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JOHN DAVID JOHNSON, JR., of St. Michaels, MD died at 82 on Saturday, June 18, 2005 in Easton, MD. John lived in Baltimore, MD from his birth in 1923 until he joined the Coast Guard in 1942. He married Martha Lulu May in 1945 and spent his career with AB&W Transit in Alexandria, VA until he retired in 1974 as President. John has spent the last 30 years on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where he and his sons have owned and operated the Lu-Ev Framing Shop in Easton, MD. John's beloved wife Martha, passed away in 1994.

From the outside, it's hard to tell there's a tiny dining room in the back of Lulu's. But once you walk past the bar and find that little oasis of tables next to the swinging doors of the kitchen, you're in for a treat - a fine neighborhood restaurant delivering simple, stylish food. Owner Darren Myers, who opened the Aliceanna Street restaurant in October 2003 with his wife, Amanda Cropper, and friend Dwight King said the goal was to create a restaurant that served American bar favorites, and to "just try to do them the right way."

Michelle Milne feels like she's going to give birth this weekend. But she's actually just delivering her graduate thesis in the form of a one-woman show, Looking for Lulu, presented by the Towson University MFA Theater Program today through Sunday at Theatre Project. "I feel like I'm putting my new baby out there for everyone to see," says Milne, who is getting her master's degree in fine arts at Towson. "It's a very personal piece." Looking for Lulu is loosely based on Milne's life and experiences.

On May 11, 2004 LOUISE E. HOCK resident at Edenwald, beloved daughter of the late John and Lulu (nee House) Hock. Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Road (Beltway Exit 26A) on Saturday from 9 to 10 a.m. at which time a funeral service will be held. Interment Baltimore Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the charity of your choice.

at his home in Ocean City. Born in Baltimore City, he was the son of the late James Albert Nahm and Mary Llewella "Lulu" Swartwout Nahm. He is survived by his wife Sherran Galloy Nahm, a son Eric VanOrden Nahm of Raleigh, NC, two daughters, Meredith Leigh Nahm of Raleigh, NC, and Cassandra Nicole Parker and her husband Douglas of Baltimore and a grandson Charles Michael Bell of Pasadena, MD. Mr. Nahm was a charter life insurance underwriter and president of...

Hollywood never knew what to do with Louise Brooks. Luckily, German director G.W. Pabst did. The 22-year-old Brooks, possessed of the sort of astonishing beauty the camera loves and the sort of stubborn willfulness the movie studios hate, had already stalled in her film career when Pabst chose her (over Marlene Dietrich, an early favorite for the role) to star in his 1929 adaptation of Frank Wedekind's scandalous 1904 play, Der Buchse der Pandora. The result, released in this country as Pandora's Box, was a classic of the silent cinema, one of the most erotic movies ever made (anyone who thinks the silent cinema was sexless will faint after seeing this)

Frank Wedekind's "Lulu" is a bloody, messy play about sex. Yet the production at Washington's Kennedy Center is far more unsettling than scandalous. "Nothing's shocking any longer," a character says in the first scene, and without downplaying the script's violence or sexuality, director Jonathan Kent's production reinforces that statement. And that's one of the most unsettling things about it. Although Wedekind's 1894 script spawned at least five silent movies (most notably G.W. Pabst's 1928 masterpiece, "Pandora's Box," starring Louise Brooks)

At your service: 18th-century comedy Washington's Kennedy Center begins its celebration of the arts of the United Kingdom on Tuesday with Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century comedy, "A Servant of Two Masters," co-produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and London's Young Vic Theater Company. Goldoni's commedia dell'arte script has been adapted for this production by British playwright Lee Hall, screenwriter of "Billy Elliot." The other two theatrical components of the British festival are an adaptation of George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss" (May 15-June 10)

"The Caveman's Valentine" is about a homeless man who cracks a murder case - not just any homeless man, and not just any murder case. Romulus Ledbetter, played by Samuel L. Jackson, elects to live in a cave in New York City's Inwood Park. The response he evokes isn't, "Oh, my God, that man is me!" - which is what you would expect from a heartfelt exploration of homelessness - but "Oh, my God, that man is greater than I could ever be!" Romulus is a Juilliard-trained pianist who experienced a crack-up a la "Shine" that left him paranoid and possessed of scattered, blazing insights.

THE NATIONAL Association for the Advancement of Colored People, just nine years shy of its 100th anniversary, was formed to secure full citizenship rights for the nation's African-American population. In this endeavor, it has been exemplary. When the organization has been right, it has been very right - NAACP lawyers argued successfully to end all-white primaries and segregated education. But oh, does the NAACP commit lulus when it's wrong. In the 1920s, the NAACP aided and abetted federal government officials in trumping up questionable mail-fraud charges against black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who was eventually deported.