FYI:   NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS  is a weekday/workday service.  There will be no compendium Mon. Oct. 14 (Columbus Day).   NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Oct. 11 [Scroll down for previous days’ compendia]   WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with […]

  RECENTLY RETIRED FROM MEDICINE, CONTROVERSIAL  JHH PHYSICIAN BECOMES A TV COMMENTATOR ‘The Kelly File’ premieres on Fox   By Alan Z. Forman   Highly respected Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Benjamin S. Carson Sr., recently retired and now politically controversial, joined the Fox News Channel Wednesday night as a television commentator, debuting on the network’s “The […]

  WHAT  HAPPENS  WHEN  TOO MANY PEOPLE FORCE THEIR MUSICAL SELECTIONS ON US Outdoor workers  set  standard; we have no choice but to listen   By David Maril   To me, it’s astounding how so many people forget that music comes down to personal taste. Too often all of us are forced to hear music […]

  Premiere Week of “Need-To-Know News” on Voice of Baltimore   NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Oct. 4 [Scroll down for previous days’ compendia]   WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what […]

  ‘NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS’ STARTS OFF THIS WEEK Apex on the block   What is Baltimore to do? First “The Block,” which offer- ed every variation of ecdysi- ast-driven entertainment one could possibly imagine, got decimated after the retirement of Blaze Starr — Charm City’s very own entrepreneurial burlesque queen. Now the city’s last X-rated movie […]