A couple of Park School grads, Christopher Keating and Anand Wilder, seem to be making good with their band, Yeasayer. They appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien last week, then headed off on a European tour.
Not that everyone's impressed.
"Just think, he could have been a lawyer and gotten his ass kicked with me in federal court," said Keating's father, Anton J.S. Keating, the twice-defeated candidate for Baltimore state's attorney.
Christopher Keating and Wilder are two members of the four-man band, which is based in Brooklyn, N.Y., and has been getting some good press lately in The New York Times, Spin and Rolling Stone.
"I actually like their stuff, too," the elder Keating said. "It's rather odd. I'm so old and I don't even know who the hell the influences are."
What kind of music do they play?
"They throw words around like 'retro.' The New York Times article said 'Afro-Celtic.' I've got a lot of black Irish in my family, but 'Afro-Celtic'?"
The Keatings are something of a show-biz family. Anton Keating's brother, Charles Keating, played the guy you loved to hate on Another World, Carl Hutchins. Their mother is an actress whose credits include Caddyshack (she played a lady who gets hit in the head with a golf ball) and Porky's (I was afraid to ask).
First the clemency, then the romance
Once Baltimore magazine's "Top Singles" issue hit the newsstands this month, friends started asking Shareese DeLeaver why she wasn't in it. She was included a few years ago, when she was spokeswoman for then-Gov. Bob Ehrlich.
"It's hardly something I want to scream from the rooftops, that I'm still single," said DeLeaver, 33.
The exposure did attract some would-be suitors, one of whom wrote DeLeaver at the State House.
"He said that he was a gentleman who had been in Hagerstown for 17 years and he was being paroled the next year," DeLeaver said. "He drew a picture of himself with a tear as well as a Tweety Bird. And he asked if I wanted to develop a relationship.
"And honestly, it was the best offer I had from the experience. The governor suggested that I hand it over to executive protection."
Mrs. Clinton, you have a lovely daughter
At the Naval Academy, Mids have decorated a bulletin board for the forthcoming "ring dance," the New York Post reports.
"They put your picture on it next to who they think would be the most hilarious person to go with [as] a date," one midshipman tells the paper.
The Mid quoted happened to be Jack McCain, son of presidential hopeful John McCain.
And the dream date Jack McCain's fellow Mids posted with him on the board? Chelsea Clinton.
Connect the dots
Steny Hoyer's office responds to a Harper's magazine piece alleging that he and other members of Congress spent lots of "leadership PAC" money on fancy hotels: "Mr. Hoyer traveled to 33 states and spent 97 days on the road during the 2006 campaign and stayed wherever it made most sense depending on the schedule, whether a Hampton Inn in Zanesville, Ohio, or The Breakers in Palm Beach," said Hoyer spokeswoman Stacey Bernards. "These trips are not leisurely weekends away, but quick visits with little to no downtime focused on helping fellow Democrats." ... A call came in to The Sun's city desk yesterday from a woman who said she needed to talk to a reporter. Which one? The one who wrote about homeless people on The Wire. She hung up before The Sun's Mike Adams could explain, IT'S JUST A TV SHOW! ... You can't blame Wire fans for being confused. Baltimore County police Sgt. Vickie Warehime is only the latest local to make a nearly true cameo. "I play a Baltimore City police officer," she told me. "I actually took a demotion temporarily." Warehime has served as county police spokeswoman and now works in community outreach. In the show, however, she gets a little more physical with the public. "I actually take down a person and arrest him," she said. "It was such a blast." The tough-cop persona was "a little bit opposite of what I do in my real job." ... Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund will speak at Baltimore's Brown Memorial Park Avenue Church on Palm Sunday. Her topic: "Children in Peril: What Does Our Faith Require of Us?" ... Gov. Martin O'Malley, House Speaker Mike Busch, U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein and Annapolis Mayor Ellen Moyer announced a plan yesterday to cut crime in Annapolis. "This program expresses our passionate intolerance for illegal drugs and the violence that accompanies them," Moyer said in a news release. Once Annapolis gets squared away, how about sharing some of that intolerance with Baltimore? ... Finally, O'Malley gets to the fun part of being governor: He presents awards this afternoon to Maryland brewers whose beer won the Governor's Cup Competition.