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Article - Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener - 6/26/14

Jersey Boys

You can take the boys out of Jersey, but you’ll never take the Jersey out of the boys

This is a true story.
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Article - Arts and Culture; , Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener - 6/12/14

The Fault in Our Stars

Sometimes you need to sit in a dark room with a bunch of strangers and cry

Hazel Lancaster (Shailene Woodley: Divergent) should be dead by now. A 17-year-old with terminal cancer, she has outlived her life expectancy. Because of a delicate condition that affects her lungs and requires her to wear oxygen, she stays home from school.
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Article - Arts and Culture; , Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener - 6/12/14

The Fault in Our Stars

Sometimes you need to sit in a dark room with a bunch of strangers and cry

Article - Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener - 6/5/14

Maleficent

An iconic villain gets a makeover in this flighty fairytale

Betrayed by a boyfriend, fairy Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) becomes the vengeful protector of enchanted lands where she grew up. As her revenge, she will curse the human king’s newborn daughter.

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Article - Books; , Arts and Culture; , People; 5/29/14

The Writers Next Door

Is your neighbor the next New York Times bestseller?

The death of reading — like the death of Mark Twain — may be greatly exaggerated.
For the Digital Age has given us high-quality, nearly instant do-it-yourself publishing. Thus the book each of us has within can find a publisher — if it finds an author.
Then it must find readers.
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Article - Books; by J. Alex Knoll - 5/22/14

Too Young for a Forgettable War

A tribute to one man’s time in Korea

Is it coincidence that graduation coincides so closely to Memorial Day, when we honor those lost in battle, so many of whom don a uniform upon leaving school?
When William Edward Alli, now of Bowie, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve in 1950, he was barely 18 and not yet out of high school. “I had been clueless about what was happening to Marines deployed to a seemingly doomed southeast corner of Korea,” Alli recounts.
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Article - Performing Arts; , News; by Jim Reiter - 5/22/14

The Show Won’t Go On

Farewell, Dignity Players

Less is more.
For nine years, Dignity Players proved it. The focus of this unique volunteer theater company was not on complex sets, colorful costumes, tricky lighting and sound effects. It couldn’t be, because for Dignity those things didn’t exist. All that existed was the small, bare stage at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis.
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Article - Books; by Marilyn Lee Recknor - 5/15/14

The Cow in Patrick O’Shanahan’s Kitchen

Connecting food to farm: It takes chickens, cows and maple trees to make French toast

When Patrick O’Shanahan stumbles into the kitchen for “another boring breakfast,” he’s in for a surprise. Dad is making his World Famous French Toast, and there’s a cow in the kitchen. As if that’s not exciting enough, a trio of hens “bagaaaawwwkkk” in the fridge, and maple trees spring up from the floor.
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Article - Food and Drink; , News; by Bob Melamud - 5/8/14

Naptown barBAYq Grand Champion

3EYZ BBQ cooks up big money

Is Owings Mills a hometown team for us in Anne Arundel or Calvert County? With the 58 other competing teams from all over the Eastern United States, Owings Mills is the hometown favorite. That team, 3 EYZ BBQ took home the Grand Champion prize of $2,500 at the Parole Rotary Club’s Naptown barBAYq festival.
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Article - Arts and Culture; , News; by Bob Melamud - 4/10/14

Getting Ready for the Naptown barBAYq Contest and...

Three years in, I’m planning ahead for optimal success

I didn’t move to Annapolis three years ago because our capital city hosts a barbeque festival. The Naptown barBAYq was one of those pleasant discoveries I made after arrival.
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