Local graffiti legend Frank Arthur reemerged in 2011 after years battling the police, drug addiction, and a few other personal demons. According to his drug counselor, he's been straight for nearly...
Remember how peculiarly thrilling it was watching the first season of Twin Peaks? Early on, it seemed almost too good to be true, didn't it? Remember how, as the suspense mounted and expectations...
The tribute to Nancy Haragan takes place at the BMA at 6:30 pm. Haragan, who passed away earlier this week, founded the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and impacted the local arts scene in many...
Progressive music fans should take note that today's Cuneifest "Rock Day" at Orion Studios is sold out, and tomorrow's "Jazz Day" has been moved from An die Musik—the venue is apparently still...
Everyman's production of Noel Coward's classic Private Lives opens this weekend and continues to December 4th. Espi Frazier's Many Faces of Beauty: Black and White Drawings opens this evening at...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
[Jean-Michel] Basquiat. A friend of mine from Brooklyn, my stylist, knew him. She was in New York when Basquiat was there, and they were...
Even in the rain, the Baltimore Book Festival makes an excellent outing. Case in point... last nigt, I ducked into the Children's Bookstore tent with my 13-year-old daughter, and we caught a very...
Last night at Chesapeake College, Sherman Alexie gave one of the best talks I've ever heard. The author of this year's One Maryland One Book selection, The Absolutely True Diary of a...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
For various reasons, I had a debilitating case of writers block. I thought my career was over and then my friend Adrian Arleo showed me...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The book that changed my life is The Game OF Life And How To Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn, and the film that was a revelation was The...