PEACE IS OFTEN AT STAKE FOR A TRANQUIL TRAIN RIDE For rude passengers who refuse to chill out, silence is not golden GONG SOUND MANDATES QUIET   By David Maril   The sign in the front identifies this section of the Acela Express, near the end of the train, as the “quiet car.” Passengers […]

  JEB BUSH PLAYING ‘NOT TO LOSE’: AN UNCONVENTIONAL STRATEGY WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE THE LEAD GOP should utilize positive, unifying presidential message delivered by Ohio Gov. John Kasich BABBLING BLOWHARDS STEEPED IN NEGATIVITY   By David Maril   While wondering if Donald Trump is trying to prove a Super Pac doesn’t need to support […]

  A Voice of Baltimore Satire/Commentary —————————       —————————       ————————— ‘BREAKING BAD’ PROTAGONIST OFFERS NEW TAKE ON A CLASSIC; ‘WALTER WHITE, HISTORIAN’ ‘Heisenberg’ surveys an uncertain field THE ‘PERRY WHITE’ OF THE PUNDITS   By Jay Liner   One of the all-time greatest works of political writing and reporting was Theodore H. White’s revolutionary The Making […]

  MD. MISSES OUT ON LATEST CRAZE, SETTLING FOR ‘FRANKENFISH’ AND SHARK SIGHTINGS Seasickness is unwelcome part of the excursion as tourists get more than they bargained for A HEIGHTENED APPRECIATION FOR DRY LAND   By David Maril   Most of the summer crowd squeezing across the Bay Bridge in stifling traffic to hit the […]

  CREATIVE ALLIANCE VENUE ON EASTERN AVENUE IN HIGHLANDTOWN IS SITE FOR ANNUAL EVENT BILLED AS ‘MINORITY FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE’ The medium of the moment for everyone   By Jill Yesko   These days it seems that everybody with an iPhone is making a movie. Which makes Sharin Nelson, founder and director of Reel Independent Women, […]