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Ron Anahaw, a senior at the George Washington Carver High School, has won a national Portfolio Gold medal in the 2015 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the nation's longest running scholarship program for creative teens. - Towson native Peter Mark Kendall has landed a dream role-- a grad school classmate of Lena Dunham's character Hannah Horvath on the HBO series "Girls."
- If you're a fan of awards shows, drinking isn't required to get through the three-hour self-celebration that is the Emmy Awards. But it sure makes it more fun.
- Ricky Van Veen, a Timonium native who founded collegehumor.com, is engaged to "Girls" actress Allison Williams.
- There's a scene in the first episode of the new web series "BFA" that quickly tells you this isn't another navel-gazer about life as a 20-something in New York or Los Angeles.
- Wednesday night, the channel introduces another new series starring a Baltimore area college grad, and it looks like Comedy Central has another winner.
- "Looking" opens with what is a pretty revealing sequence considering it's one that doesn't actually, uh, reveal.
- "Looking" doesn't present men dealing with gay issues; it depicts gay men dealing with larger, more universal questions. That sounds like a subtle tonal shift, but it puts "Looking" in the remarkable position of feeling transgressive precisely because it's not.
- The "it" in question is Hannah's OCD, which apparently was a serious problem when she was in high school.
- Hannah goes with Jessa to visit her father in upstate New York, and by the end Jessa's character was beautifully rounded out -- her petulance has an origin now
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- Cocaine and awkward sex give way to a friendship meltdown -- and we get to see Booth Jonathan's freaky multimedia chamber
- Ta-Nehisi Coates says men could learn a lot about how women think by watching Lena Dunham's show.
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- Meghan Daum says young women who favored the president shouldn't be reduced to a stereotype
- 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.
- Pickup of 'VEEP' great news for local TV production workers
- If this is the world Lena Dunham knows, why should she skew it for sake of diversity?
- With the arrival of HBO's "VEEP" last week, it's officials: Sunday night TV is on overload
- We preview the HBO series "VEEP" starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Lena Dunham just might have created a landmark sitcom
