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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.
- 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.
- The booming Towson area is so different from other Baltimore County neighborhoods that one county councilman thinks it needs its own zoning classification.
- To his family, Nathaniel Dennis' life began as a wonder.
- Elizabeth C. Bellavance, educator, social activist and patron of the academic and arts communities, died July 24 of cancer at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va. She was 77.
- A Howard County man has passed away in Liberia after he slipped into a coma and was unable to be evacuated for medical care amidst fears of an ebola outbreak abroad, his sister said Thursday.
- Towson athletic director Tim Leonard hopes that the broadcast of the Tigers' regular-season games for the football and men's basketball on 1300 AM expands the school's athletic brand.
- When Marie Seale thinks of seeing her 29-year-old husband being shot and killed in her Northeast Baltimore apartment, forgiveness is the last thing on her mind.
- Pit beef is a long-standing Baltimore tradition but making a business model work hasn't been easy. For a while, the stretch of U.S. 40 in eastern Baltimore and Baltimore County was known as "pit beef row," with Chaps, Big Al's and Big Fat Daddy's calling the strip home. Chaps is still there — and is a Baltimore legend.
- Andrew Boston wore a headlamp so that he could walk to the bus stop at night. He carried a lacrosse stick to ward off wild dogs, and then he waited for a bus that or might not come.
- June is National Iced Tea Month, so pack up the cooler with sweet tea to take to the Friday concert in Tydings Park, tonight (Friday) at 7:30 p.m.
- Coverage of HonFest 2014 includes St. Luke's Lutheran Church, on The Avenue, holding Sunday services on the lawn to take advantage of HonFest and nice weather.
- The four members of the Harford County Council who are running for re-election this year face varying degrees of opposition to hold onto their seats ranging from none, to very little to some.
- As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, June 11, 1964
- In race for governor, Anthony Brown is spending more heavily than Douglas Gansler in the Baltimore broadcast market. But the two candidates' overall media spending is almost the same.
- With the front-runner in the race conspicuously absent, Democratic gubernatorial candidates Douglas F. Gansler and Heather R. Mizeur disagreed – politely – during a debate Tuesday night, with Gansler saving the brunt of his criticism for missing Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown.
- Ray Rice's Friday press conference was one of those media events I wanted to give myself some time to think about.
- If you go Preakness 2014 this weekend, odds are you'll recognize the voice calling the race. That's because the voice belongs to Dave Rodman, who has called the Preakness — and every other horse race at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course, except when he was sick or on vacation — every year since 1991. "I've never really put a number to it," said Rodman, when asked to estimate how many races he's called. "I'm not trying to break any world records or anything."
- Ticket sales for the 139th Preakness Stakes on Saturday are running a couple percentage points ahead of last year, the fourth largest turnout in the history of the race, but the president of the Maryland Jockey Club sees the possibility of a record crowd.
- What a sorry state of affairs I discovered last week when I started reporting the TV aspect of the first Democratic gubernatorial debate.
- With Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice back in the news and Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling all over it this week, I have to revisit this post I wrote on TMZ in February, when the Rice-allegedly-knocks-his-then-fiancee-unconscious story first broke.
- A Valentine's Day agreement among the Democrats running for governor to cooperate on setting up debates collapsed Wednesday as his rivals accused front-runner Anthony G. Brown of ducking a third televised encounter.
- Gansler, Mizeur campaigns accuse Anthony Brown of ducking third televised debate. But Brown campaign says he is abiding by original plan.