Volume 15, Issue 1 ~ January 4 - January 10, 2007

Features:

A New Year’s Vision for our Old Bay

Bay bard, poet and philosopher Tom Wisner guides the way.

by Carrie Madren

Generation after Generation, Teens Have All the Fun

Bye Bye Birdie makes 92 for Children’s Theatre of Annapolis.

previewed by Dotty Holcomb Doherty

Way Downstream ~ Annapolis’ Primrose Acres Park to be restored with $140,000 from Project Open Space … Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine tries to upstage our flush tax with $250 million in bonds to upgrade sewage treatment plants … 30 cars to drive to higher mileage … Wal-Mart wins in Accomack County, on Virginia’s Eastern Shore … And last but not least, this week’s Creature Feature, from Japan, at last, giant squid caught on film — and fishing line.

Departments:

Letters • Editorial • Bay Reflections

Dr. Gouin’s Bay Gardener ~ Multiply your woody-stemmed plants: Early winter’s the time to begin new forsythia and more.

Bill Burton ~ Why I still smoke my pipe: The secret of resolutions you can keep.

The Sporting Life ~ Luck loves a lady: The generous Bay ends the year her own way. by Dennis Doyle

Earth Talk ~ Emptying our oceans: Drift nets catch and kill indiscriminately

Tidelog® • Sky Watch ~ Oddities of sun and earth: Fifty-cent words explain the strange interactions of the earth orbiting the sun. by J. Alex Knoll

8 Days a Week ~ Bay Weekly’s gguide to good times. by Carrie Madren with Aubree Stafford

Flickerings ~ Burns on Dreamgirls: Drama evolves in tandem with music as a bold, bright, expressive soundtrack enhances a solid gold story.