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Oct. 10: Drunk History
With 'Drunk History,' Lutherville's Derek Waters has a tipsy hit Five years ago, Lutherville native Derek Waters was a struggling comedian in Los Angeles. Like thousands before him, he had dreams of being cast on "Saturday Night Live" or making it in...Tags: Movies, Winona Ryder, Bob Odenkirk, Hall Pass (movie), The New Girl (tv program)
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Lance Armstrong doping allegations and Edgar Allan Poe
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report on Lance Armstrong was involved in doping is loaded with explosive allegations from fellow cyclists -- which the seven-time Tour de France champion has vehemently denied. But the quirkiest bit of information is that at...
Tags: Tour de France, Tyler Hamilton, Cycling, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Christian Vande Velde
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With 'Drunk History,' Lutherville's Derek Waters has a tipsy hit
Five years ago, Lutherville native Derek Waters was a struggling comedian in Los Angeles. Like thousands before him, he had dreams of being cast on "Saturday Night Live" or making it in Hollywood as a funny guy. But Waters wasn't having much luck. "My...
Tags: Movies, Winona Ryder, Bob Odenkirk, Hall Pass (movie), The New Girl (tv program)
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'The Raven'
The macabre works of Edgar Allan Poe get revisionist twists - as does legendary novelist Poe himself, as played by John Cusack - in director James McTeigue's ("V for Vendetta") crafty thriller. A killer is using Poe's stories as his modus operandi,...
Tags: Blu-ray Discs, V for Vendetta (movie), James McTeigue, Brendan Gleeson, The Raven (movie)
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Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House gets revival plan
The financially troubled Edgar Allan Poe House got a lifeline from the city of Baltimore this week, raising hope that the now-closed historic site can be saved. The city agreed to pay the B&O Railroad Museum $180,000 to develop a plan for the home/...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Tour Operations Industry, Literature, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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B&O Museum to aid Poe House, under proposal
Baltimore will pay the B&O Railroad Museum $180,000 to put the Edgar Allan Poe House on the road to becoming a self-sufficient, serious tourist draw, under a proposal approved by the city's Board of Estimates Wednesday. The overriding idea is to turn the...
Tags: Government, Public Officials, Arts and Culture, Ellicott City, Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum
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Poe House in transition
Edgar Allan Poe was possibly the most original literary talent ever to reside in Baltimore, and his death here, in 1849, at the age of 40 left an indelible mark on the city. Today, the house on North Amity Street, west of downtown, where the writer...
Tags: Railway Transportation, Arts and Culture, Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Travel, Transportation
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Edgar Allan Poe house closes
The Edgar Allan Poe house closed it doors today, which could be an ominous sign or a new beginning for the small home where the great American author spent part of his youth. The Baltimore Sun's Chris Kaltenbach writes that the house and museum is...
Tags: Arts and Culture, H.L. Mencken
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Pithy posters for writers
Jacket CopyQuotes by authors are brought to life in a witty poster series by artist Evan Robertson, currently for sale on Etsy.... -
One killer book club: Washington County Free Library hosts club for those who love a little mystery
marieg@herald-mail.comIt isn't always a dark and stormy night. There are no fog-covered moors or howling hounds, no trench-coated detectives or suspicious butlers. And, in this particular library, you won't find a Mrs. Peacock, a revolver or candlesticks — just a group...Tags: Genres, Fiction, Literature, Carl Hiaasen, Crime (genre)
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Thief of historic documents sentenced to prison
Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including one in Baltimore, where the scheme...
Tags: George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Central Intelligence Agency, Ken Burns, Manhattan (New York City)
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Lit Fest holds on to that printed feeling
As obvious as this may sound at first, the 28th annual Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest, which concluded Sunday afternoon and drew an estimated 130,000 attendees and 200 authors to the South Loop on a sweltering, cloudless weekend, was not the kind...
Tags: Rachael Ray, Chicago Tribune, Nelson Algren, South Loop, Festive Events
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