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Arena Stage presents solid production iof Robert Schenkkan's sprawling play "All the Way" about LBJ's attempt to secure civil rights legislation, 1963-64.

Watchathon provides a free all-access pass to Xfinity TV customers to more than 250 shows from 50 networks.

By John-John Williams IV

Apr 18, 2016

The verdict is in on ¿American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson." Tuesday night's final episode was a strong finish to a mediocre show.

Baltimore comedian Joe Robinson has cultivated a bit of a feud with comedian and actor Tom Arnold, whom Robinson opened for this past weekend at the Baltimore Comedy Factory

By Brittany Britto

Mar 31, 2016

As we close in on the finish, things are heating up on "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson." The penultimate episode, titled "Manna From Heaven," details the admission of the Fuhrman tapes into the case. It is a no-nonsense episode filled with real tension.

In the seventh episode of "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson," viewers are shown the glove testimony ¿ the iconic turning point in the O.J. Simpson murder case.

I still remember that early day of summer vacation in June 1994, the image of that white Bronco being slowly chased down a California highway on my parents' wood-panel television in the basement. I'd spent most of the day outside in the pool with my friends, just a few days removed from my last days of middle school.

All is fair in love and legal war. In Episode 5 of ¿The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,¿ the attorneys take center stage as the defense and the prosecution collide in the courtroom.

Donald Trump has become a master of venom and innuendo that long has been the trademark of the tabloids.

Tensions are high inside and out of the courtroom in the latest episode of ¿American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson.¿ Unfortunately, the melodrama is also quite high.

The third episode of 'The People v. O.J. Simpson: An American Crime Story' focuses around Simpson's defense team building its case, and the addition of Johnnie Cochran.

For all its gossipy, even-silly, TMZ-like tone at times, "The People v. O.J. Simpson" will engage millions of viewers in events that contextualize today's emotionally charged national conversations about police-community relations and race.

By David Zurawik

Feb 2, 2016

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Last Thursday, there was a courtroom drama that outdid any episode of Perry Mason or Matlock, and drew a bigger audience than any trial since the first O.J. Simpson trial. There were seven prosecutors and five defense attorneys. The sole witness, the accused, a woman 67 years of age, was under examination for 11 1/2 hours with one break for lunch and another break for other reasons. Her calm demeanor was broken only twice, once when the character of Admiral Michael Glenn "Mike" Mullen was

Gerald J. Gross, a noted American publisher and editor whose stable of authors included former Nazi official Albert Speer, Eudora Welty, Robert Penn Warren, Barbara W. Tuchman, and e.e. cummings, died Thursday of complications of cancer at his Brightwood retirement community home in Lutherville. He was 94.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 20, 2015

The experience of being African American has taught me to be skeptical of official reports, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

A film director, a former vice-presidential candidate and a controversial comic are among those slated to visit campus.

By Mary Carole McCauley

Sep 14, 2015

Rudy Giuliani, once revered for his reaction to 9/11 is now just ridiculous and racist, writes Leonard Pitts Jr.

A well-intentioned use of the wrong word is an invitation to being called a racist, says Jonah Goldberg.

The network teams with TMZ Hollywood Sports for the special airing Tuesday

Two questions come to mind regarding Ray Rice. First, who else is to blame for the handling of his case besides Roger Goodell? Second, why do we all need a videotape to get outraged?

Leonard Pitts Jr. takes on a NYC developer, who plans to add a separate entrance to an apartment building for residents of modest means.

Not Kunz. He's an attorney, all 6-foot-5 and 255 pounds of him, just three years out of law school and determined to make this career as estimable as his first. A Colt from 1975 through 1980, he anchored the offensive line and helped Baltimore win three straight AFC East championships.

So Ray Rice says he will consider retirement when he turns 30 years old. Can you really blame the guy?

At 68, Ray May -- a starting linebacker on the Baltimore Colts' 1971 Super Bowl championship team -- will need multiple surgeries to regain his footing.

George Zimmerman and O.J. Simpson compared

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over whether collecting DNA from individuals arrested, but not yet convicted, to link them to unsolved crimes violates the Fourth Amendment, in a case centered on a 2003 rape of a Salisbury woman.

Oscar Pistorius case in a window on a society ruled by a terror of crime

CBS came into Sunday's game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Denver Broncos with a clear story line in its mind: Peyton Manning is God, and all our cameras and announcers are here to worship him.

Ray Lewis is a good football player but he's no hero off the field

Marissa Coleman, B.J. Surhoff and Bruno Sammartino are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for December 16 to December 22

When Henry Bromell won the Writers' Guild Award this year for scripting The Good Soldier episode of Homeland, he thanked Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana.

One of the biggest changes will be on the sidelines where Lisa Salters will debut as the new sideline reporter for the storied franchise.

Alice C. Steinbach, an award-winning Baltimore Sun feature writer and columnist who won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for her account of a 10-year-old boy, died Tuesday evening of cancer at her Roland Park Place home. She was 78.

Did Ben Flajnik choose Courtney or Lindzi?

Andy Rooney, whose CBS career spans the entire post-war history of network news, died Friday as a result of complications following minor surgery, the network announced.

Sports nicknames, a once grand convention of American sportswriting, have been downgraded to mere abbreviations or nonsensical appropriations. How long until China passes us up on this one, too?

Autographed memorabilia that once belonged to legendary athletes, actors and musicians now fill the hallways, giving Howard prosecutors a set of conversation pieces that help "break the ice" in interviews.

Marianne Banister, one-half of the longest running anchor team in Baltimore television, is leaving WBAL-TV after more than 15 years as co-anchor of the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts at the top-ranked station. Her last day at the station will be Wednesday, WBAL General Manager Dan Joerres said.

A few months removed from his popular appearances in Old Spice commercials, Ravens linebacker and action hero Ray Lewis is at it again.