The filming of the sixth and final season of Netflix’s “House of Cards” is coming to downtown Baltimore on Friday. According to a notice from the show’s production company, the series will be filming from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, and traffic and parking will be affected. “House of Cards,” which...
On Tuesday's episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," Hank Azaria addressed the controversy over one of the "Simpsons" characters he voices, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. Apu's portrayal came under scrutiny after the documentary "The Problem with Apu" brought attention to the stereotypical depiction...
Each week William Lee and Nina Metz recap and discuss the second season of “Westworld,” which airs Sundays on HBO. Note: Spoilers ahead We pick up in the aftermath of Season 1, as the park’s robots continue to exact bloody revenge on their human tormentors. 1. The hosts have taken control Will...
More than anything in the world, the late African-American artist Jack Whitten wanted to protect the people he loved. So, using his talent and his decades of carpentry and wood-carving experience, Whitten set out to fashion tools he thought might do the job. Though Whitten already had a formidable...
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...
One of Baltimore's finest -- director, artist and author John Waters -- has been named an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres).
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-...