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For three days every summer, Baltimore's vibrant arts scene spills out onto the streets. Artscape features exhibits, fashion shows, concerts, dance, theater, children's entertainers, food vendors and more than 100 craftspeople. The festivities are centered in Mount Vernon, but galleries across the city hold events to coincide with Artscape. The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, which awards $25,000 and the chance to exhibit at a Baltimore museum, has become a major draw for artists across the region. Other competitions include the Billie Holiday and Cab Calloway vocal contests. Highlights of Artscape include outdoor sculptures, art cars, Artist's Market, Art Park and the live music. Best of a...
For three days every summer, Baltimore's vibrant arts scene spills out onto the streets. Artscape features exhibits, fashion shows, concerts, dance, theater, children's entertainers, food vendors and more than 100 craftspeople. The festivities are centered in Mount Vernon, but galleries across the city hold events to coincide with Artscape. The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, which awards $25,000 and the chance to exhibit at a Baltimore museum, has become a major draw for artists across the region. Other competitions include the Billie Holiday and Cab Calloway vocal contests. Highlights of Artscape include outdoor sculptures, art cars, Artist's Market, Art Park and the live music. Best of all, the outdoor arts festival is free.
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Rain Pryor to lead Station North's Strand Theater
The first time Rain Pryor visited the intimate Strand Theater, she knew she was in the right place.
"I thought, 'It smells like theater. I'm home,'" says the actress, comedian, writer and musician who has just been named artistic director of the Strand....Tags: ABC (tv network), Celebrities, Music, Judaism, Showtime (tv network)
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Columbia Digest
Art exhibits •"Beginnings," featuring the works of Joan Bevelaqua, Nancy Linden, George Sakkal and John Brandon Sills, runs through March 18 at the Meeting House Gallery. Hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. The gallery is in the Oakland Mills...Tags: Arts, Artists, FOX (tv network), Dance, Entertainment Events
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Plan to regulate nightclub promoters draws mixed response
A proposal to regulate Baltimore night life has drawn a mixed reaction from area club promoters, who could be required to register events or get a license from the city.
Promoters say the proposal — one of several made Thursday by a commission...Tags: Murder, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Entertainment Events, Concerts, Bars and Clubs
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Concert news: Fall Massive, Moby, Diplo, Bret Michaels, G. Love, Jeff Mangum
The Baltimore SunWashington D.C. is getting its own Starscape. Called Fall Massive, the indoor electronic music festival, billed as DC's largest, is set for November 26 at RFK Stadium and boasts dozens of top DJs, including Moby, Diplo, Martin Solveig and Baltimore's own...Tags: Moby, Entertainment Events, Concerts, Diplo, Annapolis
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Independent commission recommends Baltimore club promoters register with the city
The Baltimore SunA blue-ribbon commission looking into the events that led to a fatal shooting near a West side club earlier this year has recommended that club promoters register or get licenses with the city. “Promoters who overbook venues and often leave...Tags: Lawyers, Murder, Justice System, Facebook, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Survey: Grand Prix fell short of spending projections
Baltimore Grand Prix attendees spent as much as $25 million — far short of the $70 million projected by race organizers, according to an economic impact survey released this week.
In their report, two Maryland professors also found about three-...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Entertainment Events, Baltimore Running Festival, University of Maryland, College Park
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New Baker Awards exhibit has surface appeal
Moving through the Baltimore Museum of Art's exhibit of work by the 2011 Baker Artist Awards provides an experience akin to that in the film "Pleasantville." You start in living color and, before you know it, you're swallowed up in a black-and-white...Tags: Baltimore Museum of Art, Artists, Building Material, Hamilton, Metal and Mineral
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A weird and wonderful Hampdenfest
George Peters Jr. was dethroned Saturday as toilet race champion of Hampdenfest.
Peters, of Hampden, last year's winner of the potty-themed soapbox derby, vanquished several opponents, including a gallant team of Charm City Roller Girls, to reach this...Tags: Denise Whiting, Cafe Hon, Radio, Hampden, University of Baltimore
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Artist Gary Kachadourian has a room with a point of view
Artist Gary Kachadourian loves homely things. He appreciates modest, utilitarian objects that don't call attention to themselves, objects that frequently are described as ugly but that are undeniably functional: Dumpsters, highway barriers, chain-link...Tags: Baltimore Museum of Art, Artists, Brunswick (Frederick, Maryland), Arts, Television
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New Fillmore Silver Spring could hurt Baltimore's live music scene, promoters say
In Silver Spring, they've been waiting for it for a decade: a brand-new music venue smack in the middle of the arts district — a rock counterpart to the dignified AFI Silver Theatre and the brainy Discovery complex.
When the Fillmore Silver...Tags: Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), Companies and Corporations, Maryland State Fair, JC Penney Company Inc., Deadmau5 (music group)
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Baltimore Grand Prix scotches waterside VIP area for this year
The Baltimore SunFewer Kardashians than ever are now expected at the Baltimore Grand Prix. Organizers have scotched the Harbor Club, the "exclusive access" VIP area that was to be located on the Inner Harbor's West Shore Park. Pete Collier, the event's chief operating...Tags: Baltimore Grand Prix, Inner Harbor
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High-speed race to slow local travel
Imagine the crowds that attend Artscape and the city marathon. Add the throngs drawn by Barack Obama's pre-inaugural visit. Mix in a few ethnic festivals and a bunch of holiday parades, and you get a sense of the transportation tangle Baltimore faces when...Tags: Frank Murphy, Martin Luther King Jr., Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Traffic, Road Transportation
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