A Baltimore art historian offers a cautionary tale: Be careful what you cast out. From the middle 1870s through 1925, the annual art exhibition staged at the Peabody Institute on Mount Vernon Place contained celebrated works, many of them purchased through the benevolence of the wealthy merchant...
Meeting your heroes can be disappointing. But Stan Lee lived up to his billing. The overseer of the Marvel Universe, co-creator (Stan never claimed to be a solo act) of every superhero therein from Spider-Man and the Mighty Thor to Black Panther and The Wasp, a force in the comic-book industry...
A district court judge has granted a temporary peace order against Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Jonathan Carney, according to court records. District Court of Maryland Judge Catherine Chen ruled Monday that a peace order against Carney was enforceable after he allegedly threatened...
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has suspended concertmaster Jonathan Carney after allegations surfaced of Carney’s “inappropriate behavior” toward another orchestra’s employee, BSO President and CEO Peter Kjome said in a statement. BSO management decided to suspend Carney after it came to the...
Two of downtown’s most popular festivals, Light City and the Baltimore Book Festival, will be moving to November in 2019. The two festivals will be strung together as a 10-day celebration beginning next Nov. 1, officials with the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, which produces both,...
Barely a week after a gunman opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people, Baltimore’s Jewish community will come together at a long-planned literary festival in an attempt to affirm the healing power of the written and spoken word. “Feelings in the Jewish community are running pretty...
“Past Tense” by Lee Child, narrated by Scott Brick, Random House, 12:51 There’s a new Jack Reacher in town. Scott Brick — the voice of Jack Ryan in many a Tom Clancy novel, the actor on more than 800 audio titles, and the winner of multiple Audie and Earphone awards — steps in as the wandering...
I have completed 155 of James Mustich’s “1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List.” Time for some math. I currently read 70 books a year, give or take, and I’m 48 years old. If I live as long as the average white male in the United States, I have 29 more years of reading. If I average...
As Jeff Tweedy would admit — and more or less does in his new memoir, “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)” — his life hasn’t been all that interesting, at least for a rock star. Raised in a dysfunctional family (his father drank a 12-pack every night), he grew up in a depressed Midwestern town (downstate...
“The Future is Female,” edited by Lisa Yaszek, Library of America, 475 pages, $27.95 When science fiction’s Hugo Awards were presented in August, all the fiction categories were won by women. But women weren’t always so celebrated. Lisa Yaszek’s fascinating and well-researched anthology presents...
Black feminist writer Audre Lorde wrote: “If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” Michelle Obama, the nation’s first black first lady, is too aware of the “angry black woman” trope to use such jarring, if appropriate, verbs...