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For months, music fans have wondered, "What's going to happen to the old Sonar?" Now, we might have the answer. Sonar's Twitter page (@Sonar_Baltimore) appears to have re-emerged late last week, rebranded as Paparazzi Club ( @paparazzibalt ). The Twitter bio reads, “New nightclub/concert venue coming soon to 407 E. Saratoga St.” Details remain scarce. When local R&B singer Von Tae' asked , “Hey, When Will The New Club Open Up ?” last Friday, Paparazzi Club replied, “gonna have the smaller side open for a few events in November.” Earlier today, the Paparazzi Club tweeted “JUST ANNOUNCED: REVOLUTION 11/15” and a link to a Facebook events page for an 18 and older “Baltimore rave” headlined by Bassdread, Wetsteppers, Confetti, DJ Black {Op}

The Harford Ballet Company, resident company of the Dance Conservatory of Maryland, is headlining its spring production with "Beauty and the Beast. " Featuring local Harford County students, the performances will take place June 8 at 6 p.m. and June 9 at 1 p.m. at Bel Air High School. The performance will open with Harford Ballet Company, joined by students from the Dance Conservatory of Maryland, in a mixed bill performance featuring DCM's recreational dance forms. Harford Ballet Company will also be presenting the world premier of "Smells Like Teen Spirit.

The Harford Ballet Company, resident company of the Dance Conservatory of Maryland, is headlining its spring production with "Beauty and the Beast. " Featuring local Harford County students, the performances will take place June 8 at 6 p.m. and June 9 at 1 p.m. at Bel Air High School. The performance will open with Harford Ballet Company, joined by students from the Dance Conservatory of Maryland, in a mixed bill performance featuring DCM's recreational dance forms. Harford Ballet Company will also be presenting the world premier of "Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Not that I would wish to awaken some dormant and perhaps moribund beast, but I wonder if you know anyone who still bristles at the possessive with inanimate objects.  I remember very clearly being instructed that a construction such as the bill's sponsor  is plainly wrong, because an inanimate object cannot possess anything, so only the sponsor of the bill  can be correct. Wilson Follett grew quite warm on the subject in the mid-1960s in Modern American Usage .  But Bryan Garner says that the construction is unobjectionable, and I have not encountered any stricture against it in years.  I raise the point only to speculate on the possibility that a zombie rule might go extinct, as the stickler objection from the 1940s and 1950s to contact  as a verb has finally made its way to the boneyard.

For the last 20 years, the charming Grover Norquist has been perhaps the most successful of American political entrepreneurs, having used a letterhead and small office to secure "no tax" pledges from a near-majority of Congress members and myriads of state legislators, and holding well-intended Wednesday meetings to spread the gospel. He would not be distressed to be credited with a Leninist capacity for political organization. He has, to a large extent - as demonstrated by the supercommittee debacle - been successful.

Calling all beauties and all beasts. The Artistic Children's Theater is holding auditions for ages 5 to adult on March 28, 29 and April 2, 3 and 4 for its production of "Beauty and the Beast" The performances will be held at St. James Academy, in Monkton, on Oct. 19, 20 and 21. Auditions on all five days will be held at the home of ACT's director and founder, Chris Ginder, 19908 York Road, Parkton, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Auditions at...

The schedule for next weekend's girls basketball Beast of the East Showcase has been revised after a few teams dropped out. The event features some of the best local teams -- Archbishop Spalding, Aberdeen, Digital Harbor, Fallston, McDonogh, Roland Park, St. Vincent Pallotti, South River, Meade and host St. Frances -- as well as teams from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, New York, New Jersey and Colorado. Following is the revised schedule: Beast of the East Showcase Friday, Dec. 9 At St. Frances Meade vs. Woodlawn, 5 Aberdeen vs. Peddie, NJ, 6:45 MATHS vs. Oak Hill, Va., 8:15 Riverdale Baptist vs. Regis Jesuit, Col., 9:45 At Carmelo Anthony Center Hill School, Pa. vs. Princeton Day, 6:30 Coolidge, DC vs. West Branch, Va., 8 Germantown Academy, Pa.  vs. Grassfield, Va., 9:30 Saturday, Dec. 10 At St. Frances Elizabeth Seton vs. Grassfield, Va., 8:30 a.m. Archbishop Carroll, D.C. vs. Damascus, Va., 10 a.m. Holy Cross vs. Robert E. Lee, Va., 11:30 a.m. Forest Park, Va. vs. St. John's-CP, 1 Frederick vs. Regis Jesuit, Col., 2:30 Oak Hill, Va. vs. H.D. Woodson, D.C., 4 Digital Harbor vs. Riverdale Baptist, 5:30 At Carmelo Anthony Center MATHS vs. Hill School, Pa., 9 a.m. South River vs. John Carroll, 11 a.m. City vs. West Branch, Va., 1 Fallston vs. Princeton Day, 3 National Christian vs. Peddie,...

This is the third installment of the fourth Grammarnoir serial. The final installment will be posted on National Grammar Day, March 4, a Sunday, because grammar never takes the day off. You can read Part 1, "A Belle in the Night," here . Part 2, "The Mission," is here.   Part 3: The belly of the beast The Greyhound bus nosed through a darkened landscape as flat and barren as a corporate vice president's conscience.

Starting today, as a holiday treat for the younger readers of the Today pages, we will be publishing daily excerpts of a never-before-told story featuring the characters from disney's "Beauty and the Beast."Especially created for young newspaper readers (and for parents who wish to read aloud to those too young to read), this enchanting holiday story will be found in the "For Kids Only" section of our comic pages.The story will conclude on Christmas Day.

Don't miss the cast of 60 local skaters from ages 3 to 55 in "Beauty and the Beast On Ice," presented by the Gardens Figure Skating Club Saturday, March 24 and Sunday, March 25 at 1 and 3:30 p.m at the Gardens Ice House Patrick Arena, 13800 Old Gunpowder Road. This figure skating portrayal of the classic French fairy tale features music from the 1991 Disney hit movie and the Broadway musical depicting a prince transformed into a beast who risks staying a beast forever unless he receives reciprocated love from a young woman named Belle.

When William A. Martin arrived at the Peabody Institute to work on a master's degree in 2001, he was of two minds, thinking about a performance career and a teaching one. You could say he was also of two voices. "He was a 'bari-tenor' when he started out," said Stanley Cornett, Martin's teacher at Peabody. "He had a beautiful, rich voice with a deep resonance to it. " Once Martin moved firmly from baritone to tenor, he faced another dichotomy - whether to focus on opera or music theater.

For a big man, Vince Wilfork moves around a lot. On one snap, he can be at left defensive end or tackle. On another snap, he can be at the same position on the right side. Sometimes, Wilfork can line up directly over the center. But he's always in somebody's head - one big, mean, nasty 6-foot-2, 325-pound headache. "Vince Wilfork is a beast," said Ravens running back Ray Rice about the New England Patriots' top defensive lineman. "He is a flat-out beast. He handles double-teams.

Local film fans may have a leg up on the competition when it comes to their Oscar pools, thanks to the folks at the Maryland Film Festival and Chesapeake Film Festival. "Beasts of the Southern Wild," which enjoyed a long run at The Charles Theatre last year, received four nods among the Oscar nominations announced Thursday morning in Los Angeles. The film had its Baltimore premiere June 5 at MICA, before an audience culled from members of the Maryland Film Festival's Friends of the Festival program.

No. 1 McDonogh finished sixth out of 102 teams in the prestigious Beast of the East wrestling tournament in Newark, Del., over the weekend. Eagles junior Jack Clark placed second at 145 pounds, while sophomore Myles Martin was the runner-up in the 160-pound weight class. Clark lost a 4-1 decision to Camden (N.J.) Catholic's T.J. Miller in the final, and Martin fell to Central Dauphin (Pa.)'s Garrett Peppelman, 3-2, in the championship bout. In the semifinals, Martin upset St. Mary's Ryken junior Josh Llopez by a 1-0 decision.

The season opener for Aberdeen's No. 1 girls basketball team came against a Milford Mill team that had hoped to avenge its loss in last season's Class 3A North regional championship. The Millers, however, will have to wait until March and the next regional playoffs to get that revenge. Once again, the Eagles' 6-foot-3 center, Brionna Jones, presented a challenge the Millers could not overcome as she scored 21 points and had 17 rebounds in leading Aberdeen to a 67-52 victory in the season opener for both teams Thursday night at the Beast of the East Showcase at St. Frances.

For months, music fans have wondered, "What's going to happen to the old Sonar?" Now, we might have the answer. Sonar's Twitter page (@Sonar_Baltimore) appears to have re-emerged late last week, rebranded as Paparazzi Club ( @paparazzibalt ). The Twitter bio reads, “New nightclub/concert venue coming soon to 407 E. Saratoga St.” Details remain scarce. When local R&B singer Von Tae' asked , “Hey, When Will The New Club Open Up ?” last Friday, Paparazzi Club replied, “gonna have the smaller side open for a few events in November.” Earlier today, the Paparazzi Club tweeted “JUST ANNOUNCED: REVOLUTION 11/15” and a link to a Facebook events page for an 18 and older “Baltimore rave” headlined by Bassdread, Wetsteppers, Confetti, DJ Black {Op}

No. 1 McDonogh finished sixth out of 102 teams in the prestigious Beast of the East wrestling tournament in Newark, Del., over the weekend. Eagles junior Jack Clark placed second at 145 pounds, while sophomore Myles Martin was the runner-up in the 160-pound weight class. Clark lost a 4-1 decision to Camden (N.J.) Catholic's T.J. Miller in the final, and Martin fell to Central Dauphin (Pa.)'s Garrett Peppelman, 3-2, in the championship bout. In the semifinals, Martin upset St. Mary's Ryken junior Josh Llopez by a 1-0 decision.

The Breezy Bishop Schowcase has a new name and a new location, but the girls basketball competition should be just as fierce in the Beast of the East Showcase scheduled for the second weekend in December at St. Frances and at the Carmelo Anthony Youth Development Center. This year's event features 44 teams, mostly from Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, competing in 33 games over three days. Among the top local teams participating: Archbishop Spalding, Aberdeen, Digital Harbor, McDonogh, Roland Park, St. Vincent Pallotti, South River, Meade and host St. Frances.

Don't miss the cast of 60 local skaters from ages 3 to 55 in "Beauty and the Beast On Ice," presented by the Gardens Figure Skating Club Saturday, March 24 and Sunday, March 25 at 1 and 3:30 p.m at the Gardens Ice House Patrick Arena, 13800 Old Gunpowder Road. This figure skating portrayal of the classic French fairy tale features music from the 1991 Disney hit movie and the Broadway musical depicting a prince transformed into a beast who risks staying a beast forever unless he receives reciprocated love from a young woman named Belle.

In one video , a chubby guy in a Tony the Tiger costume holds a couple of puppets hostage. In another , sock puppets drive a human to madness. And in yet another video, a puppet's snoring is so powerful that people, puppets, anything in its vicinity, are sucked into his nose and transported to an alternative universe set in a dystopian, frigid landscape. That is the demented world of "Showbeast," a Baltimore Web series that marries puppetry, absurdist theater, stand-up, children's humor and experimental music, and has slowly acquired a cult following - fans include Dan Deacon and the band Beach House - one short YouTube video at a time.