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UPDATE: Check out a photo gallery of images from Joe Flacco's wedding here. The photos can also be found on the website of photographer Jason Prezant , but the site has been inaccessible due to the high interest in the Flacco pictures. . Joe Flacco's wedding photos have been posted out in the blogosphere, and simply put, they are amazing. The photos, which were published to the blog of wedding photographer Jason Prezant, shed a little light onto what the Ravens quarterback is like away from the television cameras and our microphones.

"The New Normal" was supposed to be the new normal. After "Modern Family" brought two gay dads into the spotlight on ABC, NBC was bringing audiences a show that put a gay family at its center. "The New Normal" executive producer Ryan Murphy had already shown two gay teens' first sexual encounter on "Glee. " There was little concern his new show's central couple (Bryan and David) would be the chaste, sexless gay men generally seen on primetime television. I tuned in eagerly when the show premiered, elated to see a romantic gay duo given the amount of screen time generally reserved for straight sitcom leads.

A prominent Ellicott City blogger and businessman was stabbed to death by his daughter's 19-year-old boyfriend, who plotted with the 14-year-old girl to kill him so the two could run away together, Howard County police said Friday. Dennis Lane, 58, was found before dawn in his Winding Ross Way home. Police charged Jason Anthony Bulmer and Morgan Lane Arnold, both students at Mount Hebron High School, as adults in his killing; they both face conspiracy and murder counts. Both were held without bail, according to online court records.

Welcome to Gay Matters, a new home for gay news and commentary at The Baltimore Sun. As website real estate, this blog is something new and perhaps long overdue. But we've been doing this work -- covering news relevant to the gay community -- for a very long time. I took a look back -- all the way back to microfilm -- and found the evidence. In 1955, for example, there were 162 men and women arrested on charges of disorderly conduct at the Pepper Hill Club on North Gay Street in "the largest night-club raid ever made in Baltimore," after male patrons among the club's largely gay clientele were seen kissing each other.

Donald Gansauer wrote from Canton last week: " When I got up it was clear. Shortly afterward a dense fog occurred. A few minutes later the fog was gone. All before sunrise. Can you explain this? " The simplest explanation is that there was plenty of surface moisture over the harbor. Clear skies overnight and radiational cooling sank air temperatures to the dew point, condensing the moisture and creating fog. Light, pre-dawn winds then moved it over Canton, then pushed it away.

Well, if you’re reading this, you must have found out where the blogs are now listed on the North County News website . This past month has been a turbulent technological one for me. All Patuxent newspapers converted to a new computer system and the North County News was the first to be published using the new way of doing things. Like any innovation, I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it. But I hope those nice young techies who patiently explained things to me realized they’re dealing with someone who actually once used a rotary telephone and a typewriter.

A prominent Ellicott City blogger and businessman was stabbed to death by his daughter's 19-year-old boyfriend, who plotted with the 14-year-old girl to kill him so the two could run away together, Howard County police said Friday. Dennis Lane, 58, was found before dawn in his Winding Ross Way home. Police charged Jason Anthony Bulmer and Morgan Lane Arnold, both students at Mount Hebron High School, as adults in his killing; they both face conspiracy and murder counts. Both were held without bail, according to online court records.

Julia McCready, candidate for Columbia Council for Oakland Mills, wrote a blog post that expressed my thoughts more clearly than I could myself, so I am quoting her here: "You hear and see it everywhere. 'If you elect me, I'll fight for you.'... How much good is all this fighting doing for us? You elect someone that will fight only for your point of view, and then, so does the other guy. How is that working out in Washington? How does it work out in Columbia?... "Anyone who has tried or observed the Fighter scenario in the workplace or in daily life knows exactly how that plays out...

For some people, baking is an enjoyable pastime that often ends in a delicious dessert. But for Ellicott City resident Jackie Gonzalez-Feezer, baking is much more than that. Gonzalez-Feezer is a food blogger, whose website, La Casa de Sweets ( lacasadesweets.com ), is an entree to recipes, vibrant pictures of her creations and a place to connect and raise money for charity. “The whole point of the site is to join together baking and blogging for a cause,” she says. Her site is part gourmet delight, part meeting place for fellow baking enthusiasts.

A longtime Towson University professor has resigned his post as the head of the city school system's ethics panel amid allegations that his published academic articles contain content from dozens of sources without proper - or in some cases any - attribution. University officials and journal publishers say they are reviewing several articles submitted by Benjamin A. Neil, a legal affairs professor, after a librarian at another university alerted them to the issue. A Baltimore Sun review of five papers published by Neil shows passages with identical language and others with close similarities to scholarly journals, news publications, congressional testimony, blogs and websites.

I thought the first day of Spring would make a good occasion to mark the arrival of Midweek Madness on Artsmash. This featurette was such a keystone of my previous blog, Clef Notes and Drama Queens, that I had no choice but to bow to the total lack of popular demand and carry it over to this one. So, while you are celebrating the Vernal Equinox today, don't forget Brook Benton's advice to slow down and smell the flowers -- 'cause "if Mother Nature...

In addition to the huzzahs for Jonathon Owen on the completion of his master's degree in linguistics , please lift your hats high for Professor Stacy Spaulding, who has just been granted tenure and promotion at Towson University. Professor Spaulding teaches journalism and new media and, reliable sources report, indulges enthusiastically in the terpsichorean arts. Her students are fortunate. If I may indulge in a point of personal privilege, and it is my blog, brimming congratulations are also due to Alexandra  Aaronson, recently engaged to my son, John Paul Lucien McIntyre.

It was to be expected, on National Grammar Day, despite the cautions from Kory Stamper and others, that the peeververein would make their voices heard. A reader signed on as "diteora" at the post "Good grammar doesn't entitle you to be smug" asks for a reliable prescriptivist blog, because this one and all others corrupted by the rubbish of descriptivism are unreliable. Then the Aha! Gotcha! sentence: "If all these grammatical rules are bogus Mr. McIntyre, then why do you and all your descriptive allies stringently adhere to them?"

Leading up to and after the Super Bowl, we'll be sharing dispatches sent to us by Ravens fans going to New Orleans. We hope that "Super Fans: A fan's-eye view of XLVII" allows the rest of Ravens Nation to share in their experience. Posts will be published blog-style in reverse chronological order as we receive them. Entries are edited for style. There are no words, but I still wrote 700 Confetti falls during the post-game ceremonies. Tammy Lunkenheimer posted 1:14 p.m. Tuesday I am barely able to find the right words to describe my Super Bowl experience.