Art and culture lovers will want to check out these Eastern Shore gems.
Arts lovers on their way to the beach this weekend have a few reasons to pull off Route 50. That’s because, as noted in our April issue, the Eastern Shore continues to shed its rep as a cultural...
Laura Lippman's novel, Every Secret Thing, is being made into a movie. Directed by Amy Berg (West of Memphis), it stars Dakota Fanning, Diane Lane, and Elizabeth Banks. According to indiewire.com,...
Park School librarian Laura Amy Schlitz and her book, Splendors and Glooms, have won a 2013 Newbery Honor for excellence in children's literature. A Newbery Honor is basically an honorable mention...
Last week, political cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher ("Kal") launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund publication of Daggers Drawn, a coffeetable book of his work for The Economist. Kal's cartoons for...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Alan Lomax's The Land Where the Blues Began.
I first read LWBB when I was a sophomore in high school. It opened me up to a whole world of...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
A short story called "Hot Ice," by Stuart Dybek. It was set in what was essentially my father's home neighborhood in Chicago and was the...
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 will appeal to anyone with a love, or even a fondness, for the written word. Clifton, a national treasure and former poet laureate of Maryland, wrote...
The Junot Diaz reading that was postponed on Monday because of the storm has been rescheduled for November 7th at 7:30 pm at UMBC. The school hasn't yet settled on a venue. Diaz's latest book, This...
The Baltimore Book Festival continues this evening with a "Baltimore Bred" panel (at 5 pm, with "Best Of Baltimore" winner Natalie Standiford and others), music by Junkyard Saints (5 pm), and a...
Laura Amy Schlitz, the Park School librarian who won the Newbery Medal in 2008 for Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, doesn't actually like to write. In publicity materials...
