Before she founded a dance school in Randallstown, Adrienne Watson Carver was herself a student at Hampton University, one of the United States’ best-known historically Black institutions. In 1990, she became the captain of Ebony Fire, the official dance team of the school’s marching band, The...
As the death toll climbs and the final season of “Game of Thrones” comes to an end, we all have to say goodbye — the fans and the cast. As our favorite characters are killed off in various ways, some of the cast have taken the time to pay tribute to the parts they played as well as the show that...
Well, that was… satisfying intellectually, I guess, sort of. But Sunday’s big series finale of “Game of Thrones,” which saw -- spoiler alert -- all manners of justice meted out, at the tip of a dagger and in an exile, didn’t exactly stick the landing. Yes, Jon Snow performing the necessary assassination...
High temperatures, occasional sunburn-inducing rays and a relative lack of water options didn’t stop thousands of InfieldFest attendees from vibing out all day as horses raced around them. The roster struck a balance between house, EDM and hip-hop, all threaded together with a steady four-on-the-floor...
From Vanessa Williams to Gov. Larry Hogan and Cal Ripken Jr., the 144th Preakness Stakes drew a smattering of politicians, entertainers and athletes to Pimlico Race Course. Many arrived to the Northwest Baltimore track in SUVs. One came via Cessna plane. Absent were Kentucky Derby winner Country...
The venerable red-brick structures at Guilford Avenue and Oliver Street possess a curious history. Now called the CopyCat Building, it has been adopted by Baltimore’s artists and musicians who like its expansive windows and loft-studio spaces. What we call the CopyCat complex began as industrial...
An English major from Arbutus whose writing explores gender, trauma and the body is this year’s winner of the Sophie Kerr Prize, an award for promising writers graduating from Washington College in Chestertown. Shannon Moran was awarded the prize, and nearly $64,000, for poetry and prose that examine...
While quality cannot be measured by minutes, the new live-action version of Disney’s “Aladdin” runs 37 minutes longer than the animated 1992 film famous for Robin Williams’ inspired vocal riffs and the song “A Whole New World.” And those 37 additional minutes are not high-quality minutes. The studio...
“Booksmart” takes a familiar blueprint and uses it to build a movie we haven’t seen often enough: an R-rated teen comedy (meaning, a comedy about teenagers) focusing on a great female friendship. The movie’s not always as wonderful as that friendship. Some bits are hilarious yet life-like, while...
The full, properly punctuated title is “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum,” and while “parabellum” comes from the Latin meaning “prepare for war,” it’s also the name of an old-timey brand of German semiautomatic pistol, also known as the Luger. There’s a bonus word association as well. Parabellum...
Teenagers need melodrama. They always have. It seems its big, sweeping emotions are somehow the only things that can match the high-stakes, hormone-enhanced teenage feelings. Director Ry Russo-Young excels at rendering those emotions with a singular sense of artfulness. In "The Sun is Also a Star,"...