Known for his boastful lyrics, catchy hooks and accounts of life in inner-city Baltimore, Sandtown hip-hop artist YGG Tay has made a name for himself as one of the city’s best rappers. The rapper’s name has also come up in a federal racketeering trial for eight men accused of running a violent...
Julie Chen has left the cast of the CBS daytime show "The Talk" a week after her husband, CBS Corp. boss Leslie Moonves, was ousted from the company due to sexual misconduct charges. Chen announced her decision via a taped message on the show Tuesday, saying she needed to spend more time at home...
I have always believed that TV debates among political candidates are essentially a good thing. The more the better — and the better democracy is served by them. Until I read Luke Broadwater’s story in the Sunday Sun about the Maryland attorney general’s race and Republican challenger Craig Wolf...
Prepare to be appalled by the artifacts on view in the “Hateful Things” exhibit. Who wouldn’t be? It may be that you’re offended by the metal bank from the 1920s of an African man with stereotypical facial features and his hand outstretched. Feed the bank coins, and the man’s eyes roll back. Or...
That conflicted slicer is back, dispensing his peculiar brand of justice with wicked, if ever so tuneful, abandon, in a lean revival of “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at Rep Stage. Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant musical, inspired by a Victorian-era potboiler, has never lost its...
“Dancing At Lughnasa” is a nostalgic look at a family of five unmarried sisters in 1936 Ireland. The Mundy sisters are caring for their older brother, Jack, a Catholic priest who was sent home under suspicious circumstances after ministering in Africa for 25 years. Their story is narrated by Michael,...
Early in “Dancing at Lughnasa,” the finely textured memory play by Brian Friel receiving an effective revival at Everyman Theatre, the narrator sets the scene — a rural Irish home shared by his relatives in the summer of 1936. “Even though I was only a child of 7 at the time,” he says, “I had a...
Even in the well-trod genre that is the ’80s drug movie, the true-life story of teen drug kingpin Ricky Wershe Jr., a.k.a. White Boy Rick, stands out.
Take a prog-rock album cover, cross it with a trashy 1980s horror paperback, throw in one gloriously gonzo Nicolas Cage performance, and that’s “Mandy.” Director Panos Cosmatos’ visionary revenge thriller is a dreamy genre exercise that’ll appeal to connoisseurs — though it may flummox anyone just...
“Didn't we already get an ‘Unbroken' movie?” you might ask. Nevertheless, faith-based film distributor PureFlix serves up “Unbroken: Path to Redemption” as a coda, or a minor corrective, to Angelina Jolie's 2014 film about the amazing World War II survival story of Olympic runner Louis Zamperini....
More than once in “The Predator,” a slicked-up, snarked-out piece of action-comedy bloodletting from the writer-director Shane Black, the characters pause to debate whether their enemy really deserves the name he’s been given. Considering the relative patience and sophistication with which this...