People (magazine)

Jockeying for position

2013-05-14 18:49:00

Behind a door just off the paddock area of Pimlico Race Course, several jockeys are prepping for the day's races. They're handicapping the competition, comparing notes on horses and, in at least one case, going through a yoga sequence: reaching back to...

Breast cancer: Angelina Jolie starts the conversation

2013-05-15 12:39:44

"Mom. Do you have that gene? Do I? Have you been tested? I thought Grandma had breast cancer. Why weren't you ever tested?" The questions from my 27-year-old daughter were coming fast. Angelina Jolie published an essay in The New York Times on Tuesday,...

Angelina Jolie will also get ovaries removed

2013-05-15 09:50:00

Actress Angelina Jolie, who got a double mastectomy to lower her chances of breast cancer, will also have her ovaries removed, according to People magazine. Jolie said in a New York Times editorial Tuesday that she had her breasts removed and...

Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky to give recital for Washington Performing Arts Society

2013-03-18 08:40:00

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, the Russian baritone who will give a recital for the Washington Performing Arts Society at the Kennedy Center Wednesday night, has one of the finest voices of our time. He doesn’t mind saying so himself. “It is still a...

Stefanie Powers plays Tallulah Bankhead at Hippodrome

2013-03-03 07:58:00

Here's a cool example of what-goes-around-comes-around: In 1965, a British-made thriller called "Die! Die! My Darling!" hit the movie houses. This study in strangeness and sadism starred the indelibly foggy-voiced, deliciously irreverent Tallulah...

Charter and independent schools faced financial, academic challenges

2013-02-09 12:21:00

In response to a system that many believed had long failed young black boys, a school began to take shape seven years ago in a small East Baltimore neighborhood. The Bluford Drew Jemison Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Academy would...

MLD affects Towson woman's body, but not her spirit

2013-01-17 06:05:00

There's a new normal in an old, colorful house off Regester Avenue in Anneslie. It's one that requires a constant flow of caregivers to provide daily assistance for one of its residents, Laura Glaudemans. Once a week, Laura, 23, visits the sixth floor...

Anderson Cooper blinded by sunburn to the eye

2012-12-06 07:47:00

Anderson Cooper recently shared a picture of himself on Instagram with a patch over one of his eyes after he was blinded while on assignment off the coast of Portugal. The CNN host said UV light bounced off the water and burned his eye, resulting in 36...

Surprising reaction to L'affaire Petraeus

2012-11-14 12:56:00

People magazine has named its "Sexiest Man Alive," and the nation was surprised to learn he was not a general. The winner was actor Channing Tatum, who may be a movie star but doesn't have any stars on his chest. He is good looking enough, but no so much...

William Thomas Napier Martin IX, postcard collector

2012-08-27 13:26:00

William Thomas Napier Martin IX, who with his wife became one of the world's largest collectors and sellers of period vintage postcards, died Wednesday of heart disease at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Havre de Grace resident was 71....

From Sun Magazine: Giuliana Rancic isn't afraid to bring reality to reality TV

2012-02-08 03:57:00

Growing up in Bethesda, Giuliana Rancic thought there was nothing more glamorous than the news women she saw on TV. First at the University of Maryland, College Park, then at graduate school in Washington, she trained to join their ranks, heading with...

Showering Michael Phelps will sell you shampoo

2012-03-26 08:59:00

Michael Phelps has another important swimming event this week in Indianapolis. But it seems everyone wants to talk about the Baltimore Olympian's new shampoo commerical for Head & Shoulders. His Subway spots didn't generate this much buzz. But he had...

Mila Kunis has been voted FHM's sexiest woman in the world and is apparently "the perfect girlfriend" as well. Ashton Kutcher must be blushing with pride.

2013-05-03 15:59:00

Rocky romances Four years into her relationship with Italian real estate developer Raffaello Follieri, Hathaway had a rude awakening. Follieri, it turned out, had been stealing money from investors (and is currently serving time for his crimes).

2013-04-29 09:23:00

Google the name of almost any female actor older than 20 and the term "cosmetic surgery," and you will be deluged with blogs and websites devoted to deconstructing famous faces and figures, often in the most clinical terms -- several of the sites are run, apparently, by actual surgeons who offer

2013-04-29 00:00:00