Welcome to the inaugural column of Talking Points, in which we take a man-on-the-street approach and ask people a simple question every issue. This month, in light of the record-breaking temperatures this summer, we wanted to know how everybody is keeping cool.
Rob Fetner, 24, store manager, South Moon Under: I wait until the sun goes down so I can go out to the bars, like Souris Saloon in Towson...
<p>Firsthand accounts of what's happening in Baltimore.</p>
Full HouseJUNE 6, 2012 - ARUNDEL MILLS CIR., HANOVER, MD
Thousands of headlights stretch Field of Dreams-like around Arundel Mills Mall’s access road, all the way onto Route 100 past the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
They’re coming to the opening of the Maryland Live! Casino, surreally adjacent to the family-friendly shopping complex, not just to gamble but also to gawk. At 10 p.m., the line,...
The affable chef/co-owner of Chazz and Aldo’s makes meatballs with a passion as he eyes the future.
Like its creator, the veal meatball at Chazz: A Bronx Original is Italian at its core, yet brilliantly unique in its construction. Its presence, similar to Sergio Vitale’s, looms large over the Harbor East restaurant from which this local chef appears poised to become the next big thing on the national food scene. Restaurateur and appetizer share other traits. Both are burly, sweet, and, in...
We interview Laura Lippman about her new book (And When She Was Good), being a mother, and getting a good cup of coffee in New Orleans.
In what ways did being a mother affect your understanding and portrayal of Heloise?
I think, in some ways, I went on a similar journey -- starting as a woman (a stepmother) on the sidelines of soccer games in the suburbs, thinking myself a little apart, then coming to understand, no, I had much more in common with the moms than I realized. It's dangerous for women to think of themselves as...
The actor behind Ocean City’s “Rodney the Lifeguard” campaign on being Maryland’s face of summer.
How familiar were you with Ocean City before you were cast as Rodney?
I was really familiar from my youth. I was born in Columbus, OH, and my family used to vacation there. Then, after my parents’ divorce, my dad moved to the Eastern Shore, and I lived with him from the time I was 9 or 10 until I was 11 or 12.
What do you think separated you from the pack during casting?
I grew up on the ocean....
How one local crabber followed his dream.
As a criminal-justice major at Towson University, Tony Conrad once dreamed of a career with the FBI. But after four years of working in telecommunications, the lifelong waterman could no longer ignore what seemed a clarion call to catch crabs. “My cousin Billy was a waterman,” explains Conrad, 37. “My great grandfather was a waterman, [and] my great, great grandmother had a seafood restaurant in...
<p>Why are we still trying to make soccer work in America?</p>
Seems like we’ve tried everything: playing exhibition games in America, watching Brandi Chastain celebrate a goal in her sports bra, and even bringing freakin’ David Beckham over to play in Los Angeles.
But, still, soccer remains the unpopular stepchild in American sports.
“We, as Americans, need instant gratification and forward progress like in football or basketball,” says Terry Hasseltine,...
<p>As Michael Phelps embarks on his final Olympic lap, we chronicle his training leading up to London, his life in Baltimore, and his future outside of the pool.</p>
One-hundred-and-five days before the beginning of the end, Michael Phelps appears as relaxed as a man whose every move is being recorded by cameras and curious eyes can be.
Wearing a three-piece black suit with a purple tie that fits the venue, the tallest, richest, and most famous guy in the club level of M&T Bank Stadium fetches his mother, Debbie, a glass of white wine from the bar, and...
<p>Baltimore City College’s first class with women celebrates a 30th reunion.</p>
Anita Allen was about five years old when her big brother, Alton, a student at Baltimore City College, came home in his marching-band uniform.
“I remember him wearing that big top hat and playing the saxophone, and I thought that was just so cool,” she says. A few years later, when Alton became the first of Allen’s 15 siblings to graduate from college, she thought, “I need to go to that high...
For 35 years, House of Ruth has been giving voice and hope to victims of domestic violence.
Sitting in an office at House of Ruth Maryland, Christina Laumann takes a deep breath as she begins her story. It’s the one that started in 1993 when she was 14 and first fell in love with a 16-year-old boy she knew from the neighborhood, and ended in 2008 with an emergency divorce after a middle-of-the-night assault that still haunts her.
“It seemed like he wanted to give me the world, and I...
