Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Alison Kahn & Peggy Fox
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Thing Around Your Neck (Knopf)Adichie writes gripping stories that balance beauty and brutality on the sharp spur of human impulse. That the balance tips so...
David FairI'll Be Moe (Thick Syrup Records)Besides co-founding the iconic punk band Half Japanese and organizing Shake More, Westminster's finest music festival, David Fair tells great stories....
WTMD reflects the profound changes happening at college and public radio stations.
If you went to college before the mid-1980s, you probably remember your campus radio station as a student-run affair—most likely long on individuality and short on professionalism. There might have...
For some youngsters, back to school means learning guitar riffs and choosing between Hair Metal and New Wave.
At 4 p.m. on a Saturday, 25 kids are huddled in the back of Cancun Cantina, a Hanover nightclub known mostly for country music line dancing. The kids, ages 8 to 16, are dressed a lot like their...
From Poe to Pac, artists connected to Baltimore consistently push the envelope. Is it something in the water?
Think of the artists most commonly associated with Baltimore and a common trait begins to emerge. Poe. Dark, right? Zappa. Eccentric. Waters. An auteur unto his own.
Immediately, other names come to...
The BSO maestra's new digs give her divine inspiration.
After living for nearly two years in a corporate rental apartment, BSO Music Director Marin Alsop wanted a place that felt like home.
"I wanted to have my own space," says Alsop, who also shares a...
Geoff BrownMoon Baltimore (Avalon Travel)Brown used to occupy an office down the hall—he's Baltimore's former managing editor—so I know he's something of an expert on the city and what it has to...
So where, exactly, is the Frank Zappa monument going to go?
Both of Frank Zappa's grandfathers had close ties to the Baltimore waterfront. Just before World War I, one of them ran a barbershop near the old city fish market around Pier Five, while the other,...
In TNT's HawthoRNe, Jada Pinkett Smith plays a character who's a lot like her mom.
Even when Jada Pinkett Smith was still a student at the Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA), her mentor, theater department head Donald Hicken, knew his diminutive pupil was headed for stardom.
"What...
Amit Peled/Eli Kalman, Wye Oak, and Charm City Devils
Amit Peled/Eli KalmanThe Jewish Soul (Centaur)Peled, a cellist who teaches at Peabody, and Kalman, his frequent collaborator on piano, perform a program of spirited compositions by a handful of...
