The never-shy defense lawyer on porn stars, speaking his mind, and besting William Shatner.
You've seen the TV ads, with their colorful slogan: "Don't urinate on my leg and tell me it's raining." Now, meet the (equally colorful) attorney and animal rights activist behind them.
What is the best advice you ever got?Don't get married. I recently had my first baby, Schonbek. He is in one of my ads. I love and live with his mother, but I don't like ceremonies, and allowing a stranger (judge...
Sixty years after signing her first record contract, Ethel Ennis still isn't singing the blues.
Did you ever hear the one about Lady Day biting Miles Davis at Ethel Ennis's house? It's true. She bit him on the hand. And drew blood.
In the early-1960s, Ennis was living on Druid Hill Avenue, across from Union Baptist Church, and the famous trumpeter paid her a visit. A few years earlier, the two had shared a bill at New York's Village Vanguard, and Davis was a fan. At one point, he reached...
Johns Hopkins students form a quidditch sports team.
On the fields of The Johns Hopkins University, there’s a peculiar game going on. With students wearing capes and holding broomsticks, Homewood these days looks a lot more like Hogwarts.
That’s because, this past spring, students formed a group to play quidditch, the beloved sport from Harry Potter.
“Since Hopkins is a pretty nerdy school, I was surprised there wasn’t a team already,” says Shelby...
Sculptor John Henry talks about his upcoming Westport project.
John Henry, an artist based in Chattanooga, TN, hopes to erect a sculpture along the waterfront in Westport. The spiky, 236-foot-tall piece would sit on a plaza in Patrick Turner’s $1.5 billion development project. “We want the sculpture to be the center of the project,” Turner recently told the Public Art Commission. “It does for Baltimore what the Arch does in St. Louis. It would become a...
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...
