It could happen. Rolling Stone just launched a "Women Who Rock" constest with six up-and-coming musicians—including Rye Rye, who's described as "Baltimore's permier dance-rap spitfire"—vying for a...
When I profiled John Barth in 2008, he described, in detail, his writing routine for the past half century. Barth said that, whether in Chestertown or Florida—where he and his wife, Shelly, spend...
In the mid-1960s, poet/critic Frank O'Hara and Dutch artist Jan Cremer collaborated on a series of prints that have never been shown in the U.S., until this evening, when Load of Fun opens a month-...
Esopus magazine isn't an art magazine. It is art. Founded by Carroll County native Tod Lippy, Esopus includes artist projects, fiction, photography, poetry, archival material, film stills, posters,...
I ran into artist Warren Linn at MICA yesterday, and he told me he's headed to NYC for tonight's opening of Rolling Stone and the Art of the Record Review at the Society of Illustrators' Museum of...
Movie buffs won’t want to miss this weekend’s Maryland Film Festival. My fellow editor Max Weiss previewed a few of the fest’s films on her blog, and you can check out her reviews here. The Smartish...
Now that all the Schaefer hoopla has subsided, it's a good time to check out the Schaefer profile Richard Ben Cramer wrote for Esquire in 1984. It's been posted on Esquire's politics blog, and as...
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...
Snowed in, I've been able to spend some quality time with a few favorite periodicals. They all come highly recommended.
Issue Six of Locus, Emily Hunter's savvy arts journal, takes that publication...
A new song by Baltimore's mighty Wye Oak is a highlight of the CD in the new issue of Esopus, the fabulous art magazine put out by Carroll County native Tod Lippy. All the songs were inspired by...
