Michael Olesker
Why Perceptions Matter in ‘The Tragedy of Baltimore’
In a cover story that is not quite as long as “War and Peace” but bleaker, The New York Times Magazine on Sunday, March 17, publicly undressed the city of Baltimore. The piece is titled, “How an American city falls apart: The Tragedy of Baltimore.” The reporter, Alec...
Recalling the Miraculous Harry Hughes
Harry Hughes, now and forever the “Patron Saint of Lost Political Causes,” was the last great election miracle of the 20th century. The former governor of Maryland died at his home on the Eastern Shore on March 12 at age 92. But his stunning victory over...
Russell Baker Was One of Ours
Russell Baker was a giant in the newspaper business when the newspaper business still had a full supply of giants. When he died earlier this bleak winter, at 93, The New York Times rightfully claimed him as their own. He won one of his Pulitzer Prizes there for his...
Toots, Duckpin Bowling and Memories of a Lost Baltimore
In the Great Emptiness between the end of football season and the beginning of baseball, it’s nice to remember how people survived before we had cable TV and cell phones to help distract us through the endless winter months. It hit me as I drove along Liberty Heights...
Trump Still Doesn’t Get Democrats and the Jews
I was going to call one of the smartest people I know, the well-known Jewish Democratic Sen. Benjamin Cardin, of Maryland, to find out why the Democrats suddenly hate the Jews. But then I realized the question was too flippant to ask, even if President Donald Trump...
Intolerance Can’t Be Tolerated Among Nation’s Lawmakers
When push came to shove this week in the U.S. House of Representatives, even Ilhan Omar pushed back against Ilhan Omar. She is the Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota who started the latest uproar over anti-Semitism. She did it with some snide remarks about Jews...
Hoping for an End to the Plague
Twenty-five years ago, I wrote a column about a young man named Joey who was spending his last Christmas Eve dying from AIDS in a dreary Baltimore apartment while the whole wide world seemed indifferent. I thought of him this week as researchers in California declared...
Wanted: Someone with Imagination to Rescue Pimlico
There’s an uneasy sense that history’s about to repeat itself in Baltimore’s long-shot struggle to prevent the Preakness Stakes from galloping out of town and keep Pimlico Race Course alive. This time, it’s horses slipping away. Last time, it was Colts. This time it’s...
Ignorance is Bliss for GOP in the Michael Cohen Hearings
At precisely 21 minutes past the midday mark on Feb. 27, Michael Cohen gave the once-over glare at all those Republican puppets posing as U.S. congressmen and then uttered the most obvious statement of the day, no matter your political party. He’d arrived, before the...Upcoming Events
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7:00 pm Abbi Jacobson — SOLD OUT @ The Parkway Theatre
Abbi Jacobson — SOLD OUT @ The Parkway Theatre 
Mar 20 @ 7:00 pm
The Parkway kicks off its Contemporary Women Filmmakers series with a sneak preview of the next to last episode of “Broad City,” “Along Came Molly,” with series co-creator (and MICA grad) Abbi Jacobson. A conversation[...]
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all-day Baltimore Jewish Film Festival @ The Gordon Center
Baltimore Jewish Film Festival @ The Gordon Center 
Mar 23 – Apr 16 all-day
The BJFF presents internationally renowned Jewish-interest films. Here’s this year’s schedule: March 23, 8 p.m.: “The Last Suit” — An 88-year-old Jewish tailor runs away from Buenos Aires to Poland seeking a friend he hasn’t[...]
7:00 pm Bill Griffith’s Nobody’s Fool Ta... @ Atomic Books
Bill Griffith’s Nobody’s Fool Ta... @ Atomic Books
Mar 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith discusses and signs copies of his new book, “Nobody’s Fool — The Life and Times of Schlitzie The Pinhead.” Reserve your signed copy today.
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