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Rafael Alvarez
Long live The King
- Twenty years ago, the Weekly World News reported that Elvis Presley, allegedly deceased for more than a decade, was, in fact, alive.
Travels with Oscar
- Susan Walker spent seven weeks driving from Hollywood, Calif., to New London, N.H., over the summer of 2005 with a rescued West Highland Terrier named Oscar riding shotgun in her 1999 Toyota Camry.
Playing a Gotham game of ‘Give & Take’
- The road to New York City, where I was introduced to a new board game in Union Square and bumped into the great Ray Davies at an Italian restaurant, began over drinks with Chief Low Dog — warrior poet of the Monrovia Tribe — at Howard's Subway Inn in Linthicum.
Host to ghosts
- Poltergeist pork chops with a side of spooky succotash isn’t on the menu at Riptide By The Bay, the new Fells Point restaurant and crab house in the old Seaman’s Café at 1718 Thames St.
- Poltergeist pork chops with a side of spooky succotash isn’t on the menu at Riptide By The Bay, the new Fells Point restaurant and crab house in the old Seaman’s Café at 1718 Thames St.
Reliving McMurtry’s 10,000-mile odyssey
- Larry McMurtry has written 39 books. “Lonesome Dove” — winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize — is the best-known because of the television series based on the epic novel of the West.
Three-year trek around South American brings personal discovery
- There are tourists, there are travelers, and then there are adventurers.
Summer in Baltimore means another round of the ever-popular and ever-quirky Artscape
- If it's the hottest weekend of the summer in Baltimore — so doggone hot that the chickens are standing in line to be plucked — it must be time for Artscape.
- If it's the hottest weekend of the summer in Baltimore — so doggone hot that the chickens are standing in line to be plucked — it must be time for Artscape.
Enduring this bus trip was worth the money
- When is the last time you rode the bus?
Memories, not fireworks, are the Fourth’s magic
- On Independence Day, the road before me — whether I’m cruising Hennepin in Minneapolis or Highway 61 in Leland, Mississippi — turns to memory lane. I hear my mother singing “Bye, Bye Blackbird” by the light of the dashboard and see the faces of dead friends and relatives shimmering in the haze above the summertime asphalt.
Zen and the art of the road trip
- I am in the land of 10,000 lakes where Robert Pirsig launched a 2,100 mile motorcycle trip in 1968 with his 11-year-old son; a 17-day journey through the western United States that became the book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.”
Get hip to this kindly tip on Route 66
- A standard line of the road: “I feel good, I can take it all the way ...”
There’s still perfect harmony in the air
- Landing in Los Angeles after a splendid Memorial Day weekend in Crabtown — where my folks slaughtered the fatted lamb for the wanderer’s visit, roasting it with red potatoes, rosemary and thyme — I lit out for a town I learned about in the first grade via rock and roll.
- Landing in Los Angeles after a splendid Memorial Day weekend in Crabtown — where my folks slaughtered the fatted lamb for the wanderer’s visit, roasting it with red potatoes, rosemary and thyme — I lit out for a town I learned about in the first grade via rock and roll.
Rafael Alvarez: Meyerhoff, Zappa would be perfectly in tune
- There is only one place in Baltimore for the bust of native son Frank Zappa when the heartfelt gift arrives from Lithuania: the grounds of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
