42: The True Story of an American Legend Directed By Brian Helgeland A few hours after seeing the new film 42 on its opening day here in Baltimore, I watched on television as another number 42, New York Yankees’ legendary reliever Mariano Rivera, finished off the Orioles at Yankee Stadium. Rivera is the last...
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Dr. Ben Carson stepped onto the national stage in February with his pointed, right-leaning speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, defending the flat tax and slamming Obamacare in front of President Obama, and has stayed there ever since. In a series of subsequent public appearances, on Fox News, at the CPAC conference, and on...
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No animals were harmed during Generous Theatre Company’s Gumbo festival, but a number of neuroscience books took a beating. Strands of thread dangle down on the Theatre Project stage, entwined with what looks like the remains of a massive amount of paper shredding. Workshop organizer David White says that these are neuroscience textbooks. This...
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Note: Today, City Paper begins a series of posts from Sundance Film Festival. Look for further posts here and in the paper. During three decades since it started, the Sundance Film Festival has emerged as the best filter system for reinvigorating the broader mainline film industry with fresh movies, aesthetics and directorial talent. But...
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Last week, Rolling Stone ran a story about how TV meteorologists—the “weather experts” who have the most contact with the general population—tend to be doubters of the science of climate change. This despite the fact that ragtag conspiracy theorists like NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS),...
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Ian Grey’s feature examines the impact of digital-video projection on the film-exhibition industry. In Mobtown Beat, Afefe Tyehimba covers an after-school programs conference. The Nose is shut down asking questions about police salaries. In Campaign Beat, Brennen Jensen looks at third-party efforts to access ballots. Ballot Stuffing thumbnails the Baltimore City State’s Attorney race....
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On Monday, July 16, NASA satellites showed that an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan broke off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, one of the two largest glaciers left in Greenland, and this is not the first time it has happened. Two years ago, another ice island four times the size of Manhattan broke off from...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V85olh2aZ34&feature=player_embedded Come September it will have been 10 years since the television show Firefly debuted on Fox, and on July 28th, it will have been nine since it last debuted a new episode. Why does this one-season show matter? Because 10 years later at San Diego Comic-Con thousands of people camped out to get...
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Forget infused vodka and house-made sodas. If you really want to shake things up at the bar think…bacon? The Maryland Science Center (601 S. Light St., 545-5980, mdsci.org) will be holding their latest installment of Mixology 101 evenings on Thursday, May 31, this time focusing on the ABC’s of Alcohol, Bacon, and Cocktail....
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In a little-noticed ruling, (link to pdf) the Maryland Court of Appeals has changed a long-standing “one free bite” rule regarding dog bite victims’ rights to receive compensation for their injuries: We are modifying the Maryland common law of liability as it relates to attacks by pit bull and cross-bred pit bull dogs against...
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Officials with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources were scrambling early this week to tamp down a story—in many news outlets—that the state was offering a $200 bounty on every snakehead caught in Maryland waters. The reality is the same as last year: Snakehead catchers can register for a random drawing and maybe win...
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Scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) near Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus today honored Sen. Barbara Mikulski’s long-term commitment to space science by dedicating a data archive in her name and naming a supernova after her. STScI is in charge of operations for the Hubble Space Telescope. Mikulski, who recently became the longest-serving...
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