NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | January 19, 2012
Albert A. Mrozek, a retired federal worker who bred racing pigeons, died Jan. 12 of complications from diabetes at the Genesis Severna Park Center nursing home. The longtime Brooklyn Park resident was 81. Albert Anthony Mrozek, the son of a tugboat deckhand and a homemaker, was born at home on Ann Street in Fells Point. His family later moved to Brooklyn, and he graduated in 1949 from Southern High School. During his high school summers, he worked as a deckhand with Curtis Bay Towing Co., and as an apprentice at General Ship Repair and at Bethlehem Steel's Key Highway shipyard.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Sara Toth | November 22, 2011
Another relatively solid episode of Fox's “Terra Nova” this week - the good episodes always seem to illicit emotions of both triumph and disappointment as I realize, “Darn, this show is really worth a crap.” Taylor and Jim are coming closer and closer to finding out the mole in Terra Nova. Except, it's not really a mole. Rather, it's more of a prehistoric micro-chip-equipped dragonfly transmitting messages back to Sixer-Leader Mira. Now, I don't know too much about dragonflies except that they creep me out - I have vivid memories of youth softball spent in right field, watching dragonflies (really hideous creatures when you think about it)
ENTERTAINMENT
By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun | June 15, 2010
This very dry, steely Riesling exemplifies the Australian style with this varietal. It's a flavorful white wine with hints of sweet pea, herbs, white pepper and slate. Its touch of severity is offset by a bracing intensity and long finish. Fine value, with a crew cap. — Michael Dresser 2008 Cat Among the Pigeons Riesling From: Barossa Valley, Australia Price: $13 Serve with: White-fleshed fish, shellfish
ENTERTAINMENT
By Sam Sessa and Sam Sessa,sam.sessa@baltsun.com | July 30, 2009
From the start, it's been hard to peg Sugar Ray. When the SoCal five-piece formed in the early 1990s, audiences thought they were a straight-up hard-rock party band. Then they released the summery acoustic single "Fly," a smash hit that rocketed them to platinum status. Listeners and critics were quick to label Sugar Ray one-hit wonders. But the band's next album had two more hit singles, "Every Morning" and "Someday," and went triple-platinum. Now, audiences look at 41-year-old lead singer Mark McGrath, with his six-pack abs and frost-tipped hair, and think he's an empty-headed frontman disillusioned by his band's success.
SPORTS
By RAY FRAGER | February 4, 2008
1. Any commercial that references The Godfather has got to rate high. The Audi spot goes to a mansion's bedroom with a man waking up to pull back the blankets and find sheets covered in oil and the torn-off grill of a car. He unleashes a blood-curdling scream. Not sure I'm buying an Audi because of it, but entertaining. 2. Feel that beat of "What Is Love." Look at the bobblehead dolls, then the people's heads bobbing as they start to doze off. Until they drink Diet Pepsi Max. Then everyone is in the old Saturday Night Live sketch, bobbing along energetically to the Haddaway hit. SNL alum Chris Kattan shows up at the end to tell everybody to stop it. 3. Peanuts, get your peanuts.
TRAVEL
October 28, 2007
Last month, my nephew Christopher Monteferrante had a blast feeding the pigeons on his first day in Venice in Piazza San Marco. He was torn between unbridled joy and fear of the hungry pigeons waiting to be fed in Venice's most popular square. Frank Monteferrante, Ellicott City The Sun welcomes submissions for "My Best Shot." Photos should be accompanied by a description of when and where you took the picture and your name, address and phone number. Submissions cannot be individually acknowledged or returned, and upon submission become the property of The Sun. Write to: Travel Department, The Sun, 501 N. Calvert St., Baltimore 21278, or e-mail Travel@baltsun.