NEWS
By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun | September 8, 2011
Invited over to help celebrate his son's first birthday, 25-year-old Hari P. Close III had been a no-show. But overnight Tuesday, Close crept into the home where his son lived and climbed into bed with the boy's mother, records show. On Wednesday morning, 1-year-old Dalyire Damion McFadden was missing, and he was later found by police wrapped in a deflated air mattress in the basement. He had been stabbed in the neck, police say. Close, who was an aspiring male model, was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in his son's death and was being held without bond.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Erik Maza and The Baltimore Sun | March 22, 2012
Don't worry, it won't be the type where they do bad covers of Adon Olam. Eutaw Place, housed at the bottom of Beth Am Synagogue, is catering to singer-songwriters. It's scheduled to open in late April. The idea came together last summer, said producer and booker Ellen Kahan Zager, 56. She likes coffee-house types like Jammin Java in Virginia and adult contemporary getaways like Rams Head on Stage in Annapolis. But didn't find any in Baltimore. Though she didn't have any experience in the business - "My husband and I just love music," the graphic designer says - she approached the rabbi of her new temple, Beth Am, with a proposal: "Would you consider a music venue in the lower level of the synagogue?"
NEWS
By Yeganeh June Torbati and Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun | April 27, 2011
A body found smoldering in the basement of a vacant Southwest Baltimore home may have been intentionally set on fire, police and fire officials said. Firefighters were called at about 9:40 a.m. to a home in the first block of S. Monroe St. in the Booth-Boyd neighborhood on Wednesday, officials said. Upon arriving, firefighters found "no visible fire, just very very light smoke" and the individual was pronounced dead at the scene, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a fire department spokesman.
FEATURES
By Rob Kasper | March 2, 1991
Real estate agents might tell you otherwise, but the most important room in the house is not the bedroom with a balcony, or the bathroom with the skylight, or even the kitchen with its high-tech island. It is the basement.The basement tells you the secrets of a house. Where the floors are sagging. Where the leaks are. Where a previous owner has jerry-rigged a wiring job. A glance at the paint cans hidden in a corner offers clues on what has recently been repainted.Long ago when I was house-hunting, I always made it a point to visit the prospective basement.
FEATURES
By Yolanda Garfield | June 2, 1991
Once upon a time, a starry-eyed young couple fell in love and got married. To save money, they rented a tiny apartment with barely room for two, except for the basement, which they intended to use as a bedroom. They placed their mattress on a plywood island near the furnace, water heater and racks of clothing, and resolved to clean up . . . or something . . . as soon as they returned from their honeymoon.Unbeknown to them, their friend and fairy godmother, designer Cheryl Duvall, could not bear to allow the newlyweds to return to the basement as it was. As a surprise wedding gift, she and six friends from Duvall/Hendricks, an architectural and design firm, pooled resources, and talents, and spent four weeknights and one Saturday waging a successful battle against the basement uglies.
NEWS
By LAURA VOZZELLA | March 11, 2009
Maryland has a governor who's not afraid to belt out: "With me wack-fol-the-do-fol-the-diddle-idle-day." Nor is Martin O'Malley shy, in the title song on his new CD, about singing an ode to Irish horse racing at a time when the Maryland racetracks he vowed to save with slots are in bankruptcy. There's even an image of a horse and jockey on the front of Galway Races, the O'Malley's March CD released yesterday. Perhaps the product placement on the CD's back cover will lift another local industry; O'Malley is shown from behind, one ripped arm aloft, in an Under Armour muscle shirt.