Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director Center Stage/playwright Beneatha’s Place.
Through June 16, Center Stage presents The Raisin Cycle—two plays (performed in rotating repertory) inspired by A Raisin in the Sun. The first, Clybourne Park, is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Bruce Norris that follows the home in A Raisin in the Sun through cycles of urban decline and gentrification. The second, Beneatha’s Place, is a world-premiere by Center Stage artistic director...
As the neighborhood celebrates 100 years, the Maryland House & Garden Pilgrimage offers an inside look at 12 homes and sites on April 28.
1 | Garden of Mr. and Mrs. Judson Flanagan. This French Country-style home has several gardens and more than 100 rose bushes.
2 | Home of Dr. Anne Barone. This 1923 Colonial Revival home is the only home with a bungalow feel, and has lush gardens with decks and a koi pond.3 | Home of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hamilton III. This Spanish Mission house once belonged to noted Baltimore artist Grace...
Trohv owner Carmen Brock shows off her passion for industrial design in the dining room of her Charles Village row home.
A little bit country: I grew up in Kentucky on a cattle farm and tobacco farm. We’ve lived here since 2002—this is our first house. It takes a village: I love living in Charles Village. We’ve met so many nice people here, and we love the sense of community. Carmen and the machine: I’d describe my aesthetic as industrial and imperfect, warmed up by softer textiles. Farm out: I love agricultural...
Actor John Astin enjoys a second act, playing professor at The Johns Hopkins University.
Wearing a gray newsboy cap and carrying a leather organizer, John Astin looks like the very model of a Johns Hopkins professor as he strides across the Homewood campus en route to lunch at the Brody Learning Commons cafe. And yet, this esteemed college campus—rife with Nobel Prize winners and eminent scholars—seems like an unlikely place for a star sighting of the actor who played Gomez, the...
Our own Beach House performs with Yo La Tengo at The Lyric.
Who says you can’t go home again? While in the midst of a world tour, dream-pop duo Beach House, pictured, stops by its native Baltimore to play the Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric on April 26 with special guests Yo La Tengo. “We’re extremely excited to be able to feature a local band,” says The Lyric’s president and executive director Sandy Richmond. “They can come back to where they...
What are the new workout trends for spring?
Spring is your classic “good news, bad news” scenario. Good news? The weather is warming! The flowers are blooming! Bad news: Bathing-suit season approaches. To get the latest fitness trends and tips, we caught up with indefatigable International Federation of Body Building and Fitness professional athlete and personal trainer Toni Perdikakis. “I ran my first half marathon the other day and went...
Local teen makes and sells dolls to help her family’s finances.
When 15-year-old Arriel Turner was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2009, she decided to fight it in her own way. “Coming out of my [first] surgery, it was kind of a recovery thing. I wanted to get something off of my mind, so I started to sew,” says Arriel about the beginning of her doll-making career. Arriel lives in Hamilton with her family—parents Mark and Tina and brother Max—who are all...
CityLit Festival has been bringing literary stars to Baltimore for 10 years.
During its first two incarnations, CityLit Festival conferred a curious Midas touch: Book a writer as headliner, and, whammo, he or she wins the Pulitzer Prize. Ten days prior to the 2004 inaugural festival, the Pulitzer board announced the event’s main attraction, Edward P. Jones, as its fiction winner; ditto the next year when Steve Coll copped a Pulitzer for nonfiction just before his festival...
Jen Michalski burns up the local lit scene with three new books.
Upstairs at Minás Gallery in Hampden, dozens of friends and well-wishers throng Jen Michalski after she reads an excerpt from “May/September”—the affecting, bittersweet story of a tentative younger woman/older woman romance that appears in her just published two-novella collection Could You Be With Her Now. The reading is part of the monthly 510 Readings series at the gallery. Normally, Michalski...
With a family to feed, businesswoman Monyka Berrocosa puts an early interest in food and fine dining to good use.
Donning a red-striped apron as she emulsifies Dijon mustard to make a proper French vinaigrette, Monyka Berrocosa says that learning to cook was a matter of basic survival. “My mother was a terrible cook,” says Berrocosa, as she stands in the charming galley kitchen of her Towson home, with her Hungarian Vizsla, Tokai, at her feet. “Everything she ever made turned into spaghetti sauce—even if she...
