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Article - The Dish; by Lisa Knoll - 4/25/13

Have a Little Cake with Your Asparagus

Asparagus specials are popping up, but to celebrate 20 years, Bay Weekly serves cake

May is National Asparagus Month. This perennial spring vegetable is one of the first harvests of the season and a favorite on menus. A distant cousin of the lily, asparagus takes some dedication to cultivate, about three years before your first crop. But once it takes, the stalks can grow up to four inches in one day. If your green thumb hasn’t stretched to asparagus, you’ll find the stalky green popping up all over — in farmers markets,...

Article - News; by Michelle Steel - 4/25/13

Bay Bridge Betterment

New lane markings, rumble strips and signs help us get across

I’m claustrophobic and scared of heights, so unfamiliar and uncomfortable situations send my anxiety into a full-blown panic attack. Also, I’m easily distracted. Driving over a bridge, with traffic coming toward me, isn’t my idea of fun, even if I am heading to Ocean City for a getaway. So I was happy to hear of this week’s Bay Bridge safety enhancements. Thanks to construction crews — working 200 feet above the Bay,...

Article - News; by –Ashley Brotherton - 4/25/13

The Compost Bandwagon

Department of the Environment jumps on

Composting is all the rage in the trash world. The newest trash trendsetter, Maryland’s Department of the Environment, now invites its 900 employees to compost food waste instead of sending it to the landfill. Food scraps take up 20 to 30 percent of precious landfill space. Composting diverts scraps from landfills to compost piles, where it ferments and transforms into nutrient-rich humus that feeds earth, plants and us. The department hopes this...

Article - Creature Feature; by Ashley Brotherton - 4/25/13

Nameless Heron Closer to an Identity

Vote for your favorite name

More than 550 of us aspire to name the Chesapeake Bay Trust’s famous blue heron on the Save the Bay license plates. Three finalists name the cut. Now you get to vote for your favorite. Hattie the Heron, suggested by Jane Dimalanta of Jessup in honor of her great-great-great-great-grandmother. “She was a strong woman and so is our beautiful bird.” Seemore D. Bay, by Lesley Ann of Chester, who hopes this name reminds us to see more of the...

Article - News; by Ashley Brotherton - 4/25/13

Hoofing for a Good Cause

Don Chomas’ pink pig advances Parole Rotary’s Naptown barBAYq

The Parole Rotary’s Naptown barBAYq is coming to town with more than 50 teams competing to win bragging rights to best pork, chicken, ribs and brisket. Next weekend you’ll smell the smoke far and wide. Barbecuing begins late May 3 with the festival running May 4 and 5 at the Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds. You’ll get your chance to taste from 2:30-5pm Saturday ($10). This week, you might meet the pig. That’s Rotary president Don...

Article - Features; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 4/25/13

Bay Weekly’s 20-Year Book

Milestones in words and pictures

1993: Volume I Vol. 1, No 1: April 22, 1993: Our First Cover Born on Earth Day 1993 as the paper Committed to the Chesapeake, New Bay Times appeared with a cover drawn to tell the whole story. No. 5, June 17: Burton on the Bay Bill Burton leaves the Baltimore Evening Sun for upstart New Bay Times. Okay, I exaggerate. After 35 years with the Sun, the famous outdoors editor was pining from an early buyout at 66 years young. In New Bay...

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 4/25/13

The Weight of Memory

I hope my brain — and shelves — have room for 20 more years

Twenty years gives you lots to forget. Over the two decades of Bay Weekly, I’ve lost track of plenty. So as our Earth Day birthday approaches each year, I exercise my memory by lifting our archive books off their shelves. The book for 1993 weighs only 3.5 pounds. We didn’t start until Earth Day, and publication was fortnightly, so we printed only 19 issues that first year. The books for 2004 through 2008 are hefty, with 2006...

Article - Theatre Reviews; by Davina Grace Hill - 4/18/13

The Theatre at AACC’s The Underpants

Three surprising sources combine to make comedy

Theater starts with the written word, comes to life in the voices of actors and endures in the memory of its audiences. Sometimes, as with Carl Sternheim’s The Underpants, written in 1910, it gets forgotten until someone rediscovers it, reimagines it and breathes life into it — as comedian Steve Martin did for The Underpants in 2002. A German farce, The Underpants seems a comedic take on Ibsen’s The Doll House, which debuted 31 years earlier. The themes of...

Article - Movie Reviews; by - 4/18/13

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A rousing tribute to a baseball hero

In 1940s’ America, Major League Baseball was a white man’s world. Talented black players were relegated to Negro League teams, where they endured smaller ballparks, poor equipment and shabby transportation. Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford: Cowboys & Aliens) upsets the applecart by bringing an African American player to the big leagues. He is not acting out of the kindness of his heart. “Dollars aren’t black or white, they...

Article - Sky Watch by J. Alex Knoll; by J. Alex Knoll - 4/18/13

Return of the Lyrids

The waxing moon makes predawn skies your best bet for this annual meteor shower

The moon is at first-quarter phase Thursday the 18th. Even with only half its face illuminated, the moon washes out the stars of amid the constellation Cancer the crab, in which it rests that night. But if you look beyond the moon, you will see that it is juxtaposed between a triangle of three more or less equally bright stars: Procyon to the west, Regulus to the east and Pollux to the north. Friday evening the moon is to the right of Regulus, and by Saturday it is just a...