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Sunday, March 25, 2007

20070325 This week in The Tentacle

This week in The Tentacle

March 25, 2007

Sunday, March 25, 2007

March Madness

Tom McLaughlin

Humor by Tom McLaughlin - "Our freaks playing your freaks" is the description my Uncle Buddy used to describe a basketball game. During my university days, I used to attend these events and watch as the teams ran back and forth on the court, jumping and booing with the crowd without a clue what was going on.


Friday, March 23, 2007

Glorious "Annie!"

Roy Meachum

Marissa O'Donnell and John Schuck in The Hippodrome's "Annie."

The glorious musical "Annie" returned to Baltimore this week, stopping for only the next few days at the splendid Hippodrome Theatre. That's great news for Maryland pre-schoolers, especially girls.

"Annie's" Other Roy

Roy Meachum

Sandy in The Hippodrome's "Annie."

Going into Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre Tuesday night, I faced separate but major realties. "Annie" launched my son's theatrical career and I had never seen the musical before. It was worth the wait.

Ghost Hunters

Edward Lulie III

Ghosts have come a long way from being served up with S'mores as a staple of campsite storytelling to being a big part of marketing the multimillion dollar travel industry. Gettysburg and Williamsburg now have at least one or more "ghost" tours as one of their visitor attractions as do many other tourist destinations.


Thursday, March 22, 2007

..and they're loading into the gate

Tony Soltero

In a chronological sense, it's way too early to be talking about the 2008 presidential race. But it's easy to get sucked into the discussion. In a practical sense, President George W. Bush's abysmal approval ratings signal that the American public is more than anxious to move on and start fixing up the immense domestic and international damage caused by this sad, failed administration.

Battleground Extraordinaire

Katie Nash

Many local residents refer to Frederick County as the "best kept secret" in Maryland. Perhaps they are right - but not only because of the county's small-town charm or economic development.


Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Crossing the River - Together

Kevin E. Dayhoff

At 2 o'clock on March 23, 1642, in "St. Maries," now known as St. Mary's City, Mathius de Sousa took his seat in the Maryland General Assembly along with Leonard Calvert, the first governor of Maryland, and 37 other distinguished gentlemen.

St. Patrick's Day, With a Twist

Patricia A. Kelly

On March 17, instead of setting out wearing my green foam leprechaun hat along with the other Kellys, I found myself at the Washington Hebrew Congregation, the oldest congregation in our nation's capital, watching the Whirling Dervishes of Rumi. Sufi Muslim mystics came from Turkey to perform their deeply spiritual ritual dance, called "Sema."


Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Exit the President?

Roy Meachum

Coming almost exactly 40 years ago, Lyndon B. Johnson's Sunday night announcement caught the world by surprise. With sorrow and regret, the gentleman from Texas said he would not run for re-election.

Who's on First?

Maude Franceschina

(Editor's Note: Tentacle Columnist Maude Franceschina sent an email last week to the Board of Education. The chain of responses raises more questions than provides answers. We believe our readers will find this correspondence more interesting in the sequence of emails than in the information provided. The actual email addresses have been deleted.)


Monday, March 19, 2007

General Assembly Journal 2007-9

Richard B. Weldon Jr.

Three weeks to go in this year’s General Assembly session and yet 90% of the work remains to be done.


Sunday, March 18, 2007

Windy

Tom McLaughlin

Humor by Tom McLaughlin - Omigod, it was windy! Having spent my first winter on the beach in Ocean City, the wind was relentless for what seemed like all the whole season. Small craft and gale warnings were posted for an eternity.


Friday, March 16, 2007

Democratic Brouhaha

Roy Meachum

Democrats might not think so. From this view, it's rather delightful to consider foolishness that did not come from the GOP, usually out of Commissioner John "Lennie" Thompson's mouth.

Government for the People = Smoke-free Restaurants

George Wenschhof

Our representative form of government and our economic system is the envy of every country in the world. However, developing, implementing and maintaining this system, where government and business work together to meet the needs of the people, is a never-ending process.

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