Highlights
If you want to feel the enormity of a film on a gigantic screen or be transported back to Hollywood's golden age, catch a movie at Baltimore's treasured Senator Theatre. The 900-seat, single-screen theater plays 1940s jazz tunes before screenings of first-run and classic movies. The 1939 art deco movie house is an architectural gem with a two-story lobby adorned with murals and black and white photographs. A "walk of fame" on 70 sidewalk blocks in front of the theater has celebrity signatures, including Charles Dutton and Barry Levinson, and logos from movies such as "Liberty Heights," "Hairspray" and "Gone With The Wind." It is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Senator has be...
If you want to feel the enormity of a film on a gigantic screen or be transported back to Hollywood's golden age, catch a movie at Baltimore's treasured Senator Theatre. The 900-seat, single-screen theater plays 1940s jazz tunes before screenings of first-run and classic movies. The 1939 art deco movie house is an architectural gem with a two-story lobby adorned with murals and black and white photographs. A "walk of fame" on 70 sidewalk blocks in front of the theater has celebrity signatures, including Charles Dutton and Barry Levinson, and logos from movies such as "Liberty Heights," "Hairspray" and "Gone With The Wind." It is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Senator has been the site of local and national film premieres such as "Seabiscuit," John Waters' "Hairspray," "Diner" and "Primal Fear." Despite the local history, the theater is struggling to survive amid competition from larger multiplexes, financial troubles and limitations on screenings. It has escaped foreclosure several times. In 2001, the theater was part of a History Channel documentary about the preservation of historic sites. Waters and Tom Clancy shared their memories of the movie house. It was cited by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as a prime example of the endangered "historic theaters of America." Tom Kiefaber, whose family opened the Senator, owns the theater on York Road across from Belvedere Square. Kiefaber also owns the Rotunda Cinematheque, a movie theater on 40th Street.
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Exploding food
Dining@LargeI was going to do a post on popcorn this week. I just hadn't gotten around to it. Sunday night I popped my own popcorn for the first time in, I don't know, years. My recipe is simple: You take......Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Dining and Drinking, Electrical Appliance, Popcorn, Getty Images Incorporated
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A place for stealth fans of 'tween romance
Twilight might well become a blockbuster, but it's unlikely to be a hit at the Senator Theatre unless lots of grown-ups are closet Stephanie Meyer fans. The movie about a high school girl who falls for a vampire has obvious teen and 'tween appeal. The...Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., John Powell, Regional Authority, Twilight, Government
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With a little work, she can look real bad
Molly Shattuck left the hubby, kids and credit cards in Roland Park to spend a week waiting tables and ringing up groceries in a poor Pennsylvania coal mining town. For the new reality TV show Secret Millionaire, the wife of Constellation Energy Group CEO...Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Constellation Energy Group, Restaurant and Catering Industry, John Waters
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Killing ignites turmoil
Six weeks after former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr. was gunned down outside a Northeast Baltimore nightclub, his family and supporters are growing impatient with the pace of the investigation. But they are taking divergent paths in their quest...Tags: Murder, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Law Enforcement, Court Administration, Prosecution
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Baltimore bewitched
Tomorrow night after the kiddies trot home with their bulging candy bags, it's playtime for us adults.
Not only is it Halloween - it's Friday night. That means double the tricks and treats for the taking - from Halloween-themed concerts to costume...Tags: Boris Karloff, Broadway, Halloween, Public Holidays, Bram Stoker
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And it's youth, camera, action
They pressed to the curb as two limos pulled up - ladies in pearls, kids waving autograph books, paparazzi holding cameras in the air.
"Here they come!" yelled a voice as a door flew open. "That's my granddaughter!" cried another. And the crowd, 200...Tags: Financial Aid, Colleges and Universities, Towson University, John Waters, Celebrity
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Crime-fighting in city hobbled by failure to communicate
Concerns raised recently about crime statistics in North Baltimore demonstrate serious deficits in one of the city's major crime-fighting tools: communication. It is easier to track your neighborhood pothole than local break-ins, suspicious persons or...Tags: Belvedere Square
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The rich and layered 'Godfather II' raised the bar on movie sequels
Sun Movie CriticTo explain what he loves about The Godfather: Part II, which plays every day at the Senator for a week (between screenings of The Godfather), the man who restored the entire Godfather trilogy, Robert A. Harris, uses an analogy from a more frivolous pop...Tags: Washington Post Company, Ellis Island, Newspapers, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, New York Times
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'The Godfather': The movie you can't refuse
For anyone in America's fabled "movie generation" - men and women who were in college or just out of it when The Godfather came out in 1972 - Francis Ford Coppola's Mafia epic had the impact that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band had in music or The...Tags: Paramount, Diane Keaton, Juvenile Delinquency, The White House, Marlon Brando
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City life with a country feel
Special to The Baltimore SunNamed for two of its bordering streets, Lake Walker is a tight-knit neighborhood with all the convenience city life offers. "It's also very quiet," said Janet Abramovitz, president of the Lake Walker Community Association and a resident of the...Tags: Belvedere Square, Sales, Govans, Homes, Academic Progress
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200 years, loads of books
As a pianist played "200 Candles," a roomful of Enoch Pratt Free Library fans toasted the bicentennial of the benefactor who gave away his millions, as he put it, "for all, rich and poor, without distinction of race or color." Known best today as the man...Tags: Mount Vernon, Duff Goldman, Govans, Libraries and Museums, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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City detective, Balto. Co. deputy charged in attack
A Baltimore City homicide detective and a Baltimore County sheriff's deputy have been charged with assault after a man was beaten until he was unconscious last September outside of a Govans barbershop while they were off duty. Prosecutors charged Terry...Tags: Prisons, Law Enforcement, Govans, Court Administration, Trials
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