Campfire Spacesuit
Molesuit Choir (Ehse Records)
This pairing of Liz Downing and Rupert Wondolowski, both fixtures on the local arts scene, is weird and welcome. Not unexpectedly, they play strangely...
Wondrous Beauty by Carol Berkin, Medusa’s Daughter by Jonathon Scott Fuqua/Steven Parke and His Wife Leaves Him by Stephen Dixon
Wondrous Beauty
Carol Berkin (Knpof)
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte—or Betsy, as she was called—was a Baltimore legend and international celebrity, a sort-of turn-of-the-19th-century It Girl. Born to...
A local photographer’s portraits of isolated row houses are garnering international attention.
A decade and a half ago, photographer Ben Marcin hiked—not hitchhiked—from Baltimore to Philadelphia, traversing as many remote farms and wooded areas as possible along the way. He estimates he...
A decade after reopening, the Hippodrome hopes a new arts district can jumpstart the neighborhood.
A champagne-colored Jaguar pulls to the curb in front of the Hippodrome Theatre on a snowy Sunday afternoon. Two middle-aged women get out, duck under the marquee, and scurry inside as the car...
New music from DJ Spooky and Atlantic Guitar Quartet
Of Water and Ice
DJ Spooky (free download)
Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) continues his MICA residency through spring 2014. He’s reportedly working on a new book and an opera that he will debut in...
Tales from the Holy Land by Rafael Alvarez, Unruly Catholic Women Writers Edited by Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke & Ana Kothe and Gentlemen of the Harbor by Captain Bill Eggert
Tales from the Holy Land
Rafael Alvarez (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)
If Baltimore is the Holy Land, Alvarez is its Pope of pulp. These 19 short stories exude hardboiled fortitude and an...
Local book of King Arthur-inspired poems wins literary prize.
A few pages into her new poetry collection, Guinevere in Baltimore, Shelley Puhak drops her first local reference: “O say, can you see?—from 95 North, the swath of city from stadium to incinerator...
A Tony Award-winning musical comes to the Hippodrome.
One of the most successful Broadway musicals of late comes into town this month. The Book of Mormon—which was written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q co-creator Robert...
What makes Baltimore so appealing as a setting for fiction?
Besides the fact that it’s your hometown, what makes Baltimore so appealing as a setting for fiction?
The question that is asked a thousand times of artists mining the plentiful but seemingly...
Someone by Alice McDermott and James McHenry Forgotten Federalist by Karen E. Robins
Someone
Alice McDermott (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Eudora Welty once compared V.S. Pritchett’s fiction to “a well-going fire. Wasteless and, at the same time well-fed, it shoots up in flame from...
