ISE breaks into computer systems in order to protect them.
When Steve Bono was young, he was great at cheating in video games. Now Bono, 32, has turned that skill into a business as the CEO of Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), a professional hacking company. “It’s always been about curiosity, never malice, for me,” he says. “I don’t like the idea of people committing crimes using computers.” ISE’s goal is to hack into systems, detect vulnerabilities...
We speak with bassist and Peabody instructor Michael Formanek.
How would you characterize the current group and how has its music has evolved? Will you continue recording/performing with them?
The quartet that is on my two ECM CD's is kind of a dream come true group on every level. They are unbelievably accomplished players, composers, and bandleaders who are always willing to give themselves up to making my music the best it can possibly be. They all have...
Jim Newell, 27, freelance political journalist for The Guardian, Salon, formerly Wonkette/sportswriter for Grantland.
You are an Annapolis native. What are your abiding memories of growing up there?I am indeed from Annapolis, born and raised. My memories are mostly of going to either the mall or to Main Street in downtown, to walk around and look at shop windows, because that’s really all there is to do in Annapolis. My family never got into sailing. We did the crabs thing, though. I used to catch crabs! Big...
We take a look back at the best games of Joe Flacco’s Ravens career.
1/10/09: 13-10 vs. Tennessee Titans
Flacco earned his place in the hearts of Ravens fans with this steady, patient win against the Titans, where he became the only rookie QB ever to win two post-season games.
12/20/09: 31-7 vs. Chicago Bears
The normally defensive-minded Bears were helpless against the Ravens’ supercharged offense and Flacco’s career high four touchdown throws.
1//9/10: 30-7 vs....
A man who was told he could never walk tackles a 5K.
When Jerry Sersen was four years old, he was hit by a car. A couple years later, he developed partial paralysis in his legs. He went through several years of testing and never received a diagnosis. Doctors told him he’d be in a wheelchair by the time he was a teenager. Well, he’s miraculously beaten the odds and, this month, will be walking in his first 5K at the Baltimore Running Festival. “By...
Thanks to the Internet, local moms can run their own businesses and stay at home with baby.
At 2 p.m. on a summer Monday, the phone rings in the Mt. Washington offices of bhealthybmore.com, a new website aimed at promoting health and wellness in Charm City. The site’s creator, Sarah Bregel, 27, answers the call and immediately drops her voice to a whisper. “I’m going to sneak out on the porch so I don’t wake the baby,” she says.
Later that week, Elizabeth Voss, 44, spends an hour of her...
A Pigtown woman outs owners of blighted properties in Baltimore’s neighborhoods.
Carol Ott had enough. “Maybe I woke up on the wrong side of bed that morning,” she says. “I don’t know exactly what pushed me over the edge.”
For years, the feisty, 5-foot-1, mother of two dutifully attended Pigtown neighborhood meetings. Each time, the same topic—the shuttered shopping center at the intersection of Washington and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevards—came up. It was bad enough that...
Firsthand Accounts of What's Happening in Baltimore.
A Dream Un-deferred
East Fayette Street, August 16, 2012
“He vivido en Estados Unidos de América salir por mas de seis meses des del el 15 de junio de 2007?,” (Have you lived in the U.S. since 2007 without leaving for more than six months?) Gustavo Andrade, megaphone in hand, asks several hundred Latino students and young adults outside East Baltimore’s CASA de Maryland.
Andrade then asks those...
Little Vinnie transforms breast-cancer survivors with his tattoos.
Blaze Starr stares seductively from an 8-x-10 autographed glossy in the corner of his “office,” as tattoo artist Vinnie Myers readies for his morning client. He lays out his tattoo machines, surveys possible pigments based on his client’s request, and opens a cabinet drawer to check on his stock of single-use sterilized, disposable needles (some for shading, some for lining) needed to get the job...
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...
