As new owners run the show, the Senator gets a facelift.
When Baltimore’s celebrated Senator Theatre closed its doors, the city went into collective mourning. The Art Deco theater had been a beloved fixture of the city since it opened in 1939, representing...
Ellen Lupton, Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid, Cynthia Smith, and Stephen Dixon
Ellen Lupton, Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid, Cynthia Smith (co-curators)Why Design Now? National Design Triennial (Smithsonian)Anyone feeling a bit down about the state of things should take a gander...
Marc RibotSilent Movies (Pi)Ribot's recent solo show at An die Musik was a stunning display of virtuosity, imagination, and ingenuity. Though he's primarily known as an A-list sideman for the likes...
Towson author is the unassuming bestseller next door.
In March of 2009, when Mary Claire Helldorfer first learned that her book Kissed by an Angel had hit USA Today’s Top 150 Books, she was working as a 10th-grade English teacher at Friends School of...
Chester River Runoff, Crack the Sky, and The Marsalis Family
Chester River RunoffBlue Heron Farm (Crumptone)This Chestertown-based bluegrass band plays with a frayed edge that contrasts favorably with the lightning fast precision that’s often associated with...
Marshall Edward ConwayThe Greatest Threat: The Black Panther Party and COINTELPRO (iAMWE)Conway, a prominent member of the local Black Panthers, was sentenced to life in prison for killing...
Dance
1st Mariner Arena So You Think You Can Dance Tour 2010 TV-show finalists show off their dancing talent. Oct. 5. 410-347-2020. 1stmarinerarena.com
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Works...
Rebecca ChaceLeaving Rock Harbor (Scribner)Set in a Massachusetts mill town, Chace’s story takes us from World War I through the Jazz Age into the Depression. The jacket copy calls it a coming-of-age...
Kermit RuffinsHappy Talk (Basin Street)Look out Wynton Marsalis, there’s a new public face of American jazz, and he’s a charismatic trumpeter, too. A founder of New Orleans’s legendary Rebirth Brass...
Baltimore has had a fascinating relationship with Andy Warhol, and the BMA's upcoming Warhol exhibit is the show to see this fall.
Baltimoreans can feel some measure of pride visiting The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Located downtown in a renovated industrial warehouse—a "factory," if you will—just a few miles from where...
