Vida Taco Bar opened its first Baltimore location Friday. The restaurant is located below the 1405 Point apartment building that opened recently in Harbor Point. This is the restaurant’s third expansion after the original Annapolis location opened in 2014 and one in Severna Park followed in 2017....
Sandra Oh’s first headlining TV role in BBC America’s “Killing Eve” has yielded her first lead actress in a drama Emmy nomination — and a place in history. Oh’s nomination Thursday carries an added layer of distinction because it makes her the first person of Asian descent to be nominated in the...
The “Today” show got the first interview with Robin Wright for the final season of “House of Cards,” and interviewer Savannah Guthrie let the star of the Netflix series skate on addressing the most serious allegations of sexual harassment and assault on the set by Kevin Spacey. Guthrie generally...
Author Anne Tyler has become known for creating offbeat characters who are instantly recognizable as residents of Charm City, the kind of people who pronounce “another” as a noun, as if a nother were an object that could be picked off a sidewalk like a candy wrapper or bug. The first three of Tyler’s...
Donna Drew Sawyer, an official at the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts since 2017 who formerly worked at the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, has been named to head the non-profit agency that produces Artscape, Light City and other local events. “Donna...
Single Carrot Theatre, the ambitious troupe that has stirred up Baltimore’s cultural life with provocative productions since 2007, is facing a financial crisis. The company has issued a plea to the public seeking to raise $55,000 by July 31 due to “a critical shortfall that may mean the end of...
For most of the past 133 years, Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta “The Mikado” has been widely enjoyed for its extraordinarily tuneful score and its droll satire of British government and society, thinly disguised by use of a fictional Japanese setting. Today, this 1885 work comes with what might...
It's all about the zing. If you are not up on monster speak, the term zing refers to what happens once in the life of a vampire, mummy, werewolf, etc. It's that moment when they know they have found the one true love in their life. In the case of "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation," Dracula...
The hardest working man in showbiz, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson debuts his third blockbuster action flick in nine months this weekend. The descriptively titled "Skyscraper," which comes on the heels of "Rampage" and "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," is written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber,...
The unlimited breadsticks approach of the Marvel Cinematic Universe ensures that we remain full of carbs, all year, as each franchise rolls out another metaphorical Olive Garden. Some of the movies offer veritable superhero conventions — most recently the ensemble blowout “Avengers: Infinity War,”...
Warning: The following review contains references to the political content, rampant and pointed, in the “Purge” franchise begun in 2013. With these movies, there’s no way around what they’re really saying. The latest “Purge” is an erratic, fairly absorbing and righteously angry prequel. It sets...