Park Country School

Had it been a gloomy day, Kristin Raneri might not have looked so glum. But yesterday was splendidly sunny, and Kristin wanted to be back at the ocean."

Actress, playwright and professor Anna Deavere Smith has a deep affection for what she calls "misfit theater."She means it as a compliment. It's a term she applies to plays she first saw as a girl growing up in Baltimore. At Arena Players, she would see black actors cast in traditionally white roles. And although she went to Western High School, she often attended all-girl plays at Roland Park Country School, where her best friend was a student."Those two things were my experience of what theater was. I always thought theater was when the wrong person played the wrong role -- misfit theater," Smith said.

The correct number for information about cooking classes at the Roland Park Country School Evening School is 323-5500. A wrong number was listed in the A La Carte section yesterday.The Sun regrets the error.London pub crawl can help chase winter blahsHere's a sure-fire way to ease the winter blahs: Pop into the pub for a pint or two.Sissons and the South Baltimore Brewing Co. are taking reservations and deposits for the "ultimate London pub crawl," a week-long tour of pubs in and around London, March 21-28.

When 215 eighth-graders from seven prestigious private schools gathered for a "race relations summit" at Friends School, one girl raised a basic question."

When 215 eighth-graders from seven prestigious private schools gathered for a "race relations summit" yesterday at the Friends School, one girl raised a basic question."

The sign says: "The Baltimore Country Club believes sledding on these hills to be dangerous. We neither permit nor condone sledding."Yeah, yeah, thinks Earl Hartman as he surveys the perfect winter vista that stretches below to Falls Road. He flops belly first onto a snow tube and lets fly from the top of what is known as Suicide Hill."Yea, Earl!" his buddies cheer as the 14-year-old Boys Latin student bounces rudely down the rutted slope.Since the blizzard struck, 20 chums from Boys Latin, Gilman, Loyola High School and Roland Park Country School have gathered daily to flirt and to goad one another into death-defying flights across the former golf course.

Craig Lurz is on the telephone, trying to explain the anxiety -- some might call it torture -- of waiting to hear whether his children have been accepted into their private schools of choice, when his call-waiting kicks in.He returns to the telephone line after about 30 seconds. "That," Mr. Lurz says with a light laugh, "was another parent, wanting to know if our mail had come in yet."It hasn't. The wait continues.Mr. Lurz and his friend aren't the only ones who have been setting their clocks by the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks.

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No doubt you've heard about the three most important considerations when you're buying a house: location, location and location. They also serve quite handily as the three most important considerations in planning a wedding, too. Just about everything except your choice of spouse is determined by this most important detail -- the flowers, the colors, the style, the themes.So to assist in finding your quintessential, one-and-only, I-did-it-my-way sort of setting, we've compiled what you might think of as a real estate listing of area reception sites.

Roland Park Country School graduate Jocelyn Young-Hyman, who is now a Peace Corps volunteer, has big plans for the money raised Thursday by her alma mater in its annual All-School Walk. Young-Hyman, a 2007graduate of the all-girls school on Roland Avenue, is assigned to work at Kichakamkwaju School For The Deaf, in Kenya. On April 1, she emailed Roland Park Country School Upper School Head Ereni Malfa, asking for help in raising money for art supplies and academic games. "My school is an extremely poor school with absolutely no resources or parents who can support their children," she wrote.