FORMER  EHRLICH  CAMPAIGN  MANAGER ALSO CONVICTED IN ROBOCALL SCHEME A good/bad day for Maryland politicians THE SPECTRE OF SHEILA DIXON By Alan Z. Forman At almost the identical hour the Mayor of Baltimore was sworn in for her first full term Tuesday by a court clerk accused of “brandishing” a handgun and trying to […]

  CENTERSTAGE  PRODUCTION FAILS TO EARN 5-STAR NOD FROM VOICE OF BALTIMORE Removing the F and the U By Harvey House There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. Remove the F and the U and David Mamet would be completely lost. Which is certainly the impression this critic had five minutes into “American Buffalo,” […]

  CONAWAY ALLEGEDLY ‘BRANDISHED’  GUN AT ADAM MEISTER Local activists came to the defense today of Circuit Court Clerk Frank M. Conaway Sr. at a sparsely attended rally outside the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse in downtown Baltimore. Led by the NAACP’s Rev. Cortly C. D. Witherspoon and former Baltimore City Branch President Marvin L. […]

  PRODUCTION OF CLASSIC 1955 PLAY IN CITY’S STATION NORTH DISTRICT IS METAPHOR FOR SOCIAL CHANGE By Alan Z. Forman Baltimore was a divided segregated city when Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” debuted on Broadway and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Blacks could not eat at public lunch counters […]

  NATIONWIDE  PUSH NETS LARGE CROWD ON  BUSY  BRIDGE By Anthony C. Hayes A peaceful but passionate crowd numbering about 150 gathered Thursday at the busy intersection of Howard Street and West North Avenue, joining others across the nation in a national day of protest. Their march across the Howard Street Bridge was touted as […]