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...
Tatyana McFadden, Howard County resident and Paralympic track star.
Can you tell me about your childhood and adoption?
I was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with spina bifida in 1989. At that time in Russia, people just didn’t believe that people with disabilities should be acknowledged. I lived for my first six years in an orphanage. My mom worked as a government commissioner for disabilities, and she happened to stop by my orphanage, and we just made a...
Chefs and farmers forge bonds to bring fresh, local products to your table.
Order a steak and a salad at a Baltimore-area restaurant these days, and chances are the greens and beef were raised nearby—probably the goat’s cheese, tomatoes, and green beans, too—as more and more restaurants embrace the popular locavore trend. In fact, it seems you can’t read a menu these days without learning the pedigree of your food. Woodberry Kitchen goes so far as to include the farm...
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...
