Marion Winik shares the story of her friendship with an unlikely BFF, whose untimely death still makes no sense. Chapter One At the time I met him in 1999, my second husband Crispin was renting a little white house on an emu farm in Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania. It was on Granary Road, or Grainary Rd, […]
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June Wedding Report: The Long and Winding Road
For many years I was a freelancer for Brides magazine, writing up weddings at the Museum of Natural History, at exclusive resorts in Cabo San Lucas, on cruise ships in New York Harbor, with bridesmaids in Todd Oldham or Vera Wang and flowers that might have come from the court of the Sun King. These […]
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Big Times at Mama’s House: The Boomerang Update
Watchers of this space have read of the comings and goings of my children from the maternal roost in the past few years, though a news blackout has been in effect since last summer, when my younger son Vince put the kibosh on further reports concerning his personal life. Well, who can blame the kid? […]
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What I learned from Miley Cyrus
Last week I saw Miley Cyrus in concert at the Verizon Center in DC and what a crash course in modern culture it was. Wake up, Marion Winik, it is 2014 and WE ARE GOING ALL IN! Having begun my own concert-going career in the 1970s, when a show consisted of a bunch of guys […]
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Top Stories of the Week in the Baltimore Fishbowl
Five Reasons Baltimore is the New Brooklyn by Rachel Monroe Bohemian Rhapsody: Big Times at Mama’s House: The Boomerang Update by Marion Winik Towson University Racist Quits His Own Hate Group by Rachel Monroe Hot House: Cool Monkton Contemporary With Insane Garage by Cynthia McIntyre The TravelChannel Picks Five Best Places to Eat in Baltimore by […]
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Tomorrow at The Ivy: Marion Winik Presents Clifford Chase And James Magruder
Marion Winik Presents: Clifford Chase And James Magruder Thursday, June 19, 2014 7:00pm
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Some Things I Never Thought I’d Say
Recently I got an email that was supposed to be congratulating me on a good review, but the writer managed to make it clear that she personally had some reservations about my work. Immediately I clicked reply and began typing a sarcastic response.
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Week in Review: Top Stories This Week in the Baltimore Fishbowl
Inside The New Valley Inn by Muffy Fenwick Bohemian Rhapsody: Some Things I Never Thought I’d Say by Marion Winik The Dark Past of Baltimore’s Rosewood Hospital by Rachel Monroe Here’s How Brewer’s Art Can Save Its Ozzy Beer by Robert O’Brien Shop Girl: High-End Consignment for Girls Who Know From Helmut Lang
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Madeleines of Baltimore
Almost Valentine’s Day, yeah, yeah, I know. I got nothin’. While couples are gazing into each other’s eyes over champagne and oysters, some of us will be ordering from the singles menu. And so, a love letter to food, which I adore and suffer from and play head games with as I would any bad […]
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Out of Africa: The Baltimore-Kampala Express
“Think of the long trip home.” –Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel For almost all of my twenties and thirties I resided in Austin, Texas; my widowed mother lived 2,000 miles away in our ancestral home outside Asbury Park, New Jersey. Game to the last, she visited often, particularly after her grandsons appeared on the scene. […]
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Fear and Loathing in the Middle Ages
One of the things you’re going to see as soon as marijuana is legal is hordes of people in their forties, fifties, and sixties lining up outside the dispensary, finally able to get some weed without buying it from the kids. In fact, if you think about it, this is why decriminalization is upon us: the inaugural […]
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Assessing Your Assets
It’s New Year’s resolution time — no better moment to become obsessed with the possible flaws in one’s physique. University of Baltimore Assistant Professor Marion Winik offers this helpful measurement tool. Welcome to the Butt Assessment Test (BAT)! While factors such as personality, intelligence, education, and work experience are all important to a person’s self-esteem […]
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My Dear Boys
Even before I was old enough to drink, I was desperate to get into the El Moroccan Room. I didn’t know why I thought I would feel more at home in a gay bar with a drag show than I did in the straight teenaged world of my New Jersey high school, nor did the […]
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Week in Review: Top Stories This Week in the Baltimore Fishbowl
Bohemian Rhapsody: Baltimore Dating for Dummies by Marion Winik Baltimore Among 25 Most Gay-Friendly Cities in the Nation by Rachel Monroe Cyber-Gracious Posts By Anonymous Teens Practice Kindness Not Cruelty – by Elizabeth Heubeck Mid-Atlantic Winter Weather Predictions: the Woolly Bear Weighs In by Robert O’Brien Jack Andraka, Maryland’s “Wonder Boy” Scientist, Honored by the […]
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Netflix for Books? Shebooks Launches With Our Own Marion Winik
Not long ago, the idea of a book publisher operating on a Netflix model sounded about like a graduate program in philosophy operating on a McDonald’s model. Well, perhaps the latter is not far away because the former is here. Shebooks, a publisher of short e-books by women, soft-launches today , December 19 with a list […]
