We talk to Animal Collective’s Brian Weitz (Geologist) about reconvening with his old Park School friends to record a new album and embark on a fall tour.
The band returned to Baltimore to write material for the new disc. Why did you do that and how’d it go?We’ve been living in different cities and, for the past few records, we’ve been putting together songs through file-sharing. This time, we wanted to write the songs together, so we had to pick a location. Noah and I both have children, so we needed to think about the fact that, if we were going...
Jack Andraka, North County High School sophomore, 16, winner of the 2012 Intel Science Fair.
Can you explain—in layman’s terms—what the test you invented does?Basically, it consists of some carbon nanotubes, atom-thick tubes of carbon, and antibodies, which bind and capture only this one cancer biomarker. So I had this network of these nanotubes and antibodies integrated into a paper sensor. So when you put a drop of someone’s blood onto the test strip, it will change its electrical...
Save the dates: below is a list of open houses at schools in the Greater Baltimore region.
Archbishop Spalding High School 10/28, 12 p.m. 8080 New Cut Rd., Severn 410-969-9105 Grades 9-12, coed Enrollment: 1,220Affiliation: Roman Catholic
Baltimore Lab School Call for individual tours; third Thursday tours 8:30-9:30 a.m., 9/20, 10/18, 11/15; open house, 12/13. 2220 St. Paul St. 410-261-5500 baltimorelabschool.org Grades 1-12, coed Enrollment: 110 Affiliation: non-sectarian...
After 50 years, The Center Club celebrates its diversity.
Marc Broady, a young, dapper employee of the city school system, visited The Center Club for the first time in 2008 to support a friend participating in a Baltimore magazine “Top Singles” event. He was so impressed by the upscale club that he decided to join. He liked the idea of belonging to a private bar and restaurant, and the many opportunities to network with influential club members. As...
How The Park School made Baltimore history, 100 years ago this month.
It’s Friday morning rush hour at The Park School of Baltimore, as sunlight—and students—stream into the lower-school lobby. With the school day about to begin, the mood is something akin to “rope drop” (or opening hour) at Disney World, as an eager crowd of students waits for the clock to strike 8:10 a.m., the time they are first allowed down the hallway into their classrooms. To bide time, two...
The Insider's Guide To Local Schools
Sure, the current job market remains frustrating for many recent college graduates, but the long-term benefits of earning a college degree are clear: Over the course of a lifetime, college graduates can expect to earn almost twice as much as those with high-school diplomas. And in today’s increasingly digitized, engineered, and information-based global economy, the importance of a college degree—...
Firsthand Accounts Of What's Happening in Baltimore
JULY 14, 2012NO. 22, BRONZED: EUTAW & CAMDEN STS.
The picnic area by the Camden Yards bullpen is fancier than ever: waiters in bowties, drinks on silver trays. It’s obvious today is special. The audience resembles an Orioles Who’s Who—Brooks Robinson, Eddie Murray, Cal Ripken Jr., Rick Dempsey, Earl Weaver. As the legends take their seats, the current roster files in. (Buck Showalter and Adam...
One local teenager’s ripple effect makes waves in other young people’s futures in Rwanda.
Emily Golden is a beautiful teenager from Timonium. She is tall and leggy, with long hair the color of thick honey, eyes flecked with the green and brown of autumn grasses, a quick smile, and she sings like an angel. She’s beginning her senior year at G.W. Carver Center for Arts and Technology, a magnet high school in Towson, where she studies vocal performance. ¶ But even with all of her...
Why We Love To Hate The Steelers
Eight seconds and a tiny sliver of pigskin.
That’s all that separated Torrey Smith from infamy.
He’d just let a sure touchdown pass dance off his fingertips, and Ravens fans in bars and living rooms everywhere could taste another soul-crushing defeat to the Steelers in their Natty Bohs.
But Smith never wavered. His team trailed by four when, on its final snap, he streaked down the right side of...
We speak with Kevin Young, co-editor, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010.
Editing the work, what surprised you about it? What did you take away from the experience?Seeing Lucille Clifton’s work all together, I was amazed at the sheer breadth of it—both in terms how much work she made, but also the ways in which it all adds up to something greater. I knew this instinctively, but it’s another thing to read so much Clifton: it has the weight of what I call in my afterword...
