Laura Lippman and Jessica Elfenbein, Thomas Hollowak, and Elizabeth Nix
Laura LippmanThe Most Dangerous Thing (Morrow)Lippman cranks out novels at a pace that makes Stephen King look like a slacker but still manages to up the ante with each book. Dangerous Thing unfolds...
Manuel BarruecoTárrega! (Tonar)The music of Spanish composer/guitarist Francisco Tárrega eluded me before listening to this CD, but I knew one of his tunes. I bet you know it, too, because it’s heard...
Baltimore's most notorious graffiti artist tries to go straight, juggling family, school, sobriety, and an art world that just might embrace him.
Frank Arthur doesn't just tell stories—he acts them out. Between bites of a Reuben at an Arbutus diner, Arthur recalls creeping past the Pepsi building on a summer night in 1986 with Scrappy G, One...
New artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah not only wants to transform Centerstage—he wants to redefine Baltimore.
Kwame Kwei-Armah knows Baltimore. In fact, he knows it much better than you'd expect a transplanted Brit would. In fact, Kwei-Armah, who's just starting his new gig as Centerstage artistic director,...
The venerable festival enters its fourth decade brimming with populism and newfound energy, thanks to its expansion into Station North.
It's too hot, too crowded, the parking is awful, but still we go every year. Because each time we're tempted to skip Artscape, we remember something special that happened at the last one, and we find...
Panda BearTomboy (Paw Tracks)Baltimore native Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) specializes in expansive soundscapes buttressed by sturdy minimalism and sunny melodies. In fact, he’s perfected that...
Cindy Kelly, Leonora "Peachy" DiPietro Dixon, and Susan Fillion
Cindy KellyOutdoor Sculpture in Baltimore (The Johns Hopkins University Press)Some reference books become immediately indispensable. This is one of them. Baltimore is, after all, "the monumental city...
A local beatboxer takes his skills to new heights, and new audiences, by performing with everyone from the BSO to Ethel Ennis.
Towson University's Fine Arts Building is relatively quiet on a Tuesday afternoon. That is, until you open the door leading to the dance studios on the first floor. Immediately, booming music fills...
Local artist launches a crusade to ease Arab-American tensions with just one word.
While working on a novel in 2007 about survivors of the Iraq War, Baltimore resident Justin Sirois posted a request on an international website for Iraqis to answer his questions about the country's...
Daniel Mark EpsteinThe Ballad of Bob Dylan (Harper)Dylan biographies abound, but there's room for one more, as long as it's as insightfully written as this one. Epstein makes no apologies for being a...
