Tuesdays

If you're looking for something to do tonight, how about a movie at the Rotunda ? All seats are only $5 on Tuesdays and right now they are showing The King's Speech, Rango, and The Adjustment Bureau. Rango in particular looks good, check out the trailer below and our review here :  

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Orioles will have to wait another day to attempt to cut into the Kansas City Royals' 2-0 lead in the American League Championship Series. Rain fell at Kauffman Stadium throughout the day Monday, and the Orioles were going through their usual gameday preparations when Major League Baseball announced around 4:30 p.m. ET that Game 3 would be postponed until Tuesday. Games 4 and 5 also will move back a day, eliminating Thursday's scheduled day off. Peter Woodfork, MLB's senior vice president of baseball operations, said more than an inch of rain had fallen at the time of the postponement, with the forecast calling for storms to continue throughout the night.

An interview with Kelli Shimabukuro of ECO Encounter Book Club What book are members reading this month? "Tuesdays With Morrie," by Mitch Albom. Additional books for this and other library book clubs can be found at www.howa.lib.md.us/books. Which books have members liked? "East of the Mountains," by David Guterson; "Into Thin Air," by Jon Krakauer. How often does the club meet? Once a month -- at 7 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month at the east Columbia library. The club is open to the public.

UMBC men's lacrosse coach Zimmerman's contract extended two years UMBC men's lacrosse coach Don Zimmerman has signed a two-year contract extension through the 2016 season, the school announced Wednesday. He will enter his 22nd season at UMBC in 2015, his 29th overall. His career record stands at 228-153; his winning percentage of .598 is among the top 10 of active Division I coaches. More college lacrosse: Ohio State will travel to Baltimore for Michael R. Breschi Scholarship Weekend.

Ruby Tuesday -- in case anyone in Baltimore hasn't heard of it -- is the granddaddy of full-service restaurant chains. (The first one opened in 1972.) Mostly around here you find Ruby Tuesdays in malls, but now one has opened next to Borders Books & Music in Towson, where L & N Seafood used to be. (The two chains are owned by the same company.)As far as I could tell, converting L & N to a Ruby Tuesday involved not a lot more than putting up enormous numbers of Tiffany-style lamps, various sports memorabilia and lots of TV screens tuned to ESPN.

Bluegrass music Savage Bluegrass plays at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, at Sam and Elsie's Bar and Restaurant in Laurel. Information: 301-317-7796. 50+ Center events Events at the North Laurel 50+ Center, 9411 Whiskey Bottom Road. Information: 410-313-0380: Walking Club 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Mondays through Fridays. Blood pressure screenings 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays. Open Art Studio Noon to 4 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. Billiards 9 a.m. to noon Mondays through Fridays.

Another day of cloudy skies and warmer-than-normal temperatures is forecast Tuesday. Overnight lows were expected in the upper 50s and lower 60s, reaching the 70s by mid-morning and possibly 80 degrees in the afternoon. Normal highs this time of year are in the low 70s. Partly to mostly cloudy skies are forecast throughout the day. More seasonable temperatures are forecast to arrive Wednesday, with highs in the lower to mid-70s and partly cloudy skies Wednesday and Thursday.

Deck work on Hanover Street's Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge south of Federal Hill will close the span in stages beginning Tuesday, according to the Baltimore Department of Transportation. Southbound lanes of Hanover Street between East McComas Street in Riverside north of the bridge, and Waterview Avenue in Cherry Hill south of the bridge, will close around 10 a.m. Tuesday, and will remain closed through 5 a.m. Monday morning, the department said. Northbound lanes in the same stretch will close Friday night, at midnight, and also remain closed until 5 a.m. Monday, the department said.

NEW YORK -- The Orioles released their rotation for the remainder of this week's four-game series at Yankee Stadium and, as expected, right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez will start Tuesday's game against the New York Yankees. The move allows the Orioles to give the rest of their rotation an extra day of rest before their next start and again heading into the postseason. Right-hander Bud Norris is scheduled to start Wednesday afternoon, and right-hander Kevin Gausman is expected to start in Thursday's series finale.

The acting executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Baltimore has dropped her bid to become the organization's permanent head, even as the search to fill the spot continues. Kelly Neel's announced departure from the GLCCB, effective Oct. 3, surprised the group's board of directors, which had short-listed her as a finalist among a narrowing pool of contenders for the permanent job, said Mike McCarthy, the board's president. McCarthy said there were "points of contention" between the board and Neel, but he didn't think "it was at the level that she felt her value was questioned.

The Ray Rice scandal is getting its own TV special. The Reelz network announced today that it will air "Ray Rice: Celebrity Bad Behavior" at 10 p.m. Tuesday (Sept. 23). According to a press release, the OK! TV production is the network's way of "gearing up for the launch of TMZ Hollywood Sports," which premieres Sept. 29 on the network. TMZ Sports, of course, posted the longform Ray Rice hotel elevator security camera footage of him punching his then-fiancee (and now wife) Janay Palmer,  that led to his termination from the Ravens.

A man suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound on Tuesday evening, according to Baltimore Police. Officials said police responded to an area hospital for reports of a walk-in shooting victim who had been shot in the left ankle. The man remains in the hospital and is being treated for his injuries. Police said the shooting is believed to have occurred on the 3300 block of St. Ambrose Ave. in the Northwestern District and said that it is still under investigation. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call 410-396-2466.

One of the best things about being a sportswriter during a clinching celebration -- whether it's a division title like the Orioles captured Tuesday night or a World Series, which I've covered five times in my career -- is the ability to be in the middle of everything and observe. To watch and listen to the sights and sounds going on around you. I saw a bunch of cool ones last night involving the team, but I'm going to start with a personal one. Ben Barlow, the husband of the club's late public relations director, Monica Barlow, was in the clubhouse as the champagne celebration was going on. In one sense, it was a reminder that Monica, who passed away in February at age 36 after courageously battling lung cancer, wasn't with us. But it also was a reminder she was with us. Ben was greeted by tons of players and friends, and one, Orioles video coordinator Mike Silverman, had the perfect line: “We have an angel watching from above tonight.” That line, that image, is what's going to stick with me the most.

After the Orioles drained bottles of champagne inside the home clubhouse of Camden Yards, leaving behind not a dry spot in a room littered with corks and empty beer bottles, they ran toward the dugout for a postgame party that Baltimore had long awaited. They celebrated their first American League East division title in 17 years Tuesday night after their 8-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays with their hometown fans at Camden Yards. Their coronation as newly recrowned kings of the AL East came in front of a sea of orange -- an announced 34,297 -- entirely on its feet, standing as right-hander Tommy Hunter closed out the game with a grounder to first base.