It won't have Johnny Depp, Ricki Lake, Iggy Pop, or Traci Lords, but the musical version of John Waters's 1990 film Cry-Baby will have plenty of cool-kid drapes and uptight squares (plus new songs)....
Park School's Laura Amy Schlitz is still ebullient from her Newbery Medal win.
Laura Amy Schlitz was trying to cheer herself up in the early morning hours of January 14 when her phone rang. The longtime Park School librarian had already concluded that her children's book,...
Tony Shore’s black velvet paintings render down-to-earth, working-class Baltimore as high art.
In a windowless space inside the old Crown Cork and Seal complex in Highlandtown, Tony Shore works amid a post-industrial landscape—a labyrinth of hulking brick buildings. Amid walls shedding...
Blake LeyhX-Ray Yankee Zulu Tango (self-released)A few weeks ago, I was out for a ride with this CD playing in the car. Ostensibly an ambient (background music) disc, it proved to be anything but...
George Liston Seay, Jonathon Scott Fuqua, and Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, and Ana Kothe
George Liston Seay/edited by Peter J. BeanThe Art of Conversation (Johns Hopkins)Culled from taped interviews at D.C.'s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, this volume features down-...
Almost six years after "the best show on TV" began, the man behind the series comes clean about why he did what he did.
“We want to be out of The Wire business,” says the mayor of Baltimore, repeating the affirmation that began this call twenty minutes ago, stalling us in the Safeway parking lot on Boston Street.
I am...
Various ArtistsBlack Mirror: Reflections In Global Musics (Dust-to-Digital)A CD of global recordings originally issued as 78s, this 24-track compilation was put together by Baltimore’s Ian Nagoski....
EsopusIssue #9 (Esopus Foundation)In 1940, with fascism sweeping through Europe, a small group of Americans planned a top-secret project to counter it. But it wasn’t a cutting edge weapon or a new...
Two city arts districts are injecting new life into neighborhoods that have long needed it.
Let’s play word association, Baltimore style. If you hear “North Avenue,” what comes to mind? If someone brings up “Highlandtown,” what do you think of?
Words like decay, crime, blight, drugs,...
Once upon a time—before photographers and videographers—painters were hired to record events as they happened. That tradition is alive and well thanks to Laura Swytak, a 26-year-old MICA graduate...
