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Baltimore's Charles Theatre is located in the burgeoning Charles North arts district. Architect Jackson C. Gott designed the Beaux-Arts buildings that house the theater in the late 1890s. The structures were originally designed to be a cable car barn and powerhouse but were remodeled into a movie theater - the Times Theater, which was the city's first to show only newsreels - in 1939. It was renamed the Charles Theatre about 20 years later and became a single-screen revival house in 1979. A remodeling project in 1999 expanded The Charles into a five-screen theater with a new lobby. The four additional screening rooms have stadium seating, while the original 485-seat room has a distinctively...
Baltimore's Charles Theatre is located in the burgeoning Charles North arts district. Architect Jackson C. Gott designed the Beaux-Arts buildings that house the theater in the late 1890s. The structures were originally designed to be a cable car barn and powerhouse but were remodeled into a movie theater - the Times Theater, which was the city's first to show only newsreels - in 1939. It was renamed the Charles Theatre about 20 years later and became a single-screen revival house in 1979. A remodeling project in 1999 expanded The Charles into a five-screen theater with a new lobby. The four additional screening rooms have stadium seating, while the original 485-seat room has a distinctively retro feel. The Charles offers first-run specialty films in addition to foreign films, new Hollywood releases and older classics. It also has a weekly series called Cinema Sundays at The Charles with breakfast and post-screening discussion usually led by filmmakers, critics or experts on topics covered in the films.
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Free or cheap Halloween fun for the kids
baltimoresun.comThis year Halloween falls on a weekend, which means that kids don't have to wait until school lets out to don their costumes and celebrate.If you're still planning your Halloween itinerary, check out Charm City Mom blogger Kate's list of Halloween weekend... -
Arts live for Saturday
TRICKS AND TREATS AT THE CHARLES: The Charles Theatre, 1711 N. Charles St., offers up a sweet cinematic treat for Halloween. "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" is a horror spoof starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr. and Bela Lugosi. For...Tags: Coraline (movie), Religious Festivals, Museum Dioramas, Comedy (genre), Halloween
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Macabre movies miss the mark
Baltimore Sun reporterBaltimore's an Edgar Allan Poe kind of town, never more so than in 2009 with the Poe House, a football team named for his most famous poem, and a year-long celebration honoring the macabre author's death. Naturally, Baltimore's repertory movie house would...Tags: Vincent Price, Museum Dioramas, Cinema Industry, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack Nicholson
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'My Left Foot' at Towson film series
Sun Movie CriticOctober is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and the Towson University fall film series marks the occasion with Jim Sheridan's "My Left Foot." It tells the tumultuous story of Irish author Christy Brown, who managed to write best-selling...Tags: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, Charles Dickens, Holidays, Religious Festivals
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Correction
The Baltimore Sun is committed to providing fair and accurate coverage. Readers who have concerns or comments are encouraged to call us at 800-829-8000. An item in Friday's editions incorrectly listed the time for the Charles Theatre's screening of... -
Don't miss: 'Chops' at The Charles Theatre
Last weekend's surprise success at The Charles Theatre was Bruce Broder's documentary about a high school jazz ensemble from Jacksonville, Fla., that goes for the top prize at the Essentially Ellington contest sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center. A... -
City seeks proposals for using Senator Theatre
City officials are moving ahead with plans to sell or lease the historic Senator Theatre to an operator who would keep it running as a movie theater or convert the 70-year-old landmark to a performing arts venue. In a request for proposals issued Monday,...Tags: Auction Service, Senator Theatre, Culture, Belvedere Square
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Colts' Band goes marching on
"The Band That Wouldn't Die," Barry Levinson's documentary on his native city's astonishingly resilient Colts-cum- Ravens marching band, will get its U.S. premiere Oct. 6 at M&T Bank Stadium. "We were very touched and honored that world-famous producer...Tags: Opera (genre), Metal and Mineral, Cinema Industry, Jack Kevorkian, Al Pacino
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'A Hard Day's Night' screened at Enoch Pratt this weekend
For a reminder of the good old days, when rock 'n' roll was still something of a lark and four working-class blokes from Liverpool had just taken over the world, head to the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Saturday for a free showing of "A Hard Day's Night,"...Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Celebrity, Peter Sellers, Iron Man (movie), Slumdog Millionaire (movie)
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Search for sangria
I think I'm pretty safe in saying that sangria is the hottest cool drink of summer 2009. You can't exactly call this fruity wine punch trendy - it's been around too long - but it goes perfectly with the foods that are trendy right now. That means every...Tags: Station North, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Tapas, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Pikesville
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'Cinema Paradiso' to close Little Italy film festival
Baltimore Sun reporterThis year's free Little Italy Open Air Film Festival concludes tonight in the same way it has concluded almost every year since 1999: with a screening of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1988 "Cinema Paradiso," the story of a young boy growing up in a small Italian...Tags: Amy Adams, Italy, Little Italy (Baltimore, Maryland), Lima (Peru), Enoch Pratt Free Library
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