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When the Colts left town: the night that lives on in infamy

By Kevin Cowherd (The Baltimore Sun, 3/29/2012) I was there that night. It was 28 years ago, in the snowy, pre-dawn darkness of March 29, that the Mayflower vans rumbled out of Owings Mills and the Baltimore Colts left for … Continue reading

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Stickin’ It To The Man, Baltimore Style!

By Scott Carberry (Baltimore Boy, 3/29/2012) “I was tooling around my old neighborhoods of Waverly and Charles Village today and came across a recently added traffic circle thingy at the intersection of 32nd Street and Guilford Avenue. Every time I … Continue reading

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A Pearl Inside?

“A small boy peeps into a papier-mache clam for a look at what turns out to be Cindy Whitelock, who gives Governor Agnew a sample at Chesapeake Bay Soft Shell Clam Festival, Annapolis, Maryland, 1967.” Found on Ebay.com.

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Wall Street Journal Soapbox: John Waters

The enigmatic auteur on his weird childhood, the sorry style of today’s rebels and the social importance of bad taste By John Jurgensen (The Wall Street Journal, 3/29/2012) John Waters, the writer and director who emerged from the midnight movie … Continue reading

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