Barbie (fictional character)

Concord Point Lighthouse seeking volunteers for the season

2013-03-06 09:18:05

Change your clocks, dear readers! Sunday is Daylight Savings Time – set your clocks forward one hour, or you will be like the white rabbit in "Alice in Wonderland," late for a very important date. Grace Place Serving Center will serve a free,...

Small toy shops expect bright holiday

2012-11-25 00:00:00

Just as Tom and Claudia Towles were opening their second Baltimore toy shop four years ago, the recession hit. The owners of aMuse Toys decided to cut back — not on staff or selling space — but on the number of manufacturers whose products...

Md. native Josephine Gay, 7, remembered for 'indomitable' spirit

2012-12-20 15:09:00

Josephine Grace "Joey" Gay, a 7-year-old child born in Columbia who died Dec. 14 in the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting, was recalled by her family for her "indomitable" spirit, love of the color purple and her generosity. In a statement...

Statement from the family of Josephine Gay

2012-12-20 13:52:00

On Friday, December 14, 2012, our beautiful daughter, Josephine Grace Gay, was killed in an unimaginable tragedy at her elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Joey, many of her friends, teachers, and school staff members were taken from our loving...

Connecting the social and the spatial

2012-10-12 11:16:00

Amy Lynne Shelton has a closet full of toys at the Johns Hopkins University cognitive psychology lab: Wooden human figures with movable joints, Lego and model train buildings, toy cameras and wooden triangular blocks — some with eyes, some without....

Radio Control Modelers can't get enough of piloting battery-run aircraft

2012-09-19 06:56:00

Like any good pilot, Jack Stites prepared his plane for takeoff by inspecting the wings and body and by moving the wing flaps to make sure there were no obstructions. Satisfied with its air-worthiness, he piloted the red-and-white plane as it took off...

Schmitt emerges from Phelps' shadow

2012-07-24 15:33:00

As a kid, Allison Schmitt's sport was soccer. She even had a Mia Hamm Barbie doll. If she imagined back then that she would find herself at the Olympics someday, it would have been as a teammate of Hope Solo and Alex Morgan. Instead, she is poised for...

Commentary: Proud dad ready to watch his daughter graduate

2012-06-05 08:19:00

For the past few years, I've taken this first week of June to write a column to acknowledge a few seniors whom I've had the pleasure of watching, covering and enjoying over the time spent in high school. This year things are just a bit different....

Catonsville High teacher has respect of his students

2012-05-10 17:18:00

James Fitzpatrick leans back in a huge black office chair with wheels and points at a projection on a screen in the front of the classroom, not far from the Soccer Barbie dolls and a clock featuring the portrait of French writer Voltaire. "Here is the...

Terps forward Hawkins could go from double doubles to double agent

2012-03-24 15:36:00

Tianna Hawkins never really was one for Barbie dolls and cartoons. As her mother remembers it, Tianna was barely out of diapers before something a little different had caught her attention. And it certainly wasn't pink or sparkly. "Ever since she was...

Coachspeak: Albert Holley, Milford Mill basketball

2011-12-13 09:08:00

Set to start his�sixth season�at Milford Mill, boys basketball coach Albert Holley has�already posted impressive numbers. He has won 102 games, captured the past three Baltimore County championships, and his No. 5 Millers are two-time�defending Class 3A...

Have a merry Christmas, fueled by sleep deprivation and sugar cookies

2011-12-27 00:00:00

All the presents have been opened; wrapping paper is strewn all over the house. The dog is wearing a large shiny bow, courtesy of the kids; while the cat has one end of a piece of curling ribbon hanging out of her mouth and the other end hanging out her...

A giant shoe is pictured outside a life-size "Barbie Dreamhouse" of Mattel's Barbie dolls in Berlin, May 15, 2013. The life-sized house, covering about 1,400 square meters offers visitors a chance to try on Barbie's clothes in her walk-in closet, tour her living room and her kitchen.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Mountain Elementary School dad Jansen Lashley-Haynes prepares a Barbie doll during assembly for upcoming school science fair before launching the doll up into the sky attached to a weather balloon from the La Crescenta school on Friday, December 7, 2012.

2012-12-07 14:40:00

Mattel was not amused.

2012-09-24 21:45:45