Every summer, it seems like an inevitable heat wave rolls into Baltimore just in time for Artscape. This year, the largely outdoor free music and arts festival will take place during a Code Red heat advisory, meaning the heat poses a health risk. Art-lovers could face dehydration and hyperthermia...
Ed Sheeran is basking in the aftermath of his "Game of Thrones" cameo. Sheeran appeared as a Lannister soldier leading a group in song in the season premiere of the hit HBO fantasy drama, which debuted on the premium cable channel Sunday night. The 26-year-old British singer posted a shot of himself...
I cannot tell you happy I am to see “The Keepers” get an Emmy nomination as best documentary or nonfiction series. This is by far the greatest production of the genre this year. And I cannot remember a film as steeped in moral authority and social conscience as this one. It is almost enough to...
Jacqueline Pollauf is a slight woman with an open face and a quiet, soothing voice who uses her delicate hands in a manner of graceful expression when she speaks — and plays the harp. Pollauf, a Timonium resident who trained in her instrument at The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University,...
As Artscape has evolved over the years, so has its logo. Take a look at the festival's logos from 1982 to 2017.
Good news for dance fans — the Peabody Conservatory plans to launch its first bachelor’s degree program in dance for the academic year beginning in the fall of 2018. The new program will be headed by danah bella, the founder of danahbella DanceWorks and former chairwoman of the dance department...
As I approached Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Saturday night for the final event in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s inaugural New Music Festival, my usual skepticism kicked into high gear. I mean, really — contemporary music in Baltimore in July in a 2,400-seat hall? Please. I was bound to see one...
A few thousand years from now, alien anthropologists sifting through the remnants of our once-proud civilization may survey Hollywood’s 21st century simian-themed blockbusters with some confusion. Based on their titles, shouldn’t “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” (2014) come before “Rise of the...
What to make of the curious, ridiculous horror-lite “Wish Upon”? This is a spooky teen story that's not particularly heavy on the scares and over-delivers on the unintentional giggles, almost ensuring it a spot as a cult movie, like the hilariously misguided “The Room,” though “Wish Upon” sports...
In Jeff Baena’s “The Little Hours,” a cheeky adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th century collection of novellas, “The Decameron,” the filmmaker makes an attempt at “nunsploitation,” that 1970s sub-genre of repressed sexuality and confused perversity. However, the casualness with which the film...
Large pictures, small joys and an archive’s radiance are the building blocks for the charm offensive that is “The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography,” Errol Morris’ winning documentary about his unsung artist friend, a fixture in Cambridge, Mass., whose specialty is large-format Polaroids...