We revisit some of the best Preakness races.
UPDATED 5/17/13: Last year, I wrote a blog curating some of the best moments in televised Preakness history. While we all wait with baited breath to see if the locally owned Derby champ Orb can...
At some point in my academic life, I was assigned to read one of 19th-century writer, orator, and abolishionist Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, probably Narrative of the Life of Frederick...
Recently, there have been a couple announcements that our city and state are getting federal funding for two separate historic tributes.
The first piece of news, announced yesterday, is that...
Anyone visiting the Inner Harbor yesterday couldn’t help but notice an unusual addition to the Baltimore waterscape. As a small, red fire boat pulled an enormous grey ship into the harbor, many...
The good news: The Weinstein Company has picked up a movie, called W.E., about the scandalous love affair between Baltimore divorcee Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII. (Those unfamiliar with the...
Baltimore native Te-Nehisi Coates has an excellent piece on The New York Times’ op-ed page about taking his 10-year-od son to the new X-Men movie. Actually, it’s about much more than that. Coates, a...
Interesting development: Emmy-award winning TV producer Bob Cochran (L.A. Law) has purchased the rights to Michael J. Kline's The Baltimore Plot, about a conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln...
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was in town yesterday as a part of her "One Nation" bus tour across the country. She and her family visited Fort McHenry and were guided by Ranger Jim Bailey,...
