Regrets

Expectations were predictably high, and how could they not? Opened in late May after months of anticipation, Of Love and Regret could be Brewers Hill's highest-profile collaboration ever. The duo behind it come with reputations: Stillwater Artisanal Ales' founder Brian Strumke and Jack's Bistro's co-owner/chef Ted Stelzenmuller have teamed up, hoping to create a blissful marriage of Strumke's craft beers and Stelzenmuller's affordable, seasonal food. After two recent visits to the consistently packed establishment, it's safe to say their goal has been accomplished nearly out of the gate.

For the second game in a row, Loyola went to a strategy of holding the ball and killing the clock, and for the second game in a row, the top-seeded Greyhounds had trouble with carrying out the plan. Clinging to a 7-5 lead late in the fourth quarter of Saturday's NCAA tournament semifinal against No. 4 seed Notre Dame, Loyola employed the game plan it used in the last six minutes of a 10-9 decision over Denver in the quarterfinals on May 19. The Fighting Irish were able to pressure Loyola's ball carriers and create turnovers, but the offense was unable to convert those mistakes into goals.

Of Love & Regret - Pub & Provisions, the collaboration between Brian Strumke of Stillwater Ales and Ted Stelzenmuller of Jack's Bistro, is set to open on Wednesday. The pub's doors will open at 11 a.m. on Wednesday for lunch and a line-up of 20 "esoteric beers" on draft, more than half of them Stillwater Ales. The "provisions" part of Pub & Provisions, a second-floor shop selling gourmet products, many of them Stillwater-designed and branded, along with beer, wine and liquor, will open later this year.

Orlando needs change K.C. Johnson Chicago Tribune Define regret. If they think the moves alone will appease Dwight Howard enough for him to sign a long-term extension, Orlando management might regret the moves. Because you never know what that Howard guy is thinking. If you made the moves to get new voices and leadership, then fine. Look, Van Gundy is a very good coach. But it's not like other good coaches aren't out there. And it's also not like Van Gundy doesn't wear on players after a while.

Of Love & Regret, Brian Strumke's upcoming bar in Brewer's Hill, got an endorsement from the Baltimore Liquor Board Thursday. The board conditionally approved the bar's liquor license, pending a meeting with the Canton Community Association. Of Love & Regret is a creative and business collaboration between Stillwater founder Brian Strumke and Ted Stelzenmuller, chef and co-owner of restaurant Jack's Bistro in Canton, and is expected to open some time this Spring.  But the bar's license wasn't the most watched portion of Thursday board meet.

Along with the big news that Stillwater Ales founder Brian Strumke will soon be opening his own bar in Canton came with the equally big news that his partner in the business, which will be called Of Love and Regret, is Ted Stelzenmuller, the chef/owner of Canton's beloved Jack's Bistro. Brian's sister, Brenda Strumke, is the establishment's owner. (If you haven't heard about Of Love and Regret, Erik Maza has all of the details on Midnight Sun .) As Stelzenmuller begins to focus on opening OLaR, he will be keeping one foot in Jack's Bistro.

Stillwater Artisanal Ales is opening its own bar in Brewer's Hill this year, and it isn't just lending its name to the effort. To be called Of Love & Regret, the bar is a creative and business collaboration between Stillwater founder Brian Strumke and Ted Stelzenmuller, chef and co-owner of restaurant Jack's Bistro in Canton. Its opening underscores the success the Baltimore microbrewer has had in the past two years. Strumke said he expects production of Stillwater beers to double to 5,000 barrels in 2012.

The signs of a career helplessly curtailed are there on every inside screen, as Sean Mosley pushes off a tender right ankle and twists his body around another, limping all the while. They're there as he looks over a Maryland locker room - his locker room - and sees two programs mashed into one, spitting out a team not yet ready for the highs he so enjoyed two years ago. The signs of a career immensely cherished are there within every knowing smile shared at practice with coach Mark Turgeon, who wishes nothing more than for his senior guard to be a junior guard.

Gov. Martin O'Malley told a national gathering of gays and lesbians in Baltimore on Sunday that he would fight to make Maryland the seventh state in the country to allow same-sex marriage, but he expressed regret for his wife's choice of words in endorsing the cause last week. Appearing before some 3,000 people at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force "Creating Change" conference at the Convention Center Hilton, the governor vowed to press for passage of a marriage equality bill in the General Assembly this year.

Many people pick quitting smoking as their New Year's resolution. But if quitting smoking was easy, most smokers would have already done it. Tobacco is highly addictive and the process isn't easy, but quitting is possible for those who really are ready and are linked to methods that work for them, says Christine Schutzman, a certified tobacco treatment specialist who leads a free Freshstart smoking cessation program at the Cancer Institute at St. Joseph...