NEWS
By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun | August 19, 2010
George Getschel's wife may be one of the luckiest women on the planet. As a trained gemologist who grew up in the jewelry business, he understands diamonds and exactly why they're a girl's best friend. And he has given his wife quite a few, he says. Getschel, 33, should know his gems. His great-grandfather started the Albert Smyth Co. — one of the area's most popular jewelry retailers. He left the family business a few years — he calls the move "a natural progression" in his career — to attend graduate school and then work for Tiffany & Co. His latest venture is director of the new Tiffany store slated to open at the Towson Town Center in the mall's luxury wing on Sept.
NEWS
By Peter Hermann, The Baltimore Sun | July 28, 2010
Anne Arundel County police say that on Tuesday, Arthur Tyler Felton used a box cutter to steal a cell phone and an MP3 player from a Sears in the Annapolis Mall, then briefly carjacked a woman in the parking lot in a failed bid to escape. This is the same Arthur Tyler Felton who in 1991 fatally shot 6-year-old Tiffany Smith in the head during a gunfight with a rival in West Baltimore's Walbrook neighborhood. The shooting of the elementary school student shocked a city, sparked a campaign to rebuild streets lined with vacant rowhouses, focused police attention on gangs, guns and drugs, and prompted residents to create a memorial in the girl's honor.
FEATURES
By Sloane Brown, Special to The Baltimore Sun | July 11, 2010
Tiffani Currin loves fashion but has to watch how much she expresses herself in one job, that as an M&T bank teller. But the day we "glimpsed" the 25-year-old Northwest Baltimore resident, she was on her lunch break from her second job as a nail technician at Spa Sante in Harbor East. That meant a much more expressive look in her "chic, fitted" style. Currin wore a pastel floral cotton blazer from Forever 21 over a ribbed cotton tank from Nordstrom. Her dark-wash bootcut jeans came from Ann Taylor Loft, and her bronze metallic wedge Rouge sandals were Macy's finds.
BUSINESS
By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun | July 1, 2010
Tiffany & Co., the upscale jeweler known as much for its turquoise boxes as its silver jewelry and diamonds, said Thursday it will open a store this fall in the luxury wing of Towson Town Center. Tiffany will open a 3,700-square-foot store with some of the architectural elements of its flagship boutique in New York. It will feature polished marble, a stone arch at the entrance and large glass show windows. The planned opening is Sept. 3. The jeweler is opening as the economy is starting to rebound even though consumers are still skittish about spending.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Michael Sragow | michael.sragow@baltsun.com | November 27, 2009
When Billy Wilder's comedies clicked, whole groups of stars could settle into unexpectedly risible constellations - as they did in his most purely entertaining movie, the gangbusters Roaring Twenties farce, "Some Like It Hot." Wilder had worked with Monroe before 1959, but in "Some Like It Hot," he took her dizzy-blonde persona and ran with it. When Monroe's Sugar Kane, a ukulele-strumming singer in an all-girl band, isn't cooing or tippling, she's falling for male tenor-sax players. The way Wilder and his co-writer, I.A.L.
FEATURES
By Michael Sragow and Michael Sragow,michael.sragow@baltsun.com | November 27, 2009
When Billy Wilder's comedies clicked, whole groups of stars could settle into unexpectedly risible constellations - as they did in his most purely entertaining movie, the gangbusters Roaring Twenties farce, "Some Like It Hot." Wilder had worked with Monroe before 1959, but in "Some Like It Hot," he took her dizzy-blonde persona and ran with it. When Monroe's Sugar Kane, a ukulele-strumming singer in an all-girl band, isn't cooing or tippling, she's falling for male tenor-sax players.
NEWS
By Sloane Brown and Sloane Brown,special to the baltimore sun | July 5, 2009
Tiffany Garner has a lot on her plate. And we're not talking about the dinner she was having at Taverna Corvino the night we "Glimpsed" the Towson resident. This 33-year-old is a psychology doctoral candidate at Loyola College and a new mom to 8-month-old son, Ethan. "I've always been into clothes ever since I was very young ... But, things have really changed a lot since I went back to graduate school and had a baby. I don't always have the time and money to devote to my wardrobe that I used to. It goes to Ethan's wardrobe.
NEWS
May 29, 2009
On May 26, 2009, TIFFANI L.; beloved mother of Tanee Stokes; cherished daughter of Dorothy Bethea and step daughter of Vernie Bethea; also survived by two brothers, Andre and Lamonte Tyler; two devoted aunts, Pamela Griffin and Adelaide Davis and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME, 5240 Reisterstown Road, Friday 2 to 8 P.M (Family will be present 6 to 8 P.M). Services will be held at the above chapel Saturday. Wake 12:30 P.M. Funeral services will begin at 1 P.M.
NEWS
By PETER HERMANN | December 11, 2008
It was a day in August 17 years ago, and they were building a public square in memory of a 6-year-old girl caught in a drug dealers' crossfire in West Baltimore. The mayor, the City Council president, the heads of city departments came to honor Tiffany Smith and name the spot where she fell in her honor. Tiffany Square still stands. So do the drug dealers the memorial was supposed to shame and push out, which I discovered when I visited to see if we had learned anything after another boy was killed this week and ran smack into an open-air drug market.
NEWS
By PETER HERMANN and PETER HERMANN,peter.hermann@baltsun.com | December 10, 2008
The drug dealers swarmed around Tiffany Square. "Kill Bill, middle of the block," came the clarion call from the man in a blue winter cap and tan coat, slinging heroin named after the blood-thirsty movie of a revenge-bent killing spree. "Down there, the car at the light," one of the spotters yelled toward a customer. This scene isn't from 1991, when 6-year-old Tiffany Smith, playing with a doll, was struck in the head by a stray bullet fired during a shootout between rival drug dealers, the start of a decade of drug violence from which the city has yet to recover.