Jamie Malanowski

Month: July 2011

50 YEARS AGO: THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN AT 100

Fifty years ago (fifty years ago tomorrow, to be precise), my mom and dad drove my brother and me from our home in Baltimore MD to Culpepper County, Virginia, about sixty miles away, for a centennial reenactment of the first Battle of Bull Run, which took place 150 years ago today. About 2000 reenactors restaged …

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CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON–LIVE!

The highly revealing Parliamentary hearings into Rupert Murdoch and the News Corp. hacking scandal were interrupted yesterday when spectator Jonathan May-Bowles, a.k.a. “Jonnie Marbles” tried to throw a shaving cream pie at the media baron but was thwarted by his wife, Wendi Deng. In an article in The Guardian, May-Bowles defended himself. “Simply put, I …

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PLIGHT THAT TROTH!

Marly Rose Carroll, whom we have literally known her entire life, was married last evening to D.J. Johnson, on the verdant grounds of the Crabtree Kittle House in Mount Kisco. The bride was beautiful, the groom was handsome, the setting was lovely, the weather was perfect, the food was delicious. Parents beamed, friends applauded, guests …

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