What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The first time I entered a jazz club at 17 was the first time I heard real jazz. That changed my life. It was a super hip white-table-...
Considering what it has scheduled for tomorrow, there’s a local school that would seem to be an arts and culture juggernaut. Check this out…
There’s a production of Carmina Burana scheduled for 3 pm...
Baltimore contributors Geoffrey Himes and Sam Holden have shows this weekend, and both events come highly recommended. Himes has organized an evening of Baltimore songs—performed by SONiA, Howard...
Nick Cave’s Grinderman wades waist-deep into middle age with a reckless abandon that’s riveting and, at times, thrilling. In fact, they make Cave’s longtime band, The Bad Seeds, seem fey...
Boister has always been one of my favorite bands—and not just because I'm married to the singer. I love that the group's sound is virtually unclassifiable, an intriguing mix of jazz, rock, and...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
It's tough, because I've been inspired all my life by visual art and literature in addition to music. But I'd have to say, in terms of my...
The Blue Man Group blew me away at the Hippodrome last night. I’d never seen them before and knew little about the show, except that it was supposedly “funny”—according to a server at Alewife—and...
It's been awhile since Soulful Symphony Founder/Conductor Darin Atwater took the podium at the Meyerhoff. That's because after nearly a decade leading the groud-breaking orchestra, Atwater took a...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Although there have been many works of art in all disciplines that have affected me the first such experiences that I can remember clearly...
Howard Alden, who sounds like a reincarnation of Django Reinhardt, plays Germano's Wednesday night. Alden coached Sean Penn for his Django-inspired role in Woody Allen's 1999 film, Sweet and...
