STEAMED CRABS  FROM AN ANONYMOUS DONOR, 4th OF JULY HOLIDAY CAKE & FRUIT FROM ‘AMY’   More than 99 percent of people have been great. — BGE maintenance worker Rick Mullen   By Alan Z. Forman   As BGE and Verizon have grown ever larger and more impersonal, universal scorn gets heaped regularly on […]

  VoB  PROUDLY LENDS ITS NAME  TO  PADONIA STATION’S ANNUAL FUNDRAISER TO FIGHT & PREVENT CHILD ABUSE Event is 11th annual contest to select area’s best Voice of Baltimore singer, to benefit Ed Block Courage Awards   By Alan Z. Forman   Wearing cutoff Daisy Dukes and gyrating like an ecdysiast, song contestant Holly Walter […]

  FOX-BALTIMORE OUTLET SCORES 8 EMMYS AS OTHER MAJOR NETWORKS GET 1 EACH Investigative Producer Stephen Janis  is first to win Emmy and MDDC investigative award   Baltimore television station WBFF-Fox45-TV won eight Emmy Awards, leading all other Maryland outlets, as regional Emmys were presented Saturday night at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The area’s […]

  COMPETITIVE  BIDDING PROCESS  BYPASSED BY MAYORAL AIDE; ILLEGAL DEAL WAS CUT, BOARD OF ESTIMATES  TOLD WEDNESDAY The mayor is ‘not being truthful, …not being honest.’ — City Comptroller Joan M. Pratt   By Alan Z. Forman   Without specifically using the word, the city comptroller called Baltimore’s mayor a liar Wednesday during a contentious […]

  I’LL HAVE ANOTHER  IS VICTIM  OF TENDINITIS Becomes 12th to win initial legs of Triple Crown since Affirmed, instead of 12th to win all three WAS 4-5 MORNING LINE FAVORITE EARLY FRI.   By Alan Z. Forman   I’ll Have Another won’t have another victory:  The Preakness and Kentucky Derby come-from-behind winner has been […]