Paris (France)

A stirring production of 'Les Miserables' at the Hippodrome

2013-04-12 16:21:00

There's something about "Les Miserables" that keeps me coming back. It's not that "Les Miz," running through Sunday at the Hippodrome Theatre, is my favorite musical. Far from it. It's all too easy to point out the technical flaws in Claude-Michel...

Checking out Paris with Carla Hayden

2013-02-11 14:16:00

Few people can recognize the yearning to escape better than Carla Hayden, chief executive officer of the Enoch Pratt Library. As a librarian, she has spent many years helping her curious clientele explore new realms and journey to wondrous places...

Les Petits Bisous serves up French-inspired macarons in Havre de Grace

2013-03-05 10:20:00

After falling in love with French macarons in Paris, Wanda Hall decided to open her own maison du macarons in Havre de Grace. Les Petits Bisous, which translates as “little kisses,” opened in August 2012. “I thought, ‘Why not...

'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' recap, Passive aggressive in Paris

2013-03-05 04:53:00

We're still in Paris, where Yolanda and Brandi are running through the streets backed by what sounds like Parisian dubstep. Brandi's on a mission to look as good as Yolanda does when she's her age, to which I say, "Yesssss, ma'mm!" Both of them spent...

History group sets course for Continental Congress Center

2013-02-28 11:59:41

A fledgling organization devoted to the history of the Continental Congress — and creating a permanent home in Annapolis for examining that period in American history — took steps last week toward its goal. The Annapolis Continental...

Channeling the spirits in color and line at Ellicott City gallery

2013-02-17 18:48:00

Ephrem Kouakou prefers to work while the world sleeps. The artist says that in the dead of night, absent the sound of any human voice or music, he can best hear the "spirits" talking. He says he's been hearing the spirits steer his brush since he...

Poetic passions, tragic partings among Baltimore's greatest romances

2013-02-08 05:10:00

Baltimore has witnessed love and loss. From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...

From Sun Magazine: Chazz Palminteri brings rustic Italian style to suburban New York

2011-11-27 00:00:00

As a young man living in the Bronx, Chazz Palminteri would escape the city on long drives into the Westchester County countryside where he'd tool along curving, forested roads, staring at the set-back mansions. To a guy with empty pockets, the gated lawns...

Another arts district?

2012-05-08 11:02:00

Any effort that promises to attract new residents and businesses to a historic Baltimore neighborhood could do a lot worse than make the arts a magnet for bringing people together. That's why we can't see any down side to a city proposal to create a third...

Sarkozy's cry for help

2012-03-15 00:00:00

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was elected five years ago by promising to modernize France's societal infrastructure and bring it more into line with America's: less government reliance, more freedom in life and work. It was a tall order, but his...

The Rev. James J. McNamee III

2012-03-12 14:34:00

The Rev. James J. McNamee III, a retired Episcopal priest who had pastored St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Annapolis, died Friday of cancer at his home in the Ambassador Apartments in Tuscany-Canterbury. He was 76. Mr. McNamee was born in Baltimore and...

Elinora Bowdoin Bolton, French teacher

2012-02-11 12:12:00

Elinora Bowdoin Bolton, a former French teacher who had been a celebrated 1940s women's tennis player, died of heart failure in her sleep Tuesday at the Keswick Multicare Center. The former Howard County resident was 93. Family members said she was...

Serena Williams celebrates match point against Russia's Maria Sharapova in the women's singles final at the French Open at Roland Garros arena in Paris, France, Saturday, June 8, 2013. Williams defeated Sharapova, 6-4, 6-4. (Christophe Guibbaud/Abaca Press/MCT)

2013-06-08 00:00:00

Maria Sharapova of Russia (R) and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus (L) are pictured during their women's singles semi-final match at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris June 6, 2013. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe (FRANCE - Tags: SPORT TENNIS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

2013-06-06 00:00:00

TOPSHOTS People gather on the Trocadero Square in front of the Eiffel Tower on a rainy day, on May 20, 2013, in Paris. AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOURFRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images ORG XMIT: FRANCE-WE

2013-05-20 00:00:00