Long Island

Amy Schumer talks about her journey from Towson to TV and concert stardom

2013-05-20 08:11:00

Amy Schumer can tell a story. Knowing how to craft a short narrative and make it pay off with a laugh has, after all, helped make her one of the hottest comedians on TV and the concert circuit these days. So, let the star of Comedy Central’s...

Deputed Testamony won the Preakness 30 years ago this week [Editorial]

2013-05-16 17:05:00

Harford County has had many big-time sports moments in its glorious history. Perhaps none were bigger, however, than the one that happened 30 years ago this week. That's when Harford County's own Deputed Testamony won the 1983 Preakness, bringing home...

Everything revolves around Orb

2013-05-16 17:57:00

The colt was a knucklehead, really. He had speed and endurance in his pedigree, but if you had polled his owners and his trainer a year ago, none would have predicted that he’d gallop in the same steps as his great-grandsire, 1977 Triple Crown...

Terps women top Stony Brook, 11-3, to advance to NCAA lacrosse quarterfinals

2013-05-12 19:19:00

For the second time this season, Stony Brook forced a Maryland women's lacrosse offense that loves to run and gun into a more deliberate attack. The strategy slowed the Terps, but it wasn't enough to beat them. After giving up an early goal and...

Diner Days: A timeline of the Hollywood Diner

2013-05-08 07:30:00

The Hollywood Diner has had a turbulent history in Baltimore. Here's a look back. 1981 — Location scouting begins for the MGM production “Diner,” which is to be filmed in and around Baltimore. The Hilltop Diner, the northwest...

Surfer moms are catching the wave more and more

2013-05-11 11:11:00

Beth Schub started surfing with one of her uncles on Long Island when she was 13, but she went off to college in Pennsylvania and later settled there after getting married, she thought she was pretty much done with the sport. It took a move to Emerald...

Kyle Dixon gives the Bayhawks a lift with two-point goals

2013-05-03 13:33:00

It doesn't matter how far Kyle Dixon is from the goal — if you leave him open, he's going to shoot. The Chesapeake Bayhawks midfielder showed it this past week in St. Petersburg, Fla. Dixon netted three two-point goals in the Bayhawks' season-...

Terps confident their defense can contain Cornell's Rob Pannell

2013-05-11 12:41:00

The Maryland men's lacrosse team spent the week poring over film of Cornell's whirling dervish of an attackman Rob Pannell, but defensemen Goran Murray and Michael Ehrhardt and goalkeeper Niko Amato have something celluloid cannot match: firsthand...

Kentucky Derby full of intrigue with Pletcher's pack, O'Neill's return

2013-04-29 14:43:00

Last year's chase for the Triple Crown ended when trainer Doug O'Neill stepped to a microphone stand in a patch of fenced-in grass next to a barn near the Belmont Park track. Brushing back tears, he announced that a tendon injury would prevent I'll Have...

Digest: Len earns Bias Award as most valuable Terp

2013-04-17 23:03:00

Men's college basketball Len earns Bias Award as most valuable Terp Alex Len was given the Len Bias Award as Maryland's most valuable player at the team's awards banquet. Len also earned the Len Elmore Award for most rebounds and the Buck Williams...

Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic underclass tryout dates set

2013-04-17 15:29:00

The tryout dates for the 2013 Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic underclass tournament have been set, Under Armour, Inc., and Corrigan Sports Enterprises, Inc., announced Wednesday. Players who will graduate in 2014, 2015 or 2016 are eligible...

WWE's Zack Ryder on his career slump, missing WrestleMania, changing characters and more

2013-03-04 04:30:00

Zack Ryder has had the most up-and-down two years a WWE superstar can have. The 2011 calendar year was a dream for Ryder, whose YouTube hit Z! True Long Island Story made him the fifth-most followed WWE superstar on Twitter with more than a million...

With hearts of palm and roasted mushrooms, served in foam with crisp corn kernels.

2013-05-23 10:01:55

Lufthansa flight attendants Jutta Kaemmerer, seated left, and Mascha Junge being served by Pan Am's Jerry Rand and Gertrude Vasel at the Pan American World Airways stewardess school in Long Island circa 1960.

2013-05-16 10:40:00

Premieres: Sunday, June 2 on Bravo Why we're watching: Bravo, recognizing that it can't count on its Housewives forever, looks to a new group of women to bring the drama: the pampered princesses of Long Island.

2013-05-13 22:17:00