U2 (music group)

Up in the sky: Not a bird or a plane — a helicopter with ads

2011-11-28 15:46:00

You know those banners towed by airplanes over beaches and stadiums? Old hat. Prepare yourself for airborne advertising 2.0. A Columbia startup is using a helicopter to hover over traffic and events in the Baltimore-Washington area and display a huge...

Obrycki's closes its doors, rejects location at Arundel Mills

2011-11-05 14:40:00

� In one corner of the bar, a couple finished a crab cake sandwich. In the dining room, several families wearing lobster bibs struggled with their steamed crabs. That Saturday's lunch at Obrycki's in Fells Point was business as usual belied the fact...

The daily rind

2011-08-17 11:15:26

It's not like life handed the Brody family lemons. They just like making lemonade. For much of the summer, the family — Mark, who sells life insurance; Robyn, a homemaker; and their children, Leo, 8, Blanche, 6, Rachel, 5, and Max, 4 — have...

North Baltimore family stands up for lemonade

2011-08-16 20:07:00

It's not like life handed the Brody family lemons. They just like making lemonade. For much of the summer, the family — Mark, who sells life insurance;Robyn, a homemaker; and their children, Leo, 8, Blanche, 6, Rachel, 5, and Max, 4 — have...

U2 Baltimore: Where should the adorable moppets eat before their concert?

2011-06-22 08:45:00

U2 is in Baltimore. Where should they eat? Be sure to Tweet or email me right away if you see Larry Mullen, Jr., at California Pizza Kitchen. Here's Erik Maza's Midnight Sun coverage of tonight's concert at M&T Bank Stadium. Here's a list from a U2...

U2 mega-fans gear up for Baltimore's biggest show of the year

2011-06-17 18:55:00

Don't try to convince Jason Siemer that Wednesday's U2 concert is only a rock show. He knows better. "For me, U2 is about a spiritual connection," says Siemer, 36, who runs a video production company out of his Locust Point home. "I literally cry at...

U2 gives M&T Bank Stadium a boost

2011-06-21 05:15:00

Three years in the making, Wednesday's U2 concert at M&T Bank Stadium could attract a record crowd — along with gridlock in the streets — at a time when uncertainty over the NFL season leaves Baltimore looking for more ways to fill the...

U2 fans line up early at M&T stadium

2011-06-22 15:06:25

Christine Spencer left her home in Frederick at 3 a.m. just so she could get a jump on the thousands of U2 fans expected to pack M&T Stadium on Wednesday night. The early effort paid off. Just before noon, she and her two friends were among the first...

Mayor SRBono

2011-06-22 16:48:00

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, in Bono glasses, officially declared Wednesday "U2 Day" at the morning Board of Estimates meeting. She won't be the only pol at the concert. But Maryland's most senior U2 fan will be a no-show, as Erik Maza reports on...

Review: U2 at M&T Bank Stadium

2011-06-23 03:36:00

The next time the Ravens win a game at M&T Bank Stadium, they should be so lucky to get the kind of response four 50-something Irish guys got there Wednesday night. Thousands of fans - the stadium estimated some 80,000 - welcomed U2 for their first...

U2: Great music in the service of dubious charity

2011-06-21 13:45:00

(Clarification: Although the ONE foundation's $15 million in funding in 2008 is listed in tax documents as “contributions,” the organization does not solicit funding from the general public but from foundations and board members, according...

Sun op-ed is wrong about Bono's ONE campaign

2011-06-23 10:03:00

I was disappointed to read the ill-informed June 21 op-ed by Matt Patterson "U2: Great music in the service of a dubious charity," which contained misinformation about ONE, the anti-poverty group co-founded by U2 lead singer Bono. Mr. Patterson suggested...

Daughter of U2 frontman Bono

2012-01-10 13:19:48

Rating: !! (out of 4) Though The Great Burgerelli considers himself quite the sophisticated burger-eating connoisseur, I�m not ashamed to admit that I was not always mature beyond my years.

2011-12-13 08:25:25

Focusing on "the beginning of the end of AIDS," the event was sponsored by HIV/AIDS awareness organizations The ONE Campaign and (RED). Speakers also included former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton (via satellite link), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rep.

2011-12-01 16:52:27