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Paying Tribute

On Memorial Day we pay a debt that binds us in perpetuity

The Comeback Kids

The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team proves it ain’t over yet

Memorial Day Two Ways

In tribute to the dead, in celebration of living

Getting to Know Northern Ring-Necked Snakes

In my Calvert country neighborhood, my kitties help me meet the neighbors

Pity the Poor Crape Myrtle

But I have no pity for pruners who butcher this beautiful summer-flowering species

When the Planets Align

Mercury, Venus and Jupiter gather in the glow of twilight

Iron Man 3

We examine the man behind the iron suit in this fun, nonsensical action flick

After saving the world from alien invaders with his Avenger pals, billionaire playboy/part-time super-suit inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.: The Avengers) is having trouble sleeping. It seems that a wormhole full of vicious invaders, a brush with death and the enormity of being Iron Man have caught up with the usually unflappable superhero. Stark treats his PTSD by refusing to discuss his trauma and spending long nights tinkering on new versions of the Iron Man suit....

Article - Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener; 5/9/13

Colonial Players’ In The Next Room or The Vibrator...

Interesting. Very interesting.

In stereotype, the Victorian era is dark and overbearing, peopled with prudish and stodgy citizens. That stereotype gives the required context for Sarah Ruhl’s In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play. The assumption is that the doctor — providing relief for hysteria by using a vibrator on his patients, female and male — is both innovative for Victorian sensibilities and naïve of mental and physical health concerns as we understand them today. Directed by...

Article - Theatre Reviews; by Davina Grace Hill; 5/9/13

Featherweights on the Fly

Bluegills give you fight and flavor

Early May is a great time of year. The dogwoods are in full bloom, the scent of flowering lilacs perfume the air, redbuds glow crimson. And one of the greatest sweetwater fish species is, right now, moving into the shallows and picking out a spawning territory to defend. Tossing a size-10 popping bug with a fly rod along a freshwater impoundment’s shoreline and waiting for the explosive take of a bull bluegill guarding his territory is a delight not to be missed. This...

Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; by Dennis Doyle; 5/9/13

The Secret to Award-Winning ’Cue

A Kansas City Barbeque Judge gives Bay Weekly the deets

Is each piece of meat evenly cut? Does it look appetizing? Are the pieces neatly arranged? What kind of garnish did the chef use? All these questions are answered in the first 30 seconds by Kansas City Barbeque Society judge Jorge Alday, who is judging the Parole Rotary Club’s Naptown barBAYq contest this weekend. He bases his first score on appearance: a 2 looks inedible, a 9 is perfect. He takes a sliver of meat with his...

Article - People; by Ashley Brotherton; 5/2/13

Tall Trees

Who today knows what an undisturbed forest looks like? How many of us get to breathe the healing air in such places?

England has Stonehenge. France has cave paintings. We have national parks. The parks were a cutting-edge idea when they were born in 1872, with the founding of Yellowstone. With some 2.7 million visitors a year, our 59 national parks are still a big deal. But how many of us get to visit them? How many of us get to be inspired by the trees that form a green mantle over many of their lands? That’s why biologist...

Article - Green Living; by Leigh Glenn; 5/2/13

Whole Lot of Pecking Going On

Which woodpecker is Woody?

I share my backyard with woodpeckers — lots of them. I’ve got downy, hairy and red-bellied woodpeckers perpetually pecking at my peanut suet. And every morning and evening, a pair of northern flickers drill away at the suet feeders in sync. Hubby got within 50 feet and shared a few rare moments with a pileated woodpecker drumming on a rotting tree in our front yard. He said it looked just like Woody Woodpecker with his big, bright-red plumage sticking out...

Article - Creature Feature; by Michelle Steel; 5/2/13

Standing Up for Kindness

Out of anguish, a seed grows to produce beauty

In times of trial, the brave step forward. Unrest caught hold at Calvert High School a year ago. It divided students into Us and Them. Into this turmoil stepped a handful of the brave. At a June assembly to bring the students together, senior E.J. LaGoy spoke up. “Words hurt,” she said. “Stop it! Just stop it!” Freshman Andrea Kelson read her poem about bullying. A Revolution ended with this...

Article - News; by Sandra Lee Anderson; 5/2/13

Giving a Building Life

Hard Bargain Farm going light years ahead of just green

A living building sounds like something out of a futuristic, sci-fi movie, but it’s closer than you think — 2015 to be exact. The Alice Ferguson Foundation just broke ground for a living building at Hard Bargain Farm in Accokeek. The Foundation is the first in the region to build a living building and will be fourth in the world to earn the title. What does it take to create a living building? Fifteen million dollars, a...

Article - Green Living; by Ashley Brotherton; 5/2/13

Cueing Up for Food, Fun and Music

Follow the smoke to the Naptown barBAYq

This weekend brings the third annual Naptown barBAYq Contest and Music Festival to the Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds. This two-day fundraising event is organized by the Parole Rotary Club and has expanded to include two days of music as well as a large field of barbeque competitors with names like Que and a Half Men and Aporkalypse Now. Last year’s event raised $30,000 for local charities. The grills start rolling into the Crownsville fairgrounds on Friday, nearly 60...

Article - The Dish; by Lisa Knoll; 5/2/13

A Good Tree Is a Good Friend

And a forest is halfway to heaven

Spring is in the air, and our hands are in the earth. I’ve seen you greenscaping block-end gardens in Annapolis for Earth Day. I’ve seen you planting and mulching at St. Martin’s Lutheran School. I’ve seen you loading up at Greenstreet and Homestead Gardens and at London Town, Calvert and Four Rivers garden clubs’ plant sales. I’ve seen you digging in your garden, and I’ve seen the irrepressible flowering following...

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin; 5/2/13

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Paying Tribute

The Comeback Kids

Memorial Day Two Ways

Getting to Know Northern Ring-Necked Snakes

Pity the Poor Crape Myrtle

When the Planets Align

Iron Man 3

Colonial Players’ In The Next Room or The Vibrator...

Featherweights on the Fly

The Secret to Award-Winning ’Cue

Tall Trees

Whole Lot of Pecking Going On

Standing Up for Kindness

Giving a Building Life

Cueing Up for Food, Fun and Music

A Good Tree Is a Good Friend

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