omar Little from āThe Wireā used to whistle, paying tribute to the late Michael K. Williams.
- As Omar Little, actor Michael K. Williams patrolled the streets of Baltimore with a shotgun and a terrifying swagger. But in real life, friends say the man they called āMikeā cared deeply for the city and the people in it.
- Actor Michael K. Williams, who as the rogue robber of drug dealers Omar Little on āThe Wireā created one of the most popular characters in television in recent decades, died Monday.
- Tucker Carlson's celebration of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor OrbƔn might not be so alarming if American democracy was not at such a precarious point.
- Mike Flanagan, a 2002 graduate of Towson University and renowned director in the horror genre, is at it again, this time with a new Netflix TV series.
- While the term talking heads is often used with some derision, I think this is where the real power and credibility of some of the best documentaries resides. And this HBO production on the life of Barack Obama is no exception.
- Instead of an agent of intimidation, Rep. Jim Jordan is becoming an object of media ridicule.
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- As powerful as the opening day testimony was, don't expect the hearings on the Jan. 6th storming of the Capitol to change anything in Washington. It's a media thing.
- It is now clear that Dr. Walensky and the White House clearly oversold what vaccinated people could safely do.
- Veteran journalist and educator Jacqueline Jones is named dean of Morgan State University's School of Global Journalism and Communication.
- Gbenga Akinnagbe, 42, who played the murderous Chris Partlow in the HBO show, claims Lola Adesioye, 38, who writes for The Guardian and other publications, touched and grabbed his rear end in May and June 2020, according to a criminal complaint.
- āAudibleā starts out looking like it is going to be a sports film about the football team at the Maryland School for the Deaf. But it turns out to be so much more.
- After 50 years in television news, WBAL anchorman Stan Stovall says he will retire in 2022.
- The solutions to our problems are not going to be found in suborbital space or in blindly celebrating rich guys like Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos.