Jeff Alexander

FICTION AMERICAN QUILT The Lazarus Project By Aleksandar Hemon Riverhead, $24.95 A young Eastern European writer becomes obsessed with another immigrant who was killed by a Chicago police chief a century earlier. Set in Chicago, emigre Aleksandar...

When Comcast switched ESPN Classic from a position in the basic cable lineup to a digital channel July 10, maybe customers in Baltimore City and Baltimore and Harford counties didn't give it much thought. But if they're baseball fans and not digital...

President George W. Bush drew a parallel yesterday between his war on terror and President Harry S. Truman's stewardship of the country during the first years of the Cold War. In the speech to about 900 graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy on a...

A Jersey City man who the FBI says stole $5 million was buried yesterday, and with him went the secret of what he did with the loot: 350 pounds of $20 bills. "That's one of the big questions we have," said Special Agent Bill Evanina of the FBI's Newark...

1 star (out of 4) Vincent Gallo's notorious "The Brown Bunny," the critical black sheep of the 2003 Cannes Film festival, has gotten an undeserved bad rap. Trust me. This is neither the worst movie ever made nor the worst movie in Cannes history--...

As I entered the dimly lit dining room with its pulsating music, chic decor and beautiful people, I was stricken with fear that my height-challenged date would embarrass me once again. He raced ahead through Vong's Thai Kitchen but mercifully stopped...