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AN OPRAH WINFREY SPECIAL: THE MENOPAUSE REVOLUTION - After addressing topics like weight loss and artificial intelligence with in-depth conversations over the past year, Oprah Winfrey is now tackling the inevitable phase of life every woman will face: menopause. MONDAY, MARCH 31 (10:01-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (Disney/Eric McCandless)
NAOMI WATTS, OPRAH WINFREY, HALLE BERRY, DR. MARY CLAIRE HAVER
Finally, hot people are talking about hot flashes
Oprah Winfrey recently brought noted hot people like Naomi Watts and Halle Berry into the discussion about menopause on a television special. Maybe this will help break the shame of The Change.
Two St. John's College students watch Naval Academy midshipmen prepare to take a shot in the Annapolis Cup croquet match Saturday.
The Naval Academy banned books. Across the street, they treasure them.
The Annapolis Cup croquet match between the Naval Academy and St. John's College has always been a contrast in style. But never like Saturday.
The Lutherville Light Rail station in Lutherville. Maggie McIntosh says three new bills pending in the General Assembly will help Maryland meet its long-term transit goals.
Letter: Transportation bills will benefit Maryland’s long-term transit goals
Former member of the Maryland General Assembly Maggie McIntosh says three proposed bills will help Maryland meet its long-term transit goals.
A detail view while two fencers practice at the Fencing Hall ahead of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Kyle Goon: A fencer turned a personal choice into a political crusade — and endangered transgender people everywhere
Anyone can decide not to compete in a sport for any reason. But turning it into political crusade only serves to threaten already persecuted transgender people.
Westgate Circle is the boundary for downtown Annapolis, where West Street, Taylor Avenue and Spa Road intersect.
With a finger salute, Annapolis’ big art project is still struggling
Art is about symbols. One of the crudest is a good way to explain why it’s proving so hard to fill Westgate Circle in Annapolis.
New Maryland men's basketball head coach Buzz Williams, center, poses for a photographers with Colleen Sorem, interim director of athletics, left, and Dr. Darryll J. Pines, University of Maryland president, right.
Kyle Goon: In Buzz Williams’ intro, the Terps tried to show a unified front. It wasn’t convincing.
A day of photo ops and smiles can't conceal some of the department's uncertainty with a new basketball coach that has a few question marks.
HOLLYWOOD, CA - JUNE 08: Actress Paula Poundstone attends the Los Angeles premiere of Disney-Pixar's "Inside Out" at the El Capitan Theatre on June 8, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Paula Poundstone on going viral, honing your funny and Baltimore birds
Paula Poundstone, coming Thursday to the Senator Theatre, talks giving yourself the permission to just be funny, and that thing that happened with that bird that time near the Inner Harbor.
Buzz Williams, named new Terps coach Tuesday, has been to the Sweet 16 only once in the last decade.
Kyle Goon: Hiring Buzz Williams will help the Terps tread water. Is that really what Maryland wants?
Buzz Williams is a solid hire. And that’s what makes it so uninspiring.
The Baltimore Orioles prepare to take the field ahead of the home opener.
Jon Meoli: Like Félix Bautista, ‘it might take a while’ for these Orioles to be at their best
This is still a really good team, and they’re going to win more games than they’ll lose even before the reinforcements arrive.
Maryland Air National Guard Lt. Col. Steven Montalvo, center, greets fellow members of the 104th Fighter Squadron March 26, 2025 at Martin State Airport before flying his A-10C Thunderbolt II to the boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona.
Football and fighter jets signal strange days for Maryland’s National Guard
Wrapped in a deal over football and fighter jets, or the end of 104 years of aviation history in Marland, is Donald Trump and his 2020 use of the National Guard as a presidential force to quell public dissent.
Baltimore Orioles pitcher Cade Povich takes the mound during the team’s home opening game against the Boston Red Sox on Monday.
Kyle Goon: The Orioles make the most out of scraps in home opener. That’s the formula going forward.
With singles and a cadre of relievers, the Orioles show how they can keep winning early this season without some of their biggest names available to play.
A participant in the Baltimore Trans Pride Grand March holds the Transgender Flag while marching in Baltimore, MD on 6/29/2024.
Letter: Maryland lawmakers should better protect trans people
The Maryland General Assembly is on track for the first time in years to not pass a single bill focused on trans Marylanders.
A portrait of Powerwasher in a Baltimore parking garage is featured in "Scene Seen."
The duo keeping the sound of Baltimore alive, one photo at a time
Local photographer Micah E. Wood and designer Christopher Chester present "Scene Seen," a visual love letter to the Baltimore music scene over the past decade.
Kevin Willard coaches the Maryland Terrapins during the NCAA tournament.
Kyle Goon: Maryland’s Kevin Willard drew attention for telling the truth. But not the whole truth.
Kevin Willard said he was fighting for his program. But that was never the whole truth.
Senate President Bill Ferguson moderates floor debate during crossover day at the Maryland State House in Annapolis earlier this month.
Letter: Bill Ferguson should allow vote on bill prohibiting automatically charging youths as adults
Two members of Jews United for Justice urge Senate President Bill Ferguson to agree to put SB422, which would stop youths from automatically being charged as adults for crimes, to a vote in the state Senate.
U.S. Rep. Andy Harris speaks during a press conference hosted by the Maryland Maryland Freedom Caucus in Annapolis on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. Harris is the only Republican member of Congress from Maryland and chairs the U.S. House Freedom Caucus.
Elon Musk is not an idiot. Andy Harris told me so.
Elon Musk is not an idiot. "Look it up," Andy Harris said. "in the dictionary." I learned a lot from the Eastern Shore congressman's tele-town hall. Some of it was even true.
Congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley waves after casting her vote on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 1986. Bentley, the incumbent, is running against Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
Letter: Recognize Helen Delich Bentley for her contributions to the port
The port of Baltimore is named after Helen Delich Bentley, but the Banner is giving her short shrift by not recognizing that.
Dan’s Mountain Wildlife Management Area
Letter: Power line bill could open path for environmental exploitation
A reader says a proposed power transmission line that crossed three protected Maryland wildlands will not benefit our state and would encourage future environmental exploitation.
Derik Queen of the Maryland Terrapins celebrates with teammates after making a shot to defeat the Colorado State Rams.
Kyle Goon: ‘I’m from Baltimore’ might be the only lasting legacy of the Terps’ season. That’s good enough.
This magical season might not give Maryland much to build on, but it will have lasting impact.
Loved ones of Mario Mireles Ruiz, his father Nicolas Mireles, and their friend Christian Marlon Segovia Jr. walk towards City Dock for a vigil in 2024.
Mistrial in Annapolis mass shooting offers a rare second chance for justice
When Charles Robert Smith returns to an Annapolis courtroom in September, prosecutor Anne Colt Leitess should be absent, not Judge Michael Wachs. There should be consequences when a prosecutor stumbles.
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