Stephen King

Commentary: This is Halloween

2012-10-17 10:01:00

While some of my colleagues here at The Aegis may argue about its merits (one editor in particular that I won't name, but he knows who he is), I love Halloween. The whole time of year is pretty magical, if you think about it. Leaves are changing colors,...

Forbes: James Patterson highest-earning author

2012-08-13 09:46:00

Though E.L. James has received recent headlines for the phenomenal sales of "Fifty Shades of Grey," stalwart James Patterson remains the highest-earning author, according to Forbes. The magazine estimates that Patterson made $94 million last year,...

Laura Lippman's darker side of Dickeyville

2011-08-26 17:15:00

The pungent, haunting narrative of Laura Lippman's new novel, "The Most Dangerous Thing," kicks in with a group of kids arguing for dibs on a grassy kickball field near a cotton mill on "Wetheredsville Road." The whole scene sounds like a cozy...

Rape victim, investigator release book about 21- year odyssey

2012-01-21 14:59:00

For years, the stranger who raped her in her Annapolis bedroom maintained a hold over her. If it wasn't her self-imposed isolation from friends, it was the nightmares, or the difficulty of keeping up the facade that she was fine, or the drinking, or the...

'Wire' actress 'Snoop' pleads guilty in drug case

2011-08-08 16:18:00

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who overcame a troubled childhood and a murder conviction to launch an acting career as a drug-gang assassin on HBO's "The Wire," pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to sell heroin. She was sentenced to seven years in prison,...

To quoth critics on 'The Raven' movie: Tell-tale flop

2012-03-15 06:47:00

Baltimore has a special interest in the new John Cusack movie "The Raven" as it tells the story of a man the city claims as its own: Edgar Allan Poe. (If they named the football team after his poem, he's got to be something, right?) The film depicts a...

The horrific John Carpenter

2011-09-15 11:10:00

Thirty-three years ago, a low-cost independent horror movie — one that started with the suggestion to make a film about babysitters being murdered — began making the rounds at movie theaters. Few noticed it at first, but that soon changed....

Now a free woman, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson heads to L.A. pursue her dream

2011-08-19 14:09:00

To rebuild her life, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson had to destroy her reputation. The actress who portrayed a cold-blooded killer so memorably on three seasons of the HBO cable series "The Wire" pleaded guilty this month to a crime she says she didn't commit....

Best week ever: Baltimore events, music, movies and more

2011-11-06 10:56:00

A list of everything you need to know about the week ahead. MOVIES OPENING (Friday; subject to change) Immortals J. Edgar Jack and Jill Like Crazy NOTABLE TV MONDAY The Bad Girls Club Reunion, Part 1 (special; 9 p.m.; Oxygen) The Witch Doctor Will...

Government must fund the arts

2012-01-22 05:00:00

With the primaries in full swing, the cowboy poetry festival and Big Bird have returned to the news. The Nevada festival is the most recent whipping boy for those who oppose government funding of the arts. Mitt Romney joined this chorus by suggesting...

Book review: Stephen King's thrilling "11/22/63"

2011-11-10 14:21:00

"The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change." The past is also a dangerous, fickle place — and woe to anyone who dares alter it. That's the mantra coursing through "11/22/63." Stephen�King's�mammoth, generous and thrilling novel is about a...

Taking name-dropping to a whole new level

2010-03-07 08:58:00

Iwent to sleep under an O'Malley moon and woke up caressed by the beams of an O'Malley sunrise. Breathing deeply the oxygen supplied by the O'Malley administration, I had my O'Malley Oaty Oats cereal while listening to O'Malley's March. O'Malley highways...

Premieres: Monday, June 24 on CBS Why we're watching: This new drama is based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, chronicling a small Maine town (where else?) that suddenly finds itself trapped under a clear but impenetrable dome. Naturally, chaos ensues.

2013-05-07 00:00:00

, takes a job as the hotel's winter caretaker, his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow. Jack learns that the previous caretaker, driven mad by cabin fever, murdered his family. Danny receives horrifying premonitions and begins seeing strange apparitions in the hotel.

2013-04-03 20:27:00

Stephen King, left, on the set of "Under the Dome" with director Niels Arden Oplev and executive producer Jack Bender.

2013-03-06 10:38:02