FILLING STATIONS EVERYWHERE ARE NOW ‘SELF-SERVICE’ AND ATTENDANTS HAVE BECOME VIRTUALLY OBSOLETE Who would have ever figured everyone, except chauffeured elected officials, would be pumping their own gas?   By David Maril   As gasoline prices around Baltimore fall under $3 a gallon, there’s irony in our starting to pay less for fuel at […]

  GOP INCREASES MARGIN IN U.S. HOUSE OF REPS.; LT. GOV. ANTHONY BROWN CONCEDES DEFEAT Presidential aspirant O’Malley nowhere to be found ‘THE BIGGEST UPSET IN THE COUNTRY!’   By Alan Z. Forman   In an election that just weeks ago wasn’t even expected to be close, Annapolis businessman Larry Hogan won a decisive victory […]

  IS GAMBLING BALTIMORE’S BIGGEST ATTRACTION? ARE THE ORIOLES AND RAVENS LESS IMPORTANT? Weak candidates and horrendous campaigns OLD-FASHIONED BASEBALL VERSUS NEW   By David Maril   While wondering how many touchdown and passing yardage records the great Baltimore quarterback John Unitas would be shattering if he were alive and playing in today’s pass-happy NFL, […]

  COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY MEANT TO BE USED, NOT WORSHIPPED Bowing down to the Macintosh god; overdosing on ‘Apple (Store) juice’ TECHNICIANS ARE TERMED ‘GENIUSES’   By David Maril   If a politician campaigning for election ever wanted a captive audience for the purpose of shaking hands, telling a few jokes and making hundreds of empty […]

  NATIONAL TOURING COMPANY RE-CREATES TWO EPISODES OF ICONIC 1950s TV SITCOM At the Hippodrome through October   By Eddie Applefeld   In 1951, the year that “I Love Lucy” made its national television debut, I was three years old.  So obviously my memories of the show come from reruns. The iconic early-TV sitcom appeared […]