To make good chocolate, it all starts with the right bean. The cocoa beans manufactured for Hunt Valley’s Charm School Chocolate factory and retail store arrive in 120-pound burlap sacks, with anywhere from 35,000 to 40,000 large almond-shaped nuggets per bag. Carefully but nimbly, Joshua Rosen...
Elsa, I have a feeling we're not Arendelle anymore. Everyone's favorite ice queen is braving a new element in the newest teaser trailer for Disney's "Frozen 2," which shows Queen Elsa (Idina Menzel) conquering a massive body of water. The footage didn't reveal much about the highly anticipated...
“The Case Against Adnan Syed,” a four-part HBO documentary series about the 1999 murder of a Baltimore County high school student, will premiere March 10, the premium cable service announced. The murder of 18-year-old Hae Min Lee and the conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, were the focus...
Laughter to light Old Town’s winter nights appears to be on a roll at the Laurel Mill Playhouse in its current run of “12 Incompetent Jurors” — a parody of the 1950s drama “12 Angry Men” — written by American actor/playwright Ian McWethy. McWethy has 27 one-acts (15 have been performed across the...
Those looking for a quick introduction to what’s happening in the dance world could spend a bundle on a whirlwind excursion to Manhattan. Or they could drop by Howard Community College this Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9 and 10, where faculty and students are mounting the 11th annual Howard County...
Almost a full year after first applying with the state to make Catonsville, Arbutus and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, part of the first designated Arts & Entertainment District in Baltimore County, county officials and community groups are still working on the process. Baltimore...
Dr. G. Lee Russo, a retired neurosurgeon and shock trauma pioneer who played jazz piano at local restaurants, died of cancer Jan. 12 at his Glen Arm home. He was 85. Born Gerard Lee Russo in Baltimore and raised on Pelham Avenue, he was the son of Leo Carmelo Russo, president of the C.D. Kenny...
The more globally famous the celebrity, the tougher audiences tend to be on a biopic. Unless it’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” because, you know. All those hits. A different sort of hit-making and punishment-taking sets the tone in “Fighting with My Family,” based on a true story. It’s not a story, or...
Leaving his Iranian homeland to make the film “The Past,” in France, the writer-director Asghar Farhadi regarded his new surroundings like a native, not a tourist. He kept his tense characters mostly confined to cramped interior spaces. There was little relief, or sunshine, in the filmmaker’s view...
"Never Look Away," an absorbing and ruminative new drama from the German writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, begins in Dresden in 1937. The world is about to tilt into madness, a condition that seems to manifest itself early on in the brave, troubled mind of a young woman named Elisabeth...
The Hungarian actor Géza Röhrig, who made a splash in the Oscar-winning "Son of Saul" a few years ago, is back — but not as you remember him. In that shattering Holocaust drama, Röhrig played a Jewish prisoner/laborer at Auschwitz-Birkenau whose job it is to dispose of the remains of gas-chamber...