A few worthwhile benefits are on tap for this weekend. Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobson Fleisher will play solo and duo pieces at Towson’s Central Presbyterian Church to benefit victims of the...
The BSO's 2011-2012 season will celebrate Revolutionary Women, according to an announcement by the orchestra and Marin Alsop (the BSO's in-house revolutionary woman). Highlights will include...
As usual, there's a lot happening this weekend, but these events are particularly noteworthy and definitely worth your time. At the Meyerhoff on Friday and Sunday, the BSO will be playing a...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
If teaching can be considered an art form and classes can be considered as artwork…. My college professors have definitely changed the...
Here are clips from a Globe Poster documentary featuring soul great Solomon Burke, who passed away last Sunday. I'm working on the Globe doc with Alex Castro and Rei Spinnicchio, and we filmed...
I just heard that soul great Solomon Burke has passed away. A few years ago, I interviewed Burke in Los Angeles, and he was an utter delight. Full of amazing stories and old school at his core—he...
The Zappa family (l-r: Ahmet, Gail, Dweezil, and Diva) at yesterday's sculpture dedication in Highlandtown.
[photo: PanoramicVisions.com]
Newly named Frank Zappa Way at Eastern Avenue and Conkling Street.
Boisterous Zappa fans fill the area around the Pratt Library's Highlandtown branch for the sculpture dedication.
The shrouded...
Chris Mandra, guitarist for local psych/trance rockers Telesma, sounds pretty awed to be playing tomorrow's Zappa fest. "We're honored to even be mentioned in the same sentence as Frank Zappa," says...
