The naming rights for Pier Six Pavilion have been sold to MECU for an undisclosed sum. The naming rights sponsorship with the Municipal Employees Credit Union of Baltimore is a multi-year agreement, said Andy Peikon of Live Nation. A spokeswoman for Live Nation did not immediately respond to questions...
"A Quiet Place" and "Rampage" are fighting it out again for the top spot at the domestic box office this weekend and easily beating newcomers like Amy Schumer's "I Feel Pretty" and "Super Troopers 2." According to studio estimates Sunday, John Krasinski's thriller, "A Quiet Place," has sneaked...
David West, the creation of novelist Dennis Wise, is a jailed felon serving a double life sentence and tagged an “ongoing public safety threat” by the authorities, who is nevertheless suspected of still wielding tremendous power — and making a lot of money — from his jail cell in one of America’s...
The second stop in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s European tour this summer with music director Marin Alsop will find the ensemble making its debut Aug. 27 at the Proms, an extraordinary eight-week festival of daily concerts in London’s 5,200-seat Royal Albert Hall. It will not be a first for...
When German conductor Markus Stenz made his debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2012, there was no mistaking the chemistry. BSO management soon signed him up as principal guest conductor for a three-year stint starting in 2015. “The contract has just been extended by a year, which I...
The most recent batch of Guggenheim fellows includes a rising Baltimore artist working to redefine the self-portrait. Mequitta Ahuja, who was a finalist in 2015 and 2017 for the Sondheim Artscape Prize, was among the 173 winners — a mix of academics, artists and scientists. The John Simon Guggenheim...
The Baltimore Museum of Art announced Friday that it is selling seven artworks by such 20th-century masters as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Franz Kline to make way for pieces by contemporary artists of color and women. Going up for sale at Sotheby’s in May are two artworks by Warhol (“Oxidation...
In a 2015 sketch aired on Comedy Central’s “Inside Amy Schumer,” the one called “New Body,” Schumer played a woman shopping for a wardrobe for the body she’s always wanted. The clothing store clerk, thin and deadpan, is the perfect foil for Schumer’s chipper, play-along reactions. With those two...
Like many of a certain age, I was a fan of Broken Lizard's 2001 stoner cop cult classic “Super Troopers,” which circulated smoky dorm rooms in the early aughts. The energetic, silly and wordy comedy of the then-unknown troupe was absurd, naughty and endlessly quotable. Seventeen years later, the...
When we first see 15-year-old Charley Thompson, the human center of the devastating new film “Lean on Pete,” he’s jogging on the streets of Portland, Ore., a long way from the bohemian coffee bars and “Portlandia” cliches of popular culture. This is the other side of the tracks, the America all...
“Rampage” is a drag. Three times during the thing, I wrote down the phrase “NO FUN,” with increasingly impatient underlines. This could be me, not the movie. Maybe I’m the one who’s no fun. But in general I like Dwayne Johnson, that smiling granite star, coupled with a tremendous amount of vehicular-...