Mary Gordon

Dorothy Spears 1928-2013 MORELAND — Dorothy Ray Hafley Spears, 84, of Hustonville went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013.   Born Oct. 31, 1928, she was a daughter of the late Arthur Ray and Mary Gordon Hafley. She was...

"Hands on a Hardbody," the new musical that debuted earlier this year at the La Jolla Playhouse, has set a March opening on Broadway. The folksy production, about a group of people competing to win a new truck, is set to officially open at the Brooks...

Beaver Creek Church of the Brethren, Pastor Rachel Black will preach at the 10 a.m. service Sunday. The topic will be Spirit Life. Jean Minnick will be worship leader. Sunday school at 9 a.m. Benevola United Methodist Church, Boonsboro, Pastor John...

Doris Eileen Bowers, 85, of Williamsport, Md., passed away Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, at her home. She was born Sept. 30, 1926, in Sharpsburg, Md., the daughter of the late Ethel Knode Herbert, and was raised by her grandparents, the late William R. and...

"Hands on a Hardbody," the new musical based on S.R. Bindler's 1997 documentary film about a nutty endurance contest at a Texas auto dealership, pulls off something most pundits would have considered impossible today: This is a Red State musical that Blue...

Billy Ray Lykes, 75, of Owingsville died Sunday. He was born Sept. 22, 1936 to Gordon Lykes and Ruth Stewart Lykes. He was retired from Rockwell International and was a member of Midland First Church of God. He is survived by two sons, Danny Ray (Ann)...

An article in the Dec. 7, 1961, edition of the Herald Argus and Baltimore Countian recognized the participation of several local teenagers in a new aquatic competition. Four 17-year old members of the Rollingwood Pool in Catonsville have entered the...

The Story Prize for 2011 was awarded to Steven Millhauser for "We Others: New and Selected Stories."...

Charles McNulty reviews the Reprise Theatre Company revival of "Cabaret" at UCLA's Freud Playhouse...

The Love of My Youth A Novel Mary Gordon Pantheon: 308 pp., $25.95 How many of us at middle age yearn for the opportunity to reencounter a long-lost love? We show up at school reunions, searching for the ghost of romance past. Or perhaps we settle for...

A dozen years ago, my editor at the Los Angeles Times asked if I wanted to interview novelist Mary Gordon, who was in Los Angeles on a book tour. Enormously pregnant, I said yes, partly because I love Mary Gordon and partly because her hotel was two...

???Putting It Together,??? the makeshift audience-friendly collage from the early ???90s compiling Stephen Sondheim???s ???sorry-grateful??? love tunes and other melancholy ditties from his astonishing catalog, isn???t a particularly bold way for South...