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Powerful courtroom moments in the open-air 'Inherit the Wind'
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's oft-produced 1955 courtroom drama, based on the famous Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925, was intended — like Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" — to use earlier events in American history as a frame for examining...
Tags: His Girl Friday (movie), Genesis (music group), Jerome Lawrence, Henry Drummond, Festive Events
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Mencken's world and mine
Locked in a metal filing cabinet in The Sun's library is a sheaf of manila folders packed with typed pages, copies of paste-up sheets and loops of pink, punched tapes — artifacts of H. L. Mencken's coverage of what he dubbed "the Scopes monkey...
Tags: Inner Harbor, Politics, Lobbying
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Preserving our past: Ownership isn't the issue
What is the future for Baltimore's city-owned historic properties? The Baltimore Sun has reported that Baltimore City is hiring an appraisal firm to determine the "market value" of 15 city-owned historic properties. Baltimore Heritage has asked...
Tags: Babe Ruth, Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Inventories, Human Interest, Bromo Seltzer Tower
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Baltimore Sun in the news
There's a fallacy that reporters detest being in the spotlight. If that were really true, articles would be published without bylines. But print journalists have found that it's easier and more fun to ask questions than it is to answer them. Nonetheless,...
Tags: Sudan, The Wire (tv program), HBO (tv network), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Benito Mussolini
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John Joseph Scocca, Hopkins biochemistry professor
John Joseph Scocca, a retired Johns Hopkins biochemistry professor recalled for his keen critical eye, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease May 10 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 72 and lived in Aberdeen.
Born in South Philadelphia,...Tags: COPD, Biology, Religion and Belief, Anglicanism, Family
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Mencken House: A home, and legacy, to treasure
Despite what you may have heard, the "house museum" is not dead in Baltimore City. The H.L. Mencken House (officially closed since 1997 by the bankruptcy of the City Life Museums) has had more than 100 visitors during two recent weekends. The Johns...Tags: Mark Twain, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Hollins Market, James Thurber, Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum
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What's in a name -- if it keeps changing?
Paul GreenbergIt was inevitable that Little Rock's national airport would be renamed the Clinton National Airport. The sound principle of not naming public facilities for prominent personages until they're safely dead now tends to be honored mainly in the breach. Here...Tags: Mike Huckabee, Entertainment, Richard Nixon, Saint Petersberg (Russia), Human Interest
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Say it ain't so
The Baltimore SunCarol Saller has a disturbing post at Lingua Franca on difficult writers. It's quite a stunner. My experience has been almost exclusively with newspaper reporters, who display none of the obnoxious characteristics Ms. Saller describes. On the contrary,...Tags: Ice Cream, Newspaper and Magazine, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Emily T. Taliaferro
Emily T. Taliaferro, an artist and former Friends School tennis coach, died of stroke complications April 2 at Roland Park Place. She was 82. Born in Baltimore, she was the daughter of Raymond S. Tompkins, a Sun reporter and later an official of...Tags: Roland Park, Feminism, Religion and Belief, Adrienne Rich, Anglicanism
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Stanley Harrison, Mencken scholar
Stanley Harrison, a communications and writing teacher who edited a scholarly journal about H.L. Mencken, died of cardiac arrest after a stroke April 5 at the home of a friend in Miami Beach, Fla. He was 81 and lived in Florida and Woodbine.
Born in East...Tags: The Pentagon, St. Petersburg (Pinellas, Florida), Enoch Pratt Free Library, U.S. Department of Defense, Stroke
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Year of good news highlights Baltimore's rich beer history
Baltimoreans like their beer, and so far it's been a good year.
My colleague Erik Maza, who keeps his eye on the local brew scene, has been the bearer of malty good news.
He has written about the Heavy Seas Alehouse, which opened earlier this year...Tags: Turkey (animal), Bars and Clubs, Germany, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Panos' career in print and practice honored by press association
During his more than 60 years in the news business, Timonium resident Lou Panos crossed paths with people from legendary Baltimore scribeH.L. Mencken to the Kennedy brothers — as in RFK and JFK. Along the way, Panos, 86, who was inducted last...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Cartoons, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland General Assembly, Entertainment
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