Edgar Allan Poe

Restaurant Review: Steam pots shine at Plug Ugly's

2012-05-12 00:00:00

Plug Ugly's Publick House is a strange name for a tavern. But Baltimore history buffs know the Plug Uglies were a thuggish street gang/political club that ran riot on Baltimore's streets in the 1850s. Don't worry. The newest resident of O'Donnell...

Movie Guide for TownMall in Carroll County, May 13

2012-05-12 19:36:00

NOW PLAYING "Dark Shadows" (PG-13). In this takeoff from the 1970s daytime drama, vampire Barnabas Collins emerges from a long slumber to 1972 Maine. With Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter. TownMall Cinemas (12:45, 1:30, 3:30, 4:...

As Poe, John Cusack takes flights of fancy in 'The Raven'

2012-04-25 07:08:00

John Cusack didn't come to Baltimore when preparing to play Edgar Allan Poe in "The Raven." In fact, he says he's never been here. But when asked whether this city, Boston, Philadelphia, New York or Richmond has dibs on the author's reputation, Cusack,...

Ghosthunters setting up at Poe House for TV show

2012-05-03 10:26:00

For a guy who's been dead some 160 years, Edgar Allan Poe's not getting much rest. A team of ghost hunters from the Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based TV program "Ghost Detectives" will be spending this weekend at the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum and at Fells...

New large-scale brewery will be Baltimore's first in more than 30 years

2012-04-07 00:00:00

The former bottling plant in the Abell neighborhood has been all but abandoned for years. The Beverage Capital Corp. sign outside has faded. The white office walls have yellowed. A nearby mechanic uses the space that used to hold the bottling line as a...

Poe House could operate as part of the B&O Museum

2012-04-10 19:55:00

A consultant charged by city officials with exploring ways of keeping Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum open and making it self-sufficient is recommending that it be operated in partnership with the nearby B&O Railroad Museum. Under the...

Newfound Poe manuscript to be displayed in Richmond

2012-04-18 13:40:10

A handwritten draft of one of Edgar Allan Poe's earliest poems and a letter to author Washington Irving are among a handful of items that will be part of an exhibit opening April 26 at a Richmond, Va., museum devoted to the writer. "This is the kind of...

Poe's legacy in Baltimore at risk

2012-04-23 10:30:00

Edgar Allan Poe and his legacy will be lost to Baltimore if funding cannot be found to keep Poe's house open and in repair. City officials say that they do not have sufficient funds to pay the salary of the executive director of the Poe association, who...

Poe statue slated for Boston

2012-04-23 10:32:00

Even as Edgar Allan Poe's continuing presence in Baltimore remains uncertain, another East Coast city —the one in which the celebrated author was born — is preparing to honor him with a bronze statue. Poe partisans in Boston have chosen New...

Edgar Allan Poe to get new statue in Boston

2012-04-23 11:40:00

Boston may be slipping ahead in the Edgar Allan Poe arms race -- the city is preparing for a new bronze statue to honor the great author, even as Baltimore struggles to preserve his former home. The Baltimore Sun's Chris Kaltenbach reports that...

Panos' career in print and practice honored by press association

2012-04-23 15:37:00

During his more than 60 years in the news business, Timonium resident Lou Panos crossed paths with people from legendary Baltimore scribeH.L. Mencken to the Kennedy brothers — as in RFK and JFK. Along the way, Panos, 86, who was inducted last...

Teen's death raises painful, pressing questions

2012-03-18 03:00:00

They do not see you. For every African-American, it comes as surely as hard times, setback and tears, that moment when you realize somebody is looking right at you and yet, not seeing you -- as if you had become cellophane, as if you had become air, as...

The night before Halloween Algerina Perna photographed Mark Sanders portraying Edgar Allan Poe at Poe's Frightful Halloween! which was held at Westminster Hall, in the graveyard, and the Westminster Catacombs.

2012-05-03 16:02:21

Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) holds his fiancee Emily (Alice Eve), who is abducted in "The Raven."

2012-04-30 00:00:00

R; 1:50 running time Quoth the raven: "Eh." Showcasing John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe on the trail of a copycat serial killer, the strangely dull new film "The Raven" squanders a promising scenario while half-burying Cusack's mercurial skills as a leading man with the wiles of a character actor.

2012-04-26 11:50:00