by Michael Olesker | 12 hours ago | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
When John Bolton was a scholarship student at Owings Mills’ McDonogh School, he learned to stand alone against heavy incoming flak. But he never had to deal with censure like he’s about to absorb. At upscale McDonogh, this working class son of a fireman out of... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 24, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
The first day of President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial didn’t actually end until the second day of his impeachment trial — 2 o’clock in the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 22. When I awoke later that morning, I asked my wife, “Have they stopped talking... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 22, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
“Jojo Rabbit” plays like a spiritual descendant of “The Producers.” I saw the new film — written and directed by New Zealand-born filmmaker Taika Waititi, a Maori Jew — at The Charles this week, in one of the smaller theaters, so completely packed with... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 20, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
In its heady, bustling, muscular heyday, the Baltimore Sun newsroom had more than 400 reporters, editors, photographers and such. Now, like so many American newspapers, they’re a skin-and-bones operation with a newsroom body count reportedly under 100 people. And... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 16, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Around Baltimore, they call this week’s exclusion of the late Art Modell from the Pro Football Hall of Fame an outrage. Around Cleveland, they say it would have felt like a “sucker punch” if the Ravens owner had finally been elected. On this particular matter, I stand... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 15, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Sometimes the offenses of President Donald Trump are impeachable, and sometimes they’re just loathsome, dangerous and un-American. This week, they’re all of the above. The president offends us on religious grounds, re-tweeting a doctored image of the Jewish U.S.... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 13, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
When we speak of the true carnage of this past weekend, we do not mean the game involving Baltimore’s Ravens. Let’s move on, shall we? We mean Baltimore’s shooting victims, of whom there were at least a dozen over the weekend, five of whom died.... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 10, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Jack Garfein’s life was so bountiful that the obituary writers overlooked a fundamental piece of it when this great man of the American theater died the other day at age 89. Garfein was a director and producer who helped found the legendary Actors Studio West. He... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 8, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
As Baltimoreans began to tremble under nearly an inch of snow yesterday, Jan. 7, I heard one of WBAL-TV’s news anchors refer to the “winter storm” and one of WJZ-TV’s news crew advise us all to “leave [work] early and let the snowplows do their job.” The urgency in... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 6, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
In the fat and sassy post-war years, when Baltimore was the sixth largest city in the nation and its population reached nearly 1 million people, the opening of the annual legislative session in Annapolis was a time for flexing some serious political muscle. But that... read more
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