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Terrell Suggs didn't need a microphone. The booming voice from the Ravens outside linebacker was easily heard during the Super Bowl media day Tuesday. Suggs embraced the wackiness often associated with media day, pulling his own antics during the hour-long session Tuesday morning at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Just a few questions into the interview, Suggs jumped up from his seat and asked, "We're good? I'm done?" He left the podium and tried to ask teammate Ed Reed a question, but Suggs couldn't get through the crowd assembled for the Ravens safety.

If you have a small child, you're used to avoiding situations where there's an expectation of quiet. Flying's no fun, the theater's out, and museums are off the list too. But rethink that last one: The Walters Art Museum has a program called Waltee's Cubs for ages through 18 months. On a day when the Walters is typically closed, it opens its doors for babies for engaging learning activities in one of the exhibit areas, then a half-hour of free play and art in the studios. I attended January's "Funny Faces" event with my 1-year-old, Aaron, last week.

By now, 60 long years after Agatha Christie's “The Mousetrap” opened in London, the whodunit is more of a fixture than a stage show. It apparently cannot ever be stopped on that side of The Pond, where it has surpassed the 25,000th performance mark and still holds firmly onto the record as the world's longest-running play. On our shores, the work never became such an institution, but it still continues to attract attention now and then, particularly from community theater groups.

If Ray Lewis is looking for a high-paying, high-visibility job after he leaves the Baltimore Ravens, he's not going to have much trouble getting a shot at one in sports television. That's the assessment of media analysts and TV executives responsible for producing the studio shows and game telecasts of the NFL. But success in the TV studio or booth is far from guaranteed, even for someone the stature of Lewis, analysts caution, pointing to the career of former Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith, among others.

Suzanna "Sue" Miller, whom friends called "Mrs. Baltimore" for her role in selling homes to those moving here, died of pneumonia Saturday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Pikesville resident was 80. "She was an irreplaceable person," said Lynne R. Miller, who with her husband, Dr. Edward D. Miller, former Johns Hopkins Medicine chief executive officer, was a close friend. "She brought together so many people. She was such an ambassador for Baltimore, we called her and her husband Mr. and Mrs. Baltimore.

Gustav "Gus" Baer, a retired executive and certified public accountant who had a second career as a pianist entertaining Nordstrom shoppers with his spirited renditions of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin classics, died Oct. 9 of a neurodegenerative disorder at the Emeritus Pikesville senior-living facility. The longtime Baltimore County resident was 84. The son of a businessman and a concert pianist and music teacher, Mr. Baer was born in Baltimore and raised on Sequoia Avenue in the city's Ashburton neighborhood.

Vince McMahon may have unwittingly provided the answer to America's unemployment campaign. Apparently, you can show up to the job you were removed from months ago, pretend nothing has changed and go about your business. And as long as you suck up to the customers, they'll ignore the facts of the recent past. The corporate management of WWE has become a clustered mess of chaos that only seems to be brought up when it's convenient for the sake of storytelling. Is McMahon still the chairman of the board?

Jutting out from Persimmon Point on the Broadneck Peninsula, the view from 1128 River Bay Road is expansive and expensive. From the private dock, the Magothy River stretches to the left as far as you can see and to the right to where the river empties into the Chesapeake Bay. Across the way the homes on Gibson Island dot the shoreline. Built in the 1950s as a shore home for the Pumphreys, one of Cape St. Claire's prominent families, the home was sold to a son, who replaced it five years ago with a contemporary home.

Not so long ago, many believed the advent of social media would contribute to more substantive discourse in modern campaigns. But no such luck in our hotly contested presidential race. Sideshows have ruled the day. From caged dogs on car roofs to birth certificates to out-of-context alleged gaffes, it's been "gotcha politics" played out in real time. If it seems the daily one-hit wonder stories enjoy a longer than normal shelf life, they do. Well-financed super PACs are at least partly to blame.

"A Culinary Experience" to benefit the Rape Crisis Intervention Service of Carroll County, will be held Mon., Oct. 8, 6-9 p.m. at Martin's Westminster, 505 Jermor Lane, Westminster. The event includes cuisine prepared by more than 20 of Carroll's culinary experts, as well as live entertainment by the Eric Byrd Trio, raffles and auctions. For tickets and additional information, call 410-857-0900 or go to http://www.rapecrisiscc.org/events.php.