The Baltimore writer, teacher and radio commentator Marion Winik is the Wile E. Coyote of the literary world. She has forged an impressive career and endeared herself to her audience by documenting her mistakes over four decades in unsparing and often hilarious detail. Winik, now 60, has hurtled...
Both sides in Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault case want the media and the public barred from the disgraced movie mogul's next court appearance. Prosecutors argue the April 26 hearing should be closed to protect Weinstein's right to a fair trial and for the privacy of women whose allegations against...
ABC’s “American Idol” is down to its top 10 performers and two Baltimore County contestants are still singing. Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon of Catonsville and Dimitrius Graham of Windsor Mill advanced Monday as the show knocked out four contestants. They made it through the celebrity round of duets a...
It’s been four years since Freddie Gray Jr.’s death from injuries sustained while in police custody sparked widespread protests in Baltimore and helped fuel a national conversation about race and criminal justice. Gray was arrested on April 12, died on April 19, and the unrest began on April 27....
It’s common enough for a piece of music to get programmed by multiple orchestras. It’s rarer to see one orchestra return to the same piece within a few short years. And yet, the upcoming production of “Porgy and Bess” by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Morgan State University Choir marks...
Midway through his teens, Will Swartz realized that borrowing someone else’s voice could help him find his own. Last weekend, the 16-year-old boy with the dark blond hair sat down at a piano in Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute and played the opening chords of the beloved 1967 standard,...
When American Sign Language is part of a speech or performance, the ASL translator is usually supposed to blend into the background. But Annapolis High School is putting ASL front and center to put a new spin on a classic fish-tale. In their production of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” each main...
What we call "The Conjuring" Universe has become a sprawling franchise of big-budget horror-lite spookfests that pull from every urban legend, folk tale and ghost story one can think of, usually involving vengeful feminine spirits and the women with whom they do battle. We've got hauntings, possessions...
In a plummy warble, a woman named Mabel Todd (Amy Seimetz, hilarious) lectures a rapt audience about her good friend Emily Dickinson (Molly Shannon). No, she never spent any "Wild Nights With Emily," the tongue-in-cheek title of Madeleine Olnek's defiant comedy. Honestly, Mabel didn't know Emily...
"Teen Spirit" comes on like a very now movie about pop music and those who inject it like an adrenalized sugar-high dream. (I'm one of them.) Violet (Elle Fanning), a 17-year-old British girl who lives with her Polish immigrant mother (Agnieszka Grochowska) on a farm on the Isle of Wight, is in...
Starring Elisabeth Moss as a riot-grrrl rock-diva who, when we first meet her, seems to be well on her way to drinking and drama-queening herself to death, the movie "Her Smell" is a fierce and intoxicating performance sloshing around in a half-empty Solo cup of a movie. Set mostly in the 1990s,...