The Baltimore Museum of Art has so far this year added more than 70 contemporary and historic artworks to its broad collection. BMA director Christopher Bedford said in a Thursday statement that the new acquisitions highlight the curatorial team's vision in forging connections "across artists and...
Bushwick Bill, the diminutive, one-eyed rapper who with the Geto Boys helped put the South's stamp on rap with hits like "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" and "Six Feet Deep," died on Sunday at the age of 52, according to his publicist. Dawn P. told The Associated Press that the rapper died Sunday at...
The writers of the Showtime series “Billions” have an unwritten rule when it comes to sports references: the more obscure, the better. So for every mention of Scottie Pippen, there’s a line such as: “I’m gonna stick to you like Lester Hayes.” For every Nick Saban reference, there’s this: “You’re...
Jay Rohlfing, the executive chef of Cunningham’s in Towson, will appear Tuesday on “Chopped.” He joins the growing list of chefs from the Baltimore area to guest star on the Food Network competition. Last year, David Thomas, executive chef and owner of Ida B’s Table in downtown Baltimore, won a...
When Baltimore native and Baltimore City College graduate André De Shields won a Tony award on June 9, he shouted out his hometown from the stage. “Baltimore, Maryland, are you in the house?” said De Shields, according to broadway.com. “I hope you’re watching at home because I am making good on...
André De Shields capped a 50-year acting career by scoring his first Tony Award on Sunday night, winning best featured actor in a musical for his role as Hermes in “Hadestown.” It’s been a long time coming. The 73-year-old performer has worked on Broadway, off-Broadway, in regional theater and...
The 2019 Tony Awards turned out heavenly for "Hadestown," the stylized, bluesy, steampunk-influenced Anais Mitchell musical based on the "Orpheus and Eurydice" myth and set partly in the underworld. “Hadestown,” the most innovative new musical of its Broadway season, beat out its more traditional...
When you’re watching a promotional screening of a big summer picture, and the movie is more or less doing its job without really taking off, it’s instructive to listen to the audience. And then figure out if what works for them works for you. In the matter of “Men in Black: International,” what...
In Hollywood, everything old is new again. As much as we whine and cry and gnash our teeth, intellectual property is king, simply because it's there, available to be rebooted, rehashed, reheated. Remember "Shaft"? How about more "Shaft," but with more hacky jokes about millennials and an incredibly...
In the summer of 1975, in the middle of recording his album “Desire,” Bob Dylan decided that he wanted to go on tour again, but that he also wanted a break. A break from the crowds, from the press scrutiny, maybe even from his own stardom. So in the fall of that year, he launched the Rolling Thunder...
I mean, whatever with the “X-Men” movies. It’s hard to even rent an opinion on the discrete strengths and weaknesses of a franchise that has devolved to the point of “Dark Phoenix,” a lavishly brutal chore nearly as violent as the Wolverine movie “Logan,” and a movie featuring more death by impalement...