Steve Martin

'Little Shop of Horrors' coming to Harford Tech March 22-24

2013-03-06 03:15:00

"Look out! Here comes Audrey II!!" A man-eating plant from outer space is arriving soon at Harford Technical High School. Harford Technical High School's Cobra Theatre Company will be presenting Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's campy musical "Little Shop...

Firaxis' latest 'labor of love'

2012-10-08 18:07:15

For more than four years, a team of 40 or so people in Sparks secretly worked for this Tuesday. In perhaps the biggest day in Firaxis Games' history, the design studio releases "XCOM: Enemy Unknown," a richly detailed and immersive video game that...

Artist Michael Muller's dog is his muse

2012-11-30 12:22:00

The newspaper ad promised Boston Terrier puppies and there they were, gamboling about an Annapolis breeder's kitchen, five or six of them, squirmy, sweet and wild. Tom Boeke knew which one it would be after only a minute. The one that sashayed right...

Should NFL charge fans for media day?

2012-02-01 20:58:45

What won't it charge for? Bill Kline The Morning Call NFL teams extort exorbitant personal seat license fees from fans just for the "privilege" of buying a season ticket. The NFL routinely schedules games that last until nearly midnight on school...

Web show creators are ready to unleash the 'Beast'

2012-03-19 03:58:00

In one video, a chubby guy in a Tony the Tiger costume holds a couple of puppets hostage. In another, sock puppets drive a human to madness. And in yet another video, a puppet's snoring is so powerful that people, puppets, anything in its vicinity, are...

Sinatra homage will be homecoming for Ellicott City dancer

2012-02-17 16:06:03

The national touring production of "Come Fly Away," Twyla Tharp's sensual ballet/musical set to the songs of Frank Sinatra, breezes through Baltimore this week. One of the featured dancers in the show will look very much at home on the stage of the Modell...

Winter solstice arrived ... looking forward to spring

2011-12-22 04:22:12

From The Sun's print editions:Baltimore Sun reporter Candus Thomson offers this guest post: "A day without sunshine is like, you know, night," Steve Martin once said.The winter solstice arrived in Baltimore at 12:30 a.m. At 9 hours, 24 minutes and......

Five Things We Learned in the Ravens 37-7 win over the Rams

2011-09-25 21:10:00

1.People probably should have waited more than, oh, two games to declare Torrey Smith a bust in the NFL. It is sort of remarkable -- and maybe a little sad -- how many Ravens fans seemed to be elbowing one another out of the way in an attempt to be...

Magician Michael Cantor picks up the tools of the trade

2011-11-05 00:00:00

Magician Michael Cantor's studio is a cheerful, open space, on the top floor of a clean white building not far from Television Hill in Woodberry. It's not some sorcerer's cave or spooky, spider-webbed warehouse, but a bright, airy workman's office,...

Ice Cube comes to Bourbon Street

2011-03-03 11:36:00

If Ice Cube's career is any indication, the life cycle of a rapper is highly unpredictable. One day you're protesting police brutality, and 20 years later you're playing cute for the "Ramona and Beezus" set. Still, his legacy as one of the pioneers of...

Just-announced concerts

2009-08-24 14:34:00

KISS at the Verizon Center on Oct. 13. Buckcherry will be the opening act. Tickets go on sale Aug. 29. 410-547-7328 or ticketmaster.com. Bruce Hornsby and The Noisemakers with The Wood Brothers (featuring Chris Wood of Medeski, Martin and Wood) at the...

Adam Shankman interview excerpts

2007-07-19 00:00:00

Best known for a string of hugely profitable big-star comedy vehicles from The Wedding Planner to Cheaper By the Dozen 2, Adam Shankman takes a giant step forward as a director in Hairspray . As he made clear to Sun movie critic Michael Sragow over the...

"Goodbye Roger Ebert, we had fun. The balcony is closed."

2013-04-04 18:20:00

"Inception." Yet if Baldwin's appearance wasn't a shock ? the "30 Rock" star doesn't exactly lay low these days ? the product he held scored a laugh. In the nod to "Inception's" dream-inducing injections, Baldwin leaned back and sipped on a juice pouch labeled "Ambien.

2013-02-21 00:53:00

Steve Martin.

2013-02-19 00:00:00