Johnny CashBootleg Volume 3: Live Around the World (Sony Legacy)In its heyday throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Cecil County's New River Ranch hosted afternoon concerts by the likes of George Jones,...
Stephen HunterSoft Target (Simon & Schuster)After seven Bob Lee Swagger and three Earl Swagger (Bob's father) thrillers, Stephen Hunter continues the lineage with Soft Target's Ray Cruz, Bob's...
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...
