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Book lovers in the Baltimore-Washington area should circle September on their calendars, to save the dates for a pair of big festivals. - You can expect the music to sound fresh during the Leipzig String Quartet's concert on Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m., at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre. Like the sponsoring Candlelight Concert Society, this chamber music quartet often likes to introduce audiences to contemporary classical music.
- A new exhibit, "Stationed in Laurel: Our Civil War Story," opened Feb. 3 at the Laurel Museum and captures that segment of Laurel's history. In September, a mini-exhibit was displayed at the museum that gave a partial account of Laurel's Civil War past. Museum director Lindsey Baker said they decided to expand that theme for this year's major exhibit because of the response that one attracted.
- WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats will hold their annual retreat beginning Tuesday in Annapolis — giving lawmakers a chance to strategize about gun control, immigration and the latest fiscal crisis.
- Millions of people got a long-distance view of the "Lincoln Bible," one of those used by President Barack Obama for his second inauguration on Monday. Starting tomorrow, you can get a closer look at the velvet-covered Bible that was used for Abraham Lincoln's oath of office on March 4, 1861.
- You can make the effort to go to a music school either as a student or at least to attend a concert, but how sweet it is when the music school comes to you. That's pretty much the case with the "Curtis on Tour" concert program coming to the Candlelight Concert Society series on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.
- The Library of Congress today released a collection of interviews on topics such as sex, drugs and rock and roll -- including Paul McCartney relating how pot and other drugs boosted the Beatles' creativity.
- Member of school's first state champion It's Academic team last year
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- Eighteen public school administrators from Gyeonggi Province in South Korea, are visiting several Baltimore County schools, while studying at University of Maryland Baltimore County's English Language Institute this month.
- The Maryland House on I-95 may be known more for its fast food and bevy of bathrooms than for fine artwork, but a historic mural portraying Maryland history has actually adorned the travel plaza since the 1960s.
- John E. Sparks, an artist, educator and a nationally known printmaker who developed and chaired the department of printmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art for nearly 40 years, died Aug. 2 of prostate cancer and pneumonia.
- Thus the recently concluded traveling Smithsonian exhibits collectively entitled Journey Stories which brought bits of U.S. history to the Harford County Public Library system and other local public venues came as a welcome addition to our view of our history.
- The book is still available through the county library as a download to an e-book application or through a hold placed on MARINA via the State Library Resource Center (which, like the Library of Congress, has a different selection mandate than a county system).
- An odd confluence of events has me pondering the future of a technological marvel that in a lot of ways makes possible the celebration of independence we U.S. citizens proudly enjoy this week.
- The Library of Congress' new exhibition in Washington -- Books That Shaped America -- includes works by the cream of American authors, but there is a gaping hole: Edgar Allen Poe.
- Having provocative content in the library collection, regardless of the subject matter, is more than just a good thing, it is one of the reasons we have public libraries in the first place
- Mary Lee Steadman, who assisted her late sportswriter husband John F. Steadman in the production of his six books, died June 1 from complications of dementia at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 83.
- Jung offers a positive, life-enhancing approach to aging in which psychological and spiritual development is possible across the life span.
- First look at 'Assassin's Creed III' gameplay, 'Minecraft's' record-breaking week and Beyoncé's costly video game
- Ellicott City: Homeschooler Jisoo Choi wins first place in state Letters About Literature contest
- Norman Henley, a retired Russian language and world literature teacher and academic editor, died of congestive heart failure at the Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville. He was 96 and had earlier lived in Remington and Charles Village.
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