Old SongsSappho Versions: Bright Lyre Finds a Voice (self-released)After a recent Old Songs performance, Mark Jickling, the local trio's banjo/mandolin/bouzouki player, was smiling, shaking his...
To paraphrase the philosophers Travolta and Newton-John: summer livin' is a blast, but it happens so fast. So, to help you make the most of your Charm City summer, we present our 2008 City Guide. So, go ahead. Have a blast.
MAYBy Jessica Hofmann
Editor's Spotlight: PreaknessMarylanders make a big deal out of the Preakness. And why not? After all, it is much more than just a horse race where women wear fancy hats. In...
Parkville's Brandon Hardesty takes his acting from YouTube to Hollywood.
Even though Brandon Hardesty is hysterically funny, the success he has garnered from his homemade videos is no joke.
The 21-year-old Parkville resident, known for his uncanny movie reenactments that...
Jack Carneal's field recordings of Malian musicians have made him a reluctant world music entrepreneur.
Amid the agreeable mix of spirited ngoni plucking and syncopated karignan scraping on the second track of Bougouni Yaalali—a compilation of indigenous musicians recorded by Jack Carneal in the West...
Native Deen, Arty Hill and the Long Gone Daddys, and Wye Oak
Native DeenNot Afraid To Stand Alone (self-released)Fusing hip-hop rhymes, soul harmonies, and Middle Eastern rhythms, Baltimore/D.C.-based Native Deen frames its Muslim-centric message with an...
Four local collectors discuss various ways of putting together an impressive art collection.
Twenty years ago, Michael Salcman's 7-year-old daughter Dara was walking through the family's house in Homeland when she glanced up at him and asked, "Daddy, why do we live in a museum?"
It was an...
Afaa Michael Weaver, Max Apple, and Michael Buckley
Afaa Michael WeaverThe Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 (Pittsburgh)Weaver grew up in East Baltimore, served a voluntary stint in the U.S. Army Reserves, and worked at the Proctor and Gamble...
Blake LeyhX-Ray Yankee Zulu Tango (self-released)A few weeks ago, I was out for a ride with this CD playing in the car. Ostensibly an ambient (background music) disc, it proved to be anything but...
It won't have Johnny Depp, Ricki Lake, Iggy Pop, or Traci Lords, but the musical version of John Waters's 1990 film Cry-Baby will have plenty of cool-kid drapes and uptight squares (plus new songs)....
Park School's Laura Amy Schlitz is still ebullient from her Newbery Medal win.
Laura Amy Schlitz was trying to cheer herself up in the early morning hours of January 14 when her phone rang. The longtime Park School librarian had already concluded that her children's book,...
