h l mencken

Sometimes The Sun and its reporters became the story.

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.

Baltimoreans like their beer, and so far, it's been a good year, and it's only April.

Stanley Harrison, a communications and writing teacher who edited a scholarly journal about H.L. Mencken, died of cardiac arrest after a stroke April 5 at the home of a friend in Miami Beach, Fla. He was 81 and lived in Florida and Woodbine.

Watercolor artist and teacher, she taught art in her home and was a Friends School tennis coach

Proposal to sell city-owned historic properties should prompt a renewed effort to inventory and protect Baltimore's heritage

It's a story that simply won't go away. It refuses to die, even after the passage of 75 years, when Edward VIII abandoned his throne for the Baltimore women he loved and couldn't live without.

Improbable phenomena

What did Baltimore call street peddlers?

The late Charles A. Fecher, biographer of H.L. Mencken, earned praise from someone who knows what she's talking about

It was H. L. Mencken's last party and the invitation had been written more than 25 years earlier.

Former Catholic Review book review editor authored a book examining the influences that shaped H.L. Mencken's writing

Mencken found his match in biographer Charles Fecher

Melissa Schehlein's recently published book contrasts the largely vanished old Towson with the new

Who says H.L. Mencken would have denounced speed cameras?

If you're waking up with a slight buzz as a result of too much New Year's Eve revelry, you might consider skipping this column.

Baltimore's Ron Smith is that rarity of talk show hosts, an independent thinker

Warner's final 'Harry Potter' chapter is bigger and 'Harrier' on new DVD

David R. Owen, an internationally known maritime lawyer and accomplished yachtsman, died Friday in his sleep at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. The former longtime Riderwood resident was 97.

It's Mencken's birthday, have some terrapin

Howard Markel's "An Anatomy of Addiction" casts the two medical giants as intellectual trailblazers — and cokeheads

Once again, the arts celebration provides an encouraging jolt to one of Baltimore's most historic neighborhoods.

William Donald Schaefer's biggest achievement was also his most unlikely: A man insecure enough to earn the nickname "shaky" managed to restore the self-confidence of an entire city.