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Non-alcoholic craft cocktail-dinner pairings are having a fun but sober moment
When Alex Jump began bartending more than a decade ago, customers weren’t regularly ordering non-alcoholic cocktails and beers. It wasn’t because of a lack of interest, though, she believes, but rather...
View Article‘Slow Horses’ review: In Season 4, what happens when an old spy isn’t as...
“Slow Horses” returns on Apple TV+ and the misfits and losers of Britain’s MI5 domestic counterintelligence agency — collectively known as the slow horses, a sneering nickname that speaks to their...
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4 easy dinners for a new school year
Gretchen McKay | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (TNS) PITTSBURGH — No one likes to say goodbye to summer, but there’s no denying a new school year can be pretty exciting. After chilling by the pool, sleeping...
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Review: ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ has Michael Keaton and everything going for...
Revisit the 1988 “Beetlejuice” if you haven’t lately. It’s stranger, jankier, funnier and try-anything-er than you may recall. As the freelance bio-exorcist Betelgeuse, aka Beetlejuice, Michael Keaton...
View ArticleBunk beds are the trendiest new amenity at luxury hotels
Carlye Wisel | (TNS) Bloomberg News The new trend at luxury hotels draws inspiration from the least luxurious accommodations on Earth: dorm rooms. At a time when consumers are looking for better value...
View ArticleAtlas Restaurant group set to take over historic Stevens Hardware Building...
After sitting vacant for nearly eight months. the historic Stevens Hardware building has secured a new tenant: the Atlas Restaurant Group. The restaurant group confirmed plans to put a restaurant in...
View ArticleQuick Fix: Japanese Style Butter Shoyu Chicken with Rice and Peas
Linda Gassenheimer | Tribune News Service I noticed Japanese Butter Shoyu Chicken on a restaurant menu recently and decided to learn more about it. Shoyu means soy in Japanese. Adding butter to the soy...
View ArticleHow to avoid the new ‘shoulder season’ crowds
By Sam Kemmis | NerdWallet Traveling during peak season can be a drag. Visiting Europe in the summer, for example, means contending with higher prices, tight availability and throngs of fellow...
View Article‘The Perfect Couple’ review: Netflix channels ‘Big Little Lies’ with a murder...
“The Perfect Couple” on Netflix is the television equivalent of a beach read. That’s not derogatory. The six-episode series may be trash, but it’s high-toned trash, which provides all kinds of terrific...
View ArticleAuthor talked to pilots about a ‘Worst Case Scenario.’ It’s terrifying
While working as a flight attendant, T.J. Newman got the idea for her first thriller after asking pilots to describe the scary thoughts that kept them awake at night. Her first book, “Falling,” which...
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A new life as a place for community at the Old Goucher mansion known as...
Over the spring and summer there’s been a collection of trucks parked outside the big old house at 100 East 23rd Street in the Old Goucher neighborhood. Some days plumbers and electricians arrived....
View ArticleIf you’re a parent, Lauren Greenfield’s new doc about teens and social media...
Yvonne Villarreal | (TNS) Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield had spent her day with a group of high school students when a startling revelation came up that...
View ArticleCan travel transform your life? This author says yes
Mexico City-based writer Daniel Saldaña París has been called “the Mexican Philip Roth” — no doubt not only for his candid and gritty renderings of life, but also for the moving insights found in his...
View ArticleWhy does time seem to speed up as we age? Here are some theories
Q. Next week, I will celebrate my 84th birthday. When did I get so old? Every time I turn around it’s Friday. Time seems to go by so quickly, the older I get. Is there a reason for this? Many thanks....
View ArticleColumn: Your favorite wine regions will feel the heat
David Fickling | Bloomberg Opinion (TNS) What’s the first industry to fall victim to climate change? There’s a decent argument that it already happened — more than 600 years ago. When the Norman...
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A southern Idaho road trip offers hot springs, quirky museums and more
Gregory Scruggs | (TNS) The Seattle Times If you’re visiting Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in its centennial year — as I was recently — or making a road trip that extends as far as...
View ArticleWine, etc.: Fall means football and new menus for wine pairing | COMMENTARY
As the warm days of summer fade and autumn emerges, we use the time to prepare for cooler months. There are patio chairs to cover, a boat to winterize, leaves to rake and a lawn to cut for perhaps the...
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Baltimore ‘shoe muralist’ Akio Evans is creating art. Celebs have taken notice.
In August, East Baltimore’s Akio Evans put the finishing touches on a one-of-a-kind pair of Nike Air Force 1 skates commissioned by CFG Bank Arena. The souped-up kicks — featuring lyrics and imagery...
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Baltimore bugler to perform at ceremony marking completion of WWI Memorial
John Schmitt is a bugle boy, though there’s no boogie woogie in his repertoire. Schmitt, of Baltimore, is a bugler for the state of Maryland who has sounded taps at some 2,000 funerals. He’s also one...
View ArticleJonBenét Ramsey TV series to feature Melissa McCarthy, Clive Owen on Paramount+
Paramount+ will produce a new streaming TV series based on the unsolved murder of Boulder, Colorado, 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey — but it won’t be filmed in Colorado. The limited series, which is being...
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