Maryland Morning

How Do You Watch a 24-Hour Play?

March 13, 2013

Baltimore experimental theater company The ACME Corporation will help you find out when they stage Samuel Beckett's play…Play, and take seriously his direction at the "end" of that play: "Repeat Play." Tom Hall talks to director Stephen Nunns.



John McIntyre's Rules to Write (and Edit) By

March 20, 2013

In these web exclusives, John McIntyre edits The Lord's Prayer, explains the relevance of the country aphorism "you're looking up a dead hog's ass" for both writers and non-writers, and much much more.



I'm Irish

We're still giddy over this gift: Elizabeth Bastos found this four-leaf clover and gave it to Maryland Morning.

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.



Why Some Maryland Seniors Face Food Insecurity

Credit: gaspi *yg / Flickr / Creative Commons

March 08, 2013

In the last year, have you worried about whether the food in your home would run out before you had money to buy more? Have you cut the size of a meal or skipped meals because there wasn’t enough money for food? Have you lost weight because you didn’t have enough money for food?



3-6-13: The Family Legacy of Henrietta Lacks, & Big Images of Tiny Snowflakes

Henrietta Lacks' story became well-known after the book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" was published in 2010. The book, written by Rebecca Skloot, featured several members of the Lacks family. The discussions that followed after the book's release were focused on ethics, patient consent and racial disparities. But, a new question has been raised: Who gets to tell the family story?



Telling the Story Of Henrietta Lacks, the Woman

The Lacks Family. Ron Lacks is on the left, with an arm resting on his shoulder. Credit: thelablib.org

March 6, 2013

Henrietta Lacks' story is now well-known. Diagnosed with an aggressive type of cervical cancer in 1951 and treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital, samples of her cancerous tissue were removed, unbeknownst to her.



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