Veggie-lovers and meat-eaters alike are invited to try 20 restaurants’ plant-based dishes during Vegan Restaurant Week starting Friday and running until Aug. 26. The restaurants, which include vegan cafes, Baltimore favorites and county eateries, have agreed to offer a special menu of at least...
Authorities are investigating the suspected overdose death at Trump Tower of a man romantically linked to reality TV personality Bethenny Frankel. A spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner's office has identified the man as Dennis Shields. The 51-year-old Shields had been known for being...
The final season of “House of Cards” will arrive on Nov. 2, Netflix announced today. As previously reported, Robin Wright will star as President Claire Underwood. Kevin Spacey, who played her husband Frank Underwood, was dropped from the series in November in the wake of allegations of sexual assault....
Now you won’t have to go to a museum to see a painting by acclaimed Baltimore artist Amy Sherald. The Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts announced Friday that an oversized mural of Sherald’s painting “Equilibrium” will be installed on the wall of the Parkway Theatre located at the geographic...
Stephanie Ybarra, director of special artistic projects at New York’s Public Theater, has been named the artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage. Ybarra will succeed Kwame Kwei-Armah, who wound up his seven-year tenure with the company in January and became artistic director of London’s Young...
The artist Dread Scott's banner decrying police brutality in Station North is merely the most recent example of an artwork that has raised hackles in Baltimore. These eight pieces are among those that riled up residents in the past 20 years.
Once a month, an unusual sound fills a Hampden pizzeria and spills out to catch the ears of unsuspecting passersby, who can be seen doing double-takes. The attention-getter is a 12-piece band, compacted into a corner of Paulie Gee’s, playing arrangements first performed about 90 years ago during...
Before Black Lives Matter and I Can't Breathe became hashtags — before hashtags even existed — Spike Lee was making movies exploring social justice issues and savaging societal racism. "BlacKkKlansman" is his latest, and it is one of his best. Several things are remarkable about this film, which...
Have sharks jumped the Fonzie? Seems like it’s always Shark Week around here, and “here” means everywhere. Think of how long it has been since the first “Jaws” (1975). A digital effects revolution and a generation later, “Deep Blue Sea” (1999) closed out the century with some forgettably entertaining...
"Dog Days," an omnibus comedy about the unique ability of dogs to connect us to others and ourselves, is the kind of mildly amusing, pandering film that shows up in movie theaters at random times throughout the year when nothing else notable is playing and people are willing to watch just about...
Two key dates in the annals of Winnie the Pooh: Dec. 24, 1925: A.A. Milne publishes a front-page children’s story in the London Evening News, changing the name of his nascent bear character (formerly Edward) to Winnie the Pooh. The bear is inspired by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, his stuffed...