bram stoker
- A Dumbarton Middle School eighth-grade language arts class is halfway to its goal of raising $6,200 for the nonprofit Malala Fund, which runs girls education programs around the world.
- Seven new members will be inducted into the Edgewood High School Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 5 during the school’s homecoming.
- A review of Laurel Mill Playhouse' s production of "Laughing Stock."
- Halloween in early 19th century America was a night for pranks, tricks, illusions, and anarchy. Jack o' lanterns dangled from sticks, and teens jumped out from behind walls to terrorize smaller kids. Like the pumpkin patches kids love today, it was good fun — until it wasn't.
- In 1793, The Louvre began admitting the public, even though the French museum had been officially open since August.
- Black sparkles flicker across a white expanse before white scratches and gradient fog interrupt gray monochromes in Joachim Koester's three-minute, 16mm film projection "Message from Andrée," an art film at the service of evoking sublimity, failure, invention, dissolution, and questions of veracity that is screening at the Baltimore Museum of Art's Black Box through March 6.
- This oddball video is a promo for a 2009 Dutch production of Heinrich Marschner's 1828 opera 'Der Vampyr.'
- "Dracula" seems right at home among the ruins of the Patapsco Female Institute high above Ellicott City. Thanks to the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's outdoor staging, the vampire has taken up residence at this wooded site. It makes for the perfect Halloween date.
- Patapsco Female Institute ruins provide a suitable setting for venerable stage thriller
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- Halloween revelry at Westminster Hall and Burial Grounds raise money to keep the Poe House open
- The Enoch Pratt Free Library is launching two pilot programs aimed at putting into customers' hands not just virtual titles, but the electronic devices with which to read them.