THEN AND NOW, THE TWO REFUSED TO LOSE, DEFEATING THE RUTHLESS AND POWERFUL WITHOUT HAVING TO RESORT TO VIOLENCE Timeless entertainment starring Raymond Burr & Peter Falk, resurrected for viewing pleasure on current Baltimore TV   By David Maril   It’s been almost 50 years since CBS cancelled the weekly “Perry Mason” (1957-66) show. […]

  NEW BOSTON STREET RESTAURANT ON SITE OF THE FORMER BAY CAFE   By Eddie Applefeld   It opened in April of this year and enjoyed a great summer. It was difficult not to, with its prime location on the Canton waterfront. It’s The BoatHouse Canton at 2809 Boston Street, Tindeco Wharf, the site of […]

  GENE OISHI WAS NINE YEARS OLD WHEN HIS AMERICANIZED FAMILY WAS INCARCERATED BY THE U.S. Suffered trauma in adult life as result MAIN CHARACTER IS AUTHOR’S ALTER EGO   By Alan Z. Forman   Former Baltimore Sun reporter Gene Oishi’s premiere novel, Fox Drum Bebop, offers a fictionalized account of the emotional and psychic […]

  FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE LT. GOVERNOR, ANOTHER PERSON’S TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS CAN MAKE YOUR OWN ‘ROMAN HOLIDAY’ SEEM NOT TOO TERRIBLE AFTER ALL Schadenfreude in the Friendly Skies NONE OF US IS IMMUNE FROM HAVING A DAY WHERE NOTHING SEEMS TO WORK OUT RIGHT   By David Maril   Ever think you are […]

  A Voice of Baltimore Feature, an excerpt from      ROOBY TAWR, a novel in progress      set in mid-20th Century Charm City                                By Joel Foreman   It’s 1930. A crowd with drowsy early morning faces waits at a trolley stop in Northwest Baltimore a mile or two south of Park Circle. One of the faces […]