baltimoresun.com - Entertainment

Rocker Springsteen rattles the arena

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

First time in Baltimore in more than 35 years

It's been more than 35 years since Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played in Baltimore, but Friday night's show at the 1st Mariner Arena was well worth the wait.

Winfrey's decision lifts Discovery Channel into a new league

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Moving to cable, the daytime diva lifts the Maryland-based Discovery Channel into a new league

T he news that "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is going to end after 25 years so that its host can devote herself to a new cable channel set off reverberations in TV and financial circles late last week. But nowhere was the effect felt more keenly than in Silver Spring, where the Maryland-based Discovery Communications was vaulted into a new realm of prominence and prestige as the future home of The Oprah Winfrey Network.

Where 'Road' takes them

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

During challenging filming, two forge strong bond that continues off-screen

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee have eaten bugs together. They've shivered through frigid winter air, fought off desperately hungry cannibals and walked side by side on the empty and dusty roads of some future, dystopian America.

Columbia-based rapper leaves imprint on 'The Blind Side'

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Michael Oher may be the focus of the new biopic "The Blind Side." But the Baltimore Raven isn't the film's only local connection.

Correction

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Friday's editorial "A public investment" misstated the annual budget of the Department of Business and Economic Development. It is approximately $97 million for the current fiscal year. The Sun regrets the error.

The songs stuck in our heads

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Biology and evolution help explain why we can't rid ourselves of things like ABBA's music

"Mamma mia, here I go again / My my, how can I resist you?"

Maryland Film Festival fundraiser

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Waters, Levinson, Simon guests of honor

T he party had all the makings of a Hollywood A-list affair: a red carpet with reporters and photographers corralled behind velvet ropes, famous directors and lots of local glitterati. However, this event was in Baltimore. And all about Baltimore.

Little Italy flavor in Hampden

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Grano's homey pasta dishes still shine in new location

If you like Italian restaurants where you feel as if you're eating in someone's home, you're going to love Grano.

Glimpsed at Belvedere Square: Alisha Pitarra

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

I nterior designer Alisha Pitarra's design sense goes beyond her job at The House Downtown, a home furnishings store in Belvedere Square. The 29-year-old Perry Hall resident loves to decorate herself, as well. "I love to get a little glamorous; mix and match trends with vintage." Pitarra credits her husband, Greg Pitarra, owner of Bruno's Hair Design, with tending to her locks. But she knows how to tend to her frocks, like the cute black number she wore to a My Place Project fundraiser at the store.

An appreciation: Writing for Sister Maura was hard work

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Many arguments later, a former student sees that she and her teacher were on the same side

By the time I entered the College of Notre Dame in the early 1960s, Sister Maura Eichner was already well known. Author of several books of poetry, she was friends with important literary figures like Flannery O'Connor, Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur - connections that were unusual for a woman teacher in the '60s - to say nothing of a nun garbed in a long black habit and veil.