‘Beyond Beauty’ is beyond words

At a press preview Thursday, Smithsonian American Art Museum Director Elizabeth Broun recalled an odd gift exchange with legendary fashion photographer Irving Penn, the subject of a marquee show at the museum that opened Friday.

An untimely ending

Recruiting interest in Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil entering his senior year at Towson High School in 2009 was tepid. The future Terrapins football outside linebacker didn’t show…