Arsenic in books? Exhibit shows that some pages can kill
A Walters Art Museum exhibit looks at deadly minerals used to make illuminated books.
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Hopkins researchers launch writing contest to learn about how the brain processes stories
A Johns Hopkins University research team is asking for the public's help in mapping the specific areas of the brain that kick into high gear when we read a novel...
Willow Smith, daughter of Jada and Will, becomes third author in her family
Willow Smith is the third member of her family to write a book. But instead of exploring her own psyche in a memoir, she penned a novel of historical fiction...
Updated ‘Peter Pan’ without Native American stereotypes launches national tour
Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse's revision of "Pete Pan" attempts to keep what is magical about the much-loved 1954 musical while stripping it of harmful racial stereotypes.
Maryland university president offers inauguration poet Amanda Gorman a job
Morgan State University President David Wilson on Wednesday made inaugural poet Amanda Gorman an offer that he hopes she can't refuse — a job at the prestigious historically Black educational...
6 beds, 9 baths, 1 exiled president: Lawsuit seeks forfeiture of Maryland mansion owned by Gambian dictator
The U.S. government is attempting to seize the Montgomery County estate of Yahya Jammeh, the exiled former president of The Gambia who has been accused of murders, rapes, tortures and...
Tori Amos to deliver Peabody Conservatory commencement in May
Talk about being a native invader. The singer-songwriter Tori Amos, who studied piano at the Peabody Preparatory Institute as a child, will deliver the Peabody Conservatory’s commencement address in late...
Who has custody of Jack Ryan? Legal battle heats up over late Baltimore author Tom Clancy’s characters.
Court documents unsealed last week reveal just how high the stakes have risen in a literary custody battle over the late novelist Tom Clancy’s most famous offspring — his characters....
As Baltimore’s arabbers become a thing of the past, a photographer aims to preserve the tradition
The senior citizens took one look at Roland Freeman's photographs on the museum wall of arabbers selling fruit from their horse-drawn wagons and spontaneously began to chant from memory the...
Ed Asner tackles topic of holocaust deniers in Baltimore performance
What retirement? Ed Asner, who originated the character of Lou Grant in the beloved 1970s-era newspaper drama bearing his name and before that, in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” —...