11 fun and unusual ways to celebrate National Eat Outside Day
By Michele Brosius Whether your summer is still going strong or your kids are gearing up for the first day of school, chances are you’re trying to hold on to those summer vibes while you can. Well,...
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How do you make friends outside your generation? These people share how they...
By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — On a bench near the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market in July, Peggy Cheng recalled the time a television writer pitched her a wacky sitcom centered...
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My best friend is 30 years my senior. Here’s what she’s taught me about life
Deborah Vankin | Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — She was 63. I was 33. We shared cocktails at a rooftop bar overlooking Sunset Boulevard during golden hour. And the connection was palpable. No,...
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Review: These 5 must-read books drop in September
Chris Hewitt | The Minnesota Star Tribune (TNS) Summer is the season for blockbuster movies, but autumn is when the publishing world unleashes one title after another from some of the biggest, and...
View ArticleMissing Grand Canyon hiker found dead, marking park’s 6th fatality in a month
Search and rescue teams discovered the body of a 60-year-old North Carolina man along a remote trail in the Grand Canyon, marking the sixth death in the park in less than a month. The National Park...
View ArticleDaily Horoscope for September 01, 2024
General Daily Insight for September 01, 2024 The planets are keeping themselves busy today. The Moon in Leo gets right down to business when it conjoins messenger Mercury. Next, change-maker Uranus...
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Frederic S. ‘Fritz’ Briggs, noted Baltimore watercolor artist and teacher, dies
Frederic S. “Fritz” Briggs, a noted watercolorist, teacher and scion of the prominent Schuler family of Baltimore artists, died of undetermined causes Aug. 19 at Keswick Multi-Care Center in Roland...
View ArticleDaily Horoscope for September 02, 2024
General Daily Insight for September 02, 2024 Transparency is the name of the game. There is a huge focus on being open with our feelings and inner thoughts as messenger Mercury forms a healing trine...
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3 new cookbooks tackle the busy weeknight conundrum
The end of summer usually means the start of a frantic fall, when work demands, busy school days and soccer practice all collide. Dealing with dinner via drive-through may seem like a good idea at the...
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Easy weeknight meals: Tomato, Peach and Tahini Sandwiches for summer
A perfect late-summer staple, this recipe comes from London-based, best-selling cookbook author Anna Jones and her forthcoming book, “Easy Wins” (Fourth Estate, $35). “Putting peach in a sandwich might...
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Easy weeknight meals: Everything-Crusted Tuna with Snap Peas and Tahini-jang...
This sophisticated recipe cooks up in 15 minutes — perfect for elevating a harried weeknight. It comes from Caroline Chambers, the popular Substack food writer and author of the new “What To Cook When...
View ArticleWhat to watch: Lee Daniels’ solid ‘Deliverance’ delivers the shivers
A demon holing up in a basement preys on a single mom and her three kids; and a San Francisco filmmaker delivers a sublime meditation on grief and grieving. Those two films — “The Deliverance” and “The...
View ArticleHow Unabomber Ted Kaczynski loomed in the mind of an ‘obsessed’ novelist
Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, has been on Maxim Loskutoff’s mind for a long time. The author grew up in Missoula, Montana, less than 80 miles from Lincoln, the town near the shack where...
View ArticleThese are the safest European countries for driving rental cars
By Mia Taylor, TravelPulse When planning a trip abroad, the logistics of transportation during your stay in a foreign country are invariably one of the details that must be sorted out. And for plenty...
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Colonial garb and Nikes: What it’s like to live in the middle of American...
By Samuel Long, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette I grew up in the modest city of Williamsburg, Virginia. Our “thing” was being the location of the first permanent English settlement and original capital of...
View ArticleDaily Horoscope for September 03, 2024
General Daily Insight for September 03, 2024 It’s almost impossible to know what’s what under today’s stars in advance. Energetic Mars is making a difficult square to watery Neptune at 12:10 am EDT,...
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George Goehring, pop song composer known for ‘Lipstick on Your Collar,’ dies
George Goehring, composer of “Lipstick on Your Collar, ” the 1959 pop song popularized by Connie Francis, died Aug. 15 at Amazing Grace Assisted Living in West Palm Beach, Florida. The former...
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The most popular menu item in Baltimore high school cafeterias? Caesar salad.
Caesar salad was the breakout hit of the lunchroom last school year, Baltimore City Public Schools officials say, and they expect students will be coming back for seconds as a new academic year begins....
View ArticleWendy’s bringing fan-favorite Frosty flavor back to the menu, phasing out...
Wendy’s is bringing a fan-favorite Frosty flavor back to the menu and phasing out another. According to Parade, Wendy’s is bringing its vanilla-flavored Frosty back to menus across the nation. View...
View ArticleFogo de Chão restaurant opens in Towson Town Center
Fogo de Chão, the restaurant chain known for its focus on Brazilian food, opened its second Baltimore-area location on Monday, setting up at Towson Town Center in the high-visibility space once...
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