by admin | Jul 31, 2014 | News
Perhaps there’s never been a finer caricature of a drummer than Animal, the beetle-browed, flaming red cave-man of The Muppets. Frank Oz, who performed Animal for a quarter of a century, summed him up in five words: sex, sleep, food, drums, and pain. For all his...
by admin | Jul 24, 2014 | News
The language of obsession is often dark. Someone in its throes can be described as a victim of mania or addiction. He can be tarred as a fetishist or compulsive. According to Sigmund Freud, who gave it the diagnostic term “fixation,” obsession is an infantile...
by admin | Jul 17, 2014 | News
After weeks of waiting and speculation, it finally happens: the wild black raspberries are in. Plump ripe berries dot the landscape from St. Peters Church Road all the way down to Shermans Creek. We ready the kitchen for jam-making, and Shana suits up to go picking....
by admin | Jul 10, 2014 | News
It’s a scorching July day in Baltimore, but here in the back offices of the Baltimore Museum of Art, where climate control is practically a religion, the air is cool, crisp, and smells of ozone. My elbows are resting on a chilled black slab of a table. Propped...
by admin | Jul 3, 2014 | News
It’s summertime, the season of lawn sports. As anyone following the World Cup, or Wimbledon, or the PGA Tour can tell you, there’s magic in the trajectory of a humble sphere, be it kicked, slammed, or driven. Sport gives us a vision of world where human...
by admin | Jun 26, 2014 | News
We weren’t terribly surprised — although we were a bit disappointed — when our daughter slunk out of the family room. We’d stumbled on a golden oldie: WarGames, the 1983 science fiction thriller starring an absurdly young Matthew Broderick. The...
