OpenTable is piloting a new feature that allows restaurants to showcase daily specials on their page, and Baltimore diners will be the first to try it. The San Francisco-based company, which allows diners to make restaurant reservations online and through its mobile app, is rolling out a feature...
James Patterson has decided that an upcoming novel, "The Murder of Stephen King," wasn't a good idea after all and is having the scheduled Nov. 1 publication withdrawn. In a statement released Thursday through Little, Brown and Company, Patterson said he didn't want to cause King or his family...
The second episode of “My Roanoke Nightmare” picks up right where the season premiere left off. We’re offered a little bit more in the way of backstory on the season’s super-creepy house, but left with many (if not more questions) about the menacing figures seen in the forest. We’re back in the...
The historic Montgomery Ward Warehouse in South Baltimore will host a free indoor art festival this November. Artomatic@Baltimore will host hundreds of art exhibitions for six weeks starting Nov. 4, according to a recent new release. The Artomatic art festival, which was first hosted in Washington...
Artistry is an ever-changing movement, says Columbia Festival of the Arts president Ron Nicodemus. He said the organization is ushering in a new era to the Howard County community, beginning with its new interim executive director, David Phillips. Over the next several months, Phillips will help...
Here are some highlights at this year's Baltimore Book Festival: What's Gnu: Check out the debut of the Paws & Pages Stage, which has animal programming plus adoptable pets. Featured authors include Mikita Brottman reading from “The Great Grisby” (4 p.m. Saturday); Bronwen Dickey, “Pit Bull: The...
During World War I, the author Susan Muaddi Darraj's grandfather was kidnapped by the Turkish army from his village in what is now Palestine. His wrists were bound with a rope, and he was and marched to Damascus behind a horse. "Everyone in his village assumed he was dead," Darraj says during an...
A sense of lethargy hangs uneasily over the lumbering new version of "The Magnificent Seven." Despite its sturdy plot, seasoned director and capable cast toplined by Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke, it arrives in a comatose state, a film unlikely to arouse passions one way or another....
Due to recent personal developments that need not be explained here at length (suffice to say that she’s damnably cute and just started smiling), I can’t bring myself to be entirely objective about “Storks.” That’s only fitting, because one of the running jokes in this lively computer-animated...
A lot of Disney’s fact-based sports movies stir the blood or, at the very least, satisfy our need for rousing underdog stories. Often the stories can be shaped so that a white protagonist runs the show, even if it’s not really their show. “Million Dollar Arm” was like that; so was “McFarland, USA,”...
Renee Zellweger is charming as ever in "Bridget Jones's Baby," a lively return to form for the unlikely trilogy about an ordinary woman and her professional and romantic woes. It turns out a little break is just what this series needed to find its footing after the manic missteps of "Bridget Jones:...