Truman Capote

Joseph S. Eubanks

2013-06-06 00:00:00

Joseph S. Eubanks, a noted bass-baritone and Morgan State University music professor who performed with the first American company of "Porgy and Bess," which toured the world in the 1950s, died May 16 of renal failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson....

Black and White Party features vintage idea, youthful appeal

2013-01-19 15:17:00

The storms of winter 2010 shut down roads, cancelled classes, closed up shops and nearly ended a signature Baltimore event before it started. On a cold January night, organizers of the Pratt Contemporaries' inaugural Black and White Party watched the...

Gold medal in hand, Friends School senior heads to top art college

2012-04-12 09:34:00

Emilio Martinez's first exposure to art came early in life, when his parents took him to the Visionary Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art. "I think I was, like, an infant," said the Roland Park native. But his first exposure may have been even...

Michael Sragow's 13 great haunted house movies

2010-10-14 09:34:33

From the blog Michael Sragow Gets Reel: It hasn't been a great era for haunted-house movies. The third version of "House of Wax," in 2005, was awful enough to kill off the form, at least as far as big American studios were concerned. The day my review...

Crashing the party

2006-03-06 00:00:00

Crash, a film that suggests America has far to go to become a true racial melting pot, upset heavily favored Brokeback Mountain in being named the best picture of 2005 at last night's 78th annual Academy Awards ceremonies. The film, whose characters...

'Brokeback Mountain' leads Golden Globe noms

2005-12-13 08:19:00

Globes honor 'Brokeback,' 'Walk the Line'

2006-01-17 00:00:00

The cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain led the Golden Globes yesterday with four prizes, including best dramatic film and the directing honor for Ang Lee. It was a triumphant night for films dealing with homosexuality and transsexuality. Along with the...

Shy debutante became giant in U.S. journalism

2001-07-18 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - Katharine Graham, the grande dame of modern American journalism who helped transform The Washington Post into one of the nation's top newspapers, died yesterday at a hospital in Boise, Idaho, after suffering a head injury in a fall Saturday....

Give voice to classics old and new

2001-12-15 00:00:00

Walk into my three-storied neighborhood book joint only at the risk of being struck blind by the glittering displays of Christmas books. From Truman Capote to Jimmy Carter to that pioneer of self-help, M. Scott Peck, there is no shortage of writers who...

Actor, hailed as greatest of his era, dies

2004-07-03 00:00:00

Marlon Brando, who changed not just the face but the mind and soul of movie acting with a series of revolutionary performances in the 1950s, died Thursday at age 80 of lung failure at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. In his five decades on screen, Mr....

Review: 'Love, Marilyn' is a love letter to Marilyn Monroe

2013-06-17 05:30:00

Watching "Love, Marilyn," Liz Garbus' pointed, poetic and occasionally overwrought documentary about the life of Marilyn Monroe, I kept thinking about "The Great Gatsby," another tragedy in two acts recently resurrected for our viewing pleasure. In each...

Poet Laura Treacy Bentley says publishing novel is 'dream come true'

2013-06-08 20:10:00

Name: Laura Treacy Bentley City in which you reside: I live in Huntington, W.Va., but I divide my time between the beautiful mountains of West Virginia and McHenry, Md., in Garrett County. Day job: I’m the book editor for WV Living magazine. I...

A manuscript of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with annotations by author Truman Capote.

2013-04-23 11:34:02

Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

2012-10-01 00:00:00

Release date: June 12, 2012 Why to throw it in your beach bag: If you're missing "Revenge," turn off your television and pick up this book. Call us crazy, but we detect a note of Truman Capote in Maggie Shipstead's satirical voice.

2012-06-20 13:48:00