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Late last month, Tom Cruise heroically came to Sara Lindsey's rescue. More recently, Matt Damon offered the Howard County native a boatload of money to allow his corporation to lease her land. Granted, these events happen in the movies and not in real life, but it's all pretty exciting just the same.

Pumpkin Theatre, the children's theater in Stevenson founded in 1967 by Sister Kathleen Marie Engers, of the Notre Dame of Maryland University, will celebrate its 45th year with a 'birthday' party in Stevenson.

The Golden Globe nominees have a heavy literary bent this year, with a large number of adaptations featured in the key categories.

Overall, the Golden Globe nominations proved kind to made-in-Baltimore productions.

When Henry Bromell won the Writers' Guild Award this year for scripting The Good Soldier episode of Homeland, he thanked Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana.

HdG welcomes Christmas with parade Friday

More cake for HdG birthday celebrants

It¿s not often that a sequel is better than the original, especially when the original is as dazzling as BBC America¿s miniseries ¿The Hour¿ was last year.But that¿s the case with the intoxicating mix of lust, longing, superb acting and a little bit of 1950s Brit journalism that debuts Wednesday night at 9 on BBC America.

Thanksgiving is over, now Christmas is coming to HdG

J. Ernest Green's masterful conducting of the Annapolis Chorale, Chamber Orchestra and soloists in two performances of Richard Einhorn's "Voices of Light," set to Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc," brought a unique experience to near-capacity audiences last weekend at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts.

Colonial Players' second offering of its 64th season is Sharr White's 2009 award-winning play "Sunlight." This enduring all-volunteer company's bold choice of a topical drama examining recent controversial issues is laudable, although its timing, when many people are experiencing presidential election overload, seems awkward.

Program devoted to Maryland films and filmmakers ceasing production after 15 years

Up until the ninth inning, it was a great game, and TBS provided coverage worthy of it.

Orioles manager Buck Showalter spoke to the media before tonight American League Division Series Game 1 at Camden Yards, the first postseason game in Baltimore since 1997.

On Thursday, Netflix announced a Feb. 1 release date for the Baltimore-made 'House of Cards' political drama. All 13 episodes of first season will be available on that date to subscribers.

The addition of a second wild card team has spawned so many different playoff scenarios during the final week of the season that it¿s still impossible to predict what might happen with just one regularly scheduled day left in the regular season.

What happens on Showtime at 10 p.m. Sunday isn't just a case of art imitating life or scenes ripped from headlines. This is the return of a series that surgically drills into the same current of national anxiety as that generated by such real-life events as the Sept. 11 attack this year in Libya.

Chris Cleave's third novel, "Gold" examines the rivalry between two elite female cyclists

It was a huge night at the 2012 Emmys for those with a Maryland connection. From actresses to designers, Marylanders made quite a showing.

Mitt Romney has failed so far to capitalize on discontent with the direction of the country; the debates may offer him the last good chance he has to win this election.

The biggest winner Sunday at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards had to be Showtime's "Homeland," which took the top three drama awards in an upset over such favorites as "Mad Men" and "Downton Abbey." But, Baltimore-based productions and stars had a very big night, too.

If there is one television sportscaster to whom the adjective ¿legendary¿ can honestly be applied it is Al Michaels, play-by-play announcer of NBC¿s ¿Sunday Night Football.¿

The evolving friendship between two women seems like something that could be handled through straightforward storytelling, but Diana Son's "Stop Kiss" has numerous short scenes that constantly jump around in time. Although the Fells Point Corner Theatre production of this Asian-American playwright's drama is never confusing, its scrambled chronology seems needlessly fussy.

Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, the executive producers of "Homicide: Life on the Street," return to prime time Aug. 19 on BBC with "Copper," starring Tom Weston-Jones.

With its production of "Xanadu," Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre takes a film flop and makes it a stage success.

Gilman grad Brian Sher now moves in world of 'Entourage,' Michael Vick, Kelsey Grammer and T.I.

"House of Cards," a Netflix political drama starring Kevin Spacey, returns to Mount Vernon to finish filming scenes postponed by severe wind and rain last month.

The Farm Fair, which is celebrating its 25 anniversary, begins Thursday morning at the Harford County Equestrian Center in Bel Air and ends early Sunday evening.

It's late July and it's hot and in Harford County that can mean only one thing: Farm Fair Week is coming soon. The 25th Harford County Farm Fair runs next Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 26-29, at the Harford County Equestrian Center on Tollgate Road.

The 25th Harford County Farm Fair runs next Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 26-29, at the Harford County Equestrian Center on Tollgate Road.

This season combines old contestants with the show's hyper fans. If the fans are nuts enough, which we suppose they have to be, this is going to be epic.

HBO's Baltimore productions "VEEP" and "Game Change" got solid Emmy notice with the comedy earning a best actress nomination for Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the made-for-TV movie about the 2008 presidential election picking up best actor and actress nominations for Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson.

See Jane reach. See Jane reach for power and be denied. It might not yet be a full-blown theme, but that story line has made for one of TV¿s more culturally intriguing narratives of this presidential election year.

DirecTV debuts a six-part mini-series about a transgendered contract killer played by Chloe Sevigny ("Big Love," "Boys Don't Cry").

"NY Med," which is set at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, is visual anthropology at its best with the ABC News cameras taking viewers deep inside a culture of competition, compassion and cutting-edge medicine.

And so we bid farewell to this season, much like we did the '80s, by merely saying "it's been real." (Well, sort of.)

Original Netflix series 'House of Cards' an economic stimulus for Harford and Baltimore

Foster the People lead singer Mark Foster talks about writing a ubiquitous pop hit.

Baltimoreans and Marylanders have become simply blase about actors, film crews and their inevitable caravans of trucks and portable dressing room being in their midst.

With "VEEP and "Game Change" produced here, I have been writing about Baltimore standing in for Washington a lot lately.But Wednesday afternoon, the TV sleight of hand hit a little too close to home when the Calvert Street entrance to the Sun said in big bold letters "The Washington Herald."

CNN has been under big-time pressure to do something about its ratings, and the news of this hire is that it is moves CNN off the news model it has been following for decades. It also cedes journalistic control as the the show being produced outside CNN.

A new production of Charles Dickens' masterpiece of tragicomedy, "David Copperfield," will be presented at Harford Christian School on Friday, May 18, 7:30 p.m. An encore Dessert Theater presentation of the drama is set for the next day, Saturday, May 19, at 6 p.m

Robert Andino and the Orioles are not stopping to look back at last year's walk-off win over the Red Sox in the regular-season finale. As the team faces Boston for the first time since Andino's big hit, it says its focus is on 2012.

If you love movies, you'll feel like a kid set loose in a candy store when the 14th annual Maryland Film Festival screens 40 feature films and 50 short films May 3-6 on all five screens at the Charles Theatre and also on the single screen at the Maryland Institute College of Art's Brown Center.

Manchester Valley High School drama department will debut its production of Rogers and Hammerstein's classic tale, "Once Upon A Mattress," on Thursday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium at the school, 3300 Maple Grove Road, Manchester.

Lineup includes four plays in new venue