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Back Story: Buildings are gone but not forgotten
Gregory J. Alexander and Paul Kelsey Williams have combed through photo archives, and the result of their labors is "Lost Baltimore," which is a painful reminder of notable buildings that fell victim, for the most part, to fire or urban renewal. They...
Tags: Endangered Species, Conservation, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Arts and Culture, Entertainment
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Baltimore sports: From hurrah to harrumph
For Baltimore sports fans, now is the early spring of our discontent. Could it really be that just six weeks ago, we were living in sports fandom ecstasy? The Baltimore Ravens were parading down Pratt Street hoisting a Vince Lombardi Trophy, having won...
Tags: San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Orioles, Baseball, College Basketball, Ed Reed
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Center Stage sets sights on joy, fun
For his first full season as Center Stage artistic director, Kwame Kwei-Armah focused on works that could spark conversation about a variety of heady issues. Midway through that season, he has unveiled a very different theme for the next one. "If this...
Tags: Music, Horton Foote, Theater, Animal Crackers, Celebrities
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Back-to-back book festivals coming this fall
Book lovers in the Baltimore-Washington area should circle September on their calendars, to save dates for a pair of big festivals. The Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held Sept. 21 and 22 on the mall in Washington. The event always...
Tags: Junot Diaz, Arts and Culture, Patricia Cornwell, Festive Events, Baltimore Book Festival
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Poetic passions, tragic partings among Baltimore's greatest romances
Baltimore has witnessed love and loss. From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...
Tags: Druid Hill, Schizophrenia, Tuberculosis, H.L. Mencken, England
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After Ravens' win, is anything possible?
After hearing where I'm from, many strangers have looked at me as if I'd said I was recently cured of leprosy. Their expressions speak volumes: "How he manages to smile, I will never know. I'm glad he's OK, but, God, I hope he's not contagious." They...
Tags: Ray Lewis, Sylvester Stallone, Politics, NASA, Morgan Freeman
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New artistic chief charts daring new directions for Chicago Opera Theater
In contrast with the greatest hits programming Lyric Opera has announced for next season, the alternative opera schedule with which Chicago Opera Theater is inaugurating the Andreas Mitisek era, beginning this weekend, promises to be anything but safe and...
Tags: Amelia (movie), Music, Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, Northwestern University
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How the Ravens built a winning brand
When the Baltimore Ravens won Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans last week, the team crossed a threshold for sports franchises: They joined 11 other teams in the National Football League to have won more than one Super Bowl in the 47 years the game has...
Tags: New York Jets, Washington Redskins, Gucci Group NV, Super Bowl XLVII, Media Industry
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Baltimore love stories for book lovers -- Mencken, Poe and Fitzgerald
With Valentine's Day approaching, it's a good time to review some of the literary love stories that have been set in Baltimore. In an article in the latest issue of the Sun magazine, reporter Jill Rosen highlights the relationships of H.L. Mencken,...
Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Schizophrenia, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tuberculosis, H.L. Mencken
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Baltimore-San Francisco book smackdown for Super Bowl
The Baltimore SunBaltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library wants in on the Super Bowl betting action -- with a book-lover's slant. It has offered this challenge: If the Ravens win Sunday, San Francisco Public Library City Librarian Luis Herrera will have to recite Edgar...Tags: YouTube, San Francisco 49ers, Ray Lewis, Libraries, Super Bowl XLVII
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Maryland Zoo, Pratt Library bet on the Ravens
When it comes to Super Bowl XLVII, it seems everyone is willing to put some skin in the game. Or at least a little ego. (Yes, we're talking about you, Mayor Hancock.) The bets for - and against - the Baltimore Ravens are piling up. And it's not just in...
Tags: Six Flags Inc., San Francisco 49ers, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Libraries
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'The Ravens' (with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe)
Once upon a Sunday, nervous, I sat spectating through my cable service, Wondering why, oh why, the Ravens couldn't score. While I grimaced, quite distraught, suddenly a pass was caught. A breath of life from those once at death's door? "'Tis just a...
Tags: Ray Lewis, Satellite and Cable Service, Baltimore Ravens, Mercedes-Benz Superdome
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