Baltimore native Anna Deveare Smith will pocket $300,000 as this year's recipient of the Dorothy & Lillian Gish Prize. Smith, a Western grad, appears in Nurse Betty, but she's best known for...
Dan Deacon makes his national TV debut tonight on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! (show starts at 1130 pm). Deacon and his ensemble will play "True Thrush" off his latest album, America, and audience...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
As odd as this might sound, Saturday Night Live circa ‘79-‘80 changed my life. I already loved music and wanted to be in a band, but...
The third season of David Simon’s Treme begins tomorrow on HBO, continuing an exhilarating run for fans of New Orleans culture and nuanced storytelling. The major plotlines resume—Toni fights the...
Is it me, or does it seem like David Simon's Treme doesn't get the love and attention it deserves? It was like that for The Wire, too, before the show earned iconic status in the years since it aired...
Wire/Treme creator David Simon blasted Mitt Romney yesterday in a blog post criticizing the candidate for stating that he's paid at least 13 percent in taxes. Simon noted that he hasn't paid taxes at...
Seeing Mary Poppins (at the Hippodrome) and The Whipping Man (at Centerstage) in the span of a week was a peculiar, almost jarring, experience for me. These two productions couldn't be more...
Remember how peculiarly thrilling it was watching the first season of Twin Peaks? Early on, it seemed almost too good to be true, didn't it? Remember how, as the suspense mounted and expectations...
This sounds promising... Deadwood creator David Milch's production company, Redboard Productions, has just inked a deal with the William Faulkner's estate to produce film and TV projects based on...
With David Simon about to receive the “Free Mind Award” at tomorrow’s Frank Zappa festival in Highlandtown, I asked him what Zappa’s work has meant to him. “The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe...
