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0 Restaurants & Bars The Baltimore chef is a nine-time finalist for the James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Mid-Atlantic. Elizabeth Janney , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Reply BALTIMORE, MD — A Baltimore chef is among the finalists for the 2020 James Beard Awards. Known as the "Oscars of the culinary world," the awards recognize people and establishments that promote culinary excellence. The list of finalists was delivered on Twitter, due to the coronavirus pandemic and the need for social distancing. "Many restaurants are closed and some don’t know if they will ever reopen," the foundation said in a statement Monday announcing the finalists. "Some have pivoted to take out, while others are feeding frontline workers and those in need. Still others are contemplating how or if they can reopen." Said the foundation: "Congratulations to this year's nominees. We look forward to continuing to support your … [Read more...] about Baltimore Chef Cindy Wolf Is Finalist For James Beard Award 2020

Keep it orderly, please. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images Addressing a gathering of municipal movers and shakers at the Crain’s Power Breakfast, Commissioner Keechant Sewell recently floated the idea of improving police-community relations by focusing on the first impressions formed when citizens encounter the NYPD. “It’s the first 15 seconds, the first 15 feet, the first 15 minutes of your interaction with the police department that really determines how you feel about how you were treated and how the police  department is functioning,” she told the gathering. It’s a great idea, but for traffic safety advocates, the commissioner’s words sounded like a bitter joke. Every day, cops illegally park their personal vehicles on sidewalks, in crosswalks, at bus stops, and in bike lanes, turning the streets and sidewalks around every police precinct into a trash-strewn obstacle course (sanitation sweepers can’t clean gutters blocked … [Read more...] about NYPD’s Illegal Parking Needs to Be Curbed

A man who spent 16 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping writer Alice Sebold when she was a Syracuse University student has settled a lawsuit against New York state for $5.5 million, his lawyers said Monday. The settlement comes after Anthony Broadwater’s conviction for raping Sebold in 1981 was overturned in 2021 . It was signed last week by lawyers for Broadwater and New York Attorney General Letitia James, David Hammond, one of Broadwater’s attorneys, said. Broadwater, 62, said in a statement relayed by Hammond, “I appreciate what Attorney General James has done, and I hope and pray that others in my situation can achieve the same measure of justice. We all suffer from destroyed lives.” “Obviously no amount of money can erase the injustices Mr. Broadwater suffered, but the settlement now officially acknowledges them,” Sebold said in a statement released through a spokesperson. Sebold was an 18-year-old first-year student at Syracuse when she was … [Read more...] about New York to pay $5.5M to man exonerated in Sebold rape case

LONDON — In a tiny converted railway arch south of the River Thames, a mosh pit had formed in front of a three-way brass-off. The house band played from the floor, as if it were a punk show. Other musicians crowded around, waiting for their turn. The pianist Sarah Tandy and Nubya Garcia, who plays saxophone, climbed onto a sofa to get a better view. Sheila Maurice-Grey delivered a breathless solo on her trumpet. And by the time that Ezra Collective, a five-piece jazz band, rolled up and joined in, the corrugated metal walls were streaked with sweat. It’s like this every week here. By day, the venue is a cafe but each Wednesday it hosts the hottest improv night in town: Steam Down . Since March it has become a hub for London’s flourishing jazz scene, whose players are breathing new life into the genre. Star guests like the American saxophonist Kamasi Washington drop by to jam when they’re on tour, and London D.J.s, radio hosts and jazz heads all turn up. “I’d never seen … [Read more...] about A Sweaty Night Out in London’s New Jazz Scene

Terrace Martin “Velvet Portraits” (Sounds of Crenshaw/Ropeadope) Terrace Martin is a maestro of the margins, the sort of musician who’s often at his most effective just on the edges of the frame. A jazz-trained alto saxophonist with a lissome, sweet-tart sound, he’s also a producer and rapper whose roots stretch deep into the West Coast hip-hop scene — the guest list on his 2013 full-length debut, “3ChordFold” (AKAI/Empire), included Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Ty Dolla Sign, James Fauntleroy and Ab-Soul. Mr. Martin’s smoothly sprawling new album, “Velvet Portraits,” is also crowded with collaborators, but none of the above, despite the fresh sizzle of Mr. Martin’s work with Mr. Lamar. It’s as if the agenda were to reclaim a little breathing room, and remind the world of Mr. Martin’s other regions of interest. So “Velvet Portraits,” the first release on his Sounds of Crenshaw label, unfolds as a tasting menu of Los Angeles soul-jazz, G-funk and quiet-storm R&B. With … [Read more...] about Review: Terrace Martin, on ‘Velvet Portraits,’ Shares a Mix of Sounds, and the Spotlight

See the article in its original context from May 22, 1983 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Last summer at the Kool Jazz Festival, 17 young and not-so-young musicians who have been acclaimed by the critics and by their fellow musicians as among the brightest hopes for jazz in the 1980's performed in various combinations in a concert that billed them as the Young Lions of Jazz. Though it was a bit formal and stuffy, as such events usually are, the concert did include some superb … [Read more...] about PERILS CONFRONT THE YOUNG LIONS OF JAZZ