Category: Arts and Culture
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A Day of Instruction and Inspiration for Writers
Writers of all levels will learn new skills of the craft at the third annual Writing Intensive at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, Saturday, June 3rd from 9:15 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Attendees may choose from a menu of workshop options that address the needs of fiction, memoir, and nonfiction writers alike. Writers will…
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Artist Victor Provost Joins Meade HS Students for Steel Drum Concert Fri. May 12
Friday, May 12, starting at 7:00 pm, the Meade High School Steel Drum Band will be presenting a concert with renown steel pannist and recording artist Victor Provost. The concert will be held at Meade High School, located at 1100 Clark Road, Ft. George Meade, Maryland 20755, which has public access via Annapolis Rd. This…
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The Wedding Photo
By Katherine Haas I was in my mid-fifties when I first saw my parents’ wedding photo. My eighty- year-old mother unpacked a large cardboard box full of letters she kept and showed the old black and white photo to me, ashamed. In it, her dress hangs awkwardly off her tall frame. The neckline is uneven…
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Annapolis City v. Paint Trial Wraps Up: Enlightening Testimony
A riveting court case gripping downtown residents rolled into its second day yesterday in District Court on Rowe Blvd. The trial pits the City of Annapolis against successful restaurant owners Gavin Buckley and Jody Danek, over a paint job on their Tsunami restaurant. Defense Attorney, Joseph Gormley, called co-defendant Gavin Buckley to testify. We learned…
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10 Funny Movies That Will Help Lift Your Depression
By Therese Borchard In his bestselling book Anatomy of an Illness, the late Saturday Review editor Norman Cousins tells how he overcame a debilitating illness (ankylosing spondylitis) by taking massive intravenous doses of Vitamin C and laughing while watching Candid Camera and various comic films. He maintains that his recovery was accelerated by self-induced bouts of…
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South Anne Arundel County Art Show “Art On the Half Shell” Starts Friday
by Vikka Molldrem The Muddy Creek Artists Guild holds its annual spring show, “Artists on the Half-Shell”, the next two weekends: Friday, April 28 through Sunday, April 30, and May 5 through 7. The Guild is an eight-year-old organization of artists from South Anne Arundel County (south of the South River). It was formed because there…
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The Camera Man: Elliott O. Philips, Sr.
On April 18, 2017, Elliott O. Phillips, Sr. passed away. His friends called him “Phil”. Phil was 76 years old. Born in Chicago, he lived in Gambrills in Anne Arundel County, Maryland for the last 38 years. He was married to Juanita Beaton Phillips for 53 years. Phil was a father, grandfather and a friend to…
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Death
by Katherine Haas I know my days are numbered. I always knew they were numbered. Looking at the obits daily, I notice the ones listed are close to my age: some older, some younger. Each day I wake up grateful that I am granted the gift of one more day on this planet. But death…
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A Vital Book on Voting Rights
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. C. Christopher Brown, Esq. recently wrote a book called “The Road to Jim Crow.” The book examines the African-American struggle on Maryland’s Eastern Shore from 1860 to 1915. It is a book I highly recommend, particularly for those interested in history. “Chris”, as he is called by his friends, has an…
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Local Author Nominated for Best First Science Fiction Novel
Annapolis Author T. C. (Ted) Weber has been nominated as a finalist for the 2017 Compton Crook Award, given annually by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society for the “best first novel of the year written by an individual author in the Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror genre.” Weber’s novel, Sleep State Interrupt, is a cyberpunk thriller set in…