Bingomania, the Eastern Shore’s largest bingo cash prize event, returns to the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center on Saturday, April 16. Doors open at 5 p.m.for early bird games and regular games begin at 7:30 p.m. Admission to Bingomania includes all regular and special games, including the Jumbo Jackpot Game. Regular game payouts are $500 while [...]
I'm not a city boy by any means. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool suburbanite. My folks were city born and raised and, beyond the occasional hike in the woods, there wasn't a lot of contact with animals that weren't dogs or cats. I mean, I went to petting zoos, sure. In fact, we had working farms not [...]
When I first moved to the Delmarva Peninsula, muskrat was much more a local thing than it has become. Served in church halls or on specialty nights in very specific restaurants, it wasn’t passed off as a delicacy so much as a wall between the Eastern Shoreman and the come-heres. For nearly two decades I [...]
Over six feet tall and a trim 170 pounds, Mark Belanger had the fearless, Mediterranean good looks of a matador and played shortstop for a baseball dynasty of yore known as Earl Weaver’s Baltimore Orioles. With a .977 fielding average and eight gold gloves over 18 seasons – all but one of them for the [...]
In “The Beans of Egypt, Maine” - Carolyn Chute’s classic narrative of rural poverty – chickens abound. “... the layin’ hens and green-tailed gamecock feed on the fish guts Beal [Bean] slings into the grass ...” Wittman hens The Sunderland fowl of Wittman on Harris Creek just south of St. Michaels do not [...]
“Baltimore isn’t just more fun than D.C., it’s way out there with quirks and weirdness …” -Mourna Handful, burlesque artist Mourna Handful / photo credit: Sean Scheidt “The Block” – a half-mile of go-go joints and gin mills on East Baltimore Street that once attracted sailors, grifters, strippers and drifters from around the [...]
Taylor Branch Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of the Rev. Martin Luther King and the American Civil Rights movement; recently told a bookstore audience that “the Sixties and the Civil Rights movement captured my interest against my will …” Branch, 67, was speaking to an audience at the Ivy Book Shop [...]
HAMPDEN GALLERY HOLDING READINGS THROUGH MARCH 1, OWNER TO DEVOTE HIMSELF TO OILS & CANVAS Minas Konsolas, artist, gallery owner More than two decades of original art, used blue jeans and all the wisdom you can handle from the philosopher behind the counter will come to an end early this spring when Minas Konsolas [...]
4165 Mears Avenue Chesapeake Beach, Maryland 20735 Phone: 866-312-5596 The Chesapeake Beach Hotel and Spa offers the perfect escape for your weekend getaway or vacation! Whether you prefer romantic walks on a moonlit beach, a day being pampered at the spa or deep sea charter boat fishing the Chesapeake Beach Resort and Spa is the [...]
Exit 50 off Interstate 68, Cumberland, MD 16701 Lakeview Road, Flintstone, MD 21530 Phone: 301-784-8400 The Rocky Gap Casino and Resort Cumberland, Maryland offers dining, hotel, casino gaming, golfing and outdoor activities. Specials and packages are offered year round. Whether you like to golf and be outdoors or you want to relax and be pampered at the [...]