Dubbed the "Daredevil Granny" by the national media, Susie Mann has chosen a "bucket list" over cancer treatment.
In September, 79-year-old Timonium resident Susie Mann fulfilled a lifelong dream to go skydiving. Despite severe nausea leading up to the moment of her descent, Mann took the plunge from a plane at the Skydive Space Center in Titusville, Florida.
"I figured if President Bush could do it, I could do it, too," says Mann. "I don't know what I expected, but I thought there would be a feeling of...
How Marty Resnick Turned Mom's Brisket Into an Empire.
The Martins catering kingdom stretches across Maryland, from the verdant fields of Frederick County to the bustling suburbs of our nation's capital. Its holdings include a mansion in Hunt Valley, a palace in Upper Marlboro aptly named Camelot, and a Greek revivalist temple towering over the Baltimore Beltway—with a giant billboard as familiar and iconic as the Shot Tower or the Aquarium—seven...
Artist Elaine Hamilton's home reflects a lifetime of globetrotting adventure.
Elaine Hamilton O'Neal has bunked in a variety of places in her lifetime. She owned a 42-room chateau in France before downsizing to one with just 18 rooms. She and her husband, William O'Neal, lived in a converted mill near Birmingham, Alabama; she's lived in apartments in Florence and New York, in a tent at the Mount Everest base camp, and was once put up by the Houston, Texas, Rotary Club in...
Josh Charles is excited about his new hit TV show, but what he'd really like is more time in Baltimore.
Josh Charles is living proof that you can take the boy out of Baltimore, but you can't take Baltimore out of the boy. A working actor since he was 15, Charles left his hometown to work when he was 16, but remains a Mt. Washington boy at heart, religiously following the O's and the Ravens and sometimes satiating his craving for crabs with transcontinental deliveries from Obrycki's.
"I love Johnny...
How a mild-mannered Baltimore antique dealer became one of the FBI's best agents.
In June 2002, two men waited in an upscale Madrid hotel room for a very important delivery. One was tall, buzz cut, athletic. The other was an affable, academic type in his late 40s with a medium build and short hair tinged with gray.
There was a knock at the door. It was a shaven-headed Spaniard wearing the garb of European thug: black T-shirt, tattoos on his arms, and a gold chain around his...
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse defies the economy with a progressive agenda and a new free school.
On a late summer evening, a dozen students in their 20s and 30s take seats around an oversized picnic table and on rows of bleachers inside the Baltimore Museum of Art's geodesic dome. John Duda, one of the founders of Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse collective, prepares to lead tonight's class, "Urban Development as Counterinsurgency," but he can't start. The students keep arriving.
"The...
No, my husband is not my son—he just looks like he is.
The first time I was mistaken for my husband's mother, it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard. I was 43, Mike was 42, and we were stranded at the Atlanta airport trying to make a connection to Savannah on a stormy night. Flights had been cancelled, passengers bumped, and hotel rooms all booked up when a U.S. Air pilot offered to help us secure a room for the night at an airport hotel. We gladly...
How Fiddler on the Roof and shock jock Johnny Walker shaped NPR's most singular storyteller.
Fiddler on the Roof changed Ira Glass's life. Growing up in Lochearn, the self-described "theater dork" attended nearly every production of the hit musical that made it to Baltimore. "My mom used to take my sisters and me to the musicals at Painters Mill Music Fair, or the Mechanic," recalls Glass. "Because there are so many Jews in Baltimore, some production of Fiddler on the Roof would come...
At just 25 years old, Tony Cushing has taken over the bar his father made an institution.
Ana Marie Cushing has a photo of her son, Tony, that never fails to amuse her. He's perhaps just four years old, behind the bar at the Cat's Eye Pub in Fells Point—the bar and live music venue that the Cushing family has owned for 34 years—waving a soda dispenser at the camera. "I was probably saying, 'Tony, you shouldn't be doing that,'" she recalls. "And he has this determined look on his face...
Ray Lewis is going to retire a Raven. You can exhale now.
Even Ray Lewis's displays of affection are physical.
As he roams from station to station at his youth fitness clinic on a Saturday morning in June, he's constantly reaching out—patting one boy's back, rubbing another's head, gently tugging a little girl's ear. As the children scamper from one activity to another, Lewis reaches down and scoops up 8-year-old Nyeema Harrison with the same cat-like...
