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August 31, 1999
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FEATURES
By Rob Kasper | February 24, 2001
IT IS SAID that adversity - and around here a 5-inch snowfall is considered adversity - doesn't build character, it merely displays it. I know, for instance, that a snowstorm brings out the German in me. By that I mean that when snow falls, I feel a compelling need to put my domicile in order the way my dad, a German-American, used to put his household in ship-shape. The walks must be cleared. The snow shovels must be standing at attention. The boots and gloves must fit and should be lined up in neat rows in front of the furnace.
ENTERTAINMENT
By J.D. Considine | August 7, 1997
311Transistor (Capricorn 314 536 181)Subtlety is not something you expect from a band whose sound is built around guitar crunch and pumped-up dancehall riddim. But even though much of the music on 311's fourth album, "Transistor," is in-your-face aggressive, what makes the album worth hearing is the way the band balances its bluster with soulful interludes and moments of jazzy lyricism. So for every track like the title tune, which stacks meaty, distorted guitar tracks over a giddily kinetic pulse (complete with a mini dub break)
FEATURES
By ROB KASPER | October 12, 1996
THIS IS A column about opera and transistor radios. It is not about the Baltimore Orioles' fight with the New York Yankees for the American League pennant. Plenty of my colleagues are doing a fine job writing about that. And, as one of my editors pointed out, people in this sophisticated metropolis have many more things happening in their lives than monitoring baseball games.Such as going to the opera. I like opera, both in the car, and in the abstract. In the car, I slap some "Tosca" in the tape deck and it makes the crawl around the Beltway almost tolerable.
NEWS
By JACQUES KELLY | June 3, 2006
A whole new world opened after I bought my first transistor radio. It was all of $6.99 and came from the old Shocket's on Gay Street, a few steps away from the Bel Air Market. It ran on a nine-volt battery, which we always bought on the cheap at Sunny's Surplus. That little plastic radio brought the voice of Alan Field into my room, a broadcast voice that will be on this morning for the final airing of his It's Showtime on WWLG, where he's the Saturday host. Come 9 a.m. Monday, that station will change formats and discontinue the pop music-oldies sound that I've chasing around for the past 46 years.
NEWS
By Cal Thomas | August 20, 2003
NEW YORK -- The first thing that crossed my mind when the lights went out on the 22nd floor of my Times Square hotel on Thursday afternoon was, "Klaatu warned us." OK, it wasn't the first thing, but it makes for a more interesting lead sentence. Sci-fi film fans will recognize the name Klaatu from the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still. The alien and his robot, Gort, land their flying saucer in Washington in the middle of the Cold War to warn earthlings that we had better get along or suffer consequences of galactic proportions.