This weekend is crazy with festivals: the Baltimore Book Festival, Virgin Mobile FreeFest, the High Zero Festival, and the Chesapeake Film Fest (for anyone up for a road trip to the Eastern...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Two things come to mind. I was shocked when I saw the Sydney Opera House. I couldn’t believe that anyone could design something so...
CityLit Project, the local literary arts organization, is partnering with the University of Baltimore's School of Communications Design. It's a timely move considering CityLit's growth, which...
Early on, Patti Smith pulls the reader into this intriguing memoir, which chronicles her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe....
It was the summer Coltrane died. The summer of "Crystal...
Tomorrow night, Haitian novelist Edwidge Danticat and songwriter Manno Charlemagne appear at Goucher College's Athenaeum. It's an amazing double bill, and I suspect...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Virginia Woolf's book The Waves and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire convinced me of the eternal.
Dave Wakeling will be eternally...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Up 'til that point, I hadn't read anything that flowed like a song. Musically, I remember Bob Marley. When...
The mysterious visitor who's been placing roses and a bottle of cognac on Edgar Allan Poe's grave was a no-show last night. The toaster usually appears on Poe's birthday between midnight and 6 a.m.,...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Eudora Welty's short story, "The Wide Net"--and more specifically, the sentence describing someone who could sit all day pondering how...
