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Best Movie Theater: The Parkway
5 W. North Ave., (410) 752-8083, mdfilmfest.com/parkway
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Best Thing We Really Need To Talk About: Abuse in the arts scene
A month ago CP’s cover story was about abuse and accountability within the local arts scene—an issue that has always been present here and everywhere, a story
Best Movie: “Rat Film”
Be it rat poison or segregation laws, Baltimore is a city of firsts with national implications that gets treated like a last unless someone wants the National
Best Poetry Collection: “Not Without Our Laughter” By Black Ladies Brunch Collective (Mason Jar Press)
Formed in 2014 as an actual brunch/poetry talk among black women, this collective (now featuring the book’s editor celeste doaks, along with Saida Agostini,
Best Storyteller: Andria Nacina Cole
Andria Nacina Cole is meticulous and unrelenting but approachable with her writing—even while she’s telling hard truths: Often, she writes about and for young
Best Experience: “Let the Sun Set on You,” Malcolm Peacock at Druid Hill Park
Whatever we call Malcolm Peacock’s art (not an art show, nor a performance), this event, commissioned by curatorial project Rose Arcade, was in part a
Best Fiction: “She Named Him Michael” by Heather Rounds (Ink Press Productions)
A stark, poetic novella whose root is a real thing (a chicken named Mike that lived for 18 months with his head cut off and became a sideshow act until he
Best Solo Show: “Ain’t I A Woman,” Shan at Platform Gallery
This past February at Platform Gallery, Shannon Wallace (2016’s Best Photographer), aka SHAN, put up a moving solo show of her candid portraits of young black
Best Press: Press Press
427 N. Eutaw St., presspress.info
Best Abstraction Daddies: “Matisse/Diebenkorn” at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Walking through the overwhelming “Matisse/Diebenkorn” exhibition last fall, we were slack-jawed and gaga and tongue-hanging-out-emoji, just totally losing it
Best Museum: The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles St., (410) 547-9000, thewalters.org
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Best Artists: Baltimore Youth Arts
bmoreyoutharts.org
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Best Good Time: The Black Hole
322 N. Franklintown Road, (443) 653-2050
Best Showman: Shawn Smallwood
Shawn Smallwood, aka Destruskhawn, is the city’s most astute student of DJing, exploring the wild-man maximalism of Larry Levan, Nicki Siano, David Mancuso, and
Best Weird 4/20 Metal Moment: Jera at The Bun Shop
22 Light St., (410) 982-0147, facebook.com/TheBunShop
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Best Late-Night Happy Hour: Shocktail Hour
Golden West Café, 1105 W. 36th St., (410) 889-8891, goldenwestcafe.com
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Best Movie Mixologist: Ginny Lawhorn
Landmark Theatres Harbor East, 645 S. President St., (410) 244-6636, landmarktheatres.com/baltimore/harbor-east
Best Saga: Crossbar der Biergarten
18 E. Cross St., (443) 438-4013, crossbarbaltimore.com
Best Moving Target: Club Charles
1724 N. Charles St., (410) 727-8815, clubcharles.us
Best Use of a Toxic Dump: Sandlot
1000 Wills St., facebook.com/sandlotbaltimore