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'AGT' phenom Jackie Evancho to perform with BSO

2013-05-16 15:35:00

In 2010, a blond-haired girl with a sweet smile stood before the "America's Got Talent" studio audience and millions of TV viewers. The 10-year-old proceeded to sing about asking her daddy to grant her request. So far, so normal. But if the words...

Kwame Kwei-Armah keeps his vow to bring Center Stage national exposure

2013-05-13 05:28:00

Kwame Kwei-Armah is turning up the floodlights on Center Stage. It's been not quite two years since the British-born playwright became artistic director of Maryland's largest regional theater. With his production of two button-pushing dramas nicknamed...

A beautiful work in a horrific setting

2013-04-20 00:00:00

The most famous, roof-rattling passage in Giuseppe Verdi's "Requiem" describes the "day of wrath" for the guilty as they face their eternal fate: "How great will be the terror when the Judge comes who will smash everything completely … Whatever...

Aren't the Supremes ready for their close-up?

2013-03-29 19:00:53

Unless you waited in line for five days to get one of the coveted audience seats at the Supreme Court, you probably experienced this week's oral arguments on same-sex marriage as something of a Ken Burns film. Websites and TV broadcasters played audio of...

So many advances in technology, so many more to come [Commentary]

2013-02-18 09:42:00

I am not very computer literate. I know how to use one to surf the Internet, to shop, to work, but ask me how they work, what makes it run, I can't tell you. I wasn't sure what was bigger, a megabyte or a gigabyte. What are those? I'm not sure, other than...

Of course Al Jazeera has a bias, but it's not what most critics think

2013-01-09 04:02:00

Reading some of the nutty coverage of Al Jazeera's purchase of Current TV from Al Gore, I am not sure whether the problem is ideology or ignorance when it comes to the sorry state of media criticism today. Last week, I explained why I thought Al...

Third accuser claims to have had underage sexual relations with Elmo puppeteer

2012-11-27 14:10:00

A third accuser has come forward claiming he had sexual relations with Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash while underage. The man, identified in court papers only as "D.O.," claims he began the physical relationship in 2000, when he was 16. In court papers...

A fire in Brazil, a fake fight in Phoenix and a real one in California

2013-01-28 06:54:00

Dick Van Dyke brought his characteristic charm to the SAG Awards this weekend, and Internet users dutifully searched for all sorts of details on him -- anything to distract us from the icy weather that caused school closings from here to Ann Arbor.�...

From halls of 'Downton Abbey,' to 'House of Cards,' a great midseason

2013-01-06 11:52:00

Midseason used to be a time for networks to put on series that weren’t good enough to make the fall lineup. The thinking was: The money has been spent to make these episodes, so let’s try to get something out of them by plugging them for shows...

Back in Baltimore, Wes Moore has big plans for his hometown

2012-12-11 14:45:00

When Wes Moore swings a sledgehammer, he does it with his whole body, with the easy confidence of someone who's used to manual labor. It's early on a Saturday morning, and Wes is one of a couple dozen volunteers who have gathered in the Oliver...

Our special relationship with 'Downton Abbey'

2013-01-09 10:38:11

America has a remarkably close relationship with its previous owner. It seems we no sooner threw off the yoke of George III than we started collecting mugs decorated with the images of royal wedding partners. England and the United States have been...

What Al Jazeera thinks of Baltimore

2012-08-19 09:12:00

Baltimore-area viewers won't see it in their TV listings, but this week a program will premiere on the Al Jazeera English channel that could do more to shape the world's image of their city than any other media coverage or civic promotion done all year....

"Super WHY Live: You've Got the Power" will bring characters from the PBS children's TV series to the stage as they go on an adventure through a book to find the answer to the question �Who has the greatest super power in the world?

2013-04-24 12:13:00

The mayors of South Bend, Elkhart, Goshen and Plymouth were talked tax breaks during a roundtable discussion for PBS TV station WNIT on Sunday. (WNIT-TV)

2013-04-15 05:09:00

Andrew Russell was named chief operating officer of PBS SoCal, the Orange County based public television station also known as KOCE-TV

2013-02-05 07:43:00