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• Opinion

When cheap laughs cost too much

Some people unfortunately think that the best way to respond to the intolerance of Muslim fanatics is to insult all Muslims.

• Baltimore City Paper

The Mail 4/29/14

• Opinion

Sobering view of binge drinking

Latest study reinforces the alarming binge drinking trend and the cost associated with it — in dollars and lives

• Baltimore City Paper

The Mail 4/22/15

• Entertainment

Sun cartoonist KAL is a Pulitzer finalist

Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) is one of two finalists for 2015 Pulitzer in editorial cartooning category.

• Baltimore City Paper

An 11-year-old superfan interviews comedian Brian Regan about eating doughnuts, working on movies, and more

• Laurel Leader

Students blend science, art at Montpelier exhibit

Historic site displays works by Chesapeake Math and IT Academy students

• Opinion

Rude and crude French cartoonists died for our freedom

Without the freedom to offend -- even in the most outrageous way -- freedom is circumscribed and tepid.

• Opinion

Silencing the satirists

The attack on a newspaper office in Paris by Islamic extremists was an attack on freedom of expression everywhere

• Baltimore City Paper

Neil Grauer, a veteran writer and cartoonist who created Johns Hopkins' blue jay

• Maryland

Carroll's Yesteryears: Political cartoons stir debate throughout history

• Baltimore City Paper

The Mail 8/27/14

• Howard County

For teen actors, Astin remains the father of comedy for 'The Addams Family'

Fifty years after "The Addams Family" debuted on TV in black and white, John Astin still has that wild gleam in his eye and the same marvelous voice with its mischievous undertones.

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore Sun Pops Zippy the Pinhead

• Opinion

KAL channels Thomas Nast [Letter]

KAL channels Thomas Nast

• Obituaries

Lewis C. Strudwick, law partner

Lewis C. Strudwick, a former partner in the Baltimore law firm of Ober/Kaler who had a penchant for drawing whimsical cartoons and a taste for culinary oddities, died Jan. 22 of complications from Parkinson's disease at Heron Point retirement community in Chestertown. He was 82.

• Baltimore City Paper

KAL has been drawing-and occasionally influencing-history for 35 years

• Arts and Culture

Top Picks for Baltimore Book festival

The Baltimore Book Festival kicks off today with three full days of readings, music and more. Here are my top picks.

• Opinion

KAL cartoon is biased against Israel

KAL cartoon is biased!

• Media Industry

Bitstrips comics explode onto Facebook

Facebook may have a lot of uses for social networking, but most people probably wouldn't guess that it could be a valuable creative muse, too. But a new comic-making application called Bitstrips is popping up on more and more people's Facebook updates. And after just a few months, Bitstrips has turned into something that everyone seems to be talking about.

• Opinion

Restore The Sun's arts-sports balance

Bring back The Sun's arts coverage

• Baltimore County

Cartoonist KAL comes to Pikesville Library for book signing [Reisterstown]

KAL comes to Pikesville Library for program and book ssigning, Paul Umansky and philanthropist Haron 'Hal' Dahan pass away

• Obituaries

Mary J. Corey, first woman to lead Sun newsroom, dies of cancer

Mary J. Corey, whose personal warmth was matched by a drive that led her to become the first woman in The Baltimore Sun's 176-year history to head its newsroom, died Tuesday of breast cancer.

• Maryland

Arts Scene

• Maryland

Arts Scene

• Baltimore City

Cartoon packaging may hold synthetic high, real danger

Despite a federal ban on synthetic drugs, fake marijuana is easy to obtain at gas stations and convenience stores in the Baltimore area, experts say. The drugs — which are often packaged to appeal to young people — can be more dangerous than actual marijuana.

• Maryland

New Titles

• Maryland

Comic Club helps hospital

• Baltimore City Paper

The essayist and cartoonist talks about ice picks, losing friends, and the hilarious drunken brother who actually draws his cartoons

• Opinion

Despite what the president says, small businesses aren't doing 'just fine'

Despite what President Obama says, small businesses aren't doing 'just fine'

• Opinion

KAL cartoon got the causes of the economic meltdown all wrong

KAL cartoon got the causes of the economic meltdown all wrong

• Harford

The Aegis receives Newspaper of the Year honor

Members of the news, editorial, sports, photography and web design staffs of The Aegis, The Record and APG News received 37 awards in the 2011 Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association's Editorial Contest. In addition to individual and team awards, The Aegis was named Newspaper of the Year among the association's non-daily newspapers with a circulation of more than 20,000.

• Colleges and Universities

Panos' career in print and practice honored by press association

Lou Panos, 86, who was inducted last week into the Maryland/Delaware/DC Press Association's Hall of Fame, cranked out articles, editorials and columns for the Associated Press for 20 years and later for the Baltimore Sun and the Patuxent Publishing Company newspapers, including the Towson Times.

• Newspapers

Howard County Times honored by press association

Howard County Times honored by MDDC Press Association

• Education

No excuses

It was that sage of Springfield Bart Simpson, a notoriously bad example for school children everywhere, who spoke the words that seem to have become an unofficial motto of Harford County Public Schools: The only bad excuse is no excuse.

• Sports

Former Oriole Luke Scott still not afraid to speak his mind

Though he never had the chance to wear the cartoon bird on his cap day-in and day out, former Orioles outfielder and current Tampa Bay Ray Luke Scott is doing his best to, well, remain a cartoon character with his new ballclub -- and he¿s still endearing himself to Orioles fans while doing it.

• Opinion

Women find 'Doonesbury' strip on abortion right on the mark

Women think 'Doonesbury' strip on abortion was right on the mark

• Entertainment

John Astin is still everyone's favorite Gomez Addams

While other version continue to take center stage, the original, John Astin is still known for being a little kooky, mysterious and spooky.

• Opinion

Cartoonist attacks Gingrich while press coddles Obama

Garry Trudeau attacks Newt Gingrich in Doonesbury while President Obama gets a free pass from the media

• Baltimore City Paper

A compendium of '60s comics finally emerges more than 30 years late

• Baseball

Oriole bird's father was a Sun cartoonist

News reports last week about the return of the Oriole bird to players' caps failed to mention that its creator was Sun cartoonist James Adams Hartzell, who first introduced the original bird in 1954.

• Obituaries

James Hall Bready

James Hall Bready, the venerable Evening Sun editorial writer who originated "Books and Authors," a Sunday Sun column that was published in The Sunday Sun and The Baltimore Sun for decades, died Saturday of renal failure at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was 92.

• Baltimore City Paper

Comics exhibit at McDaniels College highlights a colorful slice of American history

• Food & Drink

Hey Blockheads! McDaniel College serves brunch with the Sunday comics

Hey Blockheads! McDaniel College will serve brunch with the Sunday Comics

• Television

Best week ever: Baltimore events, music, movies and more

Baltimore events: Lewis Black, Double Dagger, Ravens and more

• Entertainment

Hays-Heighe House in Bel Air hosts 'Herblock' exhibit

The Hays-Heighe House on the campus of Harford Community College is hosting a traveling exhibit featuring the cartoons and commentary of legendary Washington Post editorial cartoonist Herbert Block, who was known as "Herblock."

• Opinion

Want to avoid grocery store tantrums? Don't let your kids watch TV

Children make fewer unhealthy food choices when the influence of television advertising is diminished

• Health

Combating the 'nag factor'

A Hopkins study examines how kids persuade their parents to make unhealthy choices while grocery shopping

• Opinion

Clean up your @&%$)# comic strip

'Pearls Before Swine' comic strip gets sloppy with its piggish swearing

• Anne Arundel

Cartoonist inspires kids to take artistic look at current events

Anne Arundel: Cartoonist Inspires Anne Arundel Youngsters