Readers’ favorite choices this week in the Baltimore Fishbowl… Johns Hopkins Grows an Ear on New Patient’s Arm by Rachel Monroe Bohemian Rhapsody – What if You Are Wrong? by Marion Winik Hot House – Roland Park Shingle Style Beauty, With Swing by Cynthia McIntyre Out of Control Partying in Towson Results in Pepper Spray, Shooting, […]
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The Week in Review: Advice for Big Kids, Hailing a Cab, Hot House and More
Bohemian Rhapsody: Advice for the Class of 2012: How to Live With Your Mom by Marion Winik Hailing a Cab in Baltimore by Courtney Sender Hot House – Bigger, Better Ruxton Farmhouse by Cynthia McIntyre Baltimore Native Buys Lost Renoir for $7 by Robert O’Brien Maryland Delegate Goes After Pro-Gay Raven, Accidentally Helps the Cause by Robert O’Brien Catch of […]
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Advice for the Class of 2012: How to Live with Your Mom
University of Baltimore Asst. Prof. and Bohemian Rhapsody Columnist Marion Winik welcomes her second grown son back home with open arms and a long list of suggestions. Are you are a member of the elite group of young people who completed their undergraduate studies last May? If, in addition to passing your classes, you returned […]
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Summer Round-Up: Your Favorite Stories on the Baltimore Fishbowl
Today marks the unofficial last day of summer, and what a summer it was: Derecho! Michael Phelps Triumphs at the Olympics! Heat waves! According to our analytics, here are some of the stories you read the most from Memorial Day to Labor Day: An Inspiring Midshipman and a Baltimore Boy Brought Together by Tradition and Fate […]
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Top Stories This Week in the Baltimore Fishbowl
Our most read stories this week: Woman Attacked By Rottweiler at Waverly Farmer’s Market Perry Hall High Shooting Coverage: A Round-Up Hot House – In the Woods: A Contemporary Overlooking Lake Roland Bohemian Rhapsody – Subtitle!: The Long, Explanatory, Marketing-Oriented String of Words NoNon-fiction Book Can Live Without Hopkins Freshmen Move-In Day Throughout the Ages […]
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SUBTITLE!: The Long, Explanatory, Marketing-Oriented String of Words No Nonfiction Book Can Live Without
If our Marion Winik had a personal subtitle, readers, what would it be? For the past couple years, I’ve been looking for a publisher for a memoir of my adventures since my second marriage went bust in 2008. Readers of this column will remember some of these stories — what they lack in romance, they […]
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Guacamole Is a Cruel Mistress: A Recipe
University of Baltimore Asst. Prof. and Bohemian Rhapsody Columnist Marion Winik has strong opinions about how to prepare guacamole — and she’s not kidding around. A couple of weeks ago in The New York Times Book Review “How to” issue, novelist Kate Christensen, who has recently moved to Maine, had a wonderful essay about making […]
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Party Time in the Lost City: Winik Family Vacation 2012!
Marion Winik notes: This is the first in a series of 134 articles about the Atlantis resort I will be writing to fund my upcoming Visa bill. Family vacations are all about creating magical memories, and here’s one we Winiks will treasure from our four-day visit to the Bahamas this month. It was 11 a.m., […]
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The Reader’s Guide to Life, Starting with a Parade, Ending with a Funeral
University of Baltimore Asst. Prof. and Bohemian Rhapsody Columnist Marion Winik comes to understand why she’s addicted to reading fiction — her motivation may surprise you. On the sidewalk of St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans sat a girl in a low folding beach chair. Dragged by her mother to the Mardi Gras parade, she […]
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The Mad Naked Summer Night
University of Baltimore Asst. Prof. and Bohemian Rhapsody Columnist Marion Winik ponders “the half-life of a snow cone” and other heated, heat-related topics. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s night? Thou art more lovely and more temperate, but I’m afraid that’s not saying much. These nights are thick and heavy as black velour, hot […]
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The Cells That Got Away: A Fan’s Notes
Are we, in fact, becoming our mothers, minute by minute? University of Baltimore Asst. Prof. and Bohemian Rhapsody Columnist Marion Winik contemplates the question through a scientific (and poetic) lens. “You should put your name in,” I said to my daughter Jane the other night at the Stoop show at CenterStage. The host had invited […]
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Greetings from Asbury Park: A Tale of Life after Death
University of Baltimore Asst. Prof. and Bohemian Rhapsody Columnist Marion Winik ventures home again. New Jersey, our state All our best is addressed to you! New Jersey, our state We’ll keep abreast of the times with you! Once again we’re here to tell The many ways that we excel In New Jersey the state that […]
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Our Big Fat New Orleans Graduation
University of Baltimore Asst. Prof. and Bohemian Rhapsody Columnist Marion Winik celebrates her son’s college graduation alongside her ex-mother-in-law. Though I have neither superpowers nor a signature form-fitting costume, I do have something in common with comic book heroes. I have a historic nemesis. Mine is a 72-year-old Italian lady from Philadelphia. This defender of […]
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The Man-Woman Thing
University of Baltimore Asst. Prof. and Bohemian Rhapsody Columnist Marion Winik meditates on men she has loved and the value of sexual chemistry. Though most of us grew up thinking we’d find true love and mate for life, many didn’t make it very far. Some picked the wrong person in the first place. Some had relationship ADD. Others […]
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By the Time I Got to Woodstock
University of Baltimore Asst. Prof. and Bohemian Rhapsody Columnist Marion Winik looks back on the summer camp that helped define her sense of self — she even pays the director a visit. Last week I made my annual pilgrimage to the Woodstock Writers Festival. Arriving in town moments after the news broke of the death […]
