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By MICHELLE DEAL-ZIMMERMAN | August 23, 2009
The lazy days of summer are soon giving way to the busy bees of fall. In that spirit, let's pause to catch up on some travel news that you may have missed in between days at the shore. New magazine. The bimonthly magazine Afar launches this month with a focus on travelers who are looking for meaning and authenticity. More info at afar.com. Boston or bust. Southwest last week began flights to Boston from BWI-Marshall Airport. It joins AirTran and next month, JetBlue comes aboard. In the face of increasing competition, Delta discontinued its nonstop flights from BWI to Boston last week.
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By Chris Kaltenbach | August 21, 2009
(500) Days of Summer: *** ( 3 STARS) The opening insists this movie is not a love story, and maybe that's right. Maybe it's more about timing than love. But that time-worn emotion, not to mention maturity, grace and wonder, all play key roles in this engaging variation on the relationship film, featuring finely nuanced performances from Joseph Gordon-Levitt (whose character, Tom, is ready for a relationship) and Zooey Deschanel (whose character, Summer, isn't). OK, it's too cute at times, and the ending is a bit of a feel-good sellout, but much of the movie (including the year's best musical number)
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By Michael Sragow | July 24, 2009
The hero of (500) Days of Summer, Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), works at a greeting-card company, where he's a whiz at creating slogans such as "I Love Us." He's given up on his professional dream of becoming an architect but not on his dream of finding true love - and he reckons he's lucked into it when his boss hires a comely, quizzical assistant named Summer (Zooey Deschanel). She likes Tom, she really likes him. But she doesn't believe in love at first sight, or even second or third sight.
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August 20, 2007
Good morning -- Michael Vick -- Are you glad that the dog days of summer are almost over?
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By Brent Jones | August 26, 2006
For the life of him, Danny Hunt, 13, couldn't figure out what was going wrong. All morning, he had done flips from a swing hanging 20 feet over a pool at the Beaver Dam Swimming Club, but as the day wore on, the eighth-grader's luck turned bad and his stomach was paying the price. "I'd been doing back flips easily, but now I can't do it," Danny said yesterday. "Now I've just been belly flopping." Undeterred, Danny, along with 11 of his closest friends from Rosa Parks Middle School in Olney, hit the swing again, keeping with their quest to make the final Friday of summer vacation the grandest day of them all. Nathan Craft, 13, said despite the hourlong car ride to get to the pool, "it's the best way to end the summer."
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By Dan Thanh Dang | July 9, 2004
The sweltering days of summer are upon us and a whopping 334 million Americans are taking off on vacation, headed toward destinations fun, faraway and fantastic. Maybe they're sipping drinks with umbrellas on a sandy white beach. Maybe they're camping in the cool Rocky Mountains. Then there's you, stuck in Baltimore. Stuck to wander the steamy, grimy city streets while your friends and family are off swimming, hiking, biking somewhere not here. For whatever reason - a tight budget, never-ending home renovations, vacation hours drained - you're nowhere but here, hon. But don't leap off the Bromo Seltzer tower just yet. With a little bit of creativity and flair, you can turn Baltimore into your own vacation resort.
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By Joanne E. Morvay | August 22, 2002
It's billed as "the 11 best days of summer." But who's to say the Maryland State Fair's slogan is anything more than advertising hype? The 121st fair - which begins tomorrow in Timonium and runs through Sept. 2 - offers agricultural displays, home arts, musical entertainment, thrill rides, all sorts of competitions and delectable food. The fair showcases traditions that reach back to its inception, such as the livestock shows and horse racing, as well as more modern events, including the NASA robotics competition and one of this year's new features, the Xtreme Air Stunt Show.
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March 23, 2002
IN A REFRESHING show of bipartisanship, the Maryland House of Delegates this week overwhelmingly voted to make it legal for a kid to buy an ice cream cone, walk outside and eat it. Same goes for an adult. This isn't legislation that changes life as we know it, but it's worth applauding nonetheless. Apparently, under current state law, "frozen desserts" must be sold by fluid volume, except for ice cream when it is sold "for immediate consumption on the premises." So customers have the choice of either ordering their ice cream by the ounce or the pint (or, for the less disciplined among us, the gallon)
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By Nancy Gallant | August 17, 1999
THE WANING DAYS of summer have a special feel in our neighborhood. The dads (and many moms) who awaken to rude alarms at 5: 30 a.m. for the commute to the distant city first notice that it is no longer daylight at this "break of day" time, and the birds are not serenading the neighborhood before the coffee-makers and showers commence.By the time people dash to their cars and head for work, the sun is up but the shadows are growing longer, and they suddenly realize that those late fall days of having to work "dark to dark" are rapidly approaching.
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By JoAnne C. Broadwater | August 2, 1998
For those long car trips, rainy days at the cabin, or lazy August afternoons by the pool, there's nothing that cheers a bored child like a bit of creative crafting.This summer, parents can't go wrong if they pack lots of round pony beads and ribbon into their suitcases, beach bags and totes. This summer's hottest craft is the Beady Buddy or Beady Baby, a little creature made by threading beads onto ribbons.Boys and girls of all ages love to collect the beads ` which can shimmer, glitter or glow in the dark ` and store them in the compartments of plastic embroidery-floss cases.