In her latest work, local artist Julia Kim Smith pokes a bit of fun at Banksy, his anonymous celebrity, and our changing notions of work, play, and art. She tweaks Shepard Fairey's iconic Obey image...
Literary Death Match returns to Baltimore tonight, with an intriguing cast of readers and judges. Four writers will battle for the crown, reading from their work for seven minutes or less. Dan...
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...
Fans of the written and spoken word have a tough choice to make tonight. Former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins reads at McDaniel College at 7:30 pm, and hip-hop poet laureate Talib Kweli has...
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...
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...
Driving home from work last night, I was startled to hear NPR host Melissa Block declare, "David Franks was a Baltimore-based poet, writer and artist who blurred the line between his life and his art...
Poet Lucille Clifton died yesterday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was 73 years old and lived in Columbia. Clifton won the National Book Award in 2000 for Blessing the Boats, was a former Maryland...
