Thanks to a combination of a wildly public meltdown, ABC's subsequent "wait and see!" publicity effort, and just plain morbid curiosity, the question of how "The Conners" would deal with Roseanne Barr's exit from the new spinoff has been the biggest of the fall TV season. Of all the reboots and...
Kanye West handed Uganda's president a pair of his autographed sneakers during a visit to the East African nation in which the rapper is said to be recording music in a tent. The 74-year-old President Yoweri Museveni said he and West held "fruitful discussions" on Monday about promoting tourism...
Harford County residents Carson Brown, Lila Hodgson and Nikko Sohn are your typical busy students, but with a twist: This summer they competed nationally as junior ninja warriors. Carson, Lila and Nikko were selected to be among the 192 competitors on American Ninja Warrior Junior, the new youth...
In a spirit of ecumenicism and civic activism, Union Baptist Church in West Baltimore will present “Amazing Grace: Uniting Community,” a free concert Oct. 11 featuring notable classical and jazz artists. The event is an outgrowth of collaborations in recent years between Union Baptist and the Church...
For the ninth time since 1990, Baltimore will get to experience “Les Miserables,” the high-emotion mega-musical based on the Victor Hugo novel about petty crime and inordinate punishment, poverty and greed, revolution and romance. The show’s run at the Hippodrome Theatre, Oct. 9 to 14, will give...
Only Baltimore bad boy John Waters would create a sculpture that envisions a babyhood encounter between the pop star Michael Jackson and the serial killer Charles Manson. In “Playdate,” the late singer, attired in a powder-puff pink romper beneath his surgically altered adult face, crawls on his...
Baltimore has long been a little Edgar Allan Poe-obsessed — his poem, “The Raven,” for instance, has provided the name for both our football team and one of our favorite beers. This weekend, that obsession will be on display for the world to see, as the city hosts the first International Edgar...
Nobody ever lost money remaking “A Star is Born,” Hollywood’s favorite tragic romantic fable. Whether it’s any good doesn’t matter. To wit: The 1976 Barbra Streisand/ Kris Kristofferson remake wasn’t good, but you believed the archetypal show business lovers had musical talent. And they could act,...
Superhero fatigue got you down? Tired of the same old bland Marvel Cinematic Universe offerings? A dose of "Venom" could be just the right antidote. This dark, wacky MCU-associated outing combines one of the most interesting contemporary leading men with a daring director who has a hit-or-miss...
An earlier version of this review had an incorrect name of an actor. Am I asking too much of “Night School”? It’s no big thing, this new movie starring Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, and nobody’s expecting a formula-, game- or life-changer. You just don’t want to leave feeling shortchanged. Right...
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, as the saying goes. That seems to be the approach taken by the screenwriters of the new animated feature "Smallfoot." The story is actually "Bigfoot," but it hinges on a clever reversal of perspective, centering on a tribe of Yetis in the Himalayas who fear the...