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...
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 . . ....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
How a mild-mannered Baltimore antique dealer became one of the FBI's best agents.
In June 2002, two men waited in an upscale Madrid hotel room for a very important delivery. One was tall, buzz cut, athletic. The other was an affable, academic type in his late 40s with a medium...
No, my husband is not my son—he just looks like he is.
The first time I was mistaken for my husband's mother, it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard. I was 43, Mike was 42, and we were stranded at the Atlanta airport trying to make a connection to...
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse defies the economy with a progressive agenda and a new free school.
On a late summer evening, a dozen students in their 20s and 30s take seats around an oversized picnic table and on rows of bleachers inside the Baltimore Museum of Art's geodesic dome. John Duda, one...
