My new play, “No Mean City: Baltimore 1966,” will open in March for a run of performances — including, we hope, a *weekday matinee for students — in the Meyerhoff Theater of the Baltimore Museum of Art. A historic drama, “No Mean City” tells stories about Baltimore that have long been overshadowed by the biggest … Continue reading New play: The 1966 Orioles, the fight for civil rights and Baltimore’s last Republican mayor
Love America Rallies: No Kings Day, October 2025
The MAGA Republican response to the second No Kings protest has been a combination of laughably extreme invective and childish hissy fit. Republican after Republican issued over-the-top criticism of the organized demonstrations against the Trump regime, calling them Soros-sponsored antifa gatherings. House Speaker Mike Johnson called them “hate America” rallies. White House press secretary Karoline … Continue reading Love America Rallies: No Kings Day, October 2025
No Kings Day events: Find a place to join the protest
No matter where you live, you can find fellow Americans who will be protesting Trump's efforts to kill our democracy on Saturday Oct. 18. Try this link to see a list of protest points near you. In Baltimore, No Kings 2 will take place along the route of the Baltimore Running Festival. You can catch … Continue reading No Kings Day events: Find a place to join the protest
Seasonal reminder: Maryland’s best deck
I did not want to let October pass without telling you about this again. It's the big deck in Green Ridge State Forest, between the communities of Bellegrove and Flintstone. Interstate 68 takes you right there. Attached to one of the highway exit signs -- for exit 64, to be exact -- you'll find one of … Continue reading Seasonal reminder: Maryland’s best deck
Dusting off memories
“Nostalgia is death” always sounded pretty harsh. Bob Dylan made that pronouncement during a newspaper interview in 1991. He meant that he did not wish to be defined by the music of his past, or to dwell on it, no matter how much his fans wanted to hear it. When you stop focusing on the … Continue reading Dusting off memories
How a young journalist and future Nobel laureate exposed the corruption of a dictator: Gabriel García Márquez, 1955
A castaway sailor and the shuttering of a great newspaper Rojas Seventy years ago, the military dictatorship of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia shut down one of the nation’s best newspapers, El Espectador, after an expose by a 28-year-old reporter who would go on to become one of the world’s most famous novelists. It’s a … Continue reading How a young journalist and future Nobel laureate exposed the corruption of a dictator: Gabriel García Márquez, 1955
WWYD: What Would You Do?
So you park your car in the shopping center parking lot, a couple of safe spaces from a carriage corral. You get out. You grab a carriage from the carriage corral. As you do this, you notice a double-roll package of paper towels in the lower tray of one of the other carriages. Having watched … Continue reading WWYD: What Would You Do?
Charging people to park at Baltimore Peninsula?
Nobody asked me, but charging people to park their cars on a surface lot at Baltimore Peninsula, a new neighborhood still waiting to happen in South Baltimore, is one of the most daft ideas I’ve seen within the city limits. Does Kevin Plank know about this? The sign accompanying this post stands on a mostly … Continue reading Charging people to park at Baltimore Peninsula?
Making the call from center field
Sept. 11, 2025: Baltimore Orioles v Pittsburgh Pirates: At Camden Yards on warm and sunny Thursday afternoon, the Orioles scored a go-ahead run shortly after fans had taken their 7th-inning stretch. Dylan Beavers’ clutch single brought Jackson Holliday home from second, putting the Orioles in the lead, 3-2. These photos, taken from a plaza above … Continue reading Making the call from center field
An osprey awaits an easy meal
It’s speculation on my part, but I suspect that the osprey perched high in a tree above the river was hoping for an assist from the two anglers down below. The bird was no freeloader, just an opportunist looking for an easy meal. Consider that this "fish hawk" had picked a spot directly above a … Continue reading An osprey awaits an easy meal
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