Lurch & HollerIn the Cabin Below (Thick Syrup Records)For more than 20 years, local luminaries Liz Downing and Michael Willis have been making beautiful music together in Lambs Eat Ivy, Radiant...
Monica Floyd, aka Doll Phace, grew up in West Baltimore singing in church choirs and performing in Poly Follies, the annual show put on by her high school, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. "I always...
Yellow Dubmarine, Tori Amos, and Selected Shorts: New American Stories
Yellow DubmarineAbbey Dub (Gold Lion Records)If a band covers Beatles songs, it should definitely bring something new to the table—after all, the world doesn't need another saccharine version of "...
Larry DoyleDeliriously Happy (Ecco)After last year's Go, Mutants! misstep—the B-movie parody might have made an entertaining film, but it didn't work on paper—the author of I Love You, Beth Cooper...
The new Baltimore Design School brings fashion, architecture, and graphic design to public education.
It's early on a September morning during the first week of school, and seventh-grader Deasia Holland waits in the front office to confirm her class schedule, her grandmother, Darlene Sterling, at her...
From an African slave canoe to a Dale Chihuly sculpture, a local business transports priceless artifacts and great works of art.
Along a busy industrial stretch behind BWI-Thurgood Marshall Airport, Scott Pittman wipes the sweat off his brow, brought on by a record-breaking Baltimore heat wave. Once inside the several storage...
Dinah Miller, Annette Hanson, and Steven Roy Daviss; and Michael Fallon
Dinah Miller, Annette Hanson, and Steven Roy DavissShrink Rap (The Johns Hopkins University Press)Written by three local psychiatrists, this book makes an excellent resource for anyone curious about...
Tommy Keene, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, and White Life
Tommy KeeneBehind the Parade (Second Motion)Local favorite Tommy Keene provided something of a smart-pop soundtrack to the 1980s, much like Pavement's Stephen Malkmus did a decade later. But while...
Local artists and experts choose 37 artworks in Baltimore that you have to see, and their selections just might stir up debate about our perceptions of art and the city around us.
When we asked a group of art aficionados to identify must-see works of art, we expected to hear about pieces in The BMA, The Walters, and other museums and galleries around town. We got that, and a...
Laura Lippman and Jessica Elfenbein, Thomas Hollowak, and Elizabeth Nix
Laura LippmanThe Most Dangerous Thing (Morrow)Lippman cranks out novels at a pace that makes Stephen King look like a slacker but still manages to up the ante with each book. Dangerous Thing unfolds...
