After years living in the 'burbs, the MPT doyenne gets the snazzy urban condo she deserves.
It's a good thing Rhea Feikin isn't superstitious. Almost two years ago, the longtime Maryland Public Television personality sold her Stevenson home of 42 years and moved into a swank new condo on Charles Street in Baltimore. "I always knew I wanted to live in the Charles Street area," she explains. "My friends live in this area, and I was tired of being the designated driver!" But literally a...
Economy be damned, Pat Turner keeps the buzz going on his new Silo Point condos.
Silo Point sits on a ragged section of Baltimore's once-industrial waterfront, a stone's throw from Fort McHenry, where the harbor heads out to the bay. The building's stark profile—long neck and step-down shoulders—is visible from several angles: from Highlandtown and Johns Hopkins Hospital, from downtown Baltimore's Center Club, from the entry points to the Harbor Tunnel, from the surrounding...
While coming down hard on local politicos, Maryland's State Prosecutor is enduring a loss of his own
For most folks in state and local government, State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh is the last person they want to hear from.
Just in the past six months, his corruption investigations have ensnared Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon for alleged perjury, theft, and receiving illegal gifts; developer Ronald Lipscomb and City Councilwoman Helen Holton on bribery charges; and Baltimore County Councilman...
Stephen Hunter swaggers from print journalism to the best seller list and the silver screen.
I stand next to Baltimore writer Stephen Hunter at On Target, an indoor pistol range in the Severn Square Shopping Center. He casts a pitiful glance at my dust-covered, snub-nosed Smith & Wesson .38 Special, a poorly maintained, wildly inaccurate relic from the 1970s that I've brought along for the day's exercise. Hunter turns away and loads his own weapon—a .38 caliber Colt Officer's Model...
Her husband's murder transformed a young wife into a victims' rights advocate. Will Anna Sowers' activism make Baltimore safer?
Anna Sowers knew something was wrong when her husband didn't respond to news that she'd just spotted Scottie Pippen in a bar. She'd planned this all-girls weekend in Chicago for months. During a break between the spring and summer terms in Sowers' graduate school schedule, the group—four Baltimore friends, all professionals in their 20s and 30s—would relax and enjoy each other's company in the...
As he reflects on his extraordinary career, Dr. Ben Carson is now willing to open his house--and his life story--to the public.
Lacena "Candy" Carson wanders around the basement family room of her Georgian-style, Baltimore County estate—hammer in hand—performing an extremely familiar task: She's tacking up plaques and prizes belonging to her husband, Dr. Ben Carson, the internationally-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon.
On this brisk fall night, Candy has fallen a bit behind in her efforts, as she hangs Carson's 2007...
A year after WYPR fired Marc Steiner, the public radio community is still reeling--and wondering what it was all about.
Marc Steiner doesn't listen to WYPR anymore.
"I listen to Morning Edition on WAMU, Amy Goodman on WEAA, and Bob Edwards, Leonard Lopate, and Garrison Keillor on XM Satellite Radio," he says, listing some of public radio's most popular programs and personalities—most of which can be heard on Baltimore's largest National Public Radio affiliate, WYPR (88.1 FM). "I have not listened to YPR since I...
Two scholars debate where the legendary author belongs
It all started with an October 2007 article in Philadelphia's City Paper. In it, Edward Pettit—an Edgar Allan Poe scholar—touted Philly's ties to the great author and suggested exhuming Poe's remains and transporting them to the City of Brotherly Love. "Let's hop in our cars, drive down I-95, and appropriate a body from a certain Baltimore cemetery," he wrote. "I'll bring the shovel . . . Poe is...
A dessert cookbook by a local author adds comfort to the mix
Pikesville resident Konya Lindsey learned a love of baking from family in California. She migrated to Baltimore for grad school and worked in marketing before starting a dessert catering business, SugarPlum Confections, in 2007. But even before that, the 32-year-old was thinking about compiling her recipes. "I really wanted to write a cookbook that spoke to people who have trepidations about...
Anyone familiar with the shop 2910 on the Square knows Mazel and Sadie, Stephanie Fleishman's store greeters. Sadie, 12 ½, and Mazel "10ish" are what Fleishman refers to as "Canton water dogs" (a.k.a. mutts) and the reason many customers stop by. (Her beloved Dillon passed away in early November. Fleishman says customers were almost as devastated as she was.) "People come just to see the dogs, as...
