Radio From Downtown (RFD), the Eastern Shore's take on the classic radio variety show returns to Easton's Avalon Theatre on Halloween night. An RFD taping is sort of Prairie Home meets Marx Bros in a place that, from time to time, still threatens to secede from the rest of Maryland.
The brainchild of NPR's Van Williamson, [...]

Tonight, DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller) kicked off Transformations, MICA's third annual conference on African-American art, with a sprawling and engaging keynote lecture that touched upon digital technology, hip-hop, bungee jumping, Sun Ra, D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, Shepard Fairey, the purchase of Manhattan, Immanuel Kant, changing perceptions of what constitutes art, recording ice [...]

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The Tinklers, the legendary Baltimore duo known for their witty and achingly humane songs played on homemade wrench xylophones and rubber band guitars, have written a book! Called The Elements, it's a timely and lovely read, and, like The Tinklers' tunes, it's deceptively simple, but poignant.
It's the latest release by Rupert Wondolowski's Shattered Wig Press, [...]

Freefall Baltimore is on and runs the duration of October. It's an excellent opportunity to check out the local art scene's diverse offerings, and it's all free. There's something for everyone. Brainiacs will swoon getting to hear Witold Rybczynski (Oct 22) and Malcolm Gladwell (Oct 6) speak, for free. Jazz heads can see Carl Grubbs [...]

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Stoop Storytelling, the popular series featuring locals telling stories about themselves, returns to Centerstage this week, July 9-11, for a series of live radio shows called "Baltimoored: Summer in the City."
According to Stoop organizers, the shows will "celebrate being stuck in Baltimore for the summer, waxing poetic (and comedic) about steamed crabs, sno-ball stands, duckpin [...]

Brilliant cartoonist Lynda Barry will be at Johns Hopkins this evening, presenting a slide show of her work. Barry's talk and most recent book, What It Is, are based on the "Writing the Unthinkable" workshops she's been conducting around the country. The program—which is free and open to the public—begins at 5:30 p.m. in the [...]

AVAM fundraiser/gala tonight! With musical legend Donovan, Mr.Sunshine Superman himself.

The Jewish Museum celebrates Purim this Thursday night with an intriguing mix of acrobatics (contortionist Lisa Appel), music (DJ Booth), spirits (beer and wine), and the art of graphic novelist JT Waldman, whose illustrations for Megillat Esther—an edgy take on the Book of Esther—will be exhibited at the museum. The party starts at 8 p.m. [...]

Katie Miller will be exhibiting her work at this year's Armory Show (March 5-7) in New York. It's quite an honor for the Parkton artist. Here's some more info...

Miller recently won the prestigious Wynn Newhouse Award, one of four $15,000 grants for artists with disabilities. This year, the jury consisted of Phong Bui, Chuck Close, [...]