Eyes on the Street

Sun Taps Local Mary Corey for Top Editorial Position

Evan Serpick — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:56:03 +0000

Mary Corey, a Baltimore native and 23-year veteran of The Baltimore Sun who got her start as an intern at the paper, has been named senior vice president and director of content, The Sun’s top editorial position. Corey becomes the first woman to lead The Sun newsroom in its 173-year history, replacing Montgomery Cook, who left [...]

Crab Derby Upset!

Evan Serpick — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:46:56 +0000

As part of the pre-Preakness festivities, the 20th annual “Crab Derby” was held at Lexington Market today. Local celebs like 92-Q’s Konan, 98 Rock’s Stash, and WMAR’s Kelly Swoope each competed in the races, trying to coax a snappy blue crab—fresh from the Faidley’s stand nearby—across the finish line. WJZ’s Stan Saunders (left) was one of [...]

Solar and Wind Expo This Weekend

Evan Serpick — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:32:31 +0000

By Amy Mulvihill John F. Kennedy once said, “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” I don’t think anyone would argue with the logic of this. Who wants to be perched on a roof during a driving rainstorm, furiously trying to minimize damage that could have been wholly prevented had we [...]

Utz: You’re Dead to Utz

Evan Serpick — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:33:20 +0000

The connection between Utz potato chips and Baltimore is legend. Yes, as many a would-be smarty parts will tell you, they’re manufactured over the border in Hanover, PA, but Baltimore was the first major market to embrace the Utz brand, founded by Will and Salie Utz in 1921. As Wikipedia tells us, “After Salie cooked [...]

O’Malley Launches Campaign in Fells Point

Evan Serpick — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:19:30 +0000

Governor Martin O’Malley launched his re-election campaign just before noon today at the Bond Street Wharf. Before the event began, I ran into City Councilman Bill Henry—always up for a chat—who joked that he was looking up at the Wharf building’s windows for one or two lanterns, to see if the Governor would be [...]

Harbor East Monument a Focal Point of Polish-American Grief

Evan Serpick — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:20:14 +0000

By Jeanne-Michele Vigna The National Katyn Memorial in Baltimore’s Harbor East has become an impromptu meeting spot for mourners of President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, who died in a plane crash along with 95 others, including several cabinet ministers and legislators, in a devastating plane crash early Saturday morning. Mere hours after the crash—which occurred shockingly close [...]

Monty Cook Out at The Sun

Evan Serpick — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:26:30 +0000

The Baltimore Sun has announced that top editor Monty Cook will resign from his position to accept a job at the University of North Carolina, his alma mater. Cook will step down in April after a stormy 15-month tenure during which he oversaw 61 layoffs at the paper, as reported in our September, 2009 cover story. [photo [...]

‘Po Editing

Evan Serpick — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:03:42 +0000

A couple months ago, we gave Baltimore Sun editors a lot of grief over a pretty atrocious front-page error. This morning, we noticed an equally egregious error in The New York Times (left). Granted it wasn’t on the front page, but the Times‘ error is even more laughable. Is “Po Basketball” what poor people play [...]

Cardinal Gibbons to Close

Evan Serpick — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:56:07 +0000

The Cardinal Gibbons School—one of Baltimore’s oldest and most storied Catholic high schools—announced about an hour ago via its Facebook page that it will close its doors at the end of the current academic year. The move comes as the Archdiocese of Baltimore rolls out its plan to consolidate the city’s Catholic schools progams, which [...]

Maryland Senate Delegation Second Most Liberal in the Nation

Evan Serpick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:40:12 +0000

According to political magazine National Journal, Maryland’s U.S. senators are among the most liberal in the nation. Sen. Ben Cardin tied with four other senators for the number-one slot, while Sen. Barbara Mikulski landed at number eight. Only Rhode Island—which had both of its senators tied with Cardin in the number-one slot—had a more liberal [...]