SPORTS
By Camille Powell and Camille Powell,The Washington Post | November 30, 2009
COLLEGE PARK - - Maryland's game against Drexel on Sunday presented a series of challenges for the young Terrapins. They were playing their third game in six days. They had had only one day to prepare for the defending Colonial Athletic Association champion and its All-America candidate, senior forward Gabriela Marginean. Plus, their best player was nursing a sprained ankle. But the Terrapins were able to rely on three of their veteran players and won, 82-65, in front of an announced 4,686 at Comcast Center.
FEATURES
November 21, 2007
70 Marlo Thomas Actress 62 Goldie Hawn Actress 44 Nicollette Sheridan Actress 42 Bjork Singer 33 Kelsi Osborn Country singer
FEATURES
By Chris Kaltenbach and Chris Kaltenbach,Sun Reporter | April 6, 2007
The 2007 Johns Hopkins Film Fest opens Thursday with Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9, a largely dialogue-free film that investigates the relationship between creativity and restraint. The film, set upon a Japanese fishing vessel, stars Barney and singer Bjork (who wrote the soundtrack) as Occidental guests on the ship, preparing for a Shinto wedding ritual. Meanwhile, the crew members are busy on deck, creating a sculpture using 25 tons of petroleum jelly. "Visually spellbinding," wrote New York Times film critic Stephen Holden, who praised the film for its "depiction of life as a series of passages in a relentless cycle of creation and destruction."
ENTERTAINMENT
By Annie Linskey and Annie Linskey,SUN STAFF | May 12, 2005
Combine the music of Iceland's pop queen Bjork with an 18-piece jazz band and - voila - you've got a Bjorkestra. (No, we're not making this up.) The Bjorkestra has generated buzz since its first show last September in New York City's venerable Knitting Factory. Bjork fans, jazz fans and the curious have packed into clubs up and down the Eastern Seaboard to see this act, which plays Baltimore tomorrow at the Ottobar. To understand what the Bjorkestra is and how such a mixture of concepts could come together, we spoke with the group's founder, Travis Sullivan, 33, a music arranger who lives in New York City.
NEWS
By Jamie Talan and Jamie Talan,NEWSDAY | February 26, 2004
If you're a teen-ager, don't read this. Federal scientists might have discovered a biological excuse for laziness. Studies conducted on adolescents and young adults show significant differences between the two age groups in the brain region that governs "drive," the internal momentum to work for a reward. This region, barely active in adolescence, apparently comes into its own in the early 20s. Scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism used brain scans to test whether the developing teen-age brain is any different from the mature brain of an adult when faced with an opportunity to make money.
FEATURES
By Ron Dicker and Ron Dicker,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | May 21, 2003
CANNES, France - A Palme d'Or front-runner emerges, its director bashes America, and the film's star shows that the creative juices do not stop flowing after winning an Oscar. Welcome to the 56th Cannes Film Festival. As it opened this week, the fortnight of fun and frivolity needed a jolt, and Lars Von Trier's Dogville has provided it. That it was something audiences have never seen was enough to separate Dogville from the pack contending for the festival's top prize. That it skewers human nature in fine style - with Nicole Kidman as its victim and avenger - has made it the deserved "it" film so far. It has no sets to speak of, no special effects - just a sound stage with a town marked off in chalk.