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The production of Smokey Joe’s Café at Toby’s Baltimore is not your typical musical. There is no story line to keep track of that binds th...

Just as the 2012 General Assembly was about to begin, Maryland Senate President Thomas V. “Mike” Miller said on the Marc Steiner radio sho...

The confetti from New Year’s Eve has long been swept up, and as we open our new 2012 calendars—the ones that charities routinely send us—we ...

The Best, Worst, Biggest and Smallest of 2011 Happy New Year! It’s time to look back at the events and personalities of this past year ...

Letter published in Dec. 22, 2011 edition of the Howard County Times: Kudos to Lindsey McPherson for her excellent article on the passage of...

In contemplating the future of the LGBT movement, Editor Dana LaRocca commented last issue: “I do not know what my New Year’s resolutions wi...

On December 5, Howard County, by a 4-1 vote in the county council, joined Baltimore City and Montgomery County as the only jurisdictions in ...

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and survived the Black Friday insanity. As we reflect on our families, friends, ourselves and t...

Sometimes nostalgia can be a powerful escape because with troubled times like these, no one could be blamed for harking back to a simpler...

Many musicals provide a plot simply to connect the songs. In The Sound of Music the plot is as integral as the performances to the en...

So much has been made of Rick Perry’s flub during the Republican presidential debate on November 9 that most pundits have written off his ca...