Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 30, 2009, 8:57 am
By now most of you have probably heard of Twitter. Between the likes of CNN, Ashton Kutcher, Oprah Winfrey and others using the online service, it's finally made its way into mainstream culture, a...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 28, 2009, 6:00 am
The latest multimedia news related to Sherlock Holmes to cross my inbox is that of a new iPhone application called The Sherlock Holmes Guide to London. For those unaware of the technology, Apple's...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 27, 2009, 11:12 am
For those of you who remember the 1960s, you may recall a television series produced by the BBC that starred Douglas Wilmer, BSI ("The Lyceum Theatre") and then Peter Cushing, each with Nigel Stock as...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 27, 2009, 9:47 am
News today comes from London that Madam Tussaud's, the famous emporium of wax figures that is just steps away from Sherlock Holmes' residence on Baker Street, will unveil a statue of Robert Do...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 26, 2009, 10:46 pm
Today was the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, and accordingly, many of us spent time with family, friends and other loved ones sharing a meal and giving thanks for what has been afforded us...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 25, 2009, 2:22 am
For some years now, the Baker Street Irregulars have made the Dr. John H. Watson Fund available to all Sherlockians (BSI membership is not required) who wish to travel to New York for the annual Baker...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 19, 2009, 11:49 pm
Peter Blau always has his finger on the pulse of what's happening in the Sherlockian world. Indeed, it has been said that "If Peter doesn't know about it, it isn't happening." With the pro...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 19, 2009, 12:13 am
Part of the allure of the Sherlock Holmes stories is how Conan Doyle managed to fuse his writings with the city and countryside that was familiar to his readers. More than creating real, sympathetic, ...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 18, 2009, 6:23 am
Everyone seems to be capitalizing on the press around the new Sherlock Holmes film. There's nothing wrong with that; as Holmes himself once said, "The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 17, 2009, 1:21 pm
Just when you thought the marketing of the new Sherlock Holmes film couldn't get any more deeply woven into our daily grid, comes news of another tie-in, but this time from an unlikely source: the...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 17, 2009, 1:21 am
You may recall that I recently wrote about the new online game that supports the new Sherlock Holmes movie. Here's a trailer that helps tease it a little more: Have you joined yet? Click here to...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 16, 2009, 9:07 am
News today via the BBC indicates that veteran actor Edward Woodward has died in Cornwall. He was known on the small screen for secret agent Callanand later the cult classic The Equalizer, Woodward br...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 15, 2009, 6:31 am
You know your hobby is more than a hobby when the general public is interested. The fact that 221B Baker Street has been receiving letters since Conan Doyle's time and that children today still as...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 13, 2009, 6:35 pm
One of my favorite phrases as it relates to the Sherlock Holmes stories is from Edgar Smith's early Baker Street Journal essay in which he wrote:We love the times in which he lived, of course, the...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 11, 2009, 12:05 am
It's hard to believe that it's been nearly a year since the last Baker Street Irregulars Weekend. An 2009 has been quite a year, for those not following along. From "Wiggins" annual letter:The...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 5, 2009, 12:56 am
As Christmas Day closes in, we're seeing additional trailers for the new movie. Warner Bros. is getting very aggressive in their approach and advertising it in very prominent places, such as on te...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Nov 3, 2009, 9:18 am
I was recently notified of a new promotion for the upcoming film Sherlock Holmes, which integrates the social networking site Facebook as part of a game. Hey, while we're at it, please consider be...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Oct 21, 2009, 11:21 pm
If you're following this closely, you might recall that in May, I shared the original trailer for the new Guy Ritchie film "Sherlock Holmes." As you're no doubt aware, Christmas Day (literally...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Oct 11, 2009, 12:27 pm
In recent news Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, noted author and creator of Sherlock Holmes - and a Scot, no less! - has been given the honor of his own stamp. The stamp, pictured left, is part of a series fro...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Sep 22, 2009, 6:27 pm
You know Sherlock Holmes has really gone Hollywood when there's talk of a sequel before the first movie even hits the theaters. The new Guy Richie-directed film starring Robert Downey, Jr. won'...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Sep 13, 2009, 11:41 pm
Rumor (or is that rumour?) has it that the rough cut of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes didn't sit too well with executives, and they've asked him to make some changes. According to Hollywo...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Aug 23, 2009, 6:42 pm
The Hound of the Baskervilles is probably one of the most widely read and well-known of all of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Of all 56 short stories and four novellas, it has the unique position of bei...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Aug 21, 2009, 10:22 pm
For students of the Sherlock Holmes Canon, the opening to "The Problem of Thor Bridge" offers a tantalizing glimpse into some of the unwritten cases of the great detective, of which Dr. Watson had not...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Aug 10, 2009, 12:11 am
This has to be one of the funniest interpretations of a Sherlock Holmes story I've seen in a while. Fellow Irregular Tom Francis ("The Imperial Opera at Warsaw") passed along the link to the new V...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Aug 5, 2009, 11:48 pm
Recently, there has been a lot of noise around the forthcoming film, "Sherlock Holmes," due out in December and starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law as Holmes and Watson, respectively. The trailer...
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Scott M. posted an article on The Baker Street Blog - Jun 30, 2009, 11:32 pm
If you haven't followed the publications of the Baker Street Irregulars, here's a chance to get in on one of the earlier publications for a pretty reasonable price. Michael Kean, the marketin...
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