How a former electrician jump-started the Arena and brought Springsteen and The Stones to town.
Frank Remesch stands onstage at the 1st Mariner Arena and marvels at the throng assembling before him. In 90 minutes, Bruce Springsteen will be leading fans through a sing-a-long version of "Hungry Heart"—"got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack"—and crowd-surfing his way to some mythic place in local music history. But now, as the buzz of anticipation builds, people gawk at Remesch (who's being...
The media maven on bad decisions, male pattern stupidity, and why he still wants to buy The Sun.
Ted Venetoulis—politician, newsman, and media exec—can now add a new hyphen to his name: novelist. So is his book, about a revenge-seeking First Lady, actually about Hillary Clinton? Read on . . .
What book or film most changed your life? Hail to the Cheat. It's a humorous political novel about a First Lady who catches her husband in a compromising position in the Oval Office and throws him...
Sheila Dixon's history of bad choices and dogged enemies foreshadowed her political implosion.
Day after day, Sheila Dixon's supporters gathered in the dimly lit gallery of a downtown courtroom like relatives huddled in the ringside shadows of a fight they could barely stand to watch. To them, Dixon was a friend, a sister, their mayor.
To the court, she was a criminal defendant.
Hour after hour, they watched as the State Prosecutor attacked the mayor from all angles: receipts, photographs...
We said goodbye to captains of industry, athletes, and beloved members of the community. A look back at those we lost.
Bernard Manekin, 95
(October 4, 1914 – September 5, 2009)
As the Mr. Outside dealmaker to his brother Harold's Mr. Inside bean counter, Bernard Manekin, who died this past September at the age of 95, helped establish the city's most successful commercial real estate business, developing, managing, and/or owning diverse projects such as the original Charles Center, Lord Baltimore Hotel, Oriole...
How did a brilliant University of Maryland scientist become lost in a world of drugs?
On September 28, the day after her daughter died, Marianne Woessner walked into the row house at 648 Dover St., in the shadow of Camden Yards and the University of Maryland Medical Center.
"It was a God-awful mess," says Woessner, who had flown up from her home in North Carolina to see the house where her oldest child, Dr. Carrie John, died after injecting buprenorphine—a heroin substitute...
The Creative Alliance co-founder on paying cash, liquor board snafus, and being wrapped up in fun.
The Creative Alliance, that vital cynosure of all things arts, is about to turn 15 years old. We sat down with co-founder and program director Megan Hamilton, who always manages to make us smile.
What book or film most changed your life? On the Road by Jack Kerouac. In '07, I drove 11,407 miles looking for the soul of that book.
Who is your favorite Baltimorean, living or dead? ...
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...
