Exploring the need for gender affirmation care for transgender adolescents, writer Marion Winik shares a cautionary tale about how we form opinions — and possibly a more promising one about how we learn.
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Welcome to the Land of Oz, aka Ozempic, Where Weight Loss Dreams Come True
Are Ozempic-type drugs right for people who have 20 pounds or less to lose, and a limited budget? Columnist Marion Winik shares her progress.
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Baltimore Weekend Events: Saltboxes, Lunar New Year, Chesapeake’s Black Watermen, and more.
From Lunar New Year celebrations to an exhibition about Baltimore’s iconic saltboxes, this weekend’s events offer something for everyone.
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Lineup announced for Baltimore Book Festival, happening Sept. 28-29 in Waverly
Crack open a good book and hear from an array of authors when the Baltimore Book Festival returns Sept. 28 and 29 for the first time since 2019.
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Baltimore Weekend Events: Bruce Springsteen, Love Groove Fest, Fells Point Oyster Fest, and more.
From an energizing concert by Bruce Springsteen, to the return of Fells Point Oyster Fest, this weekend has lots of fun Baltimore events.
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Rescued from the Slush Pile: Two Truths and Lie
Last spring I took an online storytelling class with Mike Daisey, thinking that somehow it might help me figure out how to write fiction. This was not the intended direction of the class— Mike is a well-known Spalding Grey-type monologist — but one of the assignments he gave did seem to lend itself toward my […]
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Bumbling
My most recent attempt at online dating, which follows earlier unsuccessful sorties, has crashed and burned somewhat spectacularly, with my being banned from Bumble. I’ve never been banned from anything before, so I’m feeling kind of modern.
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Trigger
At a recent high-spirited local production of Head Over Heels, which is what they call a “jukebox musical,” combining the hits of The Go-Gos with a book written in blank verse by local playwright James Magruder, the program contained several Announcements. First was “A Note on Gender.” It began, “As the city’s queer theater company, […]
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Notes from Vietnam: A Travel Journal
Marion Winik writes about her trip to Vietnam, from a pho and omelette bar to teashop, a water puppet show to the Cave of Surprises, and more.
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Last Week, This Week: Stories You Need To Start Your Day — And 2024! (News From Dec. 25-29)
Last week, we shared roundups of our top news stories, columns, and photos from 2023, including our most-read articles, the hottest houses, the year’s food highlights, and more.
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How to Read Like a Child
Last week, while I was driving to yoga, the dog got out. Not my dog, but the dog in the audiobook I was listening to, “The Family Chao,” by Lan Samantha Chang. This was a problem. I stared accusingly at the dashboard of my car, through which the audiobook app was playing, as if it […]
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When I’m Sixty-Four
Editor’s note: This column won first place (Division O) in the Local Column: Feature or Humor category of the Maryland, Delaware, and D.C. Press Association’s 2022 Contest. Read our other award-winning pieces here. A couple of weeks before my John-Lennon-never-celebrated-this birthday, my baby sister and I were out walking our dogs on Dewey Beach in the […]
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Susan Coll: Bookish People (In Conversation With Marion Winik) at The Ivy Bookshop
An indie bookshop event for a novel about indie bookshops! The Ivy is delighted to welcome Susan Coll to The Ivy for a reading and discussion of her new book, Bookish People, a celebratory peek behind the curtain of bookshop life. Susan will be in conversation with Marion Winik. This event will take place outdoors on the Ivy’s […]
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Baltimoreans in Hawaii, with Wedding Bells
Once upon a time I was so new to Baltimore that the words Pikesville, Timonium, Towson and Woodholme — and of course, Cockeysville — almost made me laugh, they were so strange. That was in the 20th century, close to the end of it. I was scheduled to do a reading from my book about […]
