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Monopoly, Sorry! or Chutes and Ladders?

However you play it, natural gas export is a high stakes game

Five Ways to Beat the Heat

Have fun even with a sizzling sun

From the Caterpillar to the Butterfly

Our flowering gardens are butterfly way-stations

The Crisis Continues

Blue crabs at quarter-century low

Your Organic Gardening Primer

Lesson 1: From the ground up

What’s in a Name?

Your dog’s name may say more about you than about him or her

We love our dogs. Forty-six million of us share our homes with 78 million dogs. So when the constellation Sirius brings us the Dog Days of summer, Bay Weekly goes to the dogs to pander to that audience. Chuck or Chester; Cheyenne or Cassie; Mack, Magic, Max or Moe; Nipper or Norman; Roscoe or Rusty; Winston or Whiskey; Brandy or Bourbon; Brown Dog or Bruno; Poncho, Polly, Peaches or Peanuts; Sandy or Sophie; Sugar or Scamp; Snuffy or Sparky; Dexter, Tucker, Cooper or Caper....

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin; 8/18/11

The Devil’s Double

An Iraqi soldier finds himself in a Middle Eastern version of Scarface in this well acted thriller

On the eve of the first Gulf War, Iraqi soldier Latif (Dominic Cooper: Captain America) is doing his duty in the skirmishes and dreaming of the day he can leave the military and join his father in the family bookstore. Sadly, Latif bears a striking resemblance to Uday Hussein (also Cooper), the eldest and most psychopathic son of Iraqi ruler Saddam. When Latif refuses to become Uday’s fiday — body double — he’s flung into a cell. Failing to change...

Article - Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener; 8/18/11

This Hairspray Won’t Let You Down

Beneath the fun and fluff is the true history of Baltimore kids caught at the color line

A good hairspray delivers lasting style that looks sleek and natural, and at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre’s final musical of the season that’s just what you get. This story may seem like pure fluff with its comical dance steps and exaggerated hairdos. But it’s based on historical events surrounding a real TV show, Baltimore’s popular teen-dance showcase The Buddy Dean Show, transformed for this script into The Corny Collins Show. It’s a place...

Article - Theatre Reviews; by Jane C. Elkin; 8/18/11

One Big Shot

The Making of Bay Area Professional Basketball

Bodies banging, shots falling and clanking. Huffing, puffing and hustling up and down the court. Rookies and guys who’ve played in state and minor league systems, guys who’ve played in Europe for years, guys scouted in summer basketball leagues. All entertaining hoops dreams, all trying to make the cut. The 28 players on the floor weren’t the only dreamers that hot July morning at Kilby Athletic Center in Severn. From fretting “man...

Article - News; by C.T. Schwink; 8/11/11

Wine Country On the Chesapeake

Napa, Sonoma ... and now North Beach

You don’t have to travel to California, nor even to Virginia, to get to Wine Country. Maryland is fast making up for lost time as a grape-growing, wine-making region. “There are 50 wineries in the state, and their production is booming,” said Regina McCarthy, Maryland Wineries’ marketing coordinator. In Calvert County, old tobacco soils are proving the Patuxent Wine Trail is ripe for the picking. Eat Drink Go...

Article - Food and Drink; by C.T. Schwink; 8/11/11

Record-Breaking Rockfish

A new world record has been set. The largest striped bass ever recorded — 81.88 pounds — was caught August 4 by Greg Myerson of North Branford, Conn., in Connecticut waters. The old record rockfish, 78.8 pounds, was caught by Al McReynolds in 1982.

Article - News; by Dennis Doyle; 8/11/11

All’s Well that Ends Well

When you go fishing, you’ve got to be ready to adapt

As we drifted away from the pilings, my son lifted his rod tip to feel if the spot he was live-lining was still down deep. His tip sagged, then his rod bent over and line started to feed out from his drag as we pulled away with the current. “I’m hung up again,” he said. It was all that needed to be said, for it was the third time in the last half-hour that he’d gotten snagged in that location. As I moved our skiff closer to get a better angle to free...

Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; by Dennis Doyle; 8/11/11

The Plant Doctor Is In

I enjoy challenges in trying to solve plant problems, but I’ll need a full case history

A growing number of Bay Weekly readers are coming to the Thursday afternoon Deale Farmers Market with plants to be identified or with plant problems. I don’t mind interrupting sales of peaches to answer your questions. However, I find that I am not able to provide much assistance because many people bring only a leaf, a single flower or a photograph. Others try to describe the symptoms. Plant identification requires more than a leaf or twig. Bring a branch so I can see...

Article - The Bay Gardener by Dr. Francis Gouin; by Dr. Francis Gouin; 8/11/11

The Tears of St. Lawrence

The near-full moon bleaches out all but the brightest of this year’s Perseid meteor shower

The moon waxes to full Saturday, rising between the dim water constellations Aquarius and Capricornus. August’s full moon is named the Green Corn Moon, the Grain Moon and the Sturgeon Moon, for the great fish that once filled our waterways. That same moon, alas, bleaches out all but the brightest bursts from this year’s Perseid meteor shower, which peaks late Friday. Still, away from city lights between midnight and dawn, don’t be surprised if you see an...

Article - Sky Watch by J. Alex Knoll; by J. Alex Knoll; 8/11/11

This Week’s Creature Feature ... Travels with Buck

Like John Steinbeck, this osprey wanted to see America

In between migrations most osprey are homebodies. Conventional wisdom holds that male osprey almost always return to the vicinity of their nests to breed. Not every osprey is conventional. That’s the latest from osprey scientist Rob Bierregaard, who’s been studying the birds since 1969. Since 2000, he’s been tagging juvenile and adult birds with satellite transmitters and following their lives and adventures. Each bird has its story, and...

Article - Creature Feature; by Sandra Olivetti Martin; 8/11/11

Monopoly, Sorry! or Chutes and Ladders?

Five Ways to Beat the Heat

Jose Quintanilla, 43

From the Caterpillar to the Butterfly

The Crisis Continues

Your Organic Gardening Primer

What’s in a Name?

The Devil’s Double

This Hairspray Won’t Let You Down

One Big Shot

Wine Country On the Chesapeake

Record-Breaking Rockfish

All’s Well that Ends Well

The Plant Doctor Is In

The Tears of St. Lawrence

This Week’s Creature Feature ... Travels with Buck

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