Developers for Cross Street Market say that a Royal Farms stand selling fried chicken will join the offerings at the renovated Federal Hill market this summer. Arsh Mirmiran, a partner with Caves Valley Partners, which is redeveloping Cross Street Market, said that construction would begin soon...
Has the cavalry arrived for Woodstock 50? A new financial partner, Oppenheimer & Co., has come on board. The announcement follows by two days a court declaration that Woodstock 50's former financiers, Dentsu, had no right to cancel the festival, as they'd attempted to. "We are thrilled to be onboard...
If there is a bottom to Mallory Rubin’s well of passion, no one has found it. It’s 10 a.m. Monday in her adopted hometown of Los Angeles, 15 hours after she watched Arya Stark slay the Night King in a seminal episode of “Game of Thrones.” Rubin has already delivered her initial reactions on the...
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...
Musician Scott Patterson just captured the largest art award given annually in Baltimore. Patterson, the pianist, composer, lyricist and librettist and the co-founder of the Baltimore performance space Afro House won the Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize and $40,000 stipend,the largest of six Baker Artist...
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,"...
Con artists working the Riviera: Is there a comic premise more old-fashioned yet strangely hardy than that old thing? Certainly it has possibilities, even in 2019, which explains “The Hustle.” It’s a remake of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” (1988), with Steve Martin, Michael Caine and Glenne Headly,...
A crime reveals so much more than the crime itself, once word gets out and a city tears itself half to pieces blaming either the perpetrators or the victims or societal forces too messy for easy analysis. In the wrenching new documentary “Roll Red Roll” from director Nancy Schwartzman, the subject...