In a down economy, it seems more and more Americans are turning to fraud. And more and more are getting caught. The latest allegations of accumulating wealth under false pretenses are aimed at Morgan State University professor Manoj Kumar Jha, 45. Jha received a total of $200,000 in grant money from the National Science Foundation […]
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Not to be Missed: John Waters and John Travolta at MICA
You know those brilliantly sunny Baltimore days when you burst out onto your stoop belting out, “Good Morning, Baltimore!”? No, is that just me? There is something about the magical combination of this city, that song, John Waters, and John Travolta that almost demands a smile creep up on your face. Waters so obviously loves […]
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Severna Park Man Questioned by Police at Site of Sikh Temple Shooting
Joel Sinclair Corbett, 31, of Severna Park raised suspicions as he made his way to the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., the site of a mass shooting in August. He walked into the temple in the morning on October 28 “wearing a backpack with wires hanging out of it.”
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The Baltimore Lit Parade for October: Three Troubled Policemen, “13 Girls,” and van den Berg’s Scary-Good Book Deal
Just in time for Halloween, the second installment of writer Joseph Martin’s column features bloody true-crime fiction by local authors, WORMS, and more frightfully cool lit scene news. Much as we tend to play up our Hon Blievers, Book Things, and park-laden, neurosis-free psyche, few towns teem with morbid curiosity quite like Charm City. From […]
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Sandy’s Coming! State Highway Admin Readies for the Hurricane
High Winds, Coastal Surge, Rain/Flooding Possible; Travelers Must Use Extra Caution Driving/Walking (October 26, 2012) – A massive coastal storm threatens to bring heavy rain, high winds, widespread power outages and a coastal storm surge to the mid-Atlantic region, including Maryland. Hurricane Sandy is a huge slow moving storm with wide-ranging impacts anticipated regardless of […]
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Being the Not-Me
Baltimore writer Elisabeth Dahl loses herself on Halloween night, in a good way. One late October day when I was three or four, my mother woke me early from an afternoon nap. She held up a full gingham skirt and wide-brimmed straw hat I’d never seen and said it was time to get dressed. I […]
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Beilenson Steps Down as Howard County Health Officer
Dr. Peter Beilenson has stepped down as Howard County health officer to become CEO of a new health care co-op.
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Award-Winning Documentary Looks at the drug war in Baltimore and Beyond
Few cities have been as effected by the drug war as Baltimore. The House I Live In, winner of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, examines the impact of the war and questions its efficacy. The Open Society Institute and the Maryland Film Festival will hold a screening of the film at […]
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Weekend Event Picks: The Gathering, High Zero
Picks from our Events page… Come Friday night, the last thing you want to do is cook. You’ve probably run out of groceries, have no urge to run to the store, and the novelty of the new restaurant around the corner has worn off. Today, give yourself a break and check out The Gathering. From […]
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The New York Times Travels to Baltimore, Predictably Mentions Beehive Hairdos
The last time the New York Times travel section covered Baltimore, they portrayed the city as a Hon-tastic place full of “beehive hairdos and wacky museums.” Well, better than the Wire-retreads that the European travel sections tend to prefer, at least. But that was three years ago, which means our fair city is due for […]
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High Zero 2012: Improvisational Music and Dance Festival Takes Over Charm City
Currently in its 14th year, High Zero is an egalitarian, dogmatically improvisational Baltimore music festival whose format is something like the international experimental music community’s version of a corporate team-building exercise. The performers play several sets over the course of the festival, thrown together in various ad hoc collaborations. Often, the players haven’t even met […]
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Peter Beilenson and Patrick Macguire Tonight at the Pratt
A few weeks back we talked to Dr. Peter Beilenson about his new book, Tapping Into “The Wire” among other topics. Tonight Beilenson and co-author Partick Macguire will be at the Enoch Pratt Library at 7 p.m. to discuss the book, which uses the television series as a road map for exploring connections between inner-city poverty and […]
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Al Jazeera Documentary Explores Baltimore Crime, Poverty and Urban Decay
Al Jazeera aired this week “Baltimore: Anatomy of An American City,” a 24-minute documentary that looks at the intractable urban problems of Baltimore. “When you walk through neighborhoods like this,” Al Jazeera correspondent Sebastian Walker says, “it’s hard not to feel that the legacy of the war these communities have been living through is so […]
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The Solution to Baltimore’s Woes? An Unconference
Does anyone really like a conference? Too often they’re long-winded, overly structured and just plain dull; the only upside is the free lunch. Which is exactly why unWIREd, a gathering of Baltimore’s non-profit/business/technology leaders that takes place this weekend, is billing itself an “unconference.” With its open collaboration, self-organizing principles, and opportunities for interaction, the […]
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Coming Out about Parkinson’s: Public Health Visionary Peter Beilenson on Ambition, Obamacare, and What We Can Learn from “The Wire”
Dr. Peter Beilenson — the high-profile Howard County health officer — prefers to keep his personal life out of the press. When he announced publicly his Parkinson’s diagnosis last month, he did it for one reason: to support Obamacare. Diagnosed five years ago, Beilenson, 52, made public his health status the same day the U.S. […]
