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Deborah Davis, a longtime employee of WYPR public radio station with a passion for theatre, music and equality, died on Dec. 23 at Gilchrist Hospice Care after battling cancer. She was 61. - Dr. Samuel McC. M. Lumpkin, a retired otolaryngologist who was a partner Ear, Nose and Throat Associates at greater Baltimore Medical Center, died March 10 at his White Hall farm of complications from Rocky Mountain spotted fever. He was 83.
- New renewal process for subscribers means the same seats for all productions.
- Two Baltimore firms are planning to restore the historic Central Savings Bank in downtown, adding more shops and apartments to a once vibrant business district trying to reinvent itself as a hotbed of residential activity.
- Two Baltimore area firms are planning to restore the historic Central Savings Bank in downtown, adding more shops and apartments to a once vibrant business district trying to reinvent itself as a hotbed of residential activity.
- McKeldin Fountain, a threatened Baltimore landmark
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- Owings Mills-based developer David S. Brown Enterprises Ltd. plans to construct a 30-story mixed-use building on West Baltimore Street on the eastern edge of the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus.
- Aaron Margolis, an attorney active in Zionist organizations, died of complications of a pituitary adenoma Feb. 10 at the North Oaks Retirement Community. The former Northwest Baltimore resident was 87.
- The regional headquarters planned at Harbor East for energy giant Exelon Corp. would rise 23 stories and 350 feet, helping to reshape Baltimore's skyline with a futuristic glass structure, under a preliminary design approved Thursday by a city advisory panel.
- Baltimore is lucky to have a work by the late architect John Johansen.
- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday the City Council should take the lead on evaluating the performance of the city's ethics director — not an oversight board on which she sits that hasn't met in years.
- A seven-member oversight panel, called the Board of Legislative Reference, is in charge of hiring and firing the city's ethics director, according to the city charter. But the board it has not met in years — likely not since 1993, according to interviews with current and former city officials.
- John Travolta takes the stage with John Waters in Baltimore for the Maryland Film Festival.
- John Travolta knew what he wanted to do with the role of Edna Turnblad, the zaftig housewife at the center of "Hairspray." The movie's producers, however, weren't so sure. Especially when he insisted on using a Bawlamer accent.
- The director of Baltimore's ethics board — a full-time city employee — is performing legal work on behalf of developers embroiled in a zoning battle in Baltimore County.
- Baltimore's historical preservation commission on Tuesday officially disapproved of demolishing the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre.
- Baltimore's Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation declined to vote on the ouster of the commission's executive director Monday.
- Gilman grad Brian Sher now moves in world of 'Entourage,' Michael Vick, Kelsey Grammer and T.I.
- An informational meeting about initial plans for a mixed-use development in downtown Baltimore heard heated comments about the proposed demolition of a 1960s theater that has sat unused for eight years.
- A developer has filed for a permit to demolish the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre, a decades-old venue that has sat unused for the last eight years in the center of downtown Baltimore, the Downtown Partnership said Monday.
- Baltimore city officials will start the long-planned $2 million demolition of a skywalk over Baltimore Street at Hopkins Plaza.
- Orem "Jerry" Wahl, the co-owner of a Mount Vernon framing shop who was a theater first-nighter, died of a heart attack Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 73.
- Orem "Jerry" Wahl, the co-owner of a Mount Vernon framing shop who was a theater first-nighter, died of a heart attack Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 73.
