David Simon may be a MacArthur "Genius" Grant winner and a television deity for creating "The Wire," but he got his start on the crime beat at The Baltimore Sun, he explained in an interview today with The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog. It was in that Charm City newsroom that Simon cut his Read More
Yesterday on the Yes Network's broadcast of the Yankees game, former pitching great Jim Kaat, commenting on Baltimore pitcher Adam Loewen's long deliberations with catcher Raul Chavez over pitch selection, said that the coaches used to say, "Study Long/Study Wrong." This is probably helpful for a lot of disciplines. A contractor friend likes to say, Read More
LAURIE: Ladies, gentlemen, listen up. You want all of your wedding vendors, and especially your cake maker, to think like (or be) Duff Goldman. "I'm kind of the anti-wedding industry wedding vendor," said Mr. Goldman, proprietor of Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, Maryland. "The wedding industry is designed to rip people off. There's Read More
“I think for The Sun, and for most papers our size, that the mission is to be the definitive source of state, regional and local news,” Timothy Franklin said. Mr. Franklin has been editor of The Baltimore Sun for two and a half years. He was sitting at a conference table in his office the Read More
“I think for The Sun, and for most papers our size, that the mission is to be the definitive source of state, regional and local news,” Timothy Franklin said.
Mr. Franklin has been editor of The Baltimore Sun for two and a half years. He was sitting at a conference table in his office the Read MoreI am a Yankee hater (I grew up in Baltimore). My friend Dan Swanson is also a Yankee-hater, of the Chicago White Sox variety. I polled him on his feelings following the Yankees sweep of the world champions this past weekend in the Bronx: I don't worry about it. I barely paid it any attention. Read More
A week or so back I did a snarky take on Laurel Snyder's new book, Half-Life: Jew-ish Tales From Interfaith Homes and a reading she had at Makor , then walked away whistling. But after trying to comment on my post and being foiled somehow by the Observer's system (apologies), Snyder sent Read More
On Charlie Rose, that is. The outgoing Harvard President was on for an hour, rebroadcast just now. It was interesting to see him up close at last. Some observations: Summers seems a business executive by temperament. He's too tan and doesn't miss meals. He's bold. The strongest impression of the hour was how often Read More
Slithering out. Troubled Amtrak has long worked well in the Northeast Corridor--Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, various Connecticut cities, Providence, Boston. So now the Bush administration, according to The New York Times, has a new solution: Charge surplus-addled commuter rail systems in those cities for their use of Amtrak facilities--tracks, stations, etc. The plan, Read More
One of Bill Weld's donors is an indicted Massachussets pol, Tom Finneran, the Boston Globe reports. And Uptown Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat shares a byline in Baltimore with blogger/activist David Sirota, calling for states to force employers to offer health insurance.
Mike has been, it seems, quietly soft-pedalling his Health Department's approach to this messy, sad story of a mohel who may have infected babies with a form of herpes, one fatally. The Jewish Week reports that, after suggestions of banning a particular practice that involved a mohel putting his mouth on the open cut, Read More
Up and West at 'Cesca,
Four Rich Guys Convene On the southeast corner of Amsterdam and 75th Street: 'Cesca: prosciutto and breadsticks, hockey on TV. On the next bar stool, a beige cashmere turtleneck said this to his date: "I say, pshaw ! Pshaw, I say!" The bartender slides me a tall O.J. I start to Read MoreAlready crazed with fear and paranoia after the life-altering damage of 9/11, Americans now have a new reason to panic. The Sum of All Fears , a blistering thriller about terrorism in which a nuclear device blows up the city of Baltimore, will most likely scare the living daylights out of everybody who sees it. Read More
Raindrops on roses, dappled sunlight on toile poufs, lavender sachets, painted furniture with curly bits … French Provincial is back! Aren't you relieved? After all, it's timeless and classy, even if you're not. Printed toile is even having a fashion moment (e.g. Neal Decker totes at Bird in Brooklyn (718-768-4940) and Alice Roi's fall 2001 Read More
Not everyone adores the St. Patrick's Day Parade some Fifth Avenue residents overlooking the parade route immediately come to mind but few have gone to the lengths that the group identified by police as the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, which seems to exist solely to protest the St. Patrick's Day Parade, did to disrupt Read More
