SPORTS
By Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun | January 26, 2012
Mr. Poe, the microphone is yours. A group of selected mediums and psychics will be spending a March weekend trying to reach Edgar Allan Poe, the literary giant and creator of the modern detective story who has made Baltimore his permanent home since 1849. Officials and friends of Baltimore's Poe House and Museum are organizing what is billed as "Beyond Nevermore. " For two days, on March 3 and 4, psychics will gather at Westminster Hall, a former church just yards from Poe's grave, and try to contact the spirit of the dead author.
FEATURES
By Carl Schoettler and Carl Schoettler,SUN STAFF | October 3, 2002
Even though he's been dead 153 years, Edgar Allan Poe still prompts passionate postmortems in the Land of Academia. Poe scholars will assemble in force today at the Baltimore Sheraton North Hotel in Towson for the second International Edgar Allan Poe Conference. The gathering begins on the 153rd anniversary of the day in 1849 when a printer found Poe "utterly stupified" and barely conscious at Cornelius Ryan's tavern on East Lombard Street. Poe died four days later, Oct. 7, 1849. The conference will close Sunday with the laying of a wreath at Poe's grave in Westminster Cemetery at Fayette and Greene streets.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Jordan Bartel, The Baltimore Sun | October 19, 2012
Bruce Nelson, a longtime Baltimore favorite on the stage, goes macabre for his latest role - the title literary giant in "The Completely Fictional - Utterly True - Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe. " We'll give you a break after reading that. Still with us? The play, running now through Nov. 25 at Center Stage , focuses on Poe's weird (of course) final days before his mysterious death (again, of course) in Baltimore. And since he's playing the rascally Poe, we had some rascally questions of our own. Thankfully, he brought up Poe marrying his teenage cousin on his own. 1. The title of this play is very intriguing and a bit confusing.
ENTERTAINMENT
By David Zurawik and The Baltimore Sun | January 19, 2013
No network midseason show has generated more buzz than "The Following," which premieres Monday night on Fox. There are three reasons for that: First, Kevin Bacon is the star, and he's better than most network television actors. Here he plays an angry, burned-out ex-F.B.I. agent with a drinking problem who is called out of retirement when a serial killer escapes from prison. Second, because the serial killer worships Edgar Allan Poe, the series is drenched in all things Poe. Baltimore, being filled with Poe Lovers, is a prime target for the Fox publicity campaign.
NEWS
By Tim Smith and Tim Smith,tim.smith@baltsun.com | October 4, 2009
Menacing ravens, peering eyes, black cats and rats, ominous bells, violent eddies - imagery that fueled many a text by Edgar Allan Poe, and generated a good deal of art. For its contribution to the bicentennial commemoration of the author's birth, the Baltimore Museum of Art has put together a dynamic collection of works directly or seemingly inspired by the author. The displays are divided into three thematic groupings: Love and Loss, Fear and Terror, Madness and Obsession. "As you can see, this is an uplifting exhibit," says BMA director Doreen Bolger, who curated the show.
NEWS
By JAMIE STIEHM and JAMIE STIEHM,SUN STAFF | January 16, 2005
A birthday seemed the right occasion to mend some family fences. So last weekend Luke Harvey Poe Jr., a hale 89-year-old who lives in Annapolis and practices law in Washington, rapped on the door of a tiny rowhouse in West Baltimore inhabited by another Poe in another century. Were he still alive, Edgar Allan Poe would celebrate his 196th birthday Wednesday. Harvey Poe's recent visit - his first to the house - was a long-overdue call because, as he recounted, his affluent Richmond relatives considered Edgar Allan Poe a ne'er-do-well.