SPORTS
By Ross Peddicord and Ross Peddicord,Staff Writer | March 13, 1992
HALLANDALE, Fla. -- Dance Floor and Pistols And Roses, the 1-2 finishers in the Fountain of Youth Stakes, will switch places in the starting gate for tomorrow's Florida Derby.Dance Floor, which had the rail in the earlier event, drew the 11 hole yesterday, when 12 horses were entered for the $500,000 race. Pistols And Roses, which had the 10 post position in the Fountain of Youth, moved inside to No. 5.Gulfstream Park oddsmaker Chuck Streva still made Dance Floor a strong 7-5 favorite.Streva likened the 3-year-old colt to the older Sea Cadet, who won the Donn Handicap decisively, then reaffirmed that win about a month later with a 7 1/2 -length victory in the Gulfstream Park Handicap.
FEATURES
By Mary Corey and Mary Corey,Staff Writer | January 27, 1994
By day, Christina Marshall, Bryn Mawr kindergarten teacher, dresses in leggings and sweaters. By night, though, watch out. She becomes a tulled, sequined, spaghetti-strapped diva of the dance floor. For the last three years, she has spent her spare time perfecting her Lindy and jitterbug in Baltimore and at swing dances along the East Coast.All those moves have changed her wardrobe."When I first started, I wore a long skirt and turtleneck," says Ms. Marshall, 34, who lives in North Baltimore.
SPORTS
By Milton Kent and Milton Kent,Staff Writer | May 17, 1992
With a different post position for yesterday's Preakness, Dance Floor might well have been too legit to quit.But starting out of the 14th slot, the horse, owned by the family of rap star Hammer, got bogged down with a distance that it couldn't make up."It was too much to overcome," said Lewis Burrell, Hammer's father and a co-owner of Dance Floor."We knew the gate was going to be a big factor. No horse has ever won the Preakness coming out of the 14th slot."Common wisdom held that Dance Floor, a speed horse, would have too much ground to make up to run an effective race.
FEATURES
By Nestor Aparicio and Nestor Aparicio,Evening Sun Staff | August 8, 1991
It only took a few minutes of observation at last night's "Club MTV" concert at the Arena to realize that something was definitely out of kilter.With six of the networks' hottest acts together for what was little more than a glorified dance party with a bunch of set changes, the building was missing a dance floor.Consider the lack of a crowd -- just 3,000 showed in the cavernous 12,000 seat hall -- and it almost becomes obscene that someone associated with this tour didn't think to give the overzealous throng of mostly teens a place to shake it loose to the sounds of Tara Kemp, Color Me Badd, Gerardo, C&C Music Factory, Tony Toni Tone and Bell Biv Devoe.
FEATURES
By Joe Burris and Joe Burris,SUN STAFF | March 26, 2005
No sooner did Shirley Duncan complete a lengthy stint of hand dancing than her old friend Reggie Goodman asked to be the next man to escort her back to the dance floor. The woman credited with helping revive this once popular pastime in the Baltimore area obliges, and the two 57-year-olds step and spin and saunter with a grace and dexterity that upstages the thirtysomethings at Sista's Place in Randallstown. "It brings people of all walks of life together," Duncan said, "whether you're the garbage man, the firefighter, doctor or lawyer."
NEWS
By Justin Fenton and Justin Fenton,justin.fenton@baltsun.com | June 3, 2009
Baltimore police have arrested a second person in connection with a March shooting outside a nightclub in Mount Vernon that authorities say was sparked when women bumped into one another on the dance floor. Kimberly Moody, 22, of Gwynn Oak was arrested Monday and charged with assault, conspiracy to commit assault, a handgun violation and accessory after the fact in the March 7 fatal shooting of Sctario Tia Edwards outside of Coconuts Cafe, in the 300 block of W. Madison St. Moody's role in the shooting was not immediately clear.