I grew up in the Dundalk area of town and graduated from Patapsco High School way back in 1988. I’m a Baltimore Boy through and through – if you cut me I bleed Old Bay and Natty Boh. It took many years for me to accept this about myself. When I was growing up...
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Last week, we went to Bluegrass Tavern (1500 S. Hanover St., 244-5101, bluegrasstavern.com) to check out their new spring menu, but started with the charcuterie plate (happy hour is four items for $10) and some rye at the bar (The Willett rye is especially good, with a nice spicy kick). We ordered the smoked...
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After complaining in court about the conditions of his confinement in Maryland’s prison system, Tavon White, the lead defendant in the high-profile racketeering case against alleged members of the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang, today was granted his request to be transferred to federal custody by U.S. District judge Ellen Hollander. The reasons cited...
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Just before Christmas 2007, Baltimore deputy mayor for community and economic development Salima Siler Marriott (D), a former long-time state delegate, had to deal with the news that her son, Patrice Marriott, then 40 years old, had been indicted in federal court for being a felon in possession of a firearm. It was no...
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Hallelujah! After virtually universal agreement (by the people we talk to, anyway) that the MARC train should run from Baltimore’s Penn Station to D.C.’s Union Station on weekends (which has been promised since at least 2008), it will finally be so, according to a report in the Baltimore Business Journal. The additional service was...
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Not like it really needs saying, but: Don’t take pills and drive, especially if you’re traveling with heroin and lots of cash and don’t have a job. To drive the point home, consider the case of 49-year-old Sandra Diane Rust and 50-year-old Samuel Cornelius Rust, III, a married couple from Pennsylvania. They were driving...
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Fishing with Lefty Sizzlin’ Summer: Maryland’s foremost celebrity angler is still at it, hooking the most stubborn prey, and trying to ensure that there will be fish left for his grandkids to catch By Michelle Gienow 5/15/2013