The Mount Vernon Marketplace has covered an interior mural depicting neighborhood landmarks, including the recently removed Roger B. Taney statue, following the monument’s removal last night. Taney’s likeness, previously located at Mount Vernon Place, was one of four Confederate statues removed...
HBO said Wednesday that due to an error the sixth episode of Games of Thrones' seventh season was shown a week ahead of schedule in Spain and Nordic countries. The episode was available to subscribers in these areas early Tuesday for about an hour before being removed. The 71-minute episode is...
ESPN's “Baltimore Boys” documentary aired Tuesday night, chronicling the journey of what many consider to be the best high school basketball team to ever take the court. The “30 for 30” film features the undefeated Dunbar High School boys basketball teams of 1981-1983. Containing future NBA talent...
Come October, there will be a lot more room in Baltimore to be funny. The Baltimore Improv Group (BIG), bringing unscripted laughs to Charm City since 2004, will be moving from the intimate confines of Howard Street’s Single Carrot Theatre, where their performance space had a capacity of about...
After Yu Na Han went through two miscarriages, and then her new baby spent the first six months of her life in the hospital, the mother found comfort when she needed it the most from the place she least expected to find it — in the writings of the 16th-century theologian Martin Luther. Though he’d...
Considering how much nature and humans are acting up these days, the summer exhibit at Goya Contemporary seems all the more apt. Nearly two dozen works by 11 notable artists are grouped under the title “Human. NATURE” at the gallery, making for an impressive, absorbing experience. This is not a...
One of Baltimore’s oldest theatre groups, Arena Players Inc., will join forces with one of the youngest, the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, to present two works about remarkable African-Americans. In February, the two companies will offer a rock opera double bill — “Determination of Azimuth,” about...
"I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster." That's the unnerving first sentence of Jeannette Walls' 2005 memoir, "The Glass Castle," and its audacious combination of candor, unsentimentality and...
You never know where you're going to find the most radical ideas. Somehow, a sub-par animated film sequel intended to quiet the kids for a few hours on a weekend afternoon burns with a proletarian rage. You'd never expect that from "The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature," but somehow, it's true. First,...
If we have learned anything from the Cooking Channel, it's that talent isn't defined by the ingredients you use but what you do with them. By that measure, director David F. Sandberg is an alchemist of the first order, taking the base — even leaden — components of horror and whipping them into...
Not for nothing did "Step" win a Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking at Sundance. Heartening and unashamedly emotional, it's a certified crowd pleaser that doesn't care who knows it. Combining performance and feeling in a way that recalls the Oscar-winning "20 Feet From Stardom," "Step"...