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Every September, Mount Vernon Place hosts authors, book vendors and exhibitors for the Baltimore Book Festival. More than 100 poets, authors and book illustrators -- such as Nikki Giovanni, Pearl Cleage and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend -- hold readings, lectures and signings at the free weekend festival. The book festival is also an opportunity for local authors to gain exposure, while readers can stumble upon literary finds at vendor tents on the green. Other festivities include cooking demonstrations, walking tours, storytellers, children's entertainment, street theater and music.
Every September, Mount Vernon Place hosts authors, book vendors and exhibitors for the Baltimore Book Festival. More than 100 poets, authors and book illustrators -- such as Nikki Giovanni, Pearl Cleage and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend -- hold readings, lectures and signings at the free weekend festival. The book festival is also an opportunity for local authors to gain exposure, while readers can stumble upon literary finds at vendor tents on the green. Other festivities include cooking demonstrations, walking tours, storytellers, children's entertainment, street theater and music.
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Job has changed, but I'll be around
The season of change is upon us. Just like its parent publication, The Baltimore Sun, UniSun is updating its appearance. And we've made some changes behind the scenes, too. With much regret, I have stepped down as editor of this publication to move on to...Tags: Mass Media
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Mystery writers converge on city for conference
If you're a mystery fan, Baltimore is the place to be this week. Beginning Thursday, the international Bouchercon conference, Charmed to Death, will bring about 1,500 mystery writers and mystery lovers here for a four-day celebration of the genre. Among...Tags: Govans, Roland Park
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Howard County Datebook
On Stage 'Blacklisted' Rep Stage, the professional theater-in-residence at Howard Community College, is starting its 16th season with Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, Christopher Trumbo's story of his father, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, and his...Tags: Mel Brooks, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Literature, Trumbo (movie), Village Green
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A tell-tale festival
Age hasn't made Walter Mosley any less adventurous.
The 56-year-old cut his teeth writing crime fiction; his historical series with detective Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins spanned 11 books and established Mosley as a best-selling author. But in the past decade,...Tags: Family, Festive Event, Sales, Fiction, Denzel Washington
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Eclectic schedule
SEPTEMBER THROUGH SEPT. 14 RV Outdoor Show, Fairgrounds THROUGH SEPT. 18 Contemporary Ceramics from Wales, Clayworks THROUGH SEPT. 18 Symbiosis: Animal and Human Form, Clayworks THROUGH OCT. 5 Tableware Show, Potters THROUGH DEC. 8 Selling the Candidates:...Tags: Academic Progress, So You Think You Can Dance, Culture, Libraries and Museums, Michael Buble
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Summer festival guide
Special to baltimoresun.comHairdos that mirror beehives, cars that drip with unfamiliar ornaments and books that came off the shelves years ago. It's time for Baltimoreans to tuck away their winter clothes and welcome the warm weather, and there's no better way to celebrate the...Tags: Equestrian, Chuck Berry, Dance, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Wilco
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Mount Vernon
Special to baltimoresun.comOne of Baltimore's greatest havens for fine art, music, architecture, history and all other aesthetic delights is Mount Vernon. Just north of downtown, the neighborhood is a thriving cultural center and an intrinsic element making up Baltimore's diverse...Tags: Architecture, Illnesses, Gays and Lesbians, Academic Progress, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Lady of the stories
Sun reporterIn the chronicles of Baltimore can be found a wise woman who has studied all the best masters in history and archaeology and the arts, and whose cleverness at telling stories is unparalleled throughout the realm. Her name is Laura Amy Schlitz and not, as...Tags: Heinrich Schliemann, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Book
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Book Festival grows but keeps the personal touch
Sun StaffLocal and nationally known literary figures will take center stage again this year at the annual Baltimore Book Festival. Beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday (since Friday's events were canceled due to the threat of Hurricane Isabel), a number of poets,...Tags: Festive Event, Film Festivals, Popular Music, Barry Levinson, Mount Vernon Place
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Tutoring makes the difference
WHEN MONTEARA Johnson heard she was going to a "tutoring place" for dyslexics, her heart sank. She was 10 years old, had a history of academic failure, had repeated the fourth grade. Monteara had never heard of dyslexia, the reading disorder. When her...Tags: Family, Personal Income, Labor Markets
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