“#BreakingBarriersByBreakingBread” is the motto of an immigrant and refugee food festival planned for noon to 5 p.m. on Oct. 14 in Canton Waterfront Park. “[Culture] brings people together whether it’s food, music, clothing, festivals — it’s meeting new people during this very divisive time,” said...
Aretha Franklin, the undisputed "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think," ''I Say a Little Prayer" and her signature song, "Respect," and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from pancreatic cancer. Publicist Gwendolyn Quinn told The Associated...
Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group’s now-failed takeover bid for Tribune Media brought it a kind of national scrutiny it had never faced in its history, particularly for its conservative politics. From the moment it was announced, I predicted the deal would make Sinclair the most hated company...
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will move back into the international spotlight for the first time in 13 years when it departs Tuesday for England, Scotland and Ireland with 102 players, 10 staff members and 78 cargo trunks carrying 6,800 pounds of equipment. Featuring programs tied to the centennial...
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.
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...