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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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The 4 Senator bidders would still show movies
The Baltimore Development Corp. yesterday provided more details about four proposals for the future of the Senator Theatre. The plans for the troubled North Baltimore landmark include loft-style apartments, a stage for puppet shows, a college-run arts...Tags: Condos and Houses, Station North, Colleges and Universities, Senator Theatre, Mount Vernon
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Four submit bids to take over the Senator
Charles Theatre owner James "Buzz" Cusack, Towson University's WTMD-FM radio station and developer David Cordish are among the four parties who answered the city's call for proposals to lease or own the Senator Theatre. This action is the latest...Tags: Belvedere Square, Station North, Foods and Beverages, Senator Theatre, Children
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Crispin Glover blazing his own trail
Baltimore Sun reporterCrispin Hellion Glover has been walking his own artistic path for years, combining mass-market acceptance - as the father and classmate of Michael J. Fox's character in "Back to the Future," or as the silent heavy in the two "Charlie's Angels" movies -...Tags: David Letterman, Central Park, Building Material, Michael J. Fox, Crispin Clover
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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: Bud Abbott, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Religious Festivals, Comedy (genre), Bela Lugosi
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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: Cinema Industry, James Whale, Frankenstein (movie, 1931), Ingmar Bergman, Boris Karloff
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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... -
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: Belvedere Square, Senator Theatre, Culture, Auction Service
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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: ESPN, Aerosmith (music group), Cinema Industry, Ozzy Osbourne, M&T Bank Stadium
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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: Colleges and Universities, Euclid, Robert Zemeckis, Jim Carrey, Holidays
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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: Reisterstown, Station North, Foods and Beverages, Minority Groups, Harbor East
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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: Adam Sandler, Brad Bird, Lima (Peru), Little Italy (Baltimore, Maryland), Amy Adams
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