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Can't resist those crab patties
Special to The TimesSEATTLE chef Tom Douglas likes to recount how he moved to that hotbed of Dungeness crab in 1977 and could not find a crab cake to save his mid-Atlantic soul. He put one on his first menu, adapting a Delaware recipe to the Pacific crab, and restaurant...Tags: Hamburgers, Limes, Delaware, Cilantro, Mustard
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Next season at Center Stage: 'Jazz,' Sondheim, Mamet
![The theme of <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/performing-arts/touring-shows/centerstage-baltimore-theater">Center Stage</a>'s 2011-2012 season might be summed up as rhythm — from the distinctive beat of "Jazz," a world premiere adapted from the Toni Morrison novel of that name, to the percussive profanity of David Mamet's "American Buffalo"; from the improvised patter of Second City to the intricate rhymes and melodic pulse of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods."](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-03/60415093-28043344.jpg "The theme of <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/performing-arts/touring-shows/centerstage-baltimore-theater\">Center Stage</a>'s 2011-2012 season might be summed up as rhythm — from the distinctive beat of \"Jazz,\" a world premiere adapted from the Toni Morrison novel of that name, to the percussive profanity of David Mamet's \"American Buffalo\"; from the improvised patter of Second City to the intricate rhymes and melodic pulse of Stephen Sondheim's \"Into the Woods.\"")
The theme of Center Stage's 2011-2012 season might be summed up as rhythm — from the distinctive beat of "Jazz," a world premiere adapted from the Toni Morrison novel of that name, to the percussive profanity of David Mamet's "American Buffalo";...Tags: Minority Groups, Toni Morrison, Companies and Corporations, Music Theater, Crime, Law and Justice
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Other states joining Florida in revolt against rising property taxes
South Florida Sun-SentinelIn one YouTube video, an elderly woman in Pennsylvania explains how she lost her home because she couldn't afford her taxes. Cartoon characters in another clip mock a New Jersey city official for telling tax critics to move out of town. Florida is far...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Real Estate, YouTube, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Crime, Law and Justice
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Stewart quits company board
Martha Stewart on Monday resigned as a board member and officer of her multimillion-dollar media company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., after being convicted earlier this month of obstructing a stock-sale investigation. Yet Stewart did not...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Criminals, New York, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.
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Disabled Lauderdale Lakes woman pleads with city to keep her fence
Staff WriterA house with a white-picket fence has become a nightmare for Barbara Steiner. The city has ordered her to remove the three-foot fence because it violates a ban on front yard enclosures. "I was ignorant. I didn't know it was a code violation," said...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lauderdale Lakes, Crime, Law and Justice, Death, Florida
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FEMA controversy may result in tougher critieria for declaring disaster area
Staff WritersA South Florida member of Congress wants to require the federal government to verify damage before declaring areas a disaster, a step bypassed in Miami-Dade County last fall that led to residents collecting $31 million in aid for a hurricane that struck...Tags: Hurricane Preparedness, Bill Nelson, Crime, Law and Justice, Accounting and Auditing, Washington (U.S. state)
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Waterbury Mayor Accused
The Hartford CourantA previously undisclosed corruption investigation took a dramatic and unexpected turn Thursday with the arrest of Mayor Philip A. Giordano on federal charges that he enticed a child into a sexual relationship. Giordano, 38, the three-term mayor and...Tags: Interior Policy, Sex Crimes, Waterbury, Crime, Law and Justice, Health
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The many faces of Clark Rockefeller
Associated PressClark Rockefeller might not be a real descendant of the oil tycoon, but if authorities and reports are to be believed, he sure was a lot of other things: •A German student named Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who lived with families in...Tags: Clark Rockefeller, Germany, Wisconsin, Juvenile Delinquency, Crime, Law and Justice
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Home designed for director William A. Wellman sells for $7.5 million
Update: A Brentwood home designed by Roland Coate for Academy Award-winning director William A. Wellman has sold for $7.5 million. The Connecticut farmhouse-style compound had come on the market in February at $10 million.
Reached by a long driveway that...Tags: Movies, Real Estate, Entertainment, Homes
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No boundaries for actress Kerry Washington
Los Angeles TimesTwo years ago, Kerry Washington found herself in the deep South with nothing to do. She had swung down to South Carolina to check out the presidential debates, only to learn her next film was in writers'-strike limbo. So the Bronx native decided to go...Tags: Minority Groups, Craig Robinson, Night Catches Us (movie), Music Theater, New York
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Obama's small step for gay marriage
President Barack Obama has been denounced by Republicans for asserting federal power at the expense of state sovereignty. But last week, he was denounced by Republicans for … not asserting federal power at the expense of state sovereignty. It...Tags: Minority Groups, Michigan, Elections, Mississippi, Crime, Law and Justice
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Chicago native helped Obama find his voice in Tucson speech
President Barack Obama's emotional speech on the Tucson tragedy was penned in part by a 30-year-old Chicago native who works in the White House.
Cody Keenan, a graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, long toiled...Tags: Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Elections, Arizona, Washington (U.S. state), Heads of State
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