Shattered Wig is back! The first Shattered Wig Review to hit the streets in over a year—publisher Rupert Wondolowski attributes the delay to “getting old and more existential”—figures to be one of...
During Downtown Partnership's annual meeting at the Meyerhoff last Wednesday, keynote speaker Malcolm Gladwell began his talk with an apology. If you've read The Tipping Point—a best-seller for the...
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...
Matt Groening, Gary Panter, and John Waters turned up at AVAM Friday night. A veritable dream team of subversive humor, the trio attended the preview party for the museum’s new exhibition, What...
Michael Buckley, author of the Sisters Grimm and NERDS books, was an unexpected highlight at this year's Baltimore Book Festival. I should clarify that—it was unexpected for me, but not for my two...
Like his insanely fun live shows, Dan Deacon is a whirlwind of activitiy. He brings his joyful self to Rams Head Live this Wednesday—The Get Em Mamis and Wolf Eyes are the openers!—and seems up...
The Chesapeake Film Festival opens tomorrow night with a screening of The Radiant Child, the new Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary, at the Academy Art Museum in Easton. I was mighty impressed by CFF'...
At a ceremony held at the Lyric Opera House yesterday, the 116-year-old theater was officially renamed the "Patricia & Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric." A mouthful, for sure,...
Chris Mandra, guitarist for local psych/trance rockers Telesma, sounds pretty awed to be playing tomorrow's Zappa fest. "We're honored to even be mentioned in the same sentence as Frank Zappa," says...
The full schedule of events for the Frank Zappa sculpture dedication, set for Sept 19, has been announced, and it figures to be a fantastic day. Starting with a pre-dedication talk by Zappa's wife,...
