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Columns - Rafael Alvarez
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.
Highlandtown hot dogs — from the heart
- People Andy Farantos hardly knows come into G&A Coney Island Hot Dogs on Eastern Avenue and tell him things he loves to hear.
Rotary’s commitment to peace
- Ain’t gonna study war no more ...” – Down By the Riverside
Centennial quilt patches together Linthicum’s suburban history
- Back when I was a kid reporter on Calvert Street, about the time the Ramones released “Road to Ruin,” I wrote an essay damning the place where I grew up: Linthicum, Exit 6B off of the Beltway.
Once lost, an old sailor has found his bearings
- It wasn't losing the career that defined him — a life at sea, one he was good at and had enjoyed for three decades — that got Mark Wain's attention.
Hope springs eternal, except in Birdland
- It's going to be a tough year at Camden Yards.
- It's going to be a tough year at Camden Yards.
Fan keeps museum dream alive
- When Jeff Gordon had an 800-pound, half-inch steel door supported by an angle-iron jamb installed in the Johnny Eck house on North Milton Avenue, one of the locals walked by.
- When Jeff Gordon had an 800-pound, half-inch steel door supported by an angle-iron jamb installed in the Johnny Eck house on North Milton Avenue, one of the locals walked by.
Good ideas to put a spring in our step
- Where are the good ideas in this town?
- Where are the good ideas in this town?
Old neighborhood exchange lives on
- This is the story of my grandparents’ telephone number — Eastern 7-5254 — the only one they ever had; the one assigned to them by the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. before numbers replaced neighborhood exchanges. Long before you had to use an area code to make a local call.
- This is the story of my grandparents’ telephone number — Eastern 7-5254 — the only one they ever had; the one assigned to them by the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. before numbers replaced neighborhood exchanges. Long before you had to use an area code to make a local call.
