Vice (movie)

Naval Academy astronauts return to inspire next generation

2013-03-24 16:04:00

The course is Human Space Flight. The subject for today: analogues — the scenarios found in the world or contrived in the laboratory that NASA uses to simulate work and life aboard a space ship. Naval Academy professor Ken Reightler leads the...

Dick Cheney dishonest, defiant and then some to the end in Showtime documentary

2013-03-10 10:57:00

The first question Dick Cheney is asked in "The World According to Dick Cheney" is: What's your favorite virtue? "Integrity," he answers. What do you value most in your friends?" he's asked in follow-up. "Honesty," he says through those crooked,...

Argo, Lincoln and the politics of Hollywood

2013-02-26 03:00:00

The Oscar for best picture was won by "Argo," the true tale of a secret rescue mission in Iran during the Carter administration. It beat out "Lincoln," the story of how black Americans were rescued from slavery. Does this mean Jimmy Carter's stock is on...

In NRA-land, we're all crack shots and cold-blooded killers

2012-12-31 06:59:00

After a tragedy like the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn., the injection of anything short of seriousness into the subsequent public discourse about guns is touchy. But the National Rifle Association blasted numerous rounds into...

Forest Hill woman reflects on her memories of Pearl Harbor for posterity

2012-12-07 02:50:00

I had always wished that my great-grandmother, who lived in Maryland during the Civil War, had written some personal notes as to what it was like for her at the time. They would be especially interesting for us now. With that thought in mind, I wrote some...

NRA to America: Blame yourself, not us

2012-12-21 08:57:00

After a week of silence following the massacre in Newtown, Conn., the National Rifle Association went on the attack Friday morning, insisting that mass killings are the fault of the media, politicians who pass laws banning firearms from schools, the...

Baltimore, 'Homeland' have winning night at 2012 Emmys

2012-09-23 21:04:00

The biggest winner Sunday at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards had to be Showtime’s “Homeland,” which took the top three drama awards in an upset over such favorites as “Mad Men” and Downton Abbey.” But Baltimore-based...

Ervin M. Milner, founded production house

2012-08-30 12:38:27

Ervin M. Milner, who founded Milner Productions in the basement of his Northwest Baltimore home and turned it into one of the nation's largest producers of educational audiovisuals for physicians and hospitals, died Aug. 17 of complications from...

Maryland gun permit expansion put on hold

2012-08-01 17:10:00

A week before Maryland's gun permit laws were set to loosen under a federal ruling allowing more people to carry concealed firearms in the state, the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday delayed the shift. The court, which issued its order...

Keeping kids' minds sharp during the summer

2012-07-03 09:45:00

Here's a guest post from Gary Huggins and Richard E. Bavaria of the National Summer Learning Association: Summer vacation is a time when kids create memories for the future, memories that will last a lifetime. Unfortunately, it’s also a time they...

'VEEP' comes to Baltimore's Camden Yards Sunday, and Selina meets Jim Palmer

2012-05-26 12:49:00

Baltimore gets lots of face time in “VEEP,” the Maryland-made HBO political satire starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. But so far, all of it has been as a stand-in for Washington, the setting of this fictional series about the vice president of the...

Balto. Co. announces new movie theater in downtown Towson

2012-01-27 16:09:00

One of the nation's largest movie theater companies will anchor the Towson Circle III development, becoming the first announced tenant of a delayed project officials hope will spur revitalization in the heart of the Baltimore County seat. Cinemark...

This was the first major English-language TV series shot in South Florida since Miami Vice.

2012-01-16 13:50:48

Xi, however, is not a fan of some of his home country's more well-known films. The cable states: "In American movies, good usually prevails.

2010-12-10 12:17:19

What it is: Buddy-cop movies are thought of as more of a staple of movies, but there have been a fair number of TV shows relying on yin-and-yang police duos as well.

2009-03-06 10:47:57