Dan Rodricks

Thanks to one and all who purchased tickets for the Dec. 2 and 3 performances of my “one-man play with a cast of seven (or eight)” at the Meyerhoff Auditorium of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Reminder: Seating is general admission. The email confirmation of your purchase serves as your ticket. Ushers will have your name … Continue reading Sold out: Baltimore, You Have No Idea

Thanks to one and all who purchased tickets for the Dec. 2 and 3 performances of my "one-man play with a cast of seven (or eight)" at the Meyerhoff Auditorium of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Reminder: Seating is general admission. The email confirmation of your purchase serves as your ticket. Ushers will have your … Continue reading Sold out: Baltimore, You Have No Idea

Neil Grauer, author, journalist and cartoonist, is well known for his Johns Hopkins Blue Jay. He’s drawn it thousands of times over more than a half-century, since his time as an undergrad at Homewood. (Photographer Jim Burger took the photo atop this post and wrote a profile of Neil for the City Paper in 2014.) … Continue reading Getting in toon for Maryland’s next governor

After Saturday's public hearing, Ken Rosenstiel wrote this report: The meeting went well and it started with Elisabeth Lardner of Lardner/Klein Landscape Architects announcing that they decided three weeks ago that there would not be any bikes in the park and that got the biggest round of applause. The rest was fairly boilerplate; new Nature … Continue reading Updated: Oregon Ridge, no bikes in the master plan

If you caught Jordan Klepper’s most recent report on election deniers on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” you’d think half the country had lost its mind, or, at the very least, had never had a class in American government, had never developed the ability to think critically, had never grown up. Klepper travels among … Continue reading On Americans who support election deniers, doubters and other dopey politicians on the right

The 2022 election isn’t really about ideology. It's not about whether the nation should spend trillions on fixing infrastructure or addressing climate change. It’s not about forgiving student loan debt or closing our southern border with Mexico or even abortion rights. The latter is clearly on the minds of many voters. But something much bigger … Continue reading Do level-headed Americans still outnumber those who’ve lost their minds? We shall soon see.

Whenever I get into this subject, I'm sure it always sounds self-serving — the importance of local journalism and the American public’s support of it. But let’s give credit where it’s due. As I worked on my Friday Sun column, I had a question: How did majestic old St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church in East … Continue reading Local journalism fills in the blanks

I believe my fascination with World War I has come to an end. I watched the new adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet On The Western Front” on Netflix and realized, during a hand-to-hand combat scene when un soldat français takes a shovel to the face, that I can no longer stomach visions of the “war … Continue reading Goodbye to all that

I would like one person who lives in Maryland’s 1st District to tell me one thing Rep. Andy Harris has done that was beneficial to that person or that district in the 12 years Harris has been in Congress. (We already know about the Salisbury post office renaming, that doesn’t count.) Go ahead. Let’s hear … Continue reading Andy Harris supporters: Why this guy?

I very rarely take photographs of the fish I rarely catch. I am too eager to release them back to the rivers, ponds or bays. But I thought I should try and get a photo of this wild brown trout because it was so large and had so much power and tested my skill to … Continue reading Not a good photographer of fish