James Baldwin

At Comiskey Park, Chicago Day......Time......TV......Starters Tonight.....8:05.....CSN.....RHP Josh Towers (5-2, 2.47) vs. LHP Mark Buehrle (6-3, 3.29) Tomorrow.....7:05......13, 50.....RHP Willis Roberts (6-6, 5.20) vs. RHP James Baldwin (4-4, 4.28) Sunday.....2:05.....54, 50.....RHP Jason Johnson (6-5, 3.56) vs. RHP Rocky Biddle (1-4, 4.44) Radio: All games on WBAL (1090 AM) White Sox update The White Sox had won 22 of 29 games, then lost two in a row before beating the Twins, 6-3, yesterday afternoon.

MORE COWBELL! Children of the '70s will relive their heyday at the third annual Rockville Music Festival as the heavy metal rock group Blue Oyster Cult (below) takes center stage. The festival also features the 26th annual Hard Times Cafe International Chili Society Maryland State Chili Cook-Off competition, which awards as many as 75 chefs nearly $10,000 in prize money. Children can enjoy moon bounces and arts and crafts and learn the latest safety practices from the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department.

Goucher College will be host to a symposium tomorrow to celebrate the 50th anniversary of James Baldwin's acclaimed novel Go Tell It on the Mountain. Go Tell It! Claiming the Baldwin Tradition, will feature lectures and panel discussions by scholars, theologians and literary academics, including a keynote address by renowned scholar Bell Hooks at 7 p.m in Kraushaar Auditorium. Baldwin's sister, Gloria Smart, is also scheduled to attend the event. Scholar Randall Kenan will deliver the opening address at 10 a.m. in the Haebler Memorial Chapel, followed by a daylong series of lectures and discussions in Merrick Hall, featuring Angelo Robinson and Kelly Brown Douglas of Goucher College, Lynn Schott of Michigan State University and Yasmin DeGout of Howard University, Delores Williams of the Union Theological Seminary and Clarence Hardy of Rollins College.

Carla D. Hayden has been executive director of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library since 1993. She has been credited with leading an effort to rebuild the city's library system since then. She served as president of the American Library Association for a one-year term beginning in 2003 and won praise for taking a tough stance against the Patriot Act of 2001, a federal law that forced public libraries to comply with FBI requests about patrons' records. "Although I have read and loved many books during my life, there are a few that still stand out for a variety of reasons," she says: "Bright April" / by Marguerite De Angeli / Doubleday / 88 pages / $15.99 As a young child of color I did not realize that this lovely children's book by a noted illustrator was actually groundbreaking in its sympathetic portrayal of a Black family; I only saw and loved the beautiful pictures of a Brownie with pigtails who (I thought)

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man," by Henry L. Gates Jr. Random House. 214 pages. $20.It's foolish to think readers will come away with a better understanding of all black men after having read this compilation of past articles about famous people by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Gates provides insight into the fortunes and foibles of these particular individuals, and their lives do include aspects that may be common to most black men.However, these are extraordinary gentlemen who lived extraordinary lives - James Baldwin, Albert Murray, Louis Farrakhan, Colin Powell et al - and it is a stretch to consider any as truly representative of the mass.

At Oriole Park at Camden YardsDay .. .. .. .. ..Time .. .TV .. .. .. .. .. ..StartersTonight .. .. .. .7:05 .. HTS .. ..James Baldwin (8-5, 5.85).. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..vs. Scott Erickson (14-10, 4.07)Tomorrow .. .. .. 7:05 .. HTS .. ..Jim Parque (4-5, 5.12).. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..vs. Doug Drabek (6-9, 7.07)Wednesday .. .. ..7:05 ...HTS .. ..John Snyder (4-2, 5.00).. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..vs. Sidney Ponson (7-8, 5.51)Radio: All games on WBAL (1090 AM) and WTOP (1500 AM)

Baltimore City Council President Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake studied political science at Oberlin College and attained her law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1995. She ran for office her first summer after graduating from law school. "My campaign kickoff was during my graduation party," said Rawlings-Blake. "I came into the council very idealistic and determined to improve the city but not exactly sure how. The time I have spent on the council has helped me form partnerships and relationships to create change."

The conventional wisdom is that "NYPD Blue" is on the skids. The ratings are supposed to be down, and the quality, too. The problem with conventional wisdom is that is often wrong when it comes to TV. In fact, the ratings are up this year for "NYPD," by 13 percent, from about 15 million viewers a night last year at this time to 17 million. That is significant considering the weak lead-in the series gets from "Sports Night," a series that is struggling in the ratings. The show has been in a bit of a slump creatively, playing at times almost like self-parody thanks to dialogue over-burdened by cop jargon, which can have everybody sounding alike.

It goes way beyond understatement to say this place is somewhat different from most art galleries. Hugh Harrell's gallery on Auchentoroly Terrace is as far away in look and spirit from the fancy downtown galleries as a lively, working Paris atelier is from the IBM building.Here there are no stark and sterile white walls, no polished wood floors, no eyeball spotlights on slightly disembodied works of art. No manicured and suited sales associates whisper, "May I help you?"Instead Hugh Harrell himself gets up from whatever he's working on, opens the door and says, "Come on in."

WASHINGTON -- "... I ran. There was a bullet in me trying to take my life, all 13 years of it." With those startling words on its opening page, Claude Brown's book Manchild in the Promised Land opens a rare and riveting window into his dangerous journey from theft, drugs and juvenile detention on the streets of mid-20th century Harlem to eventual redemption and education at Howard University and Rutgers University Law School. The 1965 semi-autobiographical novel sold 4 million copies and still sells more than 30,000 copies a year as required reading in many classrooms.