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• Obituaries

Les Kinsolving, retired radio talk show host and conservative gadfly, dies

Les Kinsolving, a retired WCBM-AM conservative talk radio personality and political gadfly who hosted the show “Uninhibited Radio” for 28 years, died of heart disease and dementia Dec. 4 at his home in Vienna, Va.

By Jacques Kelly

Dec 11, 2018

• Anne Arundel

Arundel players join the crazy, kooky fun in Toby's 'Addams Family'

There are always good reasons to venue a bit out of Anne Arundel County to catch a production at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia, but the current offering, "The Addams Family," offer a few extra incentives: Namely, local residents in key roles

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Edgar Allan Poe has haunted John Astin all his life

As he prepares to help Baltimore celebrate Edgar Allan Poe's 206

By Chris Kaltenbach

Jan 17, 2015

• Broadway Theater

Local talent returns for Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts gala

Glenelg High graduate Caroline Bowman is starring as Eva Peron in "Evita" at the Kennedy Center. She and other local artists who launched from Columbia are venturing back to town for "Bringing Broadway to Columbia," a Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts benefit at Toby's Dinner Theater Oct. 13. The show, staged every couple years, is a large-scale, variety program that brings theater and musical performers together at the place where many of them got their start.

• 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.

• Howard County

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

• Baltimore City Paper

An oral history of Video Americain

• Travel

Celebrity traveler: John Astin heeds call of Aran Islands

John Astin's travel itinerary

• Latest

Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Wednesday

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Ripley's greets Baltimore with a sideshow

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and actor John Astin attended the opening, which featured a fire eater, a stilt-walker and more.

• Entertainment

This 'Addams Family' lacks snap

• 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.

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'Addams Family' shows its kooky stuff at the Hippodrome

• Obituaries

Margaret E. Yaffe

Longtime Enoch Pratt Free Library patron and activist had a wide-range of reading interests that included biographies, mysteries, novels and history

• Arts and Culture

Make Studio offers platform for artists with disabilities

Station North arts space celebrates two year anniversary with exhibit

• Baltimore City Paper

An annual festival of French film returns to JHU for a third year

• Entertainment

Hopkins renames theater in honor of John Astin

A newly renovated theater in the Johns Hopkins University's Merrick Barn was renamed Saturday in honor of John Astin, the actor who originated the role on television of Gomez Addams, husband to Morticia and patriarch of one of America's weirdest clans on "The Addams Family."

• Entertainment

100 things we love about Baltimore -- Printable list

Take this list as personal suggestions, from one neighbor to another.

• Baltimore City Paper

What to do and where to go this season

• Madonna

PEOPLE AND ENTERTAINMENT

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On Poe's 200th anniversary

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On Poe's 200th anniversary

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THE RISE OF THE HOUSE OF POE

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Authors and scholars talk about Poe's influence

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Book It

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Book It

• Edgar Allan Poe

Happy 200th Edgar Allan Poe!

• Edgar Allan Poe

Happy 200th Edgar Allan Poe!

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Mark your calendars for these 2009 literary events

• Classical Music

A propulsive reading of Sibelius' 2nd Symphony

• Art

Swiftpicks 10 things not to miss from A&E; editor Tim Swift

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Baltimore's party for Edgar

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Baltimore's party for Edgar

• High Schools

AROUND THE REGION

• Arts and Culture

The artist paints, and he also multiplies

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Flowers, vendors, authors, idols

• Sheila Dixon

He thought inside the bun

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Feast appealed to the heart

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'The Addams Family,' now on DVD, is really still a scream

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DON'T MISS

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Inventiveness and da Vinci, too

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Science show had 'You Are There' feel to it

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Test Tube TV: Cooked up in a JHU lab by a p.r. whiz, 'The Johns Hopkins Science Review' experiment broke new ground and created a big reaction nationally from 1948-60.

• ABC

'Grace,' 'Ellen,' 'Drew' are all in new time slots

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'Alien' and 'Ladybugs' infest tonight's lineup

• TV Land

TV Land, new on cable, plays those great oldies

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Scrooge better at cheer than fear John Astin's Ebenezer is master of glee, but short on grumpiness in Mechanic's 'A Christmas Carol.'

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Tickled to Death Scrooge: Far from despising Gomez Addams as the character who pigeonholed him, John Astin is thankful for that ghost of TV seasons past.

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Baltimore Opera Company has bountiful season

• College Basketball

Tonight, bounce between college and pro