ENTERTAINMENT
By Sara Toth | November 13, 2012
After the disappointing culling last week, we're down to the final 12, and from here on out, only audience votes will help our favorites move through -- no more coaches' saves. I'm running out of things to say about these musicians, so here's how it works this week: vote for your favorites. If they make the cut, they make the cut. If they don't, they don't, and since this is entirely in your hands, dear audience, it's entirely likely that a coach will NOT have a representative in the final rounds.
NEWS
By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun | January 10, 2012
One can only hope the Baltimore Ravens do a better job of clock management than the Maryland Democratic Party did during its annual pre-session legislative lunch gathering Tuesday. Gov. Martin O'Malley, the party's leader and the subject of fulsome praise from state legislative leaders and congressional representatives alike, had to sit through extended remarks by Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, House Speaker Michael E. Busch, five of Maryland's six Democratic U.S. representatives and U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin before getting the chance to speak.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Erik Maza and The Baltimore Sun | September 10, 2011
The Virgin Mobile FreeFest drew its largest audience this year, organizers said Saturday. About 50,000 people were projected to have attended the festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion Saturday, said spokeswoman Audrey Fix Schaefer. That's a record audience for what was already Maryland's largest outdoor music festival. The turnout was remarkable because just a couple of days before organizers "were close to canceling" this year's event over the recent weather, said Virgin founder Richard Branson. Last year, an estimated 40,000 people attended the festival, which was headlined by M.I.A.
NEWS
October 2, 2012
Gov. Martin O'Malley's schedule takes him to Denver on Wednesday, where he will be in the audience for first presidential debate. Maryland's governor has been one of President Barack Obama's top surrogates this season and will be on hand Wednesday night in the "spin rooms" to try and shape the post-debate news coverage. He'll also likely do some national interviews before the debate. O'Malley plans to leave for Colorado after the Board of Public Works Wednesday and return Thursday morning, according to a source close to the governor.
NEWS
By Annie Linskey, The Baltimore Sun | January 18, 2011
When the new interns arrive in the State House reception room, Gov. Martin O'Malley puts them to a test. He directs them to look at a wall displaying portraits of Maryland's most recent governors and tells them to name as many as they can. About half, he says, are unable to identify O'Malley's immediate predecessor and most recent opponent, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. Of those who recognize Ehrlich, half are stumped by Gov. Parris N. Glendening....
ENTERTAINMENT
By David Zurawik and The Baltimore Sun | April 25, 2012
"VEEP," the widely-praised Maryland-made comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, got off to a solid start Sunday night with an audience of 1.7 million viewers for two showings. The 10 p.m. showing opposite AMC's "Mad Men" drew 1.4 million viewers. "VEEP" drew 300,000 more viewers than the finale of "Eastbound and Down," which aired the previous week in that timeslot for HBO. "Girls," another critically-acclaimed HBO comedy, opened the week before with 810,000 viewers in its 10:30 p.m.Sunday timeslot and 1.1 million for two showings.