The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts has announced that Stephanie Barber, Louie Palu, Mark Parascandola, Matthew Porterfield, and Rachel Rotenberg are finalists for this year's Janet and...
Tonight, Second Chance—a nonprofit with the worthy goal of “retraining and creating employment for displaced and unemployed workers in deconstruction methods” and “reclaiming building materials to...
Artist Kathy Fahey just sent along word that she was involved in making a video for Wye Oak's "Fish," from the indie duo's excellent new disc, Civilian. Fahey—who did the cover art for the band's...
Last week, I walked through MICA’s The Narcissism of Minor Differences exhibit and was struck by not only its powerful images and overarching themes, but also its implicit message. Individually,...
Good luck deciding what to do this weekend—there are too many great events on tap! Tonight, a pair of keyboard wizards hit town: jazz pianist Matthew Shipp plays An die Musik, and New Orleans funk...
You may want to get some rest tonight, because Saturday and Sunday are jam-packed. Zappa tribute band Project Object—featuring ex-Mothers Ike Willis and Ray White—plays 8x10 tomorrow night; at the...
Hollaback!, a grassroots group dedicated to combating gender-based street harassment, launches its Baltimore branch with a party at Metro Gallery tonight. It starts at 8 pm, and a $5 suggested...
Tonight’s opening of Current Gallery’s Self Portrait as Rock Star exhibition (curated by Gary Kachadourian) figures to be a great time. Comprised of people's self-portraits of themselves as rock...
Indie rock icon Dean Wareham (ex-Galaxie 500/Luna) and his frequent collaborator Britta Phillips put out a wonderful CD last year—it made my Best of 2010 list—that richly underscores an often...
With the Christmas holiday approaching and religious intolerance on the rise, it’s a particularly good time to check out The Jewish Museum of Maryland’s exhibit about the life of Pope John Paul II....
