Towson's Anne Wallace crusades against identity thieves.
Twice a week, Anne Wallace drives from her Towson home to Baltimore’s Penn Station, and catches the MARC train No. 513 to Washington, D.C.—one of 20,000 commuters who ride the MARC every day. That’s roughly the same number of people helped over the past four years by the nonprofit D.C.-based Identity Theft Assistance Center (ITAC), where Wallace has served for four years as executive director—and...
Almost six years after "the best show on TV" began, the man behind the series comes clean about why he did what he did.
“We want to be out of The Wire business,” says the mayor of Baltimore, repeating the affirmation that began this call twenty minutes ago, stalling us in the Safeway parking lot on Boston Street.
I am curbside at the grocery, caught between a cup of carryout coffee and an afternoon writer’s meeting, cellphone hard against my ear, playing liar’s poker with a politician.
“You’re telling me a week...
The Baltimore-based humorist on hobo porn, everyone’s secret inner nerd, and watching that step.
He pens witty columns for The New Yorker and Esquire, and his novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper—which chronicles one epic night in a lovesick geek's life—is already a teen-lit sensation (and slated to be a movie penned by Doyle himself). But the real reason we love Larry Doyle? He has written for both The Simpsons and Beavis & Butt-Head. Bow down, people.
What book or film most changed your life...
Chesapeake Search Dogs give a whole new meaning to the term, “Go Fetch!”
The volunteer hides behind a tree a few hundred yards from where Niko, a 4-month old German shepherd puppy, is playing with his owner, Dennis Ciesla. On Ciesla's "Find!" command, Niko bounds up the hill towards the wooded area, darting first right, then left, searching for the man's scent as it wafts through the chilly morning air.
Although the volunteer is in plain sight of Niko on more than one...
Bill Stevenson, tattoo artist and co-owner, Baltimore Tattoo Museum
"One of the things that consistently surprises me about our clientele is the number of people who come here for another reason—maybe to go to a baseball game or if they're in town for a convention—who end up coming in here and getting tattooed. I'm always amazed by that. I wasn't prepared for that. I really wasn't. They're different from the people who plot and plan and really think for a long...
Getting Goosed
Since Tony "Goose" Siragusa peeled off his ample No. 98 purple jersey for good after the 2001 season, the former Ravens defensive stalwart, who now lives in New Jersey, has become a TV regular. On January 9, he's back as host of Man Caves, a testosterone-charged home improvement show on DIY network.
Baltimore magazine: What's your man cave look like?Tony Siragusa: It's a serious man cave. I...
For three young cops, the allure is the same: helping people and "getting the situation under control."
It is nearly 2:30 a.m. on a cold Saturday in November when police officers Patrick Dotson and Lynell Green arrive on the scene at what appears to be a domestic disturbance in the Eastern District of Baltimore City. Dotson, 25, is barely two months out of the Police Academy. So he's pretty clear about the basic rules of law and police administration, but it is on the street and under the...
Food bank Director Deborah Flateman wants to end hunger in Maryland.
“My mother never threw away a leftover. Never, never,” recalls Deborah Flateman. “I learned from her that there’s a way to recycle food into other edible dishes. So, why would you ever throw it away?”
That philosophy should serve her well as the recently appointed CEO of the Maryland Food Bank (MFB). You see, Flateman hates the idea that someone somewhere in Maryland might be hungry. She takes it...
The furrier on a dip in the harbor, not sweating the anti-fur folks, and pink sable handbags.
One thing is clear: People will always wear fur. Just ask Richard Swartz, the fourth-generation owner of Mano Swartz. We sat down with the furrier to see if he had any advice for fellow merchants—and if real men really do wear fur.
Where did you go to school? Boys Latin, Park School, Pikesville Senior High, University of Vermont.
Who is your favorite Baltimorean, living or dead? Frank...
Charles Village author Michael Kimball turned U.S. rejection into U.K. success.
Michael Kimball chuckles good-naturedly as he recounts the excruciating process that preceded the publication of his unconventional first novel, The Way the Family Got Away. Turned down by approximately two dozen literary agents, he finally decided to pitch his book directly to publishers. "In the span of about a year," he recalls as he sits in the living room of the capacious Charles...
