Booth

Fall means one great dog event after another in the Baltimore area -- and the seasons must be changing because the first of the annual biggies is this weekend: Pets on Wheels' Dog-a-thon. At Sunday's event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Oregon Ridge Park, people and their pets will find games, shopping and live music. There will be demonstrations of all sorts of activities you might want to try with your dog -- agility, freestyle, obedience, herding, nose work and flyball.

Booth, the younger of two brothers in Suzan-Lori Parks' cauterizing play “Topdog/Underdog,” being given a trenchant Baltimore premiere by Everyman Theatre, is determined to perfect the old con game, three-card monte. As he rehearses his spiel before an imaginary audience of potential marks, Booth spouts a rapid-fire mantra, “You pick that card, you pick a loser.” His hands never really move quite fast enough, smooth enough, but that doesn't deter him - he's already decided to change his name to “3-Card” - or dent his contempt for all those supposed losers who will soon lay in his path.

Harford County's most notorious native son has been exhumed theatrically. "The Booth Project," an experimental work about Lincoln's assassin premiering this week at the Theatre Project , is the brainchild of Baltimore native Ryan Clark. So is the company performing it - Quarry Theatre Clark returned to the area about three years ago from New York City, where he held posts with a theater company and a performing arts high school. He has been teaching at Harford Community College and Towson University, and will soon join the faculty at the Catonsville campus of the Community College of Baltimore County.

College basketball Booth named Loyola men's assistant coach Former Maryland basketball star and assistant coach Keith Booth , who has spent the past two years as an assistant women's coach at Loyola, was added Tuesday to the men's staff by newly named men's head coach G.G. Smith . Booth, 38, left College Park after Gary Williams retired in 2011 and Mark Turgeon retained only one member of the previous staff, Bino Ranson...

I have been putting off this post for a couple of weeks. It's about Mike Bordick's performance on MASN as an analyst on Orioles games. It started with a colleague, who is usually a keen observer of sports media, casually stopping me in the newsroom to say, "Z, you gotta write about Bordick. " As he said it, he shook his head side to side, winced and gestured with two thumbs down. So, I started watching and listening to the likable former Orioles shortstop. Instead of jumping into print with what I saw after a couple of games though, I also started asking other media types who watch a lot of Orioles baseball about their impressions of him. Representative of what I mainly heard was this: "Geez, Z, you're not going to rip Bordick, are you?

rTC

On August 27, 2008 ROBERT E. BOOTH. A Masonic Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, September 6, 2008, beginning at 2:00 p.m

I've come to think of it as the political equivalent of global warming: Election season seems to get longer and more heated every cycle. I'm not quite as distressed about this as that little girl from Colorado, melting down because she's tired of "Bronco Bama" and Mitt Romney. (Although, note to Mom: your kid is upset, however cutely, and your first thought is to grab your phone and YouTube her?) But really, the noise level this year has been close to deafening, even here in the decidedly unswingy-state of Maryland.

On April 7, 2007 ARTHUR L. BOOTH. On Thursday, friends may call VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road from 3:00-8:00 p.m. On Friday, Mr. Booth will lie in state at Pilgrim Way Bible, 6501 Parsons Avenue, where the family will receive friends from 10:30-11:00 a.m. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-655-0015.

On July 25, 2005, CARLOS RAY BOOTH. Mr. Booth will be on view at the family owned Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue, on Friday, July 29 from 3 to 7 P.M. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 30 at the First Baptist Church of Fairfield, 1610 Brady Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21226. Family hour 10:30 to 11. Service to follow. Interment Arbutus Memorial Park.

Former Maryland basketball star and assistant coach Keith Booth, who has spent the past two years as an assistant women's coach at Loyola, was added Tuesday to the men's staff by newly named men's head coach G.G. Smith. Booth, 38, left College Park after Gary Williams retired in 2011 and Mark Turgeon retained only one member of the previous staff, Bino Ranson.  Booth, who grew up in Baltimore and starred at Dunbar, wanted to stay in the area with his daughter in high school and took a job on the women's team.

No one wants to be a downer when writing about opening day especially when the Orioles pull off a comeback victory like they did Friday over the Minnesota Twins by a score of 9-5. But  MASN's telecast of the home opener featuring Gary Thorne, Jim Palmer and Mike Bordick was nowhere near worthy of the play on the field by the Orioles. Someone needs to tell the boys in the booth it's the Orioles who made the playoffs last year - not them - and it's time for them to raise their games.

The St. Maria Goretti boys basketball team won three of the top awards at the Baltimore Catholic League's awards banquet Monday night at Snyder's Willow Grove Restaurant in Linthicum. The league's coaches selected the Gaels' Martin Geben, a 6-foot-7 junior forward at the Hagerstown school, as the Jerry Savage Player of the Year, while St. Maria Goretti coach Amrit Rayfield earned the O. Ray Mullis Coach of the Year award. St. Maria Goretti senior guard Tyrus Fleetwood was chosen as the Cokey Robertson Most Improved Player.

Luna's House Inc. set up a booth at the Pet Expo at the Timonium Fairgrounds Jan 25 to 27. Pictured are volunteer Lynne Freund from Bel Air and her foster dog, Sophia (available for adoption), standing in front of the booth. Luna's House Animal Care and Education Center in Edgewood is a non-profit all animal rescue dedicated to bettering the lives of animals and their people.

When Maryland merchants talk about the recent legalization of same-sex marriage, they sometimes talk of broad, lofty themes: Equality. Justice. Civil rights. But there's another practical concept at work: Dollar signs. The financial motivation was on display Sunday at the second annual Gay and Lesbian Wedding Expo at the Tremont Suites Hotel & Grand Historic Venue in downtown Baltimore, where dozens of vendors competed for the attention of dozens of couples whose weddings now carry the official blessing of the state of Maryland.

Mark Turgeon and Bino Ranson were two of many college coaches in East Baltimore last night to see No. 1 St. Frances beat No. 2 Mount St. Joseph. The Maryland men's basketball head coach and assistant were courtside during the Panthers' 58-57 win, presumably to scout two players with Terps offers: St. Frances small forward Dwayne Morgan and Mount St. Joseph combo guard Phil Booth . Morgan was St. Frances' third-leading scorer (13 points) behind UNC-Greensboro signee Tevon Saddler (19 points)

On March 1, 2006 RODNEY BOOTH JR, of Hillendale Rd. On Monday, friends may call at Second Shiloh Church of CDC, 1355 Homestead St., from 6 to 8 P.M. On Tuesday, family will receive friends at 6:30 P.M. Celebration at 7 P.M. Services entrusted to HARI P. CLOSE FUNERAL SERVICE, P.A. (410) 327-3100.

The junior guard, an All-Metro second-team selection last year, averaged 24 points to lead No. 2 Mount St. Joseph to two Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference wins last week. In the Gaels' 74-63 win over McDonogh on Wednesday, Booth finished with 18 points. On Friday, he scored 30 in a 78-61 win over Calvert Hall. Booth, in his third season as a starter, is averaging 19 points, seven rebounds and four assists as Mount St. Joseph entered this week with an 11-2 mark.

Maryland shooting guard target Dion Wiley had a huge game Saturday at the National Hoops Festival at DeMatha. The four-star junior scored 26 points, grabbed eight rebounds, and added two assists and two steals in Potomac's win over St. John's (D.C.). Rivals.com's Eric Bossi wrote that Wiley " has one of the quickest triggers in the class of 2014 . " At times the four-star wing's ball handling is a little shaky, and he has to develop more of a midrange game, but there's no question he's a high-major scorer.