Spike Lee was the guest speaker at Loyola's 17th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation last night. He proved to be an excellent choice. Dressed in a Jets cap, black turtleneck with silver...
One of my favorite lines from the Young Frankenstein film (see above) didn't make the Broadway version, but the Tony-winning show that opened at the Hippodrome last night...
John Waters shared his own brand of ribald Christmas cheer with a sold-out crowd at The Birchmere last night. Playing a music hall that's more likely to host septuagenarian bluegrass pickers may...
Tomorrow night, the R.E.M. concert film, This Is Not a Show, will screen at the Ottobar. Shot during the band’s 2007 open rehearsals at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre, it shows a...
The Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) has received four proposals regarding the purchase or lease of the troubled Senator Theatre. They range from WTMD's proposal to redevelop the site as the...
Buster Keaton's classic silent, Steamboat Bill, Jr., will screen this Saturday at Chesapeake Arts Center with an original score composed by Anne Watts and performed "live" by Boister. You might have...
During a recent interview with This American Life host Ira Glass, I asked about his favorite storytellers. Here's his list...
Errol Morris
Michael Lewis ("especially The Blind Side")
Malcolm...
Thinking about Larry Scott recently—he would have turned 52 on July 9—I visited the blog for Blood on the Wall$, Barry Michael Cooper's 2005 film starring the late artist. The film, shot mostly in...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I saw How to Draw a Bunny, the documentary about Ray Johnson’s life. I had been familiar with Ray’s work, and I felt some sort of...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
As an artist and mother of three young children, I am affected by any book that I actually have time to read. On my nightstand at the...
