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50 Ways to Leave Your Summer

Your 2017 guide to finding fall fun

Chesapeake Autumn Invites You In

Beaches, marsh and mountains blaze with color

Hey There, Autumn

This week we bring you 50-plus ways to revel in the new season

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Spoofing Bond with ups and downs

Picking Up Tricks of the Trades

In Makerspaces workshops, you can make most anything

The Postcard

A missive 20 years delayed sent me into my future

As the sun sets, one of the first constellations to appear is Orion, already high in the southeast, and by 8pm looming in the south. With its geometric, hourglass shape, Orion is one of the easiest constellations to spot and one of the most rewarding to study. The brightest star is blue-white Rigel to the lower right, marking the hunter’s left knee. Opposite to the upper left is the red-giant Betelgeuse, punctuating Orion’s raised right arm. Marking the hunter...

Article - Sky Watch by J. Alex Knoll; by J. Alex Knoll; 2/13/14

A Rabbit in the Pot

It’s never too cold to eat

I had been pushing through the brush, briars and a foot of snow for about an hour, short of breath and dumb from the cold. I couldn’t feel my face or most of my fingers in spite of the hand warmers clutched in each of my gloves. Then the baying hounds turned in my direction. Fingering my 20 gauge, I turned to face the dogs and froze. I mean that in every sense of the word. The now-howling beagles — Lou, Slim, Copper, Junior and Jack — converged on a brush...

Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; by Dennis Doyle; 2/13/14

The Monuments Men

What price do you put on art?

On the road to world domination, the Third Reich developed quite the taste for art. Looting the churches, museums and private collections of Europe, the Nazis amassed millions of paintings, sculptures and precious pieces of jewelry. Hitler intended to create a Fuhrer Museum and fill it with art pilfered from conquered lands. Monuments Men to the rescue! To combat the rape of Europe’s culture, art historian Frank Stokes (George Clooney: Gravity)...

Article - Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener; 2/13/14

Bay Weekly’s 17th Annual Mid-Winter Movie Escape

This week Punxsutawney Phil gave us the not-unexpected news that winter will continue for six more weeks. To help stave off the chill, Bay Weekly has compiled an array of 18 films guaranteed to fight off cabin fever. –compiled by Diana Beechener Good Vibrations Stories about love’s vibrational complexity in honor of Valentine’s Day — and Beach Boy Brian Wilson’s 1995 wedding on Feb. 6. Casablanca 1942 • PG • 102 mins. • Director: Michael...

Article - Movie Reviews 2/6/14

Join 2014’s Great Backyard Bird Count

Grab your binoculars and start spotting

Cardinals devouring holly berries; nuthatches scooting down sweet gums; tundra swans hooting on the Bay. Get ready to count them all during the 17th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, February 14 through 17. Citizen scientists all over the world count birds for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in conjunction with the National Audubon Society and Bird Studies Canada. Developed over the four-day period is an annual snapshot of bird population trends. Did the...

Article - Creature Feature; by Dotty Holcomb Doherty; 2/6/14

A Teacher Evaluates Her Students in Accented Verse

World Class; Poems Inspired by the ESL Classroom, by J.C. Elkin

My students arrive in a dust storm of change. … their tongues in accents lush as rustling crop leaves. In World Class, teacher, poet and author Jane (aka J.C.) Elkin — a Bay Weekly contributor — gives human voice to the nation-riveting theme of immigration. Her Poems Inspired by the ESL Classroom capture the hearts of her English as a Second Language students at Anne Arundel Community College. Spare words, often borrowed from their own...

Article - Books, News, People; by Dotty Holcomb Doherty; 2/6/14

That Awkward Moment

See this film and you’ll waste not only your money but 94 minutes of your life.

Once upon a time, two little pigs lived in New York City. Graphic designer Jason (Zac Efron: Parkland) creates outlandishly sexist covers for women’s books. Jason cultivates a roster of women and gels his hair straight up. Whenever a woman asks more from him than a few disappointing minutes, he cries Wee, Wee, Wee all the way home. His graphic partner is college buddy Daniel (Miles Teller: 21 & Over), who also enjoys chauvinist jokes and casual sex. Instead of hair...

Article - Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener; 2/6/14

Great Films with a Hook

Four fishing flicks to see you through February

When you can’t go fishing, you might as well watch a good fishing movie. Here are four sure to hook you. Captains Courageous was filmed in 1927 and plays as well today as it did almost 90 years ago. Based on the 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling, Captains details the adventures of Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Batholomew), a privileged and spoiled young man recently expelled from his exclusive boarding school. Taken by his father on an overseas business trip...

Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle, Movie Reviews; by Dennis Doyle; 2/6/14

Catch the brightest luminaries

Now Playing In the Sky Near You

Winter, spring, summer or fall, there’s always a blockbuster overhead on any clear night. Mercury still clings to the west-southwest horizon a half-hour or so after sunset at week’s end. It is surprisingly bright, but you may need binoculars to pick it out amidst twilight’s glare. Catch this one while you can, as it’s on its final showing. Sunset finds Jupiter high in the east, easily the brightest nighttime object other than the...

Article - Sky Watch by J. Alex Knoll; by J. Alex Knoll; 2/6/14

How Will You Hold on for Six More Weeks?

Bay Weekly’s 17th annual Mid-Winter Movie Escape will see you through

A lot about February makes a person want to nestle with a good movie. The groundhog’s advice is good: Burrow deep, leaving temperamental winter to howl through its moods. In the era of Netflix, successor to Blockbuster, we enjoy our escapism in the comfort of home. Pisces stands between us and spring, and what can we expect from the winter water sign of the Zodiac but the full spectrum of wintry mix delivered in wet sheets of rain, bullets of hail, ice showers of sleet...

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin; 2/6/14

50 Ways to Leave Your Summer

Chesapeake Autumn Invites You In

Hey There, Autumn

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Picking Up Tricks of the Trades

The Postcard

Orion’s Stellar Incubator

A Rabbit in the Pot

The Monuments Men

Bay Weekly’s 17th Annual Mid-Winter Movie Escape

Join 2014’s Great Backyard Bird Count

A Teacher Evaluates Her Students in Accented Verse

That Awkward Moment

Great Films with a Hook

Catch the brightest luminaries

How Will You Hold on for Six More Weeks?

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