NEWS
By Mary Carole McCauley, The Baltimore Sun | February 11, 2013
The Enoch Pratt Free Library 's only document signed by Abraham Lincoln will be on display Tuesday for one day only, in honor of the Great Emancipator's 204th birthday. The document - the appointment of Walter Graham of New Jersey as the American consul at Cape Town, South Africa - will be exhibited in the main hall of the Central branch, 400 Cathedral St. between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., according to library spokesman Roswell Encina. The appointment was signed on Jan. 19, 1863 by Lincoln and his Secretary of State, William Seward, and was donated to the Pratt in September 1940 by Mrs. William F. Bevan.
ENTERTAINMENT
by Richard Gorelick and The Baltimore Sun | December 10, 2012
Nando's Peri Peri, a Washington-based chain of Afro-Portuguese restaurants, is expanding into the Baltimore area. The first Baltimore-area Nando's will open on Dec. 19 at the Waugh Chapel Towne Centre in Gambrills. The first downtown Baltimore location will open next spring on Baltimore and Paca streets. A lease for a third location, in Towson, has been signed, and more locations will follow, the company says. Known for worldwide for its flame-grilled, marinated Peri-Peri chicken, the first Nando's restaurant opened in 1987 in Johannesburg, South Africa and has since spread to 27 countries and five continents.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Mary Carole McCauley, The Baltimore Sun | August 27, 2012
"And now you hear the music, but the words don't sound too clear …" "Inner City Blues" by Sixto Rodriguez Former Baltimorean Craig Strydom has spent more than two decades searching for Sugar Man. And even though the music journalist tracked his elusive subject to a Detroit tenement in 1997, in many ways, he's still looking. Sugar Man is the nickname for Sixto Rodriguez, a Mexican-American singer-songwriter who was living in dire poverty in the U.S. without ever knowing that his music was being used to fight apartheid halfway around the world.
SPORTS
From Sun staff and news services | August 6, 2012
The French men's basketball team defeated Nigeria, 79-73, on Monday in GroupA play in the London Olympics. Ekene Ibekwe (Maryland) played just under two minutes off the bench in the losing effort and did not score, picking up up two fouls in the limited action. Teammate Tony Skinn of Takoma Park did not play. France will now finish no worse than third in the group. Also in Group A, Lithuania downed Tunisia, 76-63, after an impressive 26-9 fourth-quarter run. Sarunas Jasikevicius (Maryland)
SPORTS
By Jean Marbella and The Baltimore Sun | August 3, 2012
And then there was one. Michael Phelps came up golden again today swimming his last individual race, the 100-meter butterfly. He has just his leg in the 400-meter medley relay left to swim in these Olympic Games - or any other for that matter. “I'm just happy that the last [individual] one was a win,” Phelps said. “That's all I really wanted coming into the night.” His gold medal in the 200 IM on Thursday marked the first time a male swimmer has won the same event in three straight Olympics.
NEWS
By Sandra McKee, The Baltimore Sun | June 21, 2012
Kip and Harrison Hart sit at the kitchen table in their Towson home, along with their mother, Barb Cox, and their South African "brother," Phinius Sebatsane, pondering how they're going to handle the massive amount of donations filling the dining and living rooms. Through the doorway looms 1,400 pounds of donated lacrosse shoes, uniforms and equipment, coming from Friends School and Hereford High, as well as other schools around the country. In Wisconsin, the St. John's Northwestern Military Academy collected another 2,500 pounds of donations, packed in 50-pound boxes.