A Voice of Baltimore Feature, an excerpt from BLACK OCTOBER AND THE MURDER OF TURK SCOTT    The Case Files of Homicide Lt. Stephen Tabeling A SOON-TO-BE-PUBLISHED MINI-eBOOK ON AMAZON.COM   By Stephen Tabeling and Stephen Janis   It was shortly after midnight, July 1973, in the wee small hours of Friday the 13th. Holton […]

  DIRECTOR OF CULT FILM, BROADWAY MEGAHIT ‘HAIRSPRAY’ PICKED UP BY INDIE ROCK BAND NEAR RTE. 70 PA. BORDER It is absolutely 100% pinky sworn true.  — Band member to friends, in a tweet   It’s certainly not as outrageous as flamboyant drag queen actor Divine’s feasting on dog poop at the corner of Park […]

  AFRICAN-AMERICAN PASTORS SPEAK OUT ON FIRST SUNDAY AFTER  PRESIDENT’S DECLARATION OF SUPPORT FOR GAYS African-Americans believe in Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve    — Kenneth N. Oliver, Baltimore County Councilman (D—4th District) on former  ‘All Politics Is Local’ radio show   By Alan Z. Forman   On the first Sunday following the President’s […]

  GREAT-GRANDSON  OF LEGENDARY DAREDEVIL WALKS TIGHTWIRE AT BALTO.’S HARBORPLACE Déjà vu ‘all over again’: a 2nd Wallenda skywalk   It was déjà vu all over again as the 33-year-old great-grandson of “The Flying Wallendas” founder who performed an aerial skywalk across Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in 1973 reprised his great-grandfather’s stunt to the delight of […]

  WEEKEND WRAP A VOICE of BALTIMORE OCCASIONAL SERIES Op-Ed Musings on the Week’s Events   MAN WITH MANTRA  ‘BAD GUYS WITH GUNS’ RETIRES  AFTER  FIVE YEARS  AT THE HELM Police liaison/crime adviser to mayor also leaving Police chiefs come and go. In Baltimore its a rite of passage. So despite catching everyone off-guard this […]