The local opera scene has experienced a profound shift since the demise of the Baltimore Opera Company.
The news wasn’t unexpected. The Baltimore Opera Company had already filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the end of 2008, and it seemed unlikely that the organization was going to right its ship when...
Delegate Keiffer Mitchell Jr. is at a cafe, being interviewed for this story, when his cell phone rings. "Hang on a sec, I've got to take this," he says. He leans away and answers the phone. He's...
Phil Wiser’s dramatic and unlikely ascent has taken him from Hammerjacks to Silicon Valley.
Phil Wiser was a senior at Eastern Vo-Tech and something of a science geek in 1984. But Wiser wasn’t your typical nerd, with his long hair and confident swagger. In fact, he was class president and...
Holiday Entertaining Extras!- A Holiday Potluck- Recipe: Chocolate Linzer Tart- Recipe: Market Apple Pie- How To Make: A DIY Chalkboard- Recipe: Haricot Vert Saute- Recipe: Winter Salad- Recipe:...
A local group is putting rock on the map in Baltimore.
These days, most music making it big in Baltimore tends to be experimental. But locals J. Roddy Walston and The Business serve up good old-fashioned rock and roll. The Tennessee transplants (who’ve...
Some of the best rock bands of the 1970s recorded at Blue Seas Recording Studios, until it sank, under mysterious circumstances, into the harbor.
It’s not every day you see a guitar floating in the Inner Harbor.
But on Christmas Day 1977, a Martin D-28 guitar drifted past Pier 4, along with reels of audiotape, microphones, speaker monitors, a...
Local jazz tradition passes from generation to generation, with some help from a state program.
The Samick spinet piano in Kayle Simon's front foyer in Columbia comes with the standard, wooden piano bench. When her 16-year-old son Ethan is visited by his classical piano teacher, the instructor...
The members of Dru Hill have gathered at the Belvedere Hotel's Owl Bar to discuss the logistics of a forthcoming tour to promote their reunion album, InDRUpendence Day, the quartet's first new music...
A Little Italy restaurant turns an upstairs dining room into a popular cabaret.
It's a Sunday night up on the second floor at Germano's Trattoria, a Little Italy stalwart strung along the neighborhood's main drag. The pumpkin-colored walls are hung with vintage Art Nouveau...
A Ukrainian youngster's unlikely odyssey includes homelessness, American benefactors, NPR, and piano study in Baltimore.
Dasha Bukhartseva vividly recalls the day she and her mother, Natasha, became homeless. It happened eight years ago, when Dasha was 10 years old. "They'd thrown away all our food and our stuff was in...
