Returning to its two-day format this year, the AFRAM Festival announced its music lineup on Monday, including British R&B singer Ella Mai. Mai, best known for the song “Boo’d Up,” and Cash Money Records singer/rapper Jacquees will perform at Druid Hill Park for the free festival on Aug. 11, while...
D.J. Fontana, a rock 'n' roll pioneer who rose from strip joints in his native Shreveport, Louisiana, to the heights of musical history as Elvis Presley's first and longtime drummer, has died at 87, his wife said Thursday. Karen Fontana told The Associated Press that her husband died in his sleep...
Netflix has released the first images from the sixth and final season of “House of Cards” starring Robin Wright. Wright is seen in the two pictures in her role as President Claire Underwood. Kevin Spacey, who played her husband Frank Underwood, was dropped from the series in November in the wake...
First born was Sophie, who is 23. Then came Zeke , Ida-Rose and finally, 15-year-old Abe — two boys and two girls who share a family obsession with the cult British sci-fi television show “Doctor Who” and the confidence to develop idiosyncratic sartorial styles. But the four siblings differ in...
Five years ago, supernaturally prolific film composer John Williams made his Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debut, conducting a program of his music that had the audience responding with rock concert-level roars. On Wednesday night at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, a second close encounter of the Williams...
Concert Artists of Baltimore, a professional orchestra and chorus led by founding artistic director Edward Polochick, is folding after 31 years of performing a richly varied repertoire with distinction throughout the area. Barry F. Williams, president of Concert Artists, said Wednesday that financial...
Legendary composer John Williams will be a special guest of the Orioles on June 11, when they face the Boston Red Sox at Camden Yards.
When writer-director Brad Bird made “The Incredibles” (2004), the superhero movie genre looked nothing like the overcrowded youth hostel it does today. The “X-Men” movies, the fledgling “Spider-Man” franchise and that was about it. This was pre-“Iron Man.” This preceded the entire Marvel Cinematic...
The grungy, fairly entertaining remake of “Superfly” borrows a few key narrative hooks from the 1972 original, along with key elements of its fantastic Curtis Mayfield soundtrack (notably “Pusherman”). But for better or worse, the new version has no interest in fashioning the same sort of mashup...
Subjects of a 2013 Wall Street Journal feature, the real-life friends who provoked the new comedy “Tag” are, let’s assume, decent guys, fun-loving and supportive and appreciative of having the time and money to keep the same elaborate prankster version of tag going for nearly 30 years. But I kind...
The big heist in “Ocean’s 8” — the theft of a $150-million diamond necklace, daringly scheduled to take place at the Met Gala — is predicated on the careful manipulation of a “blind spot” outside a women’s restroom. Amid heightened security at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a merry girl gang of...