ENTERTAINMENT
By Michael Sragow | michael.sragow@baltsun.com | October 23, 2009
Tracie Thoms' discipline as a performer, nurtured early on at the Baltimore School for the Arts, has enabled her to be spontaneous in character every week as Kat Miller, an avid detective on TV's "Cold Case." Even in the train-wreck big-screen version of "Rent," she fused her eagerness for performing with the passion of Joanne, a lawyer who just has to make a case for herself - or at least make a scene. Chris Rock's engaged and engaging new documentary "Good Hair," a good-humored exploration of the meaning and impact of female hairstyles in the African-American community, offered Thoms a chance to do something she hasn't done before on-screen.
NEWS
By Baltimore Sun reporter | April 6, 2010
Former Mayor Sheila Dixon sent the city bills for nearly $700 for hairstyling during her last year and a half in office, according to records obtained by The Baltimore Sun. Dixon billed the city for "curling and styling hair" and other hair services six times in an 18-month period. The invoices were submitted by stylist Alithea Robinson -- also known as Lisa Robinson -- and ranged from $60 to $225. Dixon did not return a call seeking comment Tuesday evening but had previously said that the she occasionally had her hair styled before taping programs for the city's cable channel.
TRAVEL
By Michelle Deal-Zimmerman and The Baltimore Sun | August 17, 2011
What is wrong with the TSA ? First it was patting down toddlers and feeling up grandmothers in diapers, but now its agents are searching black women's hair. According to this New York Times article, agents of the Transportation Security Administration have been giving some black women with natural hair a second look in the form of a hair pat-down. Apparently there's a hair-scare in the air. Really, TSA? As a black woman I can tell you right now that there is no way we are going to hide explosives in our hair.
NEWS
By Jean Marbella | jean.marbella@baltsun.com | November 25, 2009
S omeday in a future that seems to grow more distant by the day, there presumably will be a verdict. Maybe not until there's snow on the ground, it can seem as we wait and then wait some more, but if and when jurors decide the fate of Mayor Sheila Dixon, I'll look back and think: Ah, this was the turning point. After days of sending out notes that signaled turmoil among their ranks followed by ones indicating progress, the jurors fell silent on Tuesday. There were no questions about legal definitions, no temperature readings of their discussions, not even a really-need-a-smoke bit of comic relief.
FEATURES
By Vida Roberts and Vida Roberts,Evening Sun Staff | December 26, 1991
THE RUSH is over, presents opened, lots of sweets and leftovers in the fridge to last the rest of the week. There's some time to think about getting yourself pretty for those pop-on-over parties with friends.Lucky for you, this is a year for fancy and frolicsome hairdos, so your everyday look can take a little tousle and tinsel.Gloria Brennan, of her namesake salon at Pikesville, sees a strong return to special sets. "We're doing glamorous evening looks like we haven't seen in years. A precision cut and blow dry just don't seem like enough for a holiday."
NEWS
By Arizona Republic | January 17, 1994
PHOENIX -- A woman dangled about 20 feet off the ground for about an hour when her hair became entangled in her rock climbing equipment."I was hanging in the air by my hair and my harness," Tracie Hemphill, 19, said yesterday. "I was screaming, yelling and crying. It hurt."Ms. Hemphill, who said she had gone rock climbing only once before, was rappelling down a rock face on Camelback Mountain when her hair got caught yesterday morning.To make matters worse, she said, well-meaning hikers heard her screaming and yelling and tried to help by tugging at her rope, hoping to free her."