Natalie StandifordConfessions of the Sullivan Sisters (Scholastic)My tween-age daughter and I agree that Standiford’s debut book, How to Say Goodbye in Robot, was one of the most satisfying young...
Remington Youth/Community Radio, J. Roddy Walston and the Business, and Dweezil Zappa
Remington Youth/Community RadioPortrait of a Neighborhood (Art on Purpose/GRIA)Basically a set of field recordings and interviews with Remington residents, this project provides a youthful,...
After 30 years, the wheels keep turning at Baltimore Clayworks.
Deborah Bedwell’s first encounter with a potter’s wheel was less than auspicious. The West Virginia native was a recent transplant to Maryland in 1969 when she signed up for a ceramics class at...
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...
The Holmes Brothers, Victoria Vox, and Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang
The Holmes BrothersFeed My Soul (Alligator)This blues trio has quite an impressive resumé, working with the likes of Peter Gabriel and Willie Nelson and recording 11 acclaimed albums of its own....
Millard Kaufman, Paul Chan, and Dr. Clara Small & Rev. David Briddell
Millard KaufmanMisadventure (McSweeney’s)Kaufman was 90 years old when his first book, Bowl of Cherries, appeared in 2007. The Baltimore native, who also created Mr. Magoo and got an Oscar nomination...
Tommy KeeneYou Hear Me (Second Motion Records)Keene's name plus the title of this two-disc retrospective gives a nod to The Who ("Tommy, can you hear me?"). The wordplay provides an apt allusion...
A husband and wife live their publishing dream from an Eastern Shore barn.
One drizzly day in the winter of 2006, while on lunch break, Robbi Behr and her husband Matthew Swanson took stock of their lives. On the surface, they had everything: on-the-move careers at a...
Jen Michalski, Dan Fesperman, and Mark Osteen & Frank Graziano
Jen Michalski (editor)City Sages: Baltimore (CityLit)Michalski includes most of the usual suspects in this anthology of local lit. The likes of Edgar Allan Poe and H.L. Mencken are here,...
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...
