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For four weeks, the StoryCorps mobile storytelling booth will be parked outside MICA, ready to record what you and someone you love have to say to each other.

Local family embraces Irish heritage through music, food, dance

Paula Miller, Baltimore County Public Library's first female director, is forward-focused on bringing the system into the 21st century withan emphasis on people, connections and services.

As National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, she advocates for reading to children

When Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in December 1955, she would go down in history as the symbolic "mother" of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Columbia Orchestra's first commissioned score provides new music for an old movie. It commissioned Washington, D.C.-based composer Andrew Earle Simpson to compose a score for Buster Keaton's 1920 silent film "One Week."

Democratic Del. David Rudolph, a 20-year veteran representative of Cecil County in the Maryland General Assembly, is facing two challengers going into next week's general election as he seeks a sixth term in Annapolis.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove and violinist Joshua Coyne appear together in a free program on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m., at Howard Community College's Monteabaro Hall.

If a bus-sized iron asteroid traveling at approximately 12 miles per second hit New York City, would Baltimore be spared? The answer to this and other space questions can be found in Discover Space, an interactive learning exhibit on display at the Baltimore County Public Library's Towson branch through Oct. 29.

The Baltimore Symphony's 2014 gala concert, led by Marin Alsop, included a rarity by Ferde Grofe and an unusual approach to Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue.'

If a bus-sized iron asteroid traveling at approximately 12 miles per second hit New York City, would Baltimore be spared? The answer to this and other space questions can be found in Discover Space, an interactive learning exhibit on display at the Baltimore County Public Library's Towson branch through Oct. 29.

Karen A. Stuart, a Library of Congress archivist who earlier had been head librarian at the Maryland Historical Society, where she also was associate editor of the Maryland Historical Magazine, died of cancer Aug. 19 at Stella Maris Hospice. She was 59.

Daylong festival on Saturday features 100 authors at nine pavilions, a poetry slam, graphic novel "super-session" and panel discussion on films inspired by books

Literary tourism

Jisoo Choi was a winner in the national Letters about Literature writing contest.

With his fife's high-pitched notes soaring over enthusiastic throngs that gather each year to celebrate Memorial Day, Dave Embrey is an attention-getter.

Ten-year-old Gillian Blum knew just what to do when she realized that a schedule conflict would prevent her from reading her award-winning letter in person at an April 12 ceremony to recognize the winners of the Letters About Literature contest.

the New York Chamber Soloists promises to assert itself on stage for a Candlelight Concert Society program on Saturday, April 5, at 7 p.m. at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

Christian Rojas wants to get his paralegal certificate. Then, he figures, he'll go into business for himself, helping people write their wills and file motions in court. He dreams of earning a law degree, eventually, and practicing law. First, though, he has to get out of prison.

Library of Congress' World Digital Library reaches milestone with item from Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

BSO programs spiritual works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Bernstein and others; season's guest artists include Hilary Hahn, Garrick Ohlsson, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin.

the Amelia Piano Trio appears for Candlelight Concerts on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 8 p.m. at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

For the first time in 70 years, voices from World War II will be heard once again when WYPR FM will air on "Midday with Dan Rodricks" on Dec. 20, with a rebroadcast on Christmas Eve.

Our Lady of the Angels Chapel, once the chapel for the Sulpician Fathers as the centerpiece of St. Charles College, a Catholic seminary, the Italian Renaissance-style chapel, is now the cultural hub and spiritual sanctuary for the Charlestown retirement community and serves as a parish to local residents, as well.

The members of the Jupiter String Quartet surely will be in harmonious alignment with each other when this chamber ensemble performs for Candlelight Concert Society on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. in Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

Some things never really do change: The same alleged Lenin quote used to defeat President Truman's attempt to expand medical coverage has risen its head again, most recently by Dr. Ben Carson in slamming Obamacare. Trouble is, some scholars doubt the quote ever passed Lenin's lips.

After visitors to this year's Decorator Show House meander along a slate pathway from the parking lot to the front of Mount Ida, it becomes obvious why William Ellicott, grandson of one of the city's founding brothers, chose the site on Sarahs Lane for his home: the twin silos of Elicott's Mills rise majestically in the distance like castle towers.

Ronald S. Coddington, an author and editor, who has spent nearly four decades collecting Civil War era cartes de viste, has given life to those African-American soldiers who served in the war with the publication of "African American Faces of the Civil War."

Sidney S. Forrest, an esteemed clarinet teacher who had taught generations of students at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and the Levine School of Music in Washington, died Aug. 9 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda from complications of a fall.

Edward Trail Mathias, a retired banker and longtime denizen of Bolton Hill, died June 17 from complications of a stroke at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 85.

Friday, June 14, is Flag Day. It's a day in which we not only honor the flag of our nation, but also the freedom and the way of life it symbolizes.

My colleague Candy Thomson recently reported that a study will evaluate the structural condition of the Bay Bridge.

On Feb. 25, 17-year-old Nathaniel Joseph Paradis earned the highest rank to be attained in the Boy Scouts of America. He became the 29th Eagle Scout of Boy Scout Troop 899 in Fallston

The Laurel Historical Society's living history program Civil War reactment April 13, shich was co-sponsored by the American Legion and 2nd Maryland Infantry reenactors, included demonstrations from period soldiers and civilians on everything from rifle fire to Army musicians, and was capped off with a live reenactment of the fictitious Battle of Laurel Station.

'Appalachian Spring' Baltimore School for the Arts performance is first time high school granted permission to produce ballet in original form.

The networks might be struggling on Sunday nights but not basic cable's the History Channel. The miniseries beat everything in sight Sunday night.