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    Would you rather be stuck in the woods with a man or a bear? (karpenko_ilia/Getty Images; Emma Patti Harris/The Baltimore Banner)
    Man or bear? A viral meme about who women feel safer with requires expert answers
    A TikTok video asked women whether they would rather be trapped in the woods with a man or a bear. Even the experts seemed firmly in one camp.
    Brian Underhill’s father Robert L. M. Underhill, wrote love letters that were discovered in a wall in a Baltimore home that was being renovated.
    Old Baltimore love letters fill in family history for far-flung descendants
    A stash of 1920s love letters recently discovered inside the wall of a Baltimore home are filling in the blanks for two families across the country.
    Annapolis Blues forward Jacob Murrell (18) fights for the ball during their game against VB City on June 11, 2023. Annapolis won 3-0.  The team returns to Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium next week with a charity game.
    7 things to do: Annapolis Blues soccer returns to capital city with charity match
    Here’s a look at great things to do in Annapolis for the week starting May 9.
    One day, if you're lucky, this adorable person will grow up to buy you a Diet Coke without being asked.
    Mother’s Day is one day. Here are the gifts we want all year.
    For Mother's Day, give the gift of kindness, clean rooms and not tripping over shoes for eternity.
    67 letters were found in a wall during a construction job. The letters were addressed to Mrs. R. A. Spaeth.
    Tell us about the old things you’ve found in your home
    Have you discovered a bit of history that tells a surprising story?
    Joanna Meade reads aloud love letters from the 1920's in the sun room of her home on February 27, 2024. The letters were found inside of a wall during a renovation.
    Secret in the walls: Hidden letters reveal love, lust, scandal in 1920s Baltimore society
    A bathroom renovation in Roland Park opened a window to a long-forgotten world. The dusty, tin box held 100-year-old love letters. Who hid them in the wall? And why? That’s where the mystery begins.
    (Stokely Baksh/The Baltimore Banner. Original photo from Eleanor Robb Patterson's U.S. passport application.)
    Heiress’s legal drama threatened to ruin author of love letters
    Love letters hidden for a century within the wall of a Roland Park home unspooled not only a secret romance but hinted at the tragedy and scandal surrounding a wealthy heiress.
    Illustration of pregnant Black woman standing on a tiny island with a shopping basket, looking through binoculars at clothing racks on islands that surround her.
    Commentary: Shopping for clothes is hard. When you’re pregnant, it’s even worse.
    Affordability, comfort and good quality hardly seem to coexist in clothes for pregnant bodies.
    Angel Reese departs The Mark Hotel for 2024 Met Gala.
    Baltimore-area native Angel Reese stuns in seafoam frock at Met Gala
    Angel Reese, the Randallstown native turned WNBA player, left her Chicago Sky practice early and stunned during the Met Gala, which is one of fashion’s most iconic events.
    My mom never liked swimming, but have it a go during a camping trip to her mother's home in New York.
    It’s never too late to write your mom for Mother’s Day, even when it is.
    Maybe the best I can do on this or any Mother’s Day is to write a little note to her. I know she won’t read it, but it feels good to write it as if she would.
    David Wilder signs his name on the same brick his dad, Dave Wilder, signed in 1997 as part of Mount Saint Joseph High School’s graduation rite on May 1, 2024.
    The Climb: Mount St. Joseph’s seniors embark on century-old rite of passage
    Mount St. Joe’s seniors take part in a rite of passage stretching back to the early 1900s as they prepare to embark on life after graduation.
    Fifi the poodle proceeds down Key Highway with the Baltimore skyline in the background as rain falls during the Kinetic Sculpture Race on May 4, 2024.
    Amid rain fit only for ducks, absurdities roll in the Kinetic Sculpture Race
    The race, put on by the American Visionary Arts Museum, isn’t supposed to be taken seriously, the fastest don’t get first prize and bribes are the norm. Heavy rain only added to the absurdity of the day featuring a giant pink poodle named FiFi, oversized pink flamingos and, of course, the Soda Quakers.
    Scenes from the Kinetic Sculpture race on May 6, 2023.
    Volunteers don’t take the Kinetic Sculpture Race seriously. They’re not supposed to.
    An annual festival dating to 1999, the spring Baltimore event invites racers — or, as they are called, pilots — to show off their human-powered sculptures in a 15-mile course.
    Meroë Khalia Adeeb competes in the Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition in 2017. The 36th annual sing-off takes place on Sunday at Maryland Hall.
    7 things to do: Big voices come to Annapolis to compete for $30K in prizes
    Eight opera singers, three judges and $30,000 in prize money on the line should make for an unpredictable Sunday afternoon in Annapolis.
    Dating to 1911, the annual celebration of spring is the city’s oldest free public festival.
    Flower Mart returns this week. Here are the road closures and parking restrictions.
    The Flower Mart at Mount Vernon Place kicks off on Friday, and there will be traffic modifications in place starting Thursday.
    Columnist Leslie Gray Streeter, left, in 2023, and right, in 2024, has lost 20 pounds on her health journey.
    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.
    Stella the hawk in on the loose after a fallen tree broke open her enclosure at Oregon Ridge Nature Center in Cockeysville.
    Hawk that’s been through hell escapes after another brush of bad luck
    Stella the hawk, partially blind and with a chest full of shrapnel, is loose after a tree struck her enclosure at Oregon Ridge Nature Center in Cockeysville.
    Two people share an umbrella as they walk in the rain.
    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.
    A vehicle sits overturned in a construction zone on the Baltimore Beltway on March 22, 2023. Six construction workers were killed in the crash.
    I’m new to commuting on the Baltimore Beltway. Is it always this bad?
    I’ve been commuting from Annapolis to Baltimore a couple of days each week for a few months now. We’ve got traffic in Annapolis, and sometimes it’s maddening. There was that one time a sailboat mast got caught in a powerline on Forest Drive. But I have to ask you Baltimore Beltway commuters a question: Is it always this bad?
    In an episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank” that aired on April 5, Dawn Myers pitched her product to Mark Cuban, Emma Grede, Kevin O’Leary, Lori Greiner and Robert Herjavec.
    Baltimore tech CEO secures investments on ‘Shark Tank’ for all-in-one hairstyling tool
    'Shark Tank' panelists Mark Cuban and Emma Grede invested $150,000 in Dawn Myers’ $400 thermal hair infuser called The Mint, which is manufactured in Baltimore. The all-in-one hair tool detangles — and distributes heated conditioners and gels throughout — a person’s hair.
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