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  • Courtesy of Derick Ebert
    With a bounce to his step and a backpack on his shoulder, Baltimore Youth Poet Laureate Derick Ebert hovers in a constant state of motion. The magnanimous…
  • P. Kenneth Burns
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    George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic will headline the first day’s entertainment at this year’s Artscape. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake made the…
  • Around the world, many of us start our day with a drug derived from a natural insecticide: caffeine. Murray Carpenter tells the tale in Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts and Hooks Us.
  • The screen is about to go dark at Video Americain in Roland Park. But there is a plan to keep the store’s collection of more than 30,000 titles together…
  • It was back to the future on Thursday night at the second debut of Baltimore’s Senator Theatre.The city’s proud and growing community of cineastes turned…
  • Drew Dinkmeyer was an investment analyst. Pretty steady job, right? He left that job - in this economic climate - to become a full-time fantasy sports player.
  • You're given some sentences. Each sentence conceals the name of a language in consecutive letters. Name the language. Each answer has five or more letters.
  • "Too much jamming kills the band," the leader of the Glasgow quartet says. On the new Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, the band tries to lead with good concepts and let the music follow.
  • A new program is working to bring the same level of knowledge that sommeliers have about wine to the world of malt and hops, by turning out batches of certified beer experts known as cicerones.
  • The Bread and Puppet Theater, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, performs "The Total This & That Circus" on Sundays this summer.
    Bread And Puppet Marks 50 Years Of Paper Mache And Protest
    Bread and Puppet Theater has been a familiar presence at political demonstrations since the anti-war protests of the 1960s. Its giant puppets and raucous brass band also marched against wars in Central America, Afghanistan and Iraq. The troupe marks its 50th anniversary this year.
  • It's simple: We'll tell him about three companies and three people who might be the head of those companies. He'll have to guess who's the boss.
  • Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's latest collaboration follows five friends who reunite for an epic tour of 12 suburban English pubs. Critic David Edelstein calls the sci-fi comedy "the year's most uproarious movie."