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'Lake Eerie': Cleveland's Municipal Stadium was the calm-before-the-storm scene of the Colts' victory over the Browns prior to the disastrous Super Bowl with the Jets in 1969. (Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
In Baltimore half a century ago, we almost had our own miracle sports trifecta.
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Site of the Gourmet Girls location at the Dumbarton Square shopping center in Pikesville. (Photo by Aliza Friedlander)
The demise of the popular Pikesville specialty store is another notch for corporate America, writes Michael Olesker.
Read MoreIn the aftermath of the May 25 Inner Harbor trouble, what are we left to tell ourselves about feeling safe in the heart of the city of Baltimore?
Read MoreJohn Waters’ new book is delightful.
It’s funny and it’s show-biz gossipy, and it’s honest even when Waters isn’t the hero of the story.
We’ve been at various wars now for such a long time that the new kids signing up weren’t even born when we were hit by the terror attacks that started all of it.
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Brian Roberts, who played second base for the Orioles from 2001 to 2013, now provides occasional color on Orioles TV and radio (Photo by Mitch Stringer/PressBox)
For broadcasters, the job’s also about story-telling and kidding around during the dull moments and the awful ones.
Read MoreThe new Hulu series needs some Heller humor. But, in terms of sheer drama, it’s pretty powerful.
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Baltimore native and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (center) is shown here speaking with colleagues in 1954. (Courtesy Villanova Law Library, Flickr)
The destructive legalisms that kept America’s children divided by race across generations have been replaced by public schools that have re-segregated by parental choice.
Read MoreTalk doesn’t disguise American ambivalence about integration.
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Baltimore native and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (center) is shown here speaking with colleagues in 1954. (Courtesy Villanova Law Library, Flickr)
The Supreme Court’s judgment in Brown v. Board of Education remains a turning point in U.S. history.
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Baltimore's Inner Harbor is located only blocks from where teams of squeegee kids ply their trade. (Photo by Joel Nadler)
Some people are intimidated by the squeegees. And they enter the city with their anxieties already in place.
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