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• Maryland

Carter: VCR's run finally comes to an end

Later this month, one of the great technologies of my generation will officially be gone when Japanese electronic company Funai discontinues production of the video cassette recorder, commonly known as the VCR.

• Entertainment

The Terps have already conquered one NCAA tournament

As the Maryland Terrapins prepare for the NCAA tournament (and the men continue to not-love their fourth seed), they can get some solace in the fact that they've already conquered one heated tourney.

By Jordan Bartel

Mar 18, 2015

• Maryland

Children delve into new worlds with free books

• Obituaries

Jacqueline Watts

Jacqueline "Jackie" Watts, the former editor of The East Baltimore Guide who became an Enoch Pratt Free Library editor and graphic designer, died.

By Jacques Kelly

Jan 8, 2015

• Howard County

Columbia puppeteer brings stories, imagination to her audiences

For more than 30 years, Shirley Johannesen Levine, a Columbia resident, has entertained audiences across the country and around the world with her puppetry skills and her company, Puppet Dance Productions. Using mime, music and her own hand-made puppets, Levine encourages everyone from young children to senior citizens to "stretch their imagination" as she brings poems and stories to life.

• Howard County

Columbia puppeteer brings stories, imagination to her audiences

• Maryland

Penguin Random House Book Fair starts Friday

• Maryland

Scrooge, Tiny Tim return as part of stage adaptation of Dickens classic

• Baltimore City Paper

Decades on, a local puppet troupe remains an animating force

• Food & Drink

Web show creators are ready to unleash the 'Beast'

Six years after Showbeast's debut, its creators, comic and artist Ben O'Brien and filmmaker Erin Gleeson, have started putting together its last and most ambitious chapter, a 30-minute episode that they're treating as a pilot.

• Opinion

Goldman's Muppet show

Complaints about Goldman Sachs by a former employee resonate with a suspicious public that hates the thought of being a 'Muppet'

• Arts and Culture

'Sesame Street' veteran heads 'Jitney' cast at MSU

Morgan State University presents August Wilson's 'Jitney' with Sesame Street veteran Roscoe Orman

• Movies

Kevin Clash shines in new documentary 'Being Elmo'

The warm and fuzzy new documentary starring the Baltimore native premieres at the Charles Theatre

• Baltimore City Paper

How Do You Know, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Tron: Legacy, The Tempest

• Jim Henson

Jimmy Dean dead at 81 -- my vote for best memoir title

• Kevin Clash

Sesame Street's 40th anniversary and "Street Gang"

• Jim Henson

Focus of new PBS lineup: kids' TV, arts and journalism

• Jim Henson

Fashion Week: Jim Henson wouldn't approve

• Kevin Clash

Getting to Sesame Street

• Jim Henson

Review: Michael Davis' Sesame Street

• Jim Henson

Review: Michael Davis' Sesame Street

• Theft

PEOPLE & ENTERTAINMENT

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Bond, James Bond at the Charles

• Arts and Culture

A smile, a helping hand

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Flo 'Granny Packer' Ayres

• Architecture

Project is putting his vision to test

• Army National Guard

The Free Sheet

• Kevin Clash

Baltimorean helps write the Elmo story Puppeteer: Kevin Clash enjoys the success and 'must-have' status of the fuzzy red one.

• Jim Henson

'Life' touches Zuzu's own life Anniversary: The movie's littke girl is all grown up and intown to celebrate a half century of Capra's Christmas classic.

• Middle East

Muppets bridge gap in Middle East Television: An Israeli-Palestinian version of 'Sesame Street,' to begin airing next year, will teach tolerance as well as traditional educational skills.

• ABC

Another far-out comedy TV preview: "Aliens in the Family," from the Henson factory, is more offbeat but smart television in the "ALF" and "Mork" tradition.

• ABC

Muppets brighten the night TV review: Kermit and the gang put on a smile-worthy show in 'Muppets Tonight!'

• Jim Henson

'Treasure Island' is fun, but not typical Muppets

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Sweeps Relief TV preview: In 'Gulliver's Travels,' NBC offers a nifty adventure tale -- with a lot of help from the Brits.

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The Muppet man on MPT

• University of Maryland

For TV history, try UM's basement

• Jim Henson

'Sabbath's Theater': Roth comes of age

• Jim Henson

He talks, he thinks he's a dog, but Babe the pig brings home the bacon

• Nobel Prize Awards

U-Md.'s Hall of Fame opens its doors

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Muppets memories, with love

• Jim Henson

For 'Oz,' there's no place like home

• The Three Stooges

CURLY, MOE, LARRY -- THE LAWSUIT

• Colleges and Universities

MD.-BORN KERMIT HOPS FROM SESAME ST. TO OXFORD

• Obituaries

Kermit Kalman Cohen, 71, gave Muppet frog his name

• Kevin Clash

On the street where he lives: Kevin Clash, Muppet master ELMO'S FIRE

• ABC

* Richard Abrams, 56, who led the...

• Jim Henson

The Muppets join new Nick Jr. lineup

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Pratt offers a month of Oscar-worthy documentaries and shorts