If you like the show, “How It’s Made,” you’ll love this one.
They were called valves in Britain and tubes in the United States. They became transistors and then morphed into integrated circuits. Today …
History
Remembering the Supreme Court, Human Rights, a letter, and a novel. And, Armistead Maupin.
I discovered Armistead Maupin’s novel, Tales of the City, and its eight sequels by way of the first four volumes …
Maryland Politics–no Jew need apply
Coming this February How Jews Entered American Politics: The Curious Case of Maryland’s “Jew Bill” Presented by Rafael Medoff of The …
Again this year, I’m sharing Christmas with my good friends at 28 Barbary Lane.
Down the Peninsula at Cypress Lawn Cemetery, a woman in a paisley turban climbed out of a battered automobile and …
Those were the days, my friend—
One May morning in 1972 my manager phoned and said, “I’ve got a great gig for you. A four-hour photo shoot next week. It …
A. Aubrey Bodine – two silver gelatin prints coming soon to auction in Baltimore
There aren’t a handful of American photographers whom I admire as much as I admire Baltimore’s A. Aubrey Bodine. The man was …
Baltimore. Monument Lighting. December 4th. Party.
It’s about that time again—let’s all gather around our newly restored Washington Monument, raise a glass and a cheer, and wish …
12 powerful minutes with Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte set a high bar at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards Saturday night, November 8th. In …
News from our friends at the Jewish Museum of Maryland
Lloyd Street Synagogue Anniversary Sunday, November 9, 10:00am to 5:00pm 1:00 pm Lecture: Mendes’ Baltimore: The Industries That Built a City …
2015 John Dales Scholarship for SAG Members and Families
Yet another reason I’m proud to be a Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA, One Union, member: The 2015 John L. Dales Scholarship competition is …
Mapplethorpe at Grunwald
Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs from The Kinsey Institute Collection are on display through November 22 at Indiana University’s Grunwald Gallery. Presented …
Separation? Not so much.
My long-time friend, Jack Gazelle, challenged me to Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and Jack is pretty darn close. I met Bacon …
1972, NYC. I knew Sal Naturile—a first-hand account of the actual Dog Day Afternoon.
Calmly, Sal said, “I’ve got to hang up. I think there are police at the back door. Tell Joe hi …
The next Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award will go to one hell of a great gal.
It’s a long press release, but she deserves every single word. She’s a dame who has never been afraid of …
Forty years ago tonight Nixon resigned the office of President of the United States
Here is his speech: Good evening. This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office, where …
A satirist, he saw machines and gadgets as excessive
From the Jewish Museum of Maryland: Not many of us make it into the dictionary as an adjective. But then …
Learn the process of recording a Broadway Cast Album
If you enjoy Broadway musicals as much as I do and if you haven’t heard these four extraordinary podcasts before …
For my dear friend, Shirley Ray
New York City. 1981. On a beautiful autumn evening, after we’d enjoyed a grand dinner at Tavern on the Green, we …
The top 8 July 4th movies (and some fountain trivia)
The 4th of July usually gets short shrift in the holiday movie category. But, it shouldn’t. Here’s the list that Jacob …