Joe Ciurca, Senior Surfer Memorial Day was early this year. Windy and cold, the holiday came and went almost a week before the month of May had passed. But early or late – ready or not, rain or shine – the long weekend that honors America’s war dead launches the annual vacation [...]
“Get out in that kitchen, rattle those pots and pans …” - Big Joe Turner It was the kitchen battle that changed Kevin Relf from a kid who liked to cook into a young man who knew he was going to be a chef: duplicating his grandfather’s braised Blue Crab dish so perfectly that [...]
“Everybody’s a dreamer, and everybody’s a star … and everyone’s in movies, it doesn’t matter who you are …” - Raymond Douglas Davies Deragh Campbell as Taryn This year’s Maryland Film Festival, anchored at the Charles Theater, will be screening some 50 feature films and 75 short films this weekend in [...]
In December of 2010, a blogger for the New York Times wrote that Orioles’ Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver had died and gone to heaven. He was, in fact, at home in Florida. “Well I’ll be damned,” said Weaver when contacted by a reporter in Pembroke Pines. Heaven was also relieved. Some three years [...]
"If you ask me, the circus in always in town ..." - guy riding Light Rail, whom no one asked Photo Credit: Feld Entertainment Five pachyderms - bonded trunk to tail - walked west on Fayette Street through [...]
- by Rafael Alvarez “I burn, freckle and peel …” - an Irish woman’s seaside lament Mary Carol Reilly’s father got two week’s vacation every year from the family leather shop in downtown Baltimore. And just about every summer of her childhood, the Reillys spent part of those two weeks in Ocean City. “My mother [...]