We're building something here...

"We're building something here, and all the pieces matter," Detective Lester Freeman tells a fellow detective in an episode of The Wire. The same concept applies to this blog, which will be built, post by post, comment by comment, into a sprawling, freewheeling, entertaining, and multi-faceted examination of arts and culture in Baltimore (and beyond).

And all the pieces matter: the visual art, music, film, literature, dance, theater, etc. and the resulting performances, exhibitions, lectures, shouts, whispers, scribbles, and downloads.

Those pieces matter, and so do you.

Welcome.