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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | September 27, 2009
Lois E. Pannell, a longtime waitress and animal lover, died Monday of heart failure at Northwest Hospital Center. She was 71. Mrs. Pannell retired earlier this year from Sheraton Four Points at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, where she had worked for the last 15 years. Earlier, she had worked at the now-defunct Black Pearl in Harborplace, and Westview Lounge & Supper Club in Catonsville. Lois Ellen Schwartz was born in Baltimore and raised in Forest Park.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | May 1, 2009
Annie L. "Jennie" Hinton, a retired waitress and longtime active church member, died of respiratory failure April 22 at Envoy Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Sudbrook Park where she had lived since 2002. She was 91. Annie Lucinda Meachman was born and spent her early years in Palmer Springs, Va. In the early 1930s, she moved to Baltimore, where she attended city public schools. In the late 1930s, she worked as a housekeeper, and with the outbreak of World War II, worked in a Curtis Bay munitions plant.
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By RAY FRAGER | December 4, 2008
TMZ 6 p.m. [Ch. 24] Before he immerses himself in the pool again, you never know whether Michael Phelps (right) and his Vegas cocktail waitress girlfriend might pop up on tabloid shows such as this. Once he's back training, don't expect any juicy stuff for a while.
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By Karen Nitkin | April 17, 2008
I've rarely felt more welcomed at a restaurant than during my recent experience at Island Quizine. Seeing that we were chilly, our charming waitress hurried to us as soon as we sat down and asked if we would like a bowl of seafood chowder to warm us up while we decided what to order. It arrived on our table in a matter of seconds. Then, when we asked which was better, the jerk chicken or the stewed chicken, she brought out steaming hot samples of both, so we could decide. (We wound up ordering both.
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By Jacques Kelly | February 6, 2008
Catherine Zarbos, a retired waitress, died of pneumonia complications Saturday at the Bel Air Health and Rehabilitation Center. The former Edgemere resident was 93. Born Catherine Zarbs in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown, she attended Baltimore City public schools and earned her GED diploma at the age of 60. She learned cooking while her father, a Greek immigrant, owned and operated a restaurant at Sandy Point near the Bay Bridge. Many years ago she worked at the Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River and later was a waitress at the Cork and Bottle restaurant on Fayette Street.
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By Chris Kaltenbach | January 11, 2008
It's tough to figure what you'll be seeing Sunday night on the strike-challenged Golden Globes, what with all the reconstituting that's been going on. But one thing you definitely won't see is anyone from the cast and crew of Waitress winning anything. And so far, that's the greatest injustice of the 2007 awards season. Waitress, which the late Adrienne Shelly finished just before she was slain in her Greenwich Village apartment in November 2006, was one of the most delightful films of last year.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | October 31, 2007
Anna M. Spoonire, a veteran waitress who during her nearly 30-year career at the Bel-Loc Diner dispensed plenty of good cheer while filling customers' coffee cups and delivering meals, died of cancer Sunday at her Glen Burnie home. She was 70. In a 2003 interview with The Sun, Mrs. Spoonire, whose waitressing career spanned 45 years, explained her recipe for success. "You really have to like people in this job. And I like people," Mrs. Spoonire told a reporter. "But it really helps to develop a sense of humor because you see all kinds, from the people out at night after clubbing to the grouches at 6 a.m.," added Mrs. Spoonire, who always dressed in a fresh, starched white uniform, which she wore with a comfortable pair of white soft-soled shoes.
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By Karen Nitkin | August 23, 2007
Seafood fried diavolo? Scanning the chef's specials at the shiny new Silver Moon Diner on Pulaski Highway in Middle River, I got a chuckle out of that one. Of course, the menu writer meant fra diavolo, not that the calamari, clams, shrimp and scallops in this pasta dish would be fried. I was less amused by our waitress' double-take when we ordered spanakopita. She clearly had never heard the word before and asked to see it on the menu so she could figure out how to spell it. Like many diners, the Silver Moon has a distinctly Greek sensibility, and a section of the sprawling menu is devoted to "Hellenic treasures" such as gyros, moussaka and yes, spanakopita.
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By Karen Nitkin | June 21, 2007
For newcomers who don't know better, Raffy's seems to promise culinary disappointment. First, you notice the smell of stale smoke in the air. Then you see televisions everywhere, even embedded in the floor. Fun seems more important than food at this enormous bar and restaurant, and your waitress doesn't convince you otherwise. She recites the drink specials, even though it's barely noon, and belatedly remembers you wanted "some kind of fruit" in your club soda (a lime wedge), then still fails to bring it. Poor:]
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By Michael Sragow | May 25, 2007
Andy Griffith, 81 a week from tomorrow, confides that "when my wife, Cindy, and I go someplace, and I don't want to be recognized, she says, `Don't talk!'" Hearing him boom across the phone lines from his hometown of Manteo, N.C., you know what she means. Griffith's weathered face has been part of America's pop-culture Mount Rushmore for half-a-century, whether as Mayberry's comic philosopher of a sheriff or the wily cornpone lawyer Matlock. But his rich and loamy voice can open up pockets of memory like a down-home audio version of Marcel Proust's madeleine.