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Author George Saunders to headline CityLit Festival
New York Times best-selling author George Saunders will headline the 10th annual CityLit Festival this Spring. Saunders, the recipient of a MacArthur Award Fellowship, commonly known as a "genius" grant, has written four short story collections. The...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Baltimore-San Francisco book smackdown for Super Bowl
The Baltimore SunBaltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library wants in on the Super Bowl betting action -- with a book-lover's slant. It has offered this challenge: If the Ravens win Sunday, San Francisco Public Library City Librarian Luis Herrera will have to recite Edgar...Tags: Arts and Culture, Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers, YouTube, Ray Lewis
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Maryland Zoo, Pratt Library bet on the Ravens
When it comes to Super Bowl XLVII, it seems everyone is willing to put some skin in the game. Or at least a little ego. (Yes, we're talking about you, Mayor Hancock.) The bets for - and against - the Baltimore Ravens are piling up. And it's not just in...
Tags: Sports, Arts and Culture, Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers, Six Flags Inc.
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Light snowfall prompts early closings, slows evening commute
A relatively weak system dusted the region with snow Friday afternoon, prompting schools, courts and libraries to close early and slowing the evening commute.
The anticipation of a treacherous afternoon rush hour had many starting their weekends early....Tags: Weather Warnings, Highway Transportation, National Weather Service, Weather, Druid Hill
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Taylor Branch distills Pulitzer-winning trilogy for students
The math is daunting: More than 2,300 pages of prose winnowed down to 190, including photographs and the occasional blank sheet that signals chapter breaks. Yet, that's exactly the challenge that author and historian Taylor Branch tackled when he...
Tags: Human Interest, Parties and Movements, University of Baltimore, Republican Party, Students
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Puzzling out that church-state split
For Michael Meyerson, the Great Seal of the United States encapsulates the struggle over the relationship between religion and government that has become a defining characteristic of our nation. The front of the seal, with its famous eagle, olive branch...
Tags: University of Baltimore, Belief and Faith, Judaism, Politics, Civil Rights
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Baltimore's biggest philanthropists reveal what motivates them
Baltimore is home to some generous souls. There are those who give time, others who share their ideas and plenty of people willing to open their wallets. Over the years, a number of people have built reputations as philanthropists. Yet however...
Tags: Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Baltimore Museum of Art, Roland Park, University of Maryland, College Park
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Black and White Party features vintage idea, youthful appeal
The storms of winter 2010 shut down roads, cancelled classes, closed up shops and nearly ended a signature Baltimore event before it started. On a cold January night, organizers of the Pratt Contemporaries' inaugural Black and White Party watched the...
Tags: Snow Storms, Arts and Culture, Fells Point, Walters Art Museum, Libraries
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In books, Baltimore beats Denver
As the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos get ready for their big playoff game Saturday, there are plenty of opinions about how the teams and cities compare. But in one competition -- based on books -- Baltimore wins hands down. The East Coast city had...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arts and Culture, Baltimore Book Festival, Authors
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Meritocracy is ruining America, says pundit Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes, an editor at large of The Nation and host of the talk show bearing his name on MSNBC, was raised in a working-class neighborhood but attended some of the most exclusive schools on the planet. "I grew up in the Bronx," says the affable, 33-...
Tags: Book, Fiscal Cliff, Occupy Wall Street, Talk Shows (genre), Political Systems
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Larry S. Gibson's book on Thurgood Marshall examines the forces in Baltimore that shaped young judge
Forty-three years of letters, photographs, campaign buttons, itineraries and the occasional miniature flag are crammed into 2,000 fat binders lining three walls — floor to ceiling — of a storage room in the University of Maryland School of...
Tags: Salads, Johns Hopkins University, Lifestyle and Leisure, University of Maryland, College Park, Biography (genre)
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Harvey G. Alexander
Harvey G. Alexander, who founded and served as executive director of the Baltimore Film Festival and also read poetry on WBJC-FM, died Nov. 23 of pulmonary edema at Franklin Square Medical Center.
He was 77.
"I first got to know him in 1964 at Martick'...Tags: Towson University, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Awards and Prizes, Johns Hopkins University, Arts and Culture
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