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What do Baltimore and a Shakespeare story have in common? Quite a lot.
“The Deceived Ones,” a new novel from Judith Krummeck, a longtime DJ on Baltimore classical radio station WBJC, turns Shakespeare’s “The Twelfth Night” into a very modern and very personal story.
The Baltimore skyline.
‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ is a classic. This podcast will remind you why.
The new podcast “Homicide: Life On The Set” explores Baltimore’s classic cop show with the people who helped create it.
Andre Braugher, left, and Kyle Secor played Detectives Frank Pembleton and Tim Bayliss in “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
Her dad is a Baltimore TV legend. She’s returning to Maryland on her own merits.
Author Emily Barth Isler, daughter of former local broadcasting legend Andy Barth, comes home with a new book and life-saving message about kids and guns.
Author Emily Barth Isler is the daughter of WMAR newscaster Andy Barth. At left, she supports him on the picket line in 1982. At right, he supports her at the 2023 Books in Bloom festival.
Getting healthy takes a different priority when your goal is not to die
Us Generation Xers can no longer ignore the health challenges that come with aging. It took a scare to wake me up.
Columnist Leslie Gray Streeter, left, in 2023, and right, in 2024, has lost 20 pounds on her health journey.
After witnessing a courthouse shooting, one attorney is using poetry to heal
Baltimore County poet Jennifer Sutherland's “Bullet Points” lyrically recounts a tragic fatal shooting and its aftermath.
A woman looks off into the distance.
How do you dress for Maryland’s ‘Spring of Deception’? Two stylists have some ideas.
It can be hot, cold, snowy, sunny and rainy all in one week. Here’s how to dress for Maryland’s crazy weather.
Two people share an umbrella as they walk in the rain.
Angel Reese and her new WNBA cohort present full-court fashion
Angel Reese and her new WNBA cohort shone sartorially at the draft.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 15: Angel Reese arrives prior to the 2024 WNBA Draft at Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 15, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
O.J. Simpson: Parsing the late athlete and former murder suspect’s legacy
The legacy of the late OJ Simpson remains complicated, even 30 years after the murders that cast him into suspicion.
O.J. Simpson stands as he listens to Municipal Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell as she reads her decision to hold him over for trial on July 8, 1994, in connection with the June 12 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76.
How the total eclipse of the sun became a ‘total eclipse of the heart’ for my family
This week’s total eclipse of the sun was a total moment of togetherness for me and my son.
Leslie Streeter’s son watches the total eclipse that took place earlier this week.
Angel Reese and the perils of being a Black female athlete
Randallstown native Angel Reese is headed for the WNBA. Can she get ahead of the double standards for Black women in sports?
Angel Reese is expected to be a first-round pick in the WNBA draft.
He’s a country music fan. She loves Beyoncé. Could they agree on ‘Cowboy Carter’?
To get a sense of the impact of “Cowboy Carter,” we asked two locals — one country music fan and one Beyoncé stan — what they thought of the album.
Beyoncé accepts the Innovator Award during the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on April 1, 2024.
Baltimore is grieving the loss of the Key Bridge. We’re at the anger stage now.
Baltimore’s anger is not just out of the helplessness we feel over what happened to the Key Bridge, but at the absolute asinine response across the media — social, televised and otherwise.
Construction workers honored the Key Bridge victims during a press conference on March 28, 2024 at CASA's Baltimore worker center. They held white flowers and raised their hands in solidarity.
The joy of celebrating an artist who is still alive — and thriving
Local artist Joyce J. Scott encourages viewers to “walk a mile in my dreams” in an expansive retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Joyce J. Scott exhibit
How not to handle the case of a missing princess
I don’t know where Princess Catherine is. But as a reporter, I know the royals are handling the PR around this hot mess express all wrong. Just ask Jack Ryan.
A selection of front pages from U.K. daily national newspaper coverage on the health news about King Charles and Catherine, the Princess of Wales.
Why friendships can — and should — be as important as romantic relationships
Rhaina Cohen's “The Other Significant Others” explores the power of nonsexual friendships in a society that prioritizes romantic partners.
Rhaina Cohen is the author of "The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center."
Reader memories: In its heyday, Harborplace was ‘the hub of the universe’
Former employees, buskers and regular visitors to Harborplace tell The Banner why it was such a pivotal place to be in Baltimore.
More than 100,000 people attended the dedication of Harborplace on July 3, 1980.
The head of the Oscars shaped his love of movies in Baltimore County
Bill Kramer, the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a Timonium native, talks about his passion for films and the cinematic beauty of Baltimore.
Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, attends the Academy′s Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony Feb. 23 in Los Angeles.
You can find a little Baltimore in all the Oscar nominees for best picture
Thematic threads in all the Oscar nominees for best picture reflect the difficult but still strangely hopeful space we find ourselves in right now, around the world and here in Baltimore.
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 12: In this handout photo provided by A.M.P.A.S., Oscar statuettes are seen backstage during the 95th Annual Academy Awards on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Al Seib/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images)
Did you hang out at Harborplace in its heyday? Tell us your stories.
Did you fold jeans at the Harborplace Gap? Did you hang out on the paddleboats?
Harold Tremain visited Harborplace in the 1980s. His granddaughter, Alexandra Smith, now works for the mayor's office.
Opinion: ‘The Traitors’ underestimates female players — just like the real world
Men downplay the skills of women on reality shows because they do so in real life, too. Sometimes to their peril.
Phaedra Parks is a force to be reckoned with on Peacock's "The Traitors."
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