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Dick Lahn’s String of Pearls

The rewarding culmination of a long environmental quest

The New Boats on the Bay

Dragons race to end hunger

Gentlemen of the Harbor: Stories of Chesapeake Bay Tugboats and Crews

Growing Annmarie Garden

Imagination, creation take bloom and flourish

Man of Steel

Despite Christ-like parallells and overwrought action scenes, this Superman is a fun action romp

Creatures Lead the Way

Last week belonged to the groundhog; this week belongs to lovebirds.

How’s your movie watching going? Minus Superbowl, of course, movies and a fire have warmed creatures in our burrow most nights since last week’s Groundhog Movie Review. But every since reading last week’s Sky Watch, All Hail the Returning Sun, I’ve seen evidence of the quickening — and with it signs of spring. February 5’s cross-quarter day is tickling me with hope. It’s hard to be gloomy when sunlight is flooding our hemisphere, promising us an hour...

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin; 2/10/11

Celestial Heavy-Hitters

Only the brightest stand up against the waxing winter moon

Thursday’s first-quarter moon appears almost directly overhead with sunset around 5:35. By the time the sky has become truly dark an hour later, the moon has pivoted westward and the red star Aldebaran, of Taurus, has taken its earlier place. The next evening the waxing moon has edged closer to Aldebaran. While the bull’s eye blazes a dozen degrees to the east of the moon, you will have to hunt for the Pleiades sisters a scant two degrees from the moon’s upper edge,...

Article - Sky Watch by J. Alex Knoll; by J. Alex Knoll; 2/10/11

Bay Weekly’s annual Groundhog’s Movie Review

Burrow down until spring with these classic flicks

Each year, when Bay Weekly’s resident rodent cinephile Chesapeake Chuck comes out of hibernation on Groundhog Day, he presents his movie picks, knowing we’re in for six more weeks of homebound winter. This year, Chuck found inspiration while watching the Academy Award nominations and decided to revisit the classics now — before the 2011 Oscars add more films to the pantheon. What makes a classic? Chuck selected two authoritative lists: The American Film Institute’s...

Article - Good Living; by screened by Diana Beechener; 2/3/11

The Rite

A few Hail Marys might have saved this horror movie

Michael Kovak (Colin O’Donoghue: The Tudors) doesn’t want to join the family funeral business. To escape this morbid life, Kovak joins a seminary, hoping for a free education. As far as the drawbacks — the whole celibacy thing, the fact that he doesn’t believe in God — Kovak figures he’ll just quit before he makes his vows. What does the church do when this Doubting Thomas tries to quit? They send him to an exorcism class in Rome. Why a priest with actual...

Article - Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener; 2/3/11

Pollution Alert

Once again Arnold’s Mill Creek pumping station has failed, dumping over a quarter-million gallons of raw sewage into Mill Creek. This spill is being blamed on the failure of two separate backup power sources. The station has been plagued with problems, most notably 2005’s three-million-gallon sewage spill, for which the watershed is still undergoing restoration. It’s arguable that the pumping station remains grossly inadequate to the development that has occurred in the area...

Article - News; by Dennis Doyle; 2/3/11

This Week’s Creature Feature: How the Groundhog Got...

If it’s a sunny day, a second winter is on the way

On February 2, Punxsutawney Phil saw his/no shadow, answering the question of whether our weather will be wintry. Yes, for about six more weeks. But he begged the real question: Why let a groundhog decide? European folklore tells of sacred animals like bears, badgers and hedgehogs predicting the weather. Arriving in North America in the 19th century, Germans brought this tradition with them, giving the job to the animal that most resembled those back home: the groundhog. Other elements of the...

Article - Creature Feature; by Aries Matheos; 2/3/11

Don’t Jump, Dummy!

Who’s that guy on the roof at ATW Hardware & Supplies?

Who’s The Man? He’s the guy Ted Kramer hired to draw attention to his business. The Man has been sitting, standing, lying and climbing onto the roof at ATW Hardware & Supplies on Pike Ridge Road in Edgewater for six years. So it’s a good thing The Man is made of chicken wire and foam rather than flesh and blood. In 2005, Kramer decided something was missing in his then 16-year-old business. “Too many people said they didn’t know where we were,” Kramer...

Article - Things; by Aries Matheos; 2/3/11

All Hail the Returning Sun!

Brace yourself for the quickening

You might not know it with the cold, gray weather of late, but this week we pass the midpoint of winter, with February 5 marking the first of the year’s four cross-quarter days. January 1 of the Julian calendar marks the new year for us in the modern western world. However, our long-distant ancestors had no such construct, instead looking to the changes in the heavens and here on earth to delineate the seasons and to break up their year. And for many of those peoples, February 2, midway...

Article - Sky Watch by J. Alex Knoll; by J. Alex Knoll; 2/3/11

The Rabbit and the Hounds

Hunting with beagles on the Eastern Shore

Tense silence had settled over the tangled, wooded, bottomland. Then in the distance, Copper’s deep-throated bawl once again rolled across the frozen terrain as he re-located the rabbit’s trail. A second later, he bayed again. Then Slim’s throaty cry affirmed the scent strike, and with that Jack, Lou and Rocky joined up and threw their rich voices into the effort. Our gang of beagles was in full cry. The chase was on again. The sound of an experienced pack of hounds hot...

Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; by Dennis Doyle; 2/3/11

Your Garden Tools Are Calling

They work for you; now it’s time to work on them

Now is the time to care for your lawn and garden tools. Sharpen the lawnmower blades, drain and replace the engine oil, replace or clean the sparkplug and blow the dust and dirt from the cooling fins. When I service my gasoline engines during the winter months, I also like to squirt a few drops of oil in the cylinder head before I replace the sparkplug. If you have an electric mower, all you need to do is sharpen the blade and clear the vents of debris. I have an electric mower that is 41 years...

Article - The Bay Gardener by Dr. Francis Gouin; by Dr. Francis Gouin; 2/3/11

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Dick Lahn’s String of Pearls

The New Boats on the Bay

Going, Going, Gone

Gentlemen of the Harbor: Stories of Chesapeake Bay Tugboats and Crews

Growing Annmarie Garden

Man of Steel

Creatures Lead the Way

Celestial Heavy-Hitters

Bay Weekly’s annual Groundhog’s Movie Review

The Rite

Pollution Alert

This Week’s Creature Feature: How the Groundhog Got...

Don’t Jump, Dummy!

All Hail the Returning Sun!

The Rabbit and the Hounds

Your Garden Tools Are Calling

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