ENTERTAINMENT
By Erik Maza and The Baltimore Sun | August 2, 2011
Merriweather Post Pavilion has two of the biggest shows of the week - Steely Dan and Death Cab for Cutie. Meanwhile, the Verizon Center in D.C. has Taylor Swift for two nights starting today. We will have reviews of both Swift and Steely Dan later this week. Elsewhere: the great Jonny Blaze will be at Peer Pressure, which deserves a congratulations for reaching it's tenth edition. Also: Boys Noize, James Nasty, Gilded Gilly, and Posh Cavern, and Save Your Soul at Lith Hall. On Tuesday , Steely Dan performs at Merriweather Post Pavilion, 10475 Little Patuxent Pkwy.
FEATURES
By Susan Reimer, The Baltimore Sun | March 17, 2011
Parents start worrying about the power of peer pressure the moment their child angrily demands the same treat another child has. From then on, we never stop wondering who is calling the shots in our children's lives. The child? Or the group? But we console ourselves — a little, anyway — if we are able to arrange for a peer group we approve of. I paid my reluctant musician of a son $5 to play in the middle-school orchestra because I felt comfortable with the kids sitting at the music stands next to him — and with the parents driving to rehearsal.
NEWS
February 16, 2011
Reading the editorial, "Vote for history" (Feb. 16) made me wonder. Do our legislators vote with their brains or their hearts? Personally, I have a great deal of love and understanding for those who choose alternative lifestyles. I also have a great deal of love and understanding for drug addicts, unwed mothers, the criminally insane, etc. I would hope that our legislators who may share in my personal "feelings" would use their intelligence in casting their votes now and in the future.
NEWS
By Tyeesha Dixon and Tyeesha Dixon,Sun reporter | December 9, 2007
Montgomery County police Officer Darryl Marshall challenged a group of teenagers at Stanton Community Center in downtown Annapolis yesterday morning. "Describe yourself in one word," Marshall said. "Knowledgeable," one teen yelled out. "Determined," said another. About 50 young people and adults gathered for a "Tools 4 Success" workshop - a program sponsored by several Maryland organizations to help teach students how to increase their self-esteem and avoid peer pressure. The workshop focused on four topics: peer pressure, conflict and problem-solving, self-esteem and gangs.
NEWS
By CHRIS KALTENBACH | November 25, 2007
20th Century Fox / $29.99 Adrienne Shelly's Waitress will probably be ignored come Oscar time -- it lacks big names, and its delights may not be obvious enough for widespread recognition. That's an absolute shame. BRATZ Lionsgate / $28.98 Logan Browning, Janel Parrish, Nathalia Ramos and Skyler Shaye are Best Friends Forever (BFFs, in current teen-speak) in this PG-rated film about a group of teenage girls sticking together through thick and thin (not to mention peer pressure) in the course of their freshman year of high school.
SPORTS
By MILTON KENT | February 12, 2006
You know that hail of junk e-mails you get, promising to clean up your credit, restore your hearing or give you a little more respect around the neighborhood? Well, Linn Goldberg, who heads the Division of Health Promotion and Sports Medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University, got one of those entreaties. "At the university, they throw a lot of my good stuff away and you don't know if it's junk or not. So I have to go through my junk mail every day," Goldberg said. Good thing he did, or he and the Portland-based school would have missed out on a $1 million grant from Sports Illustrated to fund programs that give high school athletes other options than alcohol, drugs, steroids and sports supplements.