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“Why is this night different from all other nights?”  For more than 3000 years, Jewish children have been asking their parents that simple question at Passover.  Yet the answer

James Harp, the Cantor at St. Mark's Lutheran Church plays the organ at a recent service. (Justus Heger) Elegant or austere? What sets the mood for worship?  For some, it is spires, stained

New Years Day - 2013 On a morning when many awoke hung over from the previous night’s revelry, Aileen Sabira awoke refreshed and renewed.  The Baltimore poet and part-time sales clerk decided

This is the last in a three-article series on labor conditions in Bangladesh by Larry Luxner, a freelance journalist based in the Washington, D.C., area. Luxner spent 11 days

A light dusting of snow covered the lawns and the rooftops of the red brick homes I passed at 7:00 a.m.  The streets glistened as rock salt and the

This is the second in a three-article series on labor conditions in Bangladesh by Larry Luxner, a freelance journalist based in the Washington, D.C., area. Luxner spent 11 days

This is the first in a three-article series on labor conditions in Bangladesh by Larry Luxner, a freelance journalist based in the Washington, D.C., area. Luxner spent 11 days

(This is the second part of our series on the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum's future. To read the first part click here.) Trains. Almost nothing else on earth evokes

Edgar Allan Poe is generally credited with writing the first detective novel.  His engrossing tales featuring the French detective C. Auguste Dupin were the foundation for a completely new