Rosenwald, Md.

A law to protect Pop-Tart guns

Michael S. Rosenwald — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:50:00 GMT

Earlier this month, a 7-year-old boy’s nibbling got him into hot water at Park Elementary School in Anne Arundel County.

The boy nibbled a “rectangular strawberry-filled bar” — let us refer to it as a Pop-Tart — into a gun.

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With food allergies rising, a Md. restaurant caters to sufferers

Jessica Wilde | Capital News Service — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:24:00 GMT

(The following story is from the Capital News Service)

Maureen Burke marks every item on her menu at One Dish Cuisine in Ellicott City with a color-coded stamp that identifies potential allergens, and her kitchen is divided into two parts, real cheese and fake cheese. She special orders the rice flour from Oregon.

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In Damascus, the booze flows

Michael S. Rosenwald — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:10:00 GMT

The Damascus booze ban is over.

How long had the ban been in place? A long time. As in Darwin long, my colleague Steve Hendrix noted last month: “Charles Darwin was still alive the last time a legal beer was sold in Damascus.”

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Maryland’s state sport is jousting, but do we need another bird?

Michael S. Rosenwald — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:55:00 GMT

In light of my colleague John Wagner’s report on an effort to give Maryland another state bird — the raven, in addition to the Baltimore oriole, given the Ravens’ recent Super Bowl win — I thought it was time for a refresher course on some of our lesser-known state symbols.

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Bowie candy shop owner is Food Network’s ‘Sweet Genius’

Leah Villanueva — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:16:05 GMT

(The following post is from the Capital News Service)

When Tamarra Thomas first opened her small artisan candy shop in Bowie two years ago, she never dreamed her passion for sweets would someday land her a spot on a Food Network reality show.

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Fortune telling is now legal in Gaithersburg

Michael S. Rosenwald — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:38:29 GMT

I live near Gaithersburg, and I’m very interested in knowing — not for gambling purposes — whether the Ravens will win the Super Bowl.

I live near Gaithersburg, and I’m very interested in knowing — not for gambling purposes — whether my wife and I will see “Zero Dark Thirty” this weekend or some other movie that features a lot of signing.

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Letter writer wonders if local sheriff will protect gun rights vs. Feds

Michael S. Rosenwald — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:21:00 GMT

All politics is local, right?

I had that thought (again) coming across a letter-to-the-editor the other day in SoMdNews.com, a group of newspapers in Southern Maryland. (I love that in the age of Facebook and Twitter, letters to the editor are still such great reads.)

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Meet a big Redskins fan with a big Super Bowl job

Michael S. Rosenwald — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:18:00 GMT

Say hello to Hunter Paulin. He’s a fourth-grader at Indian Head Elementary in Charles County. He is a huge Redskins fan. And at the Super Bowl, he will run onto the field and hand the referee the game ball before kickoff.

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Burglar who cooked chicken pot pie receives suspended sentence

Michael S. Rosenwald — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:41:00 GMT

(The facts for the following crime and sentencing summary come from this report and this report from the The Daily Times of Salisbury.)

The crime: First-degree burglary.

The suspect: Russell Neff, age 23.

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Golden Globes: A big night for the real Tony Mendez

Michael S. Rosenwald — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:53:00 GMT

This post has been updated

There he was, Tony Mendez, a spy standing next to John Goodman, the actor, in front of millions of people on international TV at Sunday night’s Golden Globes. They introduced a clip from “Argo,” the movie about Mendez’s daring rescue of diplomats in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis.

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The spy’s son has Maryland in his hands

Michael S. Rosenwald — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:27:00 GMT

The spy’s son is a lot like his father — quiet, focused, fastidious, a gifted artist.

His name is Antonio Tobias “Toby” Mendez. He works in a studio at his father and step-mother’s home along a dusty, bumpy road in Western Maryland.

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Md. radio station bans ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ following Newtown shooting

Michael S. Rosenwald — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:41:00 GMT

The song “Pumped Up Kicks” by Foster the People contains the following lyrics as its chorus:

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you better run, better run, outrun my gun. All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you better run, better run, faster than my bullet.

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Md. prisoners training puppies to become service dogs for veterans

Michael S. Rosenwald — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:51:00 GMT

I love dogs. And I love this story: Maryland inmates are training puppies to work with disabled veterans.

You can watch the Associated Press video about it above.

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Lawyer taps Google Books, finds 18th century argument against death penalty

Michael S. Rosenwald — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:43:00 GMT

It’s amazing what you can find with Google Books. For instance, an argument against the death penalty.

Lawyers for convicted murderer Jody Lee Miles scoured Google’s wayback book machine and other Internet archives, stumbling upon an Italian nobleman named Cesare Beccaria, who according to The Sun suggested in a very old book “that capital punishment should be reserved for treasonous criminals.”

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The Redskins and Ravens: Great for taxes

Michael S. Rosenwald — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:19:00 GMT

The Ravens and Redskins both have home playoff games this weekend — in Maryland. Do you want to know who is most excited about that?

You do. Really.

That would be Peter Franchot. He is Maryland’s comptroller. That means he’s in charge of Maryland tax dollars. He’s the Tax Man!

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Woman who needs oxygen tank to breathe jumps into frigid ocean for fun

Michael S. Rosenwald — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:16:00 GMT

I realize we are only two days into 2013, but the above headline, which I typed with a very broad smile on my face, is my favorite headline of 2013.

It concerns an event yesterday in which more than 600 people jumped into the frigid water by Ocean City for the annual Penguin Swim, an event covered by a very lucky reporter for DelmarvaNow.com.

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108 species spotted in annual bird count, but where are the diving ducks?

Michael S. Rosenwald — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:39:00 GMT

The annual Anne Arundel Bird Club bird count — celebrating its 59th year — produced good news and bad news this past weekend.

Let us begin with the good.

Several species that rarely tiptoe on our tree limbs were spotted.

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Nursing homes serving local, sustainable food

Michael S. Rosenwald — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:30:00 GMT

It’s hard to get anywhere around a plate of food these days without the word sustainability popping up. High-end restaurants have gone sustainable. College campuses have gone sustainable. Local fast-food places have, too.

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Speed camera nabs car stopped at light

Michael S. Rosenwald — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:32:29 GMT

The following sentence will enrage speed camera haters and possibly even speed camera admirers:

A Baltimore speed camera nabbed a Mazda for going 38 mph even though the Mazda was going 0 mph, which is to say that it was perfectly still, by which I mean IT WAS NOT EVEN MOVING.

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Marriott finally reveals the secrets to hotel room prices

Michael S. Rosenwald — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:20:00 GMT

Bethesda-based Marriott International was featured last night in a fascinating one-hour documentary on CNBC called “Hotel: Behind Closed Doors at Marriott.”

The network got behind-the-scenes access to Marriott’s operations, right down to the 200,000 slices of bacon the hotel giant uses a day.

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Watch a Ravens fan wearing a Redskins jersey pick up trash

Michael S. Rosenwald — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:29:00 GMT

Howard County Executive Ken Ulman (D) is a man of his word. He paid up.

After challenging Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D) to wear a Ravens jersey if the Ravens beat the Redskins last Sunday, Ulman agreed to wear a Redskins jersey and pick up trash when his beloved Ravens lost.

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Hair weaves allegedly stolen in Greenbelt

Michael S. Rosenwald — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:35:07 GMT

There is a market for everything, and apparently there is a market for stolen hair weaves.

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Two minutes inside Md.’s ‘Star Wars’ museum

Michael S. Rosenwald — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:16:32 GMT

Thomas G. Atkinson lives in Linthicum Heights. He is the sole proprietor of the Star Toys Museum, which is located in his house and features more than 13,000 “Star Wars” toys, action figures, plates, coasters, cups, cookie jars, knit hats, posters, games and at least one Darth Tater.

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Woman with large dental bill becomes a Twinkies kingpin

Michael S. Rosenwald — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:14:00 GMT

When Hostess announced last month that it was going belly up in bankruptcy, ceasing operations and thus turning off the Twinkies spigot, this is what Maranda Berkley saw: $$$$$$$$$$.

Berkley is 29. She lives in Middletown. She has a $2,000 dental bill to pay off, and so, according to the Frederick News-Post, Berkley bought 30 boxes of Twinkies and joined dozens, perhaps hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of $$$$$$$$$$ dreamers selling black market Twinkies on eBay.

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In Maryland, what line divides Ravens, Redskins fans?

Michael S. Rosenwald — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:09:00 GMT

It’s always so cute when politicians bet each other over sports.

My colleague Miranda Spivack reports that Howard County Executive Ken Ulman (D) has offered a challenge (watch video above) to Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D).

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