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One of the first things that needed changing was the hard floor - Ballet Theatre of Maryland artistic director Dianna Cuatto opened the ambitious 31st season for the state's premier professional ballet company with a proven winner, "Beauty and the Beast."
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- Art serves a useful purpose in two ceramics exhibits at the Columbia Art Center. Indeed, you could serve a meal with the assorted platters, mugs, teapots and other functional objects on display. And there are elegant vases just waiting to be filled with flowers and placed on your dinner table.
- On paper, there are a number of reasons why Alicia Graf Mack shouldn't be a successful dancer
- Sculptor and craftsman David Knopp of Towson, who creates unique furniture out of plywood, currently has an exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum. In 1012, he won the Mary Sawyer Baker Artist Award and one of his desks was even used in the television series "Veep" during filming in Maryland.
- Hickey joined the festival staff in the fall 2002 as the part-time Deputy Director responsible for administrative operations and visual arts programming. Hickey will oversee the programming of the 2014 season and the start of the festival's new strategic plan.
- Exhibit at BMA features An-My Le's photos of post-war Vietnam, Marines training for Iraq war, and American military around the world; and Gerard Byrne's droll take on the Loch Ness Monster.
- An opening reception for Susan Amons will run from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 27 at the mansion, 502 W. Gordon St. At 1:30 p.m., Amons will give an informal talk on her printmaking process and her inspirations
- Geraldine G. M. Dell, an artist who was active in various cultural and educational institutions, died Oct. 9 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 65.
- It was several years ago when I made a trip to Las Vegas and in a minute, came across a saying that is nothing but true.
- Sue Jacobs, who has lived in Harford County, with her husband Gus for 42 years, and is the race director for the Women's 5K By The Bay (W5KBTB), has received a proclamation certificate from the Harford County Council, for fund-raising for Harford County charitable organizations
- In a small town in Indiana, a tiny high-school struggles to hold together a basketball team, buildings stand boarded up and one shop owner, when asked to describe the town, called it "closed."
- Creators of temporary gallery hope to foster area's arts reputation
- Strobist.com, which teaches photographers how to get quality results with small flashes called strobes, currently pulls in three million page views and 250,000 unique visitors a month. Every day, 3,000 people embark on Hobby's free Lighting 101 online course. Those numbers led Time magazine to name the site one of its top 25 blogs in 2010.
- Historians and architects have a $5 million plan to repair the pillar that was closed to the public three years ago for safety reasons. They expect it to reopen for tours — and a panoramic view of the city from 178 feet above Charles Street — for its bicentennial on Independence Day, 2015. By January, scaffolding will begin to enclose the monument for repairs from decades of water damage to the marble, stones and bricks..
- Should Maryland rename Cole Field House the Driesell-Cole Field House, after its former coach?
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- The restoration of the J.C. Davis, an 1875 B & O steam engine that was damaged when the 2003 President's Day blizzard swept into Maryland and caused the roof of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum to collapse, is well on its way to being restored.
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- Robert Lamont Tate, who founded two industrial manufacturing businesses and was a former president of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce, died of heart disease Oct. 5 at his Sarasota, Fla., home. The former Ruxton resident was 89.
- Washington Performing Arts Society presents pianist Jeremy Denk in absorbing account of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' at the Kennedy Center.
- Tonight (Friday) by the VFW Ladies Auxiliary 8126, 5 to 7:30 p.m. Dinner includes pork roast, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, peas, applesauce, roll and dessert ($10). The VFW Lodge is at 300 North Lodge Lane, 410-939-4578
- Smith, 55, has lived in the city with his girlfriend, Patricia X, since 2006. A native of Carroll County and 30-year resident of Baltimore city, Smith is a photographer by trade and said he has photographed over 1,000 celebrities including 25 Nobel Peace Prize winners.
- As a young girl, Jean Brinton Jaecks would sit around her family's dinner table in Severn and listen to her parents talk about nature, light and color.
- The focus of Baltimore's African-American history museum leaves much to be desired and may explain its difficulties.
- "We Will Rock You," a Queen-filled musical that has been a hit in London for 11 years, opens a U.S./Canada tour in Baltimore with helping hand from original band member Brian May.
- Harford Community College's Harford Dance Theatre will present its annual Halloween treat, 'Harriet's Happiest Halloween,' in the college's Chesapeake Theater on Oct. 17 at 7 p.m., Oct. 18 at 5:30 and 8 p.m., Oct. 19 and 20 at 1 and 4 p.m. The show is recommended for ages 5 to 12.
- "Girls Night Out: An Evening with Jada Pinkett Smith" is scheduled for 6 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Baltimore School for the Arts, 712 Cathedral St.
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- A Baltimore County English teacher the state superintendent said "personifies the cutting edge Maryland educator," was named Maryland's 2013- 2014 Teacher of the Year, state education officials announced Friday.
- J. George Kropp, a retired educator whose career at Calvert Hall College High School teaching social studies spanned more than 50 years, died Sunday of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 76.
- Gilliard joins the cast of "The Walking Dead" and just moved back home to Baltimore
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