THE RETURN OF SUN RA
Ra Pattersoj
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HE SAW IT ALL GROWING UP
CHILDREN OF THE CARIBBEAN NATION IN BALTIMORE VISIT CITY HALL The area is known as lower Park Heights, in the vicinity of PIMLICO racetrack, home of the PREAKNESS. He was only 3, but he remembers the parade passing through his neighborhood. He watched with excitement, the flotilla of trucks filled with people in various colorful
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My visit TO Artscape 2025 2025 2025
It is the largest FREE outdoor exhibition held on the East Coast of the United States; AND IT IS HERE IN Baltimore. For years it was held a stone’s throw from MICA, the arts college totally devoted to nurturing spherical minds, and their beheld realities. Mount Royal was the venue. This year, City Hall and
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AN OUTDOOR ART GARDEN
It is not quite what Adam saw when he awoke in the GARDEN of EDEN. However, this year students of the VISUAL ARTS Department at the University of Maryland thought of decorating their entranceway with pieces of their pride collections. Here are a few that I chose:
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GIVING BIRTH AT 55
Artist VALERIE SMITH, and Friends Being pregnant at age 55 is dauting. In this age group the statistics abound with miscarriages, gestational diabetes, preeclampsia; not to mention down syndrome. Many try, for “LOVE IS A SPLENDORED THING”; and
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A CIRCUS WITHOUT ANIMALS
A mechanical dog The granddaddy of them all, RINGLING BARNUM and BAILEY, bowed to the pressure in 2017 to the bellringing of animal welfare organizations, to stop the cruelty to animals. Claims that animals travel for months in cramped trailers, and do not get enough exercise. Some animal welfarists, scream at owners who feed their
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I PUT A SPELL ON YOU
When this song was released with Annie Lennox, the soft rock singer, no one thought it would rise to be embraced by millions. Where though, did this “putting a spell” on someone come from? I chuckle as I write this, because spells are associated with evil. It is what the Devil did to Eve. As
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TWO GENERATIONS OF GENIUSES SIDE BY SIDE.
SIDE BY SIDE: The Maryland Symphony Orchestra, and the Youth Symphony, 2025 What are the instincts of parents for their young ones? The overall view for all mammals is security. For the homo sapiens it’s that, plus a loving environment, to prosper and ameliorate the world’s landscape. Children jump from teenagers to young adults, showing
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Line Dancing, African American Style
Isiah Lewis exemplifies what’s new and enduring in dance among black youth in Baltimore Md. today.
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THE SPHINX CLUB of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
THE CAST of UP and DOWN THE AVENUE It was a club, with architectural drawings similar to the COTTON CLUB in New York, of the 1950″s. By that I mean “anybody who was somebody” touched down at this club on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Baltimore Maryland. UP AND DOWN THE AVENUE, IS A PLAY NOW RUNNING
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