Charles Dickens

Harford Christian presents 'David Copperfield'

2012-05-14 11:53:00

A new production of Charles Dickens' masterpiece of tragicomedy, "David Copperfield," will be presented at Harford Christian School on Friday, May 18, 7:30 p.m. An encore Dessert Theater presentation of the drama is set for the next day, Saturday, May 19,...

Living large, in a studio apartment

2012-04-22 05:00:00

"You must be rich." A grandfather who asked where I lived told me this, straight out. We were at the B&O Railroad Museum playground in Baltimore with our preschoolers, mine a grandnephew. I had unwisely confessed to living in Manhattan. After leaving...

West Friendship: WF Elementary decks the halls with sing-a-long Dec. 23

2011-12-19 00:00:00

Deck the halls with boughs of holly. That's the resounding chorus which will be heard throughout West Friendship when the students and staff of West Friendship Elementary top off the holiday season with an all school sing-a-long Friday, Dec. 23 at 2:45 p....

BSO to premiere concert version of 'Christmas Carol'

2011-12-15 00:00:00

Composer Bob Christianson is nothing if not versatile. He wrote a lot of pulsating music that accompanied episodes about several, um, energetic women in New York on the HBO series "Sex and the City." He has provided themes for Travel Channel's "Mysteries...

Why Google robots r dum

2012-02-08 11:59:00

I generally like Google's search engine. Its doodles, including yesterday's noting Charles Dickens' birthday, are clever. And it corrects my sometimes aberrant spelling, in the most polite way. But Google sure can be frustrating sometimes. Like ysterday,...

Disgraced collector pleads guilty to stealing historical documents

2012-02-07 18:18:00

Barry H. Landau, the once-esteemed collector of presidential memorabilia, admitted in federal court Tuesday that he stole thousands of documents regarded as cultural treasures from historical societies and libraries in Baltimore and up the East Coast....

Dickens featured on today's Google doodle

2012-02-07 09:58:00

Today's Google doodle honors Charles Dickens on his birthday. On the letters, you can see characters such as Tiny Tim of "A Christmas Carol" (one of my favorite works, in all forms, including the movie Scrooged and the Mr. Magoo cartoon). I always...

'Christmas Carol' classic brought to life by Pasadena Theatre Company

2011-11-24 05:56:17

It's time to kindle our Christmas spirits by catching a performance of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" — a classic that first appeared in 1843 and is now a perennial theater favorite each holiday season. Pasadena Theatre Company is renewing...

Former county historian turns to city's past in book of historical photos

2011-11-28 14:40:00

Long before Towson resident John McGrain became the historian for Baltimore County, he began taking photographs of Baltimore City. He took his first photo 65 years ago, said McGrain, who was the unofficial county historian for years before he became the...

'The Voice' recap: Episode 3, Gaithersburg's Erin Willet joins Team Blake

2012-02-13 19:23:00

Another week of blind auditions on NBC’s “The Voice,” and another two hours to boil down into a single blog post. A nice change of pace this week for the audience: Instead of clipped montages of contestants who didn’t make the...

In Holton case, court sets an impossible standard on bribery

2011-09-28 13:23:00

When one of Charles Dickens' characters said, "The law is an ass," he could easily have been referring to the recent Maryland Court of Appeals decision that makes it practically impossible for the state to prosecute legislators for taking bribes —...

Baltimore County schools spent $5 million on textbooks, curriculum despite warnings

2011-11-10 17:17:00

Baltimore County school leaders disregarded advice from state officials and forged ahead to overhaul the teaching of English, spending more than $5 million over the past few years to buy textbooks that mostly sit unused and to rewrite a curriculum that...

Jonathan Grossman, a professor of English at UCLA, rides a Metro train. His new book, ? Charles Dickens ?s Networks, Public Transport and the Novel," examines the great English author's views on the Victorian-era revolution in transportation. "Dickens would have been surprised at how long it has

2012-05-03 00:00:00

Charles Dickens

2012-04-05 00:00:00

8 p.m. April 1, WTTW (2-part premiere; concludes April 8) PBS' "Masterpiece Classic" opens a new season with Charles Dickens' rags-to-riches story about an orphan whose meetings with a loony Miss Havisham (Gillian Anderson, heartbreaking) lead him to have great expectations of wealth and marriage.

2012-03-30 07:24:00