Elizabeth Bastos

March 11, 2013

They say everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. At least they try, as we’ll see this Sunday.

Some folks try all year round, as you'll hear in this story from Owings Mills writer Elizabeth Bastos.

Owings Mills writer Elizabeth Bastos has a Christmas story about beauty, ugliness, and truffles.

It was 50 years ago that Rachel Carson published Silent Spring--the book that kickstarted the modern environmental movement. She based some of her book on work done at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel. Three retired scientists there tell us about Carson and the eventual ban of DDT.

This essay originally aired December 20, 2011.

Owings Mills-based writer Elizabeth Bastos brings us a lesson in how to make Christmas gifts that are beautiful because they are ugly. (It’s a French thing.)

Everything from wish lists to adventurous egg nog recipes.

Baltimore has issued a second request for proposals to private organizations to operate city-run rec centers. Meanwhile, the Board of Estimates votes tomorrow about the fate of four rec centers that have already received bids. We talk with Bill Tyler, Chief of Recreation for Baltimore’s Parks Department, about the plan behind privatization.

Owings Mills writer Elizabeth Bastos has a Christmas story about beauty, ugliness, and truffles.