Columns

Art is about symbols. One of the crudest is a good way to explain why it’s proving so hard to fill Westgate Circle in Annapolis.

A day of photo ops and smiles can't conceal some of the department's uncertainty with a new basketball coach that has a few question marks.

Paula Poundstone, coming Thursday to the Senator Theatre, talks giving yourself the permission to just be funny, and that thing that happened with that bird that time near the Inner Harbor.

Buzz Williams is a solid hire. And that’s what makes it so uninspiring.

Wrapped in a deal over football and fighter jets, or the end of 104 years of aviation history in Marland, is Donald Trump and his 2020 use of the National Guard as a presidential force to quell public dissent.

This is still a really good team, and they’re going to win more games than they’ll lose even before the reinforcements arrive.

With singles and a cadre of relievers, the Orioles show how they can keep winning early this season without some of their biggest names available to play.

Local photographer Micah E. Wood and designer Christopher Chester present "Scene Seen," a visual love letter to the Baltimore music scene over the past decade.

Kevin Willard said he was fighting for his program. But that was never the whole truth.

Elon Musk is not an idiot. "Look it up," Andy Harris said. "in the dictionary." I learned a lot from the Eastern Shore congressman's tele-town hall. Some of it was even true.

This magical season might not give Maryland much to build on, but it will have lasting impact.

When Charles Robert Smith returns to an Annapolis courtroom in September, prosecutor Anne Colt Leitess should be absent, not Judge Michael Wachs. There should be consequences when a prosecutor stumbles.

It feels worthless to write off this entire season as prologue and declare that all we’ll really be measuring the Orioles on is whether they fare better in the playoffs than they have the last two years.

Julian Reese's mom, Angel, once thought he should leave Maryland. But the senior's success with the Terps has alleviated her concerns and given her a chance to celebrate her more reserved child.

The Defense Department is purging online references to Black, female and other veterans in the name of eliminating DEI. We still have to tell those vets’ stories.

Brooks DuBose thought he had found a cheap shirt to support his alma mater. He ended up with an experience he won’t soon forget.

They are some combination of overlooked and undervalued, but they’re reliable and now experienced contributors to a team that has perennial playoff aspirations.

It’s 1:29 a.m. on March 26, 2025. An airliner collides with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a year after the container ship Dali knocked down the Key Bridge. What happens next in this imaginary disaster might be far different from the response to the real catastrophe. The reason? The occupant of the White House.

Some people have reported gaining weight since the presidential election because of stress eating. But they are finding new ways to refocus their energy.

My grandfather Tennyson Carter spent his entire life in West Baltimore. We never met, but maybe his spirit is in me.