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Gay Talese talks with David L. Ulin

2010-10-15 16:33:55

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Authors & Ideas: 'The Silent Season of a Hero' by Gay Talese

2010-10-17 00:00:00

What is it, Gay Talese is asking, about sports? It occupies a messy, emotional territory in which we embrace, and, just as easily, discard, heroes. "It's not just losing the game," Talese reflects, voice etched with the soft syllables of southern New...

Bill Barich's 'Long Way Home' started with John Steinbeck's 'Travels With Charley'

2010-11-27 00:00:00

American author Bill Barich, a resident of Ireland these past nine years, was rummaging through a local secondhand shop in the summer of 2008 when he stumbled across a "beat up old copy" of "Travels With Charley," John Steinbeck's late-in-life attempt...

Book review: 'This Must Be the Place' by Kate Racculia

2010-08-22 00:00:00

This Must Be the Place A Novel Kate Racculia Henry Holt: 354 pp., $25 During his lifetime, the artist and sculptor Joseph Cornell established a celebrated career by creating shadow boxes filled with eclectic assemblages of random objects that...

Bloomsday all over

2010-06-16 16:34:31

Obama inauguration is all the buzz at L.A. schools

2008-11-30 00:00:00

When Nasser Baker's mother received a call from his school this month and began jumping and screaming, he thought she had seen a spider. But when he learned that his South Los Angeles charter school had chosen him as one of 12 students headed to...

10 tips for tackling Dew Tour in Ocean City

2013-06-16 06:51:00

The Dew Tour Beach Championships brings the action to Ocean City this week for the third year in a row. The extreme sports competition includes events in BMX, skateboarding and surfing all right on the beach. Here are 10 tips on how to really enjoy the...

OC Dew Tour beefs up involvement with local community

2013-06-16 07:05:00

The Dew Tour is coming to Ocean City two months earlier than last year in hopes of catching bigger waves, and the town will be packed with extreme-sports fans paying homage to this shrine to surfing, skateboarding and BMX. The five-day competition...

Peggy M. Boellner, homemaker

2013-06-14 14:40:10

Peggy M. Boellner, a homemaker who enjoyed cooking and entertaining family and friends, died June 7 of complications from a fall at her Timonium home. She was 83. The daughter of a public works employee and a homemaker, Peggy Marie Wax was born and...

'Hotel Impossible' filming in Ocean City

2013-06-14 09:15:00

With almost 10,000 rooms for the taking, finding a hotel in Ocean City is a breeze. So why would Travel Channel's "Hotel Impossible" be filming an episode there this week? Turns out the Lankford Hotel at 8th Street and the boardwalk is getting a bit...

Pedestrians in Ocean City can face charges for not using crosswalks

2013-06-14 10:49:00

Too many Ocean City visitors are throwing caution to the wind and darting into traffic without looking. Even still, Ocean City Police Department Spokesman Mike Levy said you almost have to be hit by a vehicle to be charged with jaywalking in Maryland....

Three from Baltimore stabbed in Ocean City

2013-06-14 12:11:00

Two men and a woman from Baltimore were all stabbed in Ocean City early Friday morning, and a Thurmont man has been arrested in the incident, according to Ocean City Police. Officers responded to a report of a stabbing in the area of 119th Street and...

Rosenfeld's Jewish Delicatessen in Ocean City

2013-06-10 20:32:00

Four generations of "Hons" (l-r) granddaughter Tammy Clark, of Ocean City, great grandmother Alvina Berg, 87, of Salisbury, daughter Nancy Twilley, of Salisbury, and great grandson Nathan Clark, 10, at the 2013 Honfest in Hampden.

2013-06-08 00:00:00

The first Ron Jon Surf Shop in Maryland will open June 6 in Ocean City.

2013-06-05 00:00:00