NEWS
By Stephen Vicchio | August 25, 1992
If there is magic to be found on this planet, it is contained in water.7+ -- Loren Eiseley, "The Immense Journey"BY THE time the screen door swings back to make its thud, already I have bounded down the wooden steps. A moment later, on the path leading over the dune line, I pass stubborn tufts of saw grass hedged in by battered snow fences.I cover the hundred yards of sand between dune line and ocean like a weary man finishing a desert crossing. Then, an awkward dive, the shock of cold water, a few strokes to move me beyond the breakers, and I am over taken, consumed, returned to the sea.I hear the ocean's surfy, slow, deep mellow voice.
NEWS
January 6, 1992
"You can't stop the tides and wind," said Ocean City Mayor Roland "Fish" Powell philosophically after Saturday's nor'easter of near-hurricane force blasted his resort town. The strong gales and pounding waves washed away the protective dunes and left Ocean City vulnerable to the next unpredictable storm that meanders up the coast.Such is life on a barrier island. Maryland's popular resort community fared pretty well from this nor'easter. The beach took a shellacking, there was considerable flooding and many homes near the ocean got clobbered.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Sam Sessa, The Baltimore Sun | May 14, 2010
British songstress Corinne Bailey Rae burst into the pop charts like a bright ray of sunshine with her breezy 2006 single "Put Your Records On." Her self-titled debut, which featured the song, would go on to sell millions in the U.S. Rae's latest album, "The Sea," is a complete about-face, filled with darker, more complicated songs and imagery. In 2008, Rae's husband, Jason, died of an accidental overdose of methadone and alcohol. Rae withdrew from songwriting and performing for about a year, before re-emerging to finish "The Sea," which was released in January.
FEATURES
By Michael Hill | February 21, 1991
The problem with "And the Sea Will Tell" is that it can't decide what it wants to be. Just when you think you've tuned into a good, solid murder mystery, this four-hour CBS production turns into a courtroom drama.And even then, it's not a drama about a crusading prosecutor using scanty shards of precious evidence to prove to the jury that this decidedly creepy villain did the misdeed, but one about a well-paid defense attorney trying to persuade a jury that the creepy villain's girlfriend didn't do it.Of course, even if she didn't, Jennifer Jenkins is in the innocent-but-still-real-stupid category, making it hard for the audience to work up a great deal of passionate sympathy for this potential victim of injustice.
FEATURES
Tim Wheeler | June 25, 2012
Sea levels are rising faster along the Atlantic coast - including in the Chesapeake Bay - than elsewhere around the world, and the increase appears to be accelerating, according to federal scientists. In a paper published online in Nature Climate Change , the U.S. Geological Survey reports that sea level rise is increasing three to four times faster than globally along a heavily-populated 600-mile stretch of coast from Cape Hatteras, NC to north of Boston. Since 1990, the rise has increased 2 to 3.7 millimeters per year in the "hotspot," as the federal scientists call it, compared with a global increase of 0.6 to 1 millimeter per year. That hotspot includes the Chesapeake Bay, according to USGS oceanographer Asbury H. Sallenger, lead author of the report.
ENTERTAINMENT
By John Dorsey | July 2, 1998
"A Passion for Life," the current exhibit at Quiet Waters Galleries in Annapolis, celebrates the beauty of the sea and its life through the works of its two artists. Bobbie Burnett, of Annapolis, creates stained glass sculptures in two and three dimensions of fish, birds and mammals, such as the heron seen here. They depict life in and over the sea. Andre Laban, a French painter who worked for years with undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, depicts the sea as seen from above and below the surface.