Friday, May 4, 2012
"Panorama" will feature steel drum bands from seven Baltimore County Public Schools.
Dundalk area students will participate in a steel drum band extravaganza Friday night when Parkville High School hosts the 11th annual Panorama. Bands from Gen. John Stricker Middle and Sparrows Point High schools will join the steel drum groups from Stoneleigh Elementary, Hereford Middle and Catonsville, Parkville and Perry Hall High schools in a free concert at Parkville High on Friday night. "Panorama is an awesome concert that showcases many of the steel bands in the county," Stricker band director Jason Adams told Dundalk Patch. Adams and Catonsville High band director Jim Wharton started the concert in 2001, and students look forward to the annual event, Adams said. "My students love the opportunity to showcase their music and …
Thursday, May 3, 2012
The new musical is based on the music of Elvis Presley, but is not a biographical revue.
Dundalk Community Theatre, in residence at The Community College of Baltimore County, Dundalk campus, will present "All Shook Up" this weekend and next. The new musical, set in the 1950s and based on the music of Elvis Presley, will be held in the John E. Ravekes Theater May 5-6 and 11-13. While the show is based on Presley's music, it is not a biographical revue, according to theater officials. The show is set in 1955, "somewhere in middle America, where one girl's dream and a surprise visit from a mysterious leather-jacketed, guitar-playing stranger help a small town to discover the magic of romance and the power of rock and roll," according to a statement from the theater. Director Robert Oppel & choreographer Vincent Musgrave’s …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The Baltimore County State's Attorney announced the winners of his office's 2012 Anti-Drug Contest at a Thursday afternoon ceremony.
A Thursday afternoon ceremony at Towson's historic courthouse was all about turning a negative into a positive. The Baltimore County State's Attorney's office recognized area middle school students who participated in an anti-drug/alcohol art contest. Winners, including Dundalk Middle School eighth-graders Taylor Smith-Clark and Evalyn Waller and Sparrows Point Middle School eighth-grader Hailee Smith, received checks in varying amounts to be used for "educational purposes." And the best part of the event? The entire contest was paid for with assets seized by police from drug dealers. "When you get your check today, you should remember: this is the only good thing a drug dealer will ever do for you," said Baltimore County State's Attorney…
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Jessika Heiser, known as Jessie Kaye in MCW, is pursuing an education at Towson University while also working to achieve her dream of becoming a pro wrestler.
Jessika Heiser gets beat up by guys on a weekly basis and she wouldn’t have it any other way. The 20-year-old Heiser proudly shows off the bruises and cuts that often cover a good portion of her body. Those injuries came following a recent session of training to become a professional wrestler. Heiser is less than two years removed from pursuing her dream. She currently is a regular fixture with Maryland Championship Wrestling. There, she is the evil Jessie Kaye, where her job is to incite the crowd while leading her man MCW veteran Ronnie Zukko to the ring. She also plays the part of MCW’s co-Commissioner as part of "Team McDevitt," a group of "heels" or bad guys led by MCW owner and Middle River resident Dan McDevitt. "I’ve been really …
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts hosted a countywide student art show.
The lobby outside of the auditorium at Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts was the site of a countywide student art show.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The story behind Dominic DeLauney's special birthday/Valentine's Day surprise starts at Smyth Jewelers in Timonium.
Dominic DeLauney didn’t intend to ruin the romance curve for lovers a week before Valentine’s Day. But his homemade music video marriage proposal currently sweeping the social media stratosphere has set the bar impossibly high. “I wanted to do something creative and the thing I know best is music,” said the professional audio engineer at Johns Hopkins University. “I’m not a singer and I’m not an all-around musician, but I thought it would be cool if I could write her a song and it went from there. It turned out to be me playing all the instruments. Then it turned into, ‘I guess I’ll sing it.’ Then, yeah sure, let’s do a music video. The whole process was a crazy idea that turned into a really cool video.” DeLauney, 26, spent two and a half…
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Senior Katie Dickson and junior Collette Simkins earned Best Actor awards for their performances.
Earlier this month, 23 Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts theater students competed in the Maryland State Thespian Festival held in Frederick. The group's performance of “Cagebirds” took home honors for Best Overall Performance as well as Best Ensemble, Best Physicalization, Best Costumes, Best Pacing and Transitions. Senior Katie Dickson and junior Collette Simkins earned Best Actor awards for their performances. “I was very honored when I heard the emcee call my name for Best Actor,” said Simkins. “The fact that 11 other directors thought I was a good actor was very humbling.” Simkins also earned an excellent rating for her monologue performance and junior Chris Weaver and senior Hannah Bartlett earned a superior rating for …
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Friends and colleagues attended a public memorial for Ron Smith, the longtime WBAL radio talk show host who died in December.
WBAL Radio has video and audio from the service. Before he died, Ron Smith told friends not to pity him, mourn him or cry for him while he was alive or after he was gone. There was plenty of mourning, and a little crying, but also laughter and joy at a public memorial service for Smith, the popular former WBAL radio talk show host, in Kraushaar Auditorium on the campus of Goucher College in Towson on Tuesday. Onstage, several yards from the Ravens purple-draped lectern, were a folded American flag and a WBAL microphone, upon which shone a lone spotlight. Smith died Dec. 19 at age 70, following a brief but public battle with pancreatic cancer. Hundreds of friends, colleagues and dignitaries turned out for the ceremony, including U.S. …
Friday, December 16, 2011
The Southeast Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Highlandtown will host several writers from Baltimore.
". . . the lot even paved like a desert, the door to the dining room a back door, the front door lost in the lights . . ." —Afaa Weaver on his beloved Crabtown A sleigh full of poetry, prose and music will land at the Frank Zappa statue in East Baltimore this Saturday when Rafael Alvarez, the literary pied piper of Highlandtown, host an afternoon of holiday entertainment at the Southeast Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Alvarez, author of the Christmas tale "Aunt Lola"—heard each year at this time on WYPR, 88.1 FM—will serve as master of ceremonies for the event, which begins at 2 p.m. A variety of pies …
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Annual winter wonderland fundraiser for Kennedy Krieger Institute takes place Thursday to Sunday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds.
Santa and his sleigh are making an early pitstop in Timonium Thursday for the 22nd annual Kennedy Krieger Institute Festival Of Trees. The annual fundraiser welcomes families to enjoy rows of creatively decorated Christmas tress, a playland for children, live entertainment every hour on the hour and much more. All money raised goes toward the Kennedy Krieger Institute. "We're looking forward to all the families coming out with their happy smiling faces," said Lainey Lebow-Sachs, executive vice president for Kennedy Krieger. "For me the best part is walking around watching the kids and parents and having such a good time—taking their holiday, Christmas card pictures in front of the gingerbreads or the trees." The Festival Of Trees broke …
Cathy S.
3:03 pm on Saturday, May 5, 2012
um - can someone please inform them that the Panorama and the steel pan originated in TRINIDAD - not Jamaica. Thanks - more ›