What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Michael Cataldi did two installation series in Baltimore several years ago called Tire Swings and Flower-Pot-Holes. He would carry a spool of rope with him as he wandered through the city, and wherever he found an abandoned tire by the side of a road [...]

As Dan Deacon embarks on yet another tour, he's launched a poster contest. Can you identify all 247 cartoon characters featured in his new tour poster? Designed by the folks at Post Typography, the poster is a stunner.
First person to guess them all gets 500 bucks. The second prize winner gets a portrait of his/herself [...]

This semester, University of Baltimore is offering a poster design class that meets at Globe Poster. How cool is that? And tonight UB opens an exhibition of Globe's iconic work, with Globe's Bob and Frank Cicero attending. The show runs through December 16.

The cover of the new Double Dagger, CD, More.
[Image: Thrill Jockey]

I've long been a fan of Jonathan Miles' writing, especially his Oxford American pieces and his New York Times cocktail column. So I was particularly excited about the arrival of his debut novel, Dear American Airlines, in which a stranded traveler pens a lengthy, tragicomic letter to the air carrier.
As I pulled the book from [...]

At the end of last year, things were grim at Globe Poster. There was talk of selling the presses for scrap and shutting down the Highlandtown plant by January. In today's market, it's nearly impossible for an old school poster company to survive—despite the fact that Globe's designs are now iconic [...]