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With the word Tuesday that "NewsHour" was shutting down offices and laying off employees, it's time to ask the question: just how much of this one-time PBS bedrock is actually left? - Some in Baltimore speculate he's running for office. But We Moore says No.
- PBS is going to launch a new Charlie Rose in July, the public broadcaster announced Monday. The show will air Friday nights at 8:30 and be called "Charlie Rose Weekend."
- Singer, who was 10 when she performed Puccini area on 'AGT,' makes her Baltimore Symphony debut at 13 singing songs from Hollywood and opera.
- Two button-pushing plays nicknamed "The Raisin Cycle" are featured in national newspapers and on an hour-long PBS special
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- With people waiting in line for five days to get into the Supreme Court for its oral arguments on same-sex marriage last week, it's time to livestream the justices in action.
- If those advances have been made in my lifetime, what is there to come? What kinds of things will my kids be using that I may never be able to adapt to? I'm looking forward to finding out.
- Reading some of the nutty coverage of Al Jazeera's purchase of Current TV from Al Gore, I am not sure whether the problem is ideology or ignorance when it comes to the sorry state of media criticism today.
- The wave of winter shows that arrives this week bears prime examples of this TV truth. From the traditional, big-budget, Brit-cum-PBS halls of "Downton Abbey," to the edgy, Baltimore-made remake of "House of Cards," here are 10 midseason productions worth paying attention to.
- Author, TV host and veteran wants to move his production company here, and is diving into local charities, volunteer organizations
- Alleged victim said he went to Kevin Clash's apartment as a 16-year-old after meeting him through a gay chat line
- Still in awe of the size and power of Hurricane Sandy? The PBS program "Nova" will soon delve into just how such a storm occurred.
- Baltimore native takes 'leave of absence' from show to address accusations he had sex with a 16-year-old boy
- Four years ago, he was the candidate of change. This time around, even in reliably Democratic Maryland, President Barack Obama had to stave off voters who wanted to oust him in the name of change even as the state a whole voted to re-elect him.
- Several dozen people turned out Tuesday evening for Election 2012: Returns After Dark, a program at the Towson Library that featured a Johns Hopkins professor providing instant insight into day¿s election results.
- Doyle McManus sorts through the good, bad and ugly of swing-state campaign commercials
- OK, now, let me see. There are nearly 315 million people living in the United States, and the Center for Public Broadcasting gets $445 million a year from the federal budget. That means each person pays a little more than a buck a year, or, to be a bit more precise, $1.41, to watch Antiques Roadshow, The Mormons, and any number of programs you can't find anywhere else.
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- More was definitely less for President Barack Obama Wednesday night in the first televised presidential debate.
- Susan Magsamen last month launched Curiosityville.com, a company that focuses on online learning for children ages three to eight.
- The biggest winner Sunday at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards had to be Showtime's "Homeland," which took the top three drama awards in an upset over such favorites as "Mad Men" and "Downton Abbey." But, Baltimore-based productions and stars had a very big night, too.
- Baltimore Symphony's OrchKids program, Hopkins surgeon featured on PBS show about the arts
- "Paysage Bords de Seine," dating from about 1879, is expected to fetch between $75,000 and $100,000 at auction Sept. 29
- Brian Roberts of Forest Hill has been named executive producer of MotorWeek, Maryland Public Television's long-running national automotive series
- Lincoln Culinary Institute, which takes up most of the space at Lincoln College of Technology on Snowden River Parkway in Columbia, offers day and evening classes and even an associate degree program.
- Forget the broadcast networks of ABC, NBC and CBS. And forget PBS, too, unless you are part of the minority that doesn't have cable or online access.
- A new documentary from the global channel probes race, class, crime, drugs and incarceration
- The PBS show 'Time Team America' is exploring former home of Josiah Henson, a former slave who inspired 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.'
- It's been a good couple of days for CBS journalist Bob Schieffer with his Romney-Ryan interview and news that he will moderate one of this fall's presidential debates. But what really excites him is talking about a battle of the bands he's planning with Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.
- Photo found in a suitcase appears to be an original image of pin-up queen Bettie Page
