The Incredibly True Adventures of the Baltimore Bachelorette
We all know that holidays are about traditions: turkey on Thanksgiving, kissing at midnight on New Year's Eve, fireworks on July 4th, etc. And then there's . . . Valentine's Day (insert dramatic movie music here). Typical traditions for this "couple's holiday" include flowers, candy, and other kinds of lovey-dovey romantic fluff. But what about us single folk? Where is the love for us?
If you are...
Bob Parsons, the local founder of domain name giant Go Daddy, is having way too much fun.
Bob Parsons has a saying he's fond of: "We're not here for a long time. We're here for a good time." So when the CEO and founder of Go Daddy, the world's largest Internet domain registrar and web-hosting provider, isn't scheming to increase his market share, he can often be found in one of two places: riding his Ducati Streetfighter motorcycle through the Arizona desert or knocking a golf ball...
An autism specialist’s personal experience inspires a new way to tackle childhood obesity.
Eleven years ago, Dr. SungWoo Kahng moved to Baltimore with his wife to join the staff of the neurobehavioral unit at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Kahng became so engrossed in his work, treating some of the most severely autistic children in the country, that at first he didn't notice when he started to pile on the pounds.
"Quite honestly, I was a slug," says Kahng, now 41, who began thinking...
The Antrim 1844 executive chef on feeling French, hating foam, and Grand Marnier soufflé with just a drizzle of chocolate.
Michael Gettier is an American chef of French descent, who helms a trés, trés romantic restaurant in Taneytown, and who studied cooking in Paris. Who better to Grill on all matters of food, the French, and, of course, amour.
Where did you go to school?St. Paul's high school in Baltimore, Roanoke College in Virginia, and Ecole de Cuisine LaVarenne in Paris.
Who is your favorite Baltimorean, living...
Craig Beyler, arson investigator, Hughes Associates, Inc.
My first exposure to fire was joining a volunteer fire department when I was 16. My father signed me up. He said, 'I made you a member. Do anything about it if you want to.' I did volunteer firefighting until I was in my late-20s. My first degree is in civil engineering from Cornell, and for two of the three years I was there, I lived in a firehouse. It's a free room, except when the bell rings,...
The editor of the Baltimore Business Journal on secret sources, stinky cheese, and her son's art project gone awry.
Joanna Sullivan, the longtime editor of the Baltimore Business Journal, knows a thing or two about the power players of Baltimore. Power is all about access and impact, she tells us. And, as always, money talks. Below, so does Sullivan.
What book or film most changed your life?It would have to be All the President's Men. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein definitely played a role in my career choice...
Who has it. Who's lost it. And how to get it.
Delegate Keiffer Mitchell Jr. is at a cafe, being interviewed for this story, when his cell phone rings. "Hang on a sec, I've got to take this," he says. He leans away and answers the phone. He's discussing the Baltimore Grand Prix —the upcoming Indy car race that Mitchell was a key player in bringing to Baltimore. All of downtown will be affected by the race, and whomever Mitchell is talking to...
The Baltimore-born star copes with his recent arrest and his mother's ongoing addictions.
When police arrived at the Fell Street apartment building early in the morning on October 1, they found Shawntia Hardaway sitting on a chair in the opulent lobby, sobbing.
According to a police report, Hardaway was extremely upset that her son, Mario Dewar Barrett, had destroyed things in the apartment the two shared. She was in pain and discomfort, Hardaway told police, because Barrett had...
A look back at the local luminaries we lost in the past year.
Barton Childs, 93In the proverbial nature-versus-nurture debate, the eminent Johns Hopkins University pediatric geneticist, researcher, and educator Dr. Barton Childs came down squarely in the middle, once writing, “disease is as much a consequence of variation in our social and cultural organization as biological, and management is best directed to whichever component is most amenable.” In his...
Mt. Washington blogger attracts legions of readers with her honesty and wit.
Dear Jeff: Please, for the 101st time, do not use the same spoon for the peanut butter and for the jelly. Toast with butter and Jiffy-flavored jelly makes me want to vomit. In your face.
This letter to her husband begins the September 16 entry on the Scary Mommy blog (scarymommy.com). It goes on to include tartly worded directives to her three children, ages 6, 5, and 3 (“Don’t bicker and fight...
