Lunches at Haussner’s with Orioles owner Peter Angelos were wonderful and weird, but what if he agreed to one now, after 11 losing seasons? Sportswriter Mark Hyman plans what he’d ask after the first martini.

By Mark Hyman

The longest lunch I ever had – three-plus hours under a gilded frame at Haussner’s – was with Peter Angelos. That was in October 1994, and the topic du jour was the worsening labor strife between baseball players and owners. I used to love going to lunch with Mr. Angelos because you could be assured of leaving with some startling quote, one you hardly could wait to see in the next day’s paper.
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A former Baltimore city planner walks you through the planning boo-boos, segregationist tendencies and “weirdo” neo-dystopian 1970s design sensibilities behind the odd development pattern in the area near the green Roland Park hillside where the Keswick Multi-Care Center has proposed a senior living facility. (You know, the project greeted by Roland Parkers like a spent-fuel rod waste dump?)
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Perhaps it was all just a bad dream. If you read the “about the Baltimore Sun” page on the website, you will find that The Sun is still the same fine institution that produced H. L. Mencken and William Manchester, that it has “1,500 full and part-time employees,” that it still “has multiple offices overseas, a network that brings distinguished foreign reporting directly to hometown readers.” Read the rest of this entry »