Madison Smartt Bell and Reviel Netz & William Noel
Madison Smartt BellCharm City: A Walk Through Baltimore (Crow)Bell follows his acclaimed, sprawling Haiti series (three historical novels and last year's biography of Haitian revolutionary...
Charles Village author Michael Kimball turned U.S. rejection into U.K. success.
Michael Kimball chuckles good-naturedly as he recounts the excruciating process that preceded the publication of his unconventional first novel, The Way the Family Got Away. Turned down by...
Cyrus Chestnut, Celebration, and the Baltimore Mandolin Orchestra
Cyrus ChestnutCyrus Plays Elvis (Koch)A few years back, Chestnut raised eyebrows by recording a disc of tunes by Pavement, indie rock darlings from the 1990’s. A quartet session that also featured...
Daniel Berrigan/Adrianna Amari, and Ellen and Julia Lupton
Daniel Berrigan/Adrianna AmariPrayer for the Morning Headlines (Apprentice House)Pairing activist Berrigan's big-hearted poems with Amari's haunting photographs, this volume exudes a sense of...
Stephanie Powell dances to the beat of diversity and helps others do the same.
Sometimes it’s an aggressive conga drumbeat, other times it’s a somber flute, a calming orchestral piece, or the violins of a Kirk Franklin gospel song that make the dancers move in syncopation....
Since 1988, Michael Harrison has helped expand the scope and definition of opera in Baltimore.
As Michael Harrison, General Director of the Baltimore Opera Company, nears the beginning of his second full decade at the BOC's helm, he's successfully demolished the idea that opera means a...
Stephen DixonMeyer (Melville House)Stephen Dixon. At this point, the words are synonymous with prolific output. With 27 books and hundreds, if not thousands, of short stories under his belt, the...
The BridgeThe Bridge (Hyena)On the local scene, The Bridge could be voted most likely to headline Bonnaroo. With that in mind, it might be tempting to label the group as a bunch of jam band...
Forget trick-or-treating--local artist Molly Ross has made Halloween a community performance.
It is dark and chilly and there's a steady huffing of autumn wind that keeps the dry leaves skittering along the walkways of Patterson Park. Ghosts and Halloween goblins lurk behind every tree. But...
Floratone, various artists, and The Swingin' Swamis
FloratoneFloratone (Blue Note)A collaboration between guitarist Bill Frisell, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and producers Lee Townsend and Tucker Martine, Floratone deftly balances improvisation and...
